Podcasts about kazu haga

This year, we're using the framework of Buddhism's Six Perfections to guide most of our episodes. Our last one with returning guest and activist Kazu Haga, focused on patience or not returning harm. This week, another favorite of the podcast is back, Susan Piver. She and I talk and riff on her new book, Inexplicable Joy, which explores one of Buddhism's most famous and mysterious texts, the heart sutra. This profound text is all about the perfection of wisdom, emptiness, and the ultimate interdependent nature of reality. Fully realizing this is said to lead to the inexplicable joy that gives Susan's book its name. Join us to hear her unique take on a text she's been reciting for 30 years and discover her fresh, modern, and sometimes surprising ways of understanding words written nearly 2,000 years ago. Episode 188: Inexplicable Joy—On the Heart Sutra & Buddhism Without Belief with Susan PiverSupport the show

When the world feels like it's unraveling, how do we come back to ourselves?In this gentle, grounding guided meditation, activist and educator Kazu Haga invites us to sit beside our fear—not to fix or push it away, but to witness it with compassion. Through breath, body, and the ground beneath us, we rediscover a quiet strength that endures even in chaos.This episode is more than a meditation. It's a refuge. A place to reconnect with your essential self, to hold space for the parts of you that feel overwhelmed, and to find peace not by escaping the world, but by grounding more deeply within it.Episode 187: From Panic to Peace: A Guided Meditation with Kazu Haga Support the show

This week, Scott is joined by transformative activist and restorative justice advocate Kazu Haga to discuss his new book, Fierce Vulnerability, which rethinks nonviolence as a path to healing and connection. In a world fueled by division, Kazu challenges the idea of winning against an enemy and asks: What if resistance wasn't about force, but about vulnerability? If you've ever questioned whether conflict itself is keeping us stuck, this conversation is for you.Episode 186: Beyond Us vs Them: Transforming Society Through Fierce Vulnerability with Kazu Haga Support the show

If you find you're having unpleasant battles that create too much heat and too little light, or you're avoiding fraught discussions entirely, then come to this experiential event to learn the skill of nonviolent conflict management from Kazu Haga, the author of the acclaimed books Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm and Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse. Find out how to deal with conflict in a way that repairs and deepens relationships instead of breeding resentment and anger. Kazu Haga is one of the most experienced trainers of Kingian nonviolence, which is derived from the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He'll show us the framework and outline a few specific steps for defusing an argument in ways that we can put to immediate use in our lives. We'll practice a few exercises and come away with a solid start and a path to better relationships and leadership. Organizer: Eric Siegel   A Personal Growth Member-led Forum program. Forums at the Club are organized and run by volunteer programmers who are members of The Commonwealth Club, and they cover a diverse range of topics. Learn more about our Forums. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kazu Haga leads a powerful guided meditation for letting go of anger and other negative emotions based on the principles of nonviolence. Haga, a renowned nonviolence and restorative justice trainer, combines analytical meditation, visualization, breathwork, and mindfulness meditation to cultivate loving-kindness, inner peace, and compassion.Episode 174: Meditation on Nonviolence with Kazu Haga We've just launched a new online community where Scott Snibbe leads weekly live meditations for the topics shared in our podcast and How to Train a Happy Mind book. Anyone is welcome to join for free or by donation. Visit our new community website at trainahappymind.org to sign up, take classes, attend special events, and meet fellow students.Support the show

Kazu Haga's book, Healing Resistance, explains that nonviolence isn't just refraining from harm, but a sophisticated six-step strategy that begins with research and dialogue and ends, most importantly, with reconciliation. He explains that the purpose of nonviolence is not just to create a change we desire in the world, but to heal relationships and enrich our sense of connectedness, respect, and interdependence with all beings. Kazu graciously took time off from raising his five-month-old child to speak about why nonviolence works and how to counter the common objections to nonviolence. Scott and Kazu also talk about healing from the violence in their own families, and strategies for ending the seemingly intractable wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Episode 173: Does Nonviolent Protest Work? Kazu HagaWe've just launched a new online community where Scott Snibbe leads weekly live meditations for the topics shared in our podcast and How to Train a Happy Mind book. Anyone is welcome to join for free or by donation. Visit our new community website at trainahappymind.org to sign up, take classes, attend special events, and meet fellow students.Support the show

“Can we actually lead with fierceness and the vulnerability of saying, I'm not here because I hate you. I'm actually here because I love you. I'm here because I love the sanctity of life and beauty, and those things are being destroyed all over our ecosystem.”Check out the episode page for the transcript and a full list of the resources mentioned in this episode: https://widerroots.com/5Today's episode is with Kazu Haga, a nonviolence trainer in the lineage of Dr. King, based in Oakland who's been involved in social change movements since he was 17. He leads trainings for youth, incarcerated populations, and activists. He's the author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm.In this conversation, Kazu and I explore how to bring more spiritually grounded practice into our social change movements. I appreciated his invitation for us to think about how we can bring an energy of opening things up, even if outwardly we're doing direct actions that are shutting things down. He also shares his perspective that much of the injustice we witness is actually a manifestation of unhealed wounds, both at the individual level and the societal level. And I particularly loved the part of this conversation where we talked about leading from heartbreak and vulnerability as a way to create connection, especially during conflict.Key moments03:24 - Kazu's spiritual lineage and politicization through nonviolence07:51 - Opening things up spiritually while shutting them down tactically14:38 - Exploring trauma healing as a modality for social change22:43 - The necessity of deep practice in movements26:07 - Allowing messiness as we learn to hold conflict33:56 - Breaking up with "cancel culture" and creating deep belonging37:51 - We need skills to not only name harm, but repair it46:45 - Embracing complexity over black-and-white thinking50:08 - Anekāntavāda: Holding multiple truths53:06 - Finding beauty in challenging times54:55 - Nourishment: Hospicing Modernity & unplugged timeResources & LinksHealing Resistance (book by Kazu Haga)Fierce Vulnerability (upcoming book by Kazu Haga, scheduled for early 2025)A Force More Powerful (documentary about nonviolent movements)Ayni InstituteBuilding Belonging (organization)Prentice HemphillHospicing Modernity (book)Movement GenerationThich Nhat HanhAnekāntavāda: Holding multiple truths (principle form Jainism)Canticle Farm (community in Oakland)Connect with Kazu

What might educators learn from practitioners of conflict mediation and transformative justice? What does it look like to enact “beloved community” in our classrooms, organizations, and movements? What should teachers and learners do to better align our ideals of justice and equity with our day-to-day practices?Peace educator and nonviolence practitioner Kazu Haga joins us to reflect on these questions and more. The author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm (2020), Kazu has spent 20+ training communities in practices of conflict reconciliation, harm reduction, and nonviolent action. As the founder of the East Point Peace Academy, and now as a core member of the Ahimsa Collective and the Embodiment Project, he has taught restorative practices to high schools and youth groups, prisons and jails, and numerous activist and social movement organizations around the world. He is the recipient of several awards, including a Martin Luther King, Jr. Award from the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Gil Lopez Award for Peacemaking. His next book, Fierce Vulnerability: Direct Action that Heals and Transforms, will be published in August 2024.Credits:Co-hosted and co-produced by Tina Pippin and Lucia HulsetherAudio editor: Aliyah HarrisIntro music by Lance Hogan, performed by Aviva and the Flying PenguinsOutro music by Akrasis

What would it look like for us to create more space at the table? Weylin Lee looks at an encounter between Jesus and the marginalized to consider how we move beyond our biases, prioritize mercy over convenience, and disrupt negative peace.  [Matthew 15:21-28]   Reflection How are you invited to decolonize your view of Christ and your faith? How might you offer a unique voice and story in our collective work of advocacy? What does a nonviolent response look like for you in response to someone else's violence? Resources Book: Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald Book: Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm by Kazu Haga

What does it mean to be committed to nonviolence, in one's activism and everyday life? Kazu Haga reveals that Kingian Nonviolence is a principled way of life, one that actively confronts violence and injustice, restores relationships, and helps create what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called Beloved Community. (Encore presentation.) Kazu Haga, Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm Parallax, 2020 East Point Peace Academy California Institute of Integral Studies and CIIS Public Programs The post Kingian Nonviolence appeared first on KPFA.

In Honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. we will explore teachings from the book “Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm” by Kazu Haga. Reclaiming the energy and assertiveness of nonviolent practice, we can transform not only unjust systems but broken relationships.

In this episode, we hear from Kazu Haga from the East Point Peace Academy and Robin Wildman from Nonviolent Schools RI, exploring different aspects of nonviolent trainings to diminish the violence in our cultures.In the Nonviolence Report, Michael Nagler begins with the importance of “Thou Shall Not Kill” in the cultures of the world, and how that message is critical to counter America's rising violent gun culture.

What does it mean to be a White person in the US today? If you mention or see race, you're racist. If you don't mention or see race, you're racist. A few months ago, I (Loran) started an organization, The Spillway, around supporting White people to work through Perpetrator Induced Traumatic Stress (PITS) and interGenerational trauma. I offer the services within The Spillway with the acknowledgment that healing work is merely one mechanism within a larger network required to sustain our collective movement towards racial justice. I seek to grow the services available rather than redistribute where we put our efforts and funding. To get this message out there, I've asked one of the most compassionate, ferociously tender, hilarious, and incredibly smart humans I know, Jenny, to join me on this podcasting journey. Jenny and I come from similar yet separate backgrounds. Importantly, we offer incredibly different perspectives, sometimes just by who we are as people and other times by the different identities we hold. We are committed to building compassion, understanding, empathy, and patience into the present and future of Whiteness and White Culture. We cannot change the past. But, we can change the future through the actions we take today. We seek to embody the work of James Baldwin, Sonya Renee Taylor, Kazu Haga, Resmaa Menekem, and Kai Cheng Thom and countless others asking for White people to (in so many words) get our shit together. Since starting The Spillway, there's been consistent feedback—sometimes within the same space—that White people are engaging this work with closed hearts and minds This work can be difficult and beautiful. It is an exercise in vulnerability, in unlearning perfectionism, with real-world consequences, in an age of 7-second judgments. We hope The Spillway and our living in it can give others the courage that is needed to join us in this work. We know that attempting to be vulnerable and consenting to learn in public is incredibly terrifying work. And yet we have to start somewhere. Conversations of race and racism aren't going away anytime soon. Given our incredibly different places in the world, we're trying to create a middle ground where White people can get together to talk and create action around the paradox of being White in the US, where we are simultaneously the perpetrators and victims of the race and racism. We seek to embody the work of countless activists of color who have been calling White folks to seek our own healing around race and racism. So here we are, two White people committing to the work of individual and collective healing around race and racism for white people. Healing ourselves is no one's responsibility but our own. Let's Heal together and Grow to stop the impacts of race and racism in the lives of People of Color, and our lives as well. ===== Welcome to our podcast. We're so glad you're here refocusing on Whiteness without supremacy or shame. Listen. Like. Follow. Instagram: @the.spillway | Facebook: @WithoutSupremacyorShame For a transcript of this episode and more, please visit our website, https://www.thespillway.org/ (www.thespillway.org ) Mentioned in this episode: The Spillway Community Guidelines 1. Engage sequentially. The show is a serial not episodic. We do this so we can build relation and find common ground and context. 2. We stay in our own lane. The Spillway is about White people talking to (predominately) White people about White people and White culture. We're not out here to critique anyone's actions but our own. 3. Our combined fabric of destiny. (3a) As Dr. King said, our humanities are deeply interconnected to each other. Racism negatively impacts me, too. (3b) The Spillway is one mechanism within a larger framework needed to sustain racial equity and justice. We're not a one-stop shop. 4. No one right way to liberation. We all share the same goals, but not every method works for every person. If this doesn't...

In the conclusion to the conclusive episode of Bristlecone Firesides, Abbey, Madison, Luis, and Esther discuss the difference between Radical Solidarity and Charity. Each of us is entangled in the systems of sin in this world. While we can't fully extricate ourselves from sin, we can stand in solidarity with those most impacted by systems of sin and oppression. And truly changing the world is a long-term multigenerational process. How then can we remain committed to changing to the world without succumbing to hopelessness or resentment? How is activism a practice of letting go? Links: David O. Mckay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism by Greg Prince and Rob Wright Letting Go of Innocence by Prentice Hill We Will Not Cancel Us by Adrienne Marie Brown Emergent Strategy by Adrienna Marie Brown Healing Resistance by Kazu Haga All About Love by Bell Hooks The Lower Light Wisdom School Music by Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) The post 10: Radical Solidarity and Faith-Based Activism, Part 2 appeared first on Bristlecone Firesides.

On each Tuesday of this month, in celebration of Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander voices, we are revisiting conversations from our archives that feature AAPI writers, thinkers, artists, and healers. Today we are revisiting an episode from February 2020 in which Kazu Haga is joined by CIIS professor and restorative justice expert Sonya Shah for a conversation about his life, Kingian Nonviolence, and his book, Healing Resistance. Because CIIS' history and identity is indebted to the wisdom traditions of Asian cultures, we are particularly called upon to stand in solidarity with the AAPI community. We share in the feelings of helplessness and grief of this moment, and there is nothing that we can say or do that will change the loss of life or the historical legacy of anti-Asian violence in the United States. We hope that in hearing these episodes—again or for the first time—listeners are provided opportunities for connection and healing. This episode contains explicit language. A transcript is available at ciispod.com.

00:38 Jain Studies — Teaching Peace 01:20 Greta Zarro – Organizing 101 01:53 Anniversary of “Breaking Silence” 02:29 Kazu Haga – Fierce Vulnerability 03:49 Michael Beer – Civil Resistance Tactics of the 21st Century 05:00 BLM in Birmingham 06:36 Annova LNG 07:24 Herring Protectors 08:24 Canadian fighter jet protests 09:58 Myanmar 11:43 Tulsa Massacre of 1921 13:43 Maria Stefan’s article in WNV The post Nonviolence Report April 02, 2021 appeared first on Metta Center.

We recorded a brief discussion on the coup from January 6th, 2021 that appears before this episode begins. Finding a path towards healing and liberation amidst our individual and collective traumas can be a daunting process. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss an article by Kazu Haga from Waging Nonviolence and how to apply Haga's proposed actions as a guide in doing this work. Follow us on social media and visit our website! Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Website

This episode is from a three-part series called “How We Get Through: Collective Resilience in a World on Fire” from our friends at Faith Matters Network. It aired in the Fall of 2020 which was a time in our country where we were literally on fire - California and other parts of the country were raging during the time of this series. But we were also amidst many pandemics at once - the pandemic of covid, the pandemic that is structural and cultural racism, the pandemic of record inequality and of course the pandemic that is climate change. And what is different about this series - besides the fact that it features brilliant movement leaders - is that it explores not just what we DO in the face of this fire but how we BE together; how we keep going and meet whatever comes next so that we can bring about the future that we all deserve. This particular conversation featuring Kazu Haga, Xan West, the organizers from the chilean movement La Coordinadora Feminista 8M and Carinne Luck explores how movements in and of themselves are healing - how healing has been woven in from building relationships in small teams to exploring how to create containers for rage and healing in the streets and bring in intentional joy. It is a provocative conversation about reclaiming our power to heal ourselves and one another. Connect with Kazu HagaFollow Kazu on FacebookBuy his book Healing Resistance Check out East Point Peace Academy Connect with Xan West: Follow Xan on Instagram Check out their work at One Life InstituteConnect with LCF8M: Check out their websiteConnect with Carinne Luck: Follow Carinne on TwitterConnect with Faith Matters: Follow them on instagram @faithmattersnetworkCheck out the Daring Compassion CourseDonate to their Nurture Brave Space fundraising campaignIf this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @kkellyyoga, @carinne luck @XanWest @eastpointpeaceacademySubscribe to CTZN PodcastJoin CTZNWELL on PatreonFollow CTZNWELL on InstagramSign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD(Link to transcription)

This week, we are showcasing selections from three previous episodes featuring California-based voices for change. We begin with Kazu Haga joined in February 2020 by CIIS professor and restorative justice expert Sonya Shah for a conversation about his life, his experiences utilizing Kingian Nonviolence, and his book, Healing Resistance. The second selection features Boots Riley, the writer and director of the movie Sorry To Bother You, and lead singer of The Coup discussing creativity and activism with Bay Area writer Chinaka Hodge live on stage in September 2018. We close the episode with an excerpt of an inspiring conversation recorded live in San Francisco in November 2019 featuring Dolores Huerta. Latinx studies professor Maria L. Quintana talked with Dolores about her life and work as a revolutionary and inspirational leader dedicated to activism, feminism, and the future of America. This episode contains explicit language.

Join Kazu Haga, author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm, and me as we delve into the nature of personal, social and ecological change, healing trauma, and the intersection of non-violent direct action and spirituality. ~ ~ ~ Kazu Haga is the founder and coordinator of the East Point Peace Academy and is an experienced nonviolence trainer, certified in several methodologies of nonviolence and restorative justice. Having received training from elders including Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Rev. James Lawson and Joanna Macy, he teaches nonviolence, conflict reconciliation, restorative justice, organizing and mindfulness in prisons and jails, high schools and youth groups, and with activist communities around the country. Kazu was introduced to the work of social change and nonviolence in 1998, when at the age of 17 he participated in the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage; a 6-month walking journey from Massachusetts to New Orleans to retrace the slave trade. He spent a year studying nonviolence and Buddhism while living in monasteries throughout South Asia, and returned to the US at age 19 to begin a lifelong path in social justice work. Kazu spent 10 years in social justice philanthropy, while playing leading roles in many movements. He became an active nonviolence trainer in the global justice movement of the late 1990s, and has since led hundreds of workshops worldwide. He is the founding board chair of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ), sits on the board of Peace Workers, and is a member of the Ahimsa Collective. He is the recipient of several awards including the Martin Luther King Jr. award and the Gil Lopez Award for Peacemaking. Kazu is an avid meditator and enjoys being in nature, particularly with his dog. He is a die-hard fan of the Boston Celtics and of mixed martial arts, the latter of which he is still sometimes conflicted about. " If we carry intergenerational trauma, then we also carry intergenerational wisdom. By maintaining a relationship with our ancestral wisdom, we can build a truly peaceful world for future generations." -EastPointPeaceAcademy.org -Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harmhttps://www.parallax.org/product/healing-resistance - Fierce Vulnerability, work in Progress

Welcome to Season three of Fractal Friends.Kazu Haga is a teacher of Kingian Nonviolence, and in this episode he offers up the wisdom of the great leader of nonviolence, Dr. Martin Luther King. The wisdom here is as important today as it was back in MLK's time, and this episode gives us a real taste of what it would like. This conversation doesn't just say that we need to work together, it shows us how to do it. Kazu is part of the East Point Peace Academy, and they offer many online amazing online trainings and resources, especially touching on racism and reparations. Check them out now.This conversation with Kazu Haga is from the Fractal Friends archives and is as pertinent now as it was in 2018.Episode PageSupport Fractal Friends hereMusic: “King's Justice” by the Thrive ChoirSupport the Thrive Choir's new album here. Watch a live performance of “King's Justice” here.

Join Change Catalyst Founder & CEO Melinda Briana Epler (she/her) with Sloan Leo (they/them), Max Masure (they/them) and Madelena Mak (she/her) to discuss Being a Great Ally for Trans and Gender Nonconforming Colleagues.Learn more about Sloan's work at https://sloanleo.com/ and https://thevaidgroup.com/Learn more about Max's work at http://www.maxmasure.com/Learn more about Madelena's work at https://startupbus.com/⭑⭑If this is helpful, don't forget to subscribe to our channel and like this video!⭑⭑Resources:➡ "Why I Put Pronouns on my Email Signature (and LinkedIn profile) and You Should Too" by Max Masure https://medium.com/gender-inclusivit/why-i-put-pronouns-on-my-email-signature-and-linkedin-profile-and-you-should-too-d3dc942c8743➡ "Remembering Lorena Borjas, The Mother of A Trans Latinx Community" by Masha Gessenhttps://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/remembering-lorena-borjas-the-mother-of-a-trans-latinx-community➡ Healing Resistance by Kazu Haga https://www.healingresistance.com/➡ Learn more about gender identity at Planned Parenthood: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity ➡ "Dismantling a Culture of Violence: Understanding Anti-Transgender Violence and Ending the Crisis" by Human Rights Campaign: https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/2018AntiTransViolenceReportSHORTENED.pdf➡ "Being African American and LGBTQ+: An Introduction" by HRC:https://www.hrc.org/resources/being-african-american-lgbtq-an-introductionFor more about Change Catalyst, and to join us for a live recording, visit changecatalyst.co/allyshipseriesYoutube: youtube.com/c/changecatalystTwitter: twitter.com/changecatalystsFacebook: facebook.com/changecatalystsLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/changecatalystsSupport the show (http://patreon.com/changecatalysts)

What does it mean to be committed to nonviolence, in one's activism and everyday life? Kazu Haga reveals that Kingian Nonviolence is a principled way of life, one that actively confronts violence and injustice, restores relationships, and helps create what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called Beloved Community. Kazu Haga, Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm Parallax, 2020 East Point Peace Academy California Institute of Integral Studies and CIIS Public Programs The post Kingian Nonviolence appeared first on KPFA.

Organizing trainers & practitioners Kazu Haga (East Point Peace Academy) and Carlos Saavedra (Ayni Institute) join us to talk about Kingian nonviolence, spiritual discipline, restorative justice, and healing for the long haul. (And a little bit about food.) Join Book Club to read Kazu's new book, "Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm," with others all over the world. You'll also get further resources, including a live conversation with Kazu this May, at http://www.irresistible.org/BookClub Buy the book from Parallax Press with code PODCAST for 15% off Transcript and full show notes with sources & thank yous at www.irresistible.org/podcast/60 Check out the following episode to practice Metta Meditation with Kazu. ---- Thanks to Jacob White & Zach Meyer for production, Josiah Werning & Alyson Thompson for design and social media, and Ana Cecilia for music. Irresistible is sponsored by Kalliopeia Foundation: Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Learn more at kalliopeia.org

Kazu Haga of East Point Peace Academy leads us through a Metta Meditation, as part of our spiritual training for nonviolent discipline. Join Book Club to read Kazu's new book, "Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm," with others all over the world. You'll also get further resources, including a live conversation with Kazu this May, at http://www.irresistible.org/BookClub Buy the book from Parallax Press with code PODCAST for 15% off Transcript and full show notes with sources & thank yous at www.irresistible.org/podcast/60p Listen to the previous episode to hear Kazu talk with Carlos Saavedra about Kingian nonviolence, spiritual discipline, restorative justice, and healing for the long haul. ---- Thanks to Zach Meyer for production, Josiah Werning & Alyson Thompson for design and social media, and Ana Cecilia for music. Irresistible is sponsored by Kalliopeia Foundation: Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Learn more at kalliopeia.org

With over 20 years of experience practicing and teaching Kingian Nonviolence, leading trainer Kazu Haga offers a practical approach to resolving conflict first practiced by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement. In his work, Kazu reclaims the energy and assertiveness of nonviolent practice and shows that a principled approach to nonviolence is the way to transform not only unjust systems, but broken relationships. In this episode, Kazu Haga is joined by CIIS professor and restorative justice expert Sonya Shah for a conversation about his life, Kingian Nonviolence, and his book, Healing Resistance. This episode contains explicit language.

Often when we think about nonviolence, we think of practical strategies and techniques: How does one organize an effective sit-in or march? What is the appropriate language to use when addressing someone with whom we are in conflict? And indeed, understanding -- and practicing! -- these tactics are essential. However, nonviolence goes much deeper than this, it is, according to Kazu Haga, “a principled way of life and how we view the world.” This week on Nonviolence Radio, Stephanie and Michael talk to Kazu Haga, author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm, to learn about his life, his own path to nonviolence, and his current work of creating Beloved Community with the East Point Peace Academy. Kazu Haga reminds us that we all have the potential to do harm, to act cruelly -- we all get lost. But this is not cause for despair. Rather, recognizing this part of our common humanity unites us, provides us with the very foundation that allows us to choose nonviolence as a way of life.

Often when we think about nonviolence, we think of practical strategies and techniques: How does one organize an effective sit-in or march? What is the appropriate language to use when addressing someone with whom we are in conflict? And indeed, understanding — and practicing! — these tactics are essential. However, nonviolence goes much deeper than this, it is, according to Kazu Haga, “a principled way of life and how we view the world.” This week on Nonviolence Radio, Stephanie and Michael talk to Kazu Haga, author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm, to learn about his life, his own path to nonviolence, and his current work in creating Beloved Community with the East Point Peace Academy. Kazu Haga reminds us that we all have the potential to do harm, to act cruelly — we all get lost. But this is not cause for despair. Rather, recognizing this part of our common humanity unites us, provides us with the very foundation that allows us to choose nonviolence as a way of life The post Kazu Haga on the everyday duty to practice nonviolence appeared first on Metta Center.

Kate drops in to share stories from the community, and updates about what's coming next.   This is our last episode under the name "Healing Justice Podcast." The next time you tune in, you'll see our NEW name, which is launching on March 16, 2020. The library will remain connected, so if you subscribe now and join our email list at http://www.healingjustice.org , you won't miss a thing.   To get in on the *first run of swag* from our new name, join our Patreon at at http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice - if you join at $5/month or more before the end of March 2020, we'll mail you a postcard and 2 limited-edition stickers to say thank you. -------- BOOK CLUB Join us in Book Club as we read Healing Resistance, a Radically Different Response to Harm by Kazu Haga. Parallax Press (Thich Nhat Hanh's publishing house!) is graciously offering 15% off using the code PODCAST. Join us to connect with other listeners via our self-organizing map, access resources from past book club selections Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good & Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture, and more at www.patreon.com/healingjustice -------- GET CONNECTED WITH US Everything you need to know to join the community lives at www.healingjustice.org/community Help sustain this work: http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice  -------- Thank you to Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for mixing & mastering. Show us some love! Leave us a positive rating & review in Apple Podcasts, or whichever podcast platform you listen to most. Thank you!

When people go into the military, they receive weeks of training.  Yet those of us who are activists for social change often have not trained adequately in the skills that would make our work more effective.  Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Kazu Haga, teacher of Kingian Non Violence and author or the book Healing Resistance, about the importance of doing the work that allows us to be truly non violent and healed enough from our own trauma to do the organizing that is necessary to turn this world around and toward justice. Kazu Haga is the founder of the East Point Peace Academy, a core member of the Ahimsa Collective and the Yet-To-Be-Named Network, and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. He teaches and facilitates nonviolence, restorative justice and organizing in prisons, with youth and community leaders.     The post Training To Create A Just World appeared first on KPFA.

When people go into the military, they receive weeks of training.  Yet those of us who are activists for social change often have not trained adequately in the skills that would make our work more effective.  Host, Marlena Willis, talks with Kazu Haga, teacher of Kingian Non Violence and author or the book Healing Resistance, about the importance of doing the work that allows us to be truly non violent and healed enough from our own trauma to do the organizing that is necessary to turn this world around and toward justice. Kazu Haga is the founder of the East Point Peace Academy, a core member of the Ahimsa Collective and the Yet-To-Be-Named Network, and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. He teaches and facilitates nonviolence, restorative justice and organizing in prisons, with youth and community leaders.     The post Talk It Out Radio, Sun, 2/16, 7pm: Training To Create A Just World appeared first on KPFA.

0:08 – Last week, news broke that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' phone had been hacked in 2018 after he received a WhatsApp message from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. We speak with the two U.N. investigators who reviewed the forensic analysis: U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression David Kaye, author of Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet, and U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions Agnes Callamard, who has been investigating the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. 0:34 – Kazu Haga, founder and coordinator of East Point Peace Academy, discusses his approach to nonviolent resistance and social change, as well as the path that led him to this work. He is the author of the recently published book, Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. 1:08 – An outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus that started in the city of Wuhan, China is raising alarm worldwide. There are now 2,744 confirmed cases globally, five of which are in the United States. Art Reingold, Division Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, joins us to explain what this coronavirus is – and how worried the U.S. public should be. 1:34 – Mitch Jeserich (@MitchJeserich), host of Letters and Politics, gives an update on impeachment. KPFA is broadcasting impeachment proceedings every day live from 10 a.m. until the evening. The post UN investigator calls for halting spyware sales after Jeff Bezos phone hack; Plus, updates on coronavirus and Kazu Haga on “Healing Resistance” appeared first on KPFA.

Alicia Garza, principal at Black Futures Lab and co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, offers a visioning practice to guide us through the transition from 2019 into 2020 with focused personal & political power.   You'll need 30 minutes, and ideally a printed version of the accompanying visual guide (though it also works with a piece of paper and something to write with). This practice can be done alone or in a group.    Download the visual guide, read Alicia's full bio, and access the transcript at http://healingjustice.org/podcast/2020 -------- BOOK CLUB We are so happy to announce our next Book Club selection: Healing Resistance, a Radically Different Response to Harm by Kazu Haga. Parallax Press (Thich Nhat Hanh's publishing house) is graciously offering 15% off using the code PODCAST. Join us to connect with other listeners via our self-organizing map, access resources from past book club selections Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good & Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture, and more at www.patreon.com/healingjustice -------- GET CONNECTED WITH US Everything you need to know to join the community lives at www.healingjustice.org/community Help sustain this work: http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice  -------- Thank you to Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for mixing & mastering, Danny O'Brien & Unicorn Heads for music, Josiah Werning for cover art, and Siana Sonoquie for design and illustration on the visual guide that accompanies this practice. Thank you to our sponsor, Kalliopeia Foundation: Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Learn more at kalliopeia.org

Podcast founder & host Kate Werning shares an update on our project's internal life, the lengthening timeline of our name change process, and our upcoming healing & hibernation season.   You'll also hear about our upcoming Book Club selection & a preview of our special New Years Practice from Alicia Garza, coming your way on 12/30!   Find all show notes & access the transcript of this episode at http://healingjustice.org/podcast/53   To send us ideas, encouragement, stories, and love during our healing & hibernation time, email healingjusticepodcast@gmail.com -------- BOOK CLUB We are so happy to announce our next Book Club selection: Healing Resistance, a Radically Different Response to Harm by Kazu Haga. Parallax Press (Thich Nhat Hanh's publishing house!) is graciously offering 15% off using the code PODCAST. Join us to connect with other listeners via our self-organizing map, access resources from past book club selections Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good & Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture, and more at www.patreon.com/healingjustice -------- GET CONNECTED WITH US Everything you need to know to join the community lives at www.healingjustice.org/community Help sustain this work: http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice  -------- Thank you to Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for mixing & mastering, Josiah Werning for graphic design, and our Advisory Circle [most pictured in the episode art] for their participation in shaping the decisions mentioned in this episode.

here is a lot of opportunity for healing in our country these days, It’s hard to see how we can effectively make change in our lives, our countries and the world. If you’re struggling to understand how we can heal our world, this episode may be the perfect medicine for you.Kazu Haga is a teacher of Kingian Non-Violence, and in this episode he offers up the wisdom of the great leader of non-violence, Dr. Martin Luther King. The wisdom here is as important today as it was back in MLK's time, and this episode gives us a real taste of what it would like.We talk about restorative justice, the ingredients of accountability and reconciliation. This conversation doesn't just say we need to work together, it shows us how to do it.

  This week we honor one of the greatest American philosophers, communicators and leaders of our country's history. This Sunday evening, we invite you on a journey with us into practicing the assertive and active force of love, as taught and lived by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We welcome Kazu Haga, Coordinator and Trainer at East Point Peace Academy, and Melissa Crosby, activist, educator and poet, our local direct connection to the living lineage of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s effective teachings. The Eastpoint Peace Academy is an organization dedicated to bringing about a culture of peace through training, education and the practice of nonviolence and conflict reconciliation. East Point is grounded in the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and works with incarcerated populations, youth, activists and community leaders to bring about the framework for the future, the “Beloved Community.” Kazu, Melissa, and our hosts, Timothy Regan and Marlena Willis, will share practical approaches to raising our voices and our power to create what King always wanted as the framework for the future, “the beloved community.” Melissa will talk about upcoming “Reclaim MLK” events, which are focused on direct actions dedicated to non-violent protest: “We are redefining our values and our self-worth and in doing so create more space to come into connection, to care for and learn from each other. When we come together, we have a glimpse into our collective power, and we are starting to see that very clearly now.” About Kazu Haga: Born in Japan, Kazu has been engaged in social change work since participating in the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage at 17 years old. He has over 15 years of experience in nonviolence, training and organizing work and has been trained by elders such as Dr. Bernard Lafayette and Rev. James Lawson. He has been a Kingian Nonviolence trainers since 2009, is the co-founder/Board Chair of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice sits on the board of PeaceWorkers and the OneLife Institute, as well as the Strategic Advisory Council of the Metta Center for Nonviolence. About Melissa Crosby: For over 18 years Melissa has dedicated herself to creating positive lasting change in the lives of youth. She is an educator, activist, organizer, scientist, and humanitarian. The post Practicing the Assertive and Active Force of Love: Living MLK Jr.'s Vision of “Beloved Community” appeared first on KPFA.

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Kazu Haga of the East Point Peace Academy about his work inside - and outside - California's prisons, and how his insights into restorative justice and Kingian Nonviolence can help turn our understanding of police brutality into constructive action for accountability, transformation, and deep, systemic change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Kazu Haga is a Kingian Nonviolence trainer based in Oakland, California. Born in Japan, he has been involved in many social change movements since he was 17. He conducts regular trainings with youth, incarcerated populations and activists. He is the founder and coordinator of East Point Peace Academy, and is on the board of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, PeaceWorkers and the OneLife Institute. Related Links: East Point Peace Academy http://eastpointpeace.org/ Policing Isn't Working for Anyone http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/policing-isnt-working-for-cops-either/ Kingian Nonviolence http://eastpointpeace.org/kingian/ "After American Tragedies, The Courage To Feel Pain" by Sherri Mitchell on Native News Online http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/american-tragedies-courage-feel-pain/ Paul Chappell on Love (and Revolution) Radio http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-01-19T21_00_00-08_00 Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org "Shape of Your Sorrow" - rough cut by Diane Patterson https://soundcloud.com/diane-patterson/shape-of-your-sorrow-orlando About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

In this episode Joanna interviews Kazu Haga. Kazu is the founder and coordinator of the East Point Peace Academy and is a trainer in Kingian Nonviolence. Having received training from elders including Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Rev. James Lawson and Joanna Macy, he teaches nonviolence, conflict reconciliation, organizing and mindfulness in prisons and jails, high schools and youth groups, and with activist communities around the country. Kazu has been active in various social change movements since 1998, including Occupy Oakland and the Movement for Justice for Oscar Grant. He currently resides in Oakland, CA.