Progress The Search for a Nonviolent Future Complete & Continue Next Lesson Learn More Getting Started 1 Lesson Introduction Preface and Foreword 7 Lessons 1: The Turning Point 2: The Ripples of Violent Imagery 3: Hasten To Do Good 4: Nonviolence Brings Results 5: Teachings of Gandhi and Sri Eknath Easwaran 6: Seeds Lay Dormant in Barren Soil 7: Where Does Nonviolence Come From? Chapter 1: Hard Questions, Hard Answers 14 Lessons 8: What Is Violence? 9: Evolving Consciousness 10: Bearing a Higher Image of Humankind 11: Pains of Losing Dignity and Unity 12: Humiliation Ripples 13: Delegitimizing Violence 14: Experiments of Cooperation 15: Learning from Monkeys 16: In Search of Prevention 17: Slowing Down our Initial Reactions 18: Getting Beyond the Moral Framework 19: Strength to Defy and Forgive 20: A Life-Affirming Orientation 21: Discovering Nonviolence, Discovering Ourselves Chapter 2: Hope in Dark Times 11 Lessons 22: She Saved Her Friend's Life 23: Getting Beyond Crisis-Mode 24: Empathy Tells Us Something About Nonviolence 25: Three Lenses for Understanding Violence 26: Are We Ignoring the Lessons of Nonviolence? 27: Power of Vulnerability 28: A Strong Tool for the Courageous 29: Awakening Compassion 30: On Humiliation and Nonviolence 31: Power is of Two Kinds 32: Nature, Nurture, and Nonviolence Chapter 3: No Power to Describe - The "Nonviolent Movement" as Peak Experience 10 Lessons 33: Transforming Anger into Nonviolent Power 34: A Force from Within 35: Peak Experience 36: Person Power 37: The "High" of Nonviolence 38: Nonviolence Resonates with Our Humanity 39: The Long Haul of Nonviolence 40: Peak Experience to Way of Life 41: Anger as Distraction 42: Two-Fold Beginning of Modern Era Chapter 4: "Work" Vs. Work 13 Lessons 43: "Work" Vs. Work 44: Myths of Violence 45: Realities of Nonviolence 46: Making Nonviolent Energy WORK 47: Stealth and Salt 48: Nonviolence is for Everyone 49: Conflict Escalation Curve 50: Recognizing True Power 51: Nonviolence is the Highest Law 52: Civil Disobedience Legal 53: Two Stories 54: Symbolism and Nonviolence 55: Predicting Violence and Nonviolence Chapter 5: A Way Out of Hell 7 Lessons 56: Michael's Big Claim about Nonviolence 57: The MEANING of Nonviolence 58: Restorative Justice the Key 59: Eyes on the Prize 60: Restorative Justice Begins in our Minds 61: What Will Make Restorative Justice Work? 62: Restorative Justice as Constructive Program Chapter 6: Constructive Program 12 Lessons 63: Gandhi's Secret Weapon 64: Gandhi's Basics of Constructive Program 65: Constructive Action Vs. Constructive Program 66: Constructive Strategy 67: Heart Unity 68: Heart Unity and Leadership 69: Inner Culture of Nonviolence 70: Constructive Program Review 71: Getting Real 72: The Inner Work 73: Conversion Happens 74: It Took One Hour Chapter 7: A Clear Picture of Peace 6 Lessons 75: Nonviolent Moment 76: Three Giant Steps 77: Time to Start Nonviolence 78: Nonviolence is Human Nature 79: Transforming War Culture 80: Framing Our Values Chapter 8 and Conclusion: Fighting Fire with Water 2 Lessons 81: Unarmed Peacekeepers 82: Restoring Dignity to the Earth The Search for a Nonviolent Future Complete & Continue Next Lesson Learn More Chapter 6: Constructive Program 67: Heart Unity
If we are to challenge inequality, we have to find commonality. How to begin to conceive of doing this? Gandhi maintained that "heart unity" was the key. Not uniformity; rather, mutual respect and shared vision.
