Visual Learning: Happiness Is Where You Find It
With this YES! lesson plan, try to truly understand an image, its message, and why it鈥檚 interesting (or not). In this case it's all about happiness.
Health & Happiness
Everyday Conversations to Heal Racism
5 steps to courageous conversations about race and culture.
Discovering the Beauty of Teenagers
We tend to be afraid of those who are different from us. For John Hasyn, it was teenagers. Despite his feelings of intimidation, the Canadian-based photographer chose to work full-on with Inuit youth in Nunavut. What he discovered changed his perspective forever.
Visual Learning: Walking Slowly
Use this photo to ask your students what they notice and are wondering. Then share the facts behind the image to connect to greater understanding and discovery.
Visual Learning: Art Cars at Burning Man
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. For the viewer, they offer a chance to connect and question. They also offer potential for play and imagination, and pulling the observer into purposeful messages.
Sherman Alexie, How Dare You Tell the Truth?
A young native writer鈥檚 ambush interview with Sherman Alexie throws her into a whirlpool of unanswerable questions about tribal loyalty, silence, and healing.
Anthropology 101: How to Change the World
Professor Tom Murphy wanted his students to reconnect with nature. Now, they work beside farmers, fishermen, wastewater technicians, environmental groups, and Native American leaders through an award-winning service learning program.
Visual Learning: NYC Pillow Fight
Images, photos, and pictures stimulate the mind. With this YES! lesson plan, you and your students can luxuriate鈥攁nd pause鈥攖o truly understand an image, its message, and why it鈥檚 interesting (or not).
Grief鈥檚 Hidden Gift
What I learned about happiness during my mom's last days with cancer.
Just the Facts: Who鈥檚 Happier?
A better economy doesn't necessarily mean a happier country.
An Interview with Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke on wild rice, wind power, Thunder Beings, self-reliance, and our covenant with the Creator.
Heal the Warrior, Heal the Country
Breaking the cycle of war making: our country will not find peace until we take responsibility for our wars.
The Fierce Urgency of Now
A call for beloved communities from Grace Lee Boggs: "We are living in a time of great peril and possibility."
Acupuncture for All
With increasing numbers of people unable to afford health care, community practitioners are making acupuncture accessible to everyone. Pamela O'Malley Change invites us to "Imagine acupuncture being the medicine everyone
uses and values."
Fighting the Cancer, Healing the Soul
The Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic provides all-around care including alternative treatments for low-income women diagnosed with cancer.
Where FEMA feared to Tread
When Katrina hit New Orleans, medics on bicycles toured the city bringing relief where other agencies failed to show.
Just the Facts
The costs of health care and prescriptions in
the U.S. are graphically compared against the rest of the
world. Why do U.S. drugs cost more?
Better Health Through Fairer Wealth
Being poor may be as great a risk factor in personal health as the consumption of cigarettes or junk food.
Has Canada Got the Cure?
The United States pays far more than Canada per capita for its health care services, yet Canadians get better care, according to various experts.
Health Care: It’s What Ails Us
Americans spend the most, get the least, and have no health care security. The solution is not that difficult.
Radio Soap Operas Teach Conflict Resolution
The work of peace building in South Africa and elsewhere is largely a rehumanizing process, calming fears by destroying dehumanizing stereotypes.
95 Theses or Articles of Faith for a Christianity for the Third Millennium
Like Luther, I present 95 theses or in my case,
95 faith observations drawn from my 64 years of living and
practicing religion and spirituality. I trust I am not alone in
recognizing these truths. For me they represent a return to our
origins, a return to the spirit and the teaching of Jesus and
his prophetic ancestors, and of the Christ which was a spirit
that Jesus鈥� presence and teaching unleashed.
Holy Impatience: an interview with Matthew Fox
An interview with Matthew Fox. Organized
religion needs to get its act together and bring in the
feminine, the widom of Sophia. See also his 95
theses.
At the Mercy of Strangers
What would you ask of the people who will care for you when you are unable to care for yourself?
Can Elders Save the World
This is no time to be wasting the talents and wisdom of elders.
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