Secrets of Spiritual Activism: A Toolkit for Educators and Activists 

 
Dates: November 4-6, 2011
Location: Petaluma, CA
Conducted by:  Metta Center for Nonviolence in partnership with the National Peace Academy
Course Instructors: Michael Nagler, Metta Center President and Professor emeritus and founder of Peace and Conflict Studies Program, UC Berkeley; Stephanie Van Hook, Metta Center Co-Director and adjunct faculty at Portland State University
Course fees: $300 
NPA Certificate Points:  2 certificate points
CEUs: 1.4 CEUs 
 

At the groundbreaking 2005 Berkeley conference on spiritual activism Van Jones summarized much of the four-day meeting in one sentence: “When activists get spiritual and spiritual people get active — watch out!”  This course will define spirituality itself, spiritual activism, and the need for a spiritual component in contemporary activism toward peace & justice.  We will discuss the ‘contemplative vs. active’ topic in various, and take up special questions like The “Gita Theory of Action” and “engaged Buddhism.”  (Others can be suggested by the students, as time and inclination allows).  On the practical side, there will be an introduction to Passage Meditation.

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This course is part of the National Peace Academy’s National Peacebuilding Peacelearning Certi..., a program designed to make learning for peace accessible, available and affordable for all. The program allows participants to pursue an individualized course of study that will help them achieve depth in knowledge and skills they need to achieve their personal and professional goals and interests in peacebuilding and peace education.