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Kit Miller
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Dear friends,
I have a note from an anonymous student taped to my computer from August programming at a local school, Northwest College Prep:
Kit, thanks for helping us by sending these people.
Appreciation is often hard to hear, especially if it's packaged like approval or praise. We don't trust the words, or it stimulates fear in us regarding the potential removal of the approval! That's why I prefer hearing specifics like the note from this student above. I can't argue with it: I did help send them.
Hearing the effects of our actions on others is important. Existentially, we need others to help us know how our choices affect them, for good or for ill. As part of a lived practice of nonviolence, here at the Institute we often give specific feedback as a form of nourishment and as a way to create tight feedback loops regarding our choices.
We hope to receive and offer lots of feedback during our Annual Open House and Gandhi Birthday Party on Sunday, October 5, 1-4 pm. Please join us that day and bring friends! Children are very welcome. The event will include an exhibit of photos, art for young and old, music, dancing, great speakers, birthday cupcakes, an empathy labyrinth and more. That day we will celebrate the people who attended seven days of training with Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr. and Jonathan Lewis who have been giving talks and workshops on nonviolence. If you have not yet attended a talk or workshop on Dr. King's nonviolence and would like to know about hosting one, please be in touch.
We hope to see you here on October 5 if not before!
This comes with love from everyone here,
Kit Miller
for the Gandhi Institute
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