Summer Youth Facilitation Institute Reflection: Mohamed Koko
This was my first year as part of SYFI (Summer Youth Facilitation Institute). And it was also my first year learning a whole lot in such a short period of …
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My Experience with Restorative Justice in American Schools
Leon, a high school student from Berlin, Germany, spent three months with the Gandhi Institute during the spring of 2018, learning about our mission and assisting us in our work. …
Bridges out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities
Before moving to Rochester last August, I was working and studying in Amman, Jordan. One of my favorite parts about life in Jordan is the culture of hospitality. Within my …
Two Experiments in Communal Grieving
This past September, more than thirty years after finishing my undergraduate degree, I entered a graduate program on Social Innovation and Sustainability at Goddard College in Vermont. The focus of …
Shaking Hands with Nonviolence
In my school in Berlin, all the eleventh-graders have a project called “Alle Ins Ausland“ (Engl. “All Abroad“): Every student has to go for three months in another country, to …
Headspace: Mindfulness and Intentionality
Increasingly, I am opting out of the typical, American greeting which is some variety of: Hi, how are you? Fine, thanks, and you? Doing fine, …
Space for Meditation
I have tried meditation before. Quite a few times, actually. I have also led meditations for a group and for a loved one. I often grow irritated with myself over …
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead:The Frank Meeink Story
The author relates his own story of being born into a family of drug addicted parents and abuse. Rootless and without parental oversight or care, failing in school and troubled …
My Road to the Gandhi Institute
I first visited the Gandhi Institute in June of 2015. I had no idea that in two short years I would become one of its employees.I was there with the …
Shanell from SYFI
With this being my second year as a SYFI (Summer Youth Facilitation Institute) member at the Gandhi Institute, I am excited and ready for everything this summer and the Gandhi …