Circles and Beloved Community
When I’m getting to know someone, I like to ask them the question, “What were you like in middle school?” I like this question because it helps me learn about …
Blog
Stretching into Leadership
Last week, I was invited to speak at a banquet for student leaders at Paul Smith College on the topic of leadership. Below is the text for the talk, offered …
Lady Meng Po’s Tea: My Journey into Uniqueness
I have a deep and fanatical appreciation for mythology, fairy tales, folktales, and fables. I consumed them endlessly and learned to spot the patterns between these stories. Who are the …
Reflections on Self Forgiveness
Have you ever made a mistake? I’m willing to bet that 100% of humans who have ever lived on the Earth, and who will ever live on the Earth thereafter, …
An Interview with Desmond Tutu
“We can be free only together, safe only together, prosperous only together, and human only together.” View Gwen’s illustrated conversation with anti-apartheid and human rights activist, the late …
Reflections on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
It was perfect that my last event at the Institute this past June as the Gandhi Institute’s director was the closing celebration for the fourth round of our Youth Healing …
Reflections on Gratitude, Working, and Savoring Life
Three things occupied my mind at the start of February. One: Another semester had just begun and I’d decided back in December to speed things up by taking two classes …
Reflections on Acceptance
Hello all who are reading this! If you are familiar with the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence you know about the Season for Nonviolence, which occurs from January 30th to April …
Playing it Safe Since 1833: How Personality Affects One’s Work
TW: This blog post briefly mentions suicide in paragraph 5. You don’t have to know me long to pick up that I have exactly two personality traits: my passion for …
Investigating Investment: A Systems-Thinking Approach to Giving Tuesday
Here at the Gandhi Institute we recognize that the ‘how’ of our work is as important as the ‘what’. This allows us to be completely transparent about all aspects of …