M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

Circle with Kyle Orton
2019-05-03 08:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York)

Nonviolent Communication - last class here
2019-05-02 16:00 - 19:00

Nonviolence Now Celebration
2019-05-01 16:30 - 17:30
Nonviolence Now, a global project to share and collect stories of nonviolence.

Launched at the United Nations on Oct 2, this historic project is introducing nonviolence on global digital platforms as an education project and as a means to counter online extremist recruitment.

Project team members Jamie Rudd ’17, Justin Fraumeni ’17, UR graphic designer Jennelle Hart and Gandhi Institute director Kit Miller will offer a brief presentation regarding the project and results thus far.

Refreshments will be provided.

Learn more, visit: https://nonviolencenow.org

Tuesday Meditation
2019-04-30 18:00 - 2019-06-18 20:00

Restoring Rochester Conference: My Brother's Keeper
2019-04-27 08:00 - 15:00
Restoring Rochester is an opportunity to bring together individuals with a common heart and call to action for the city of Rochester. This year’s conference will focus specifically on the call to action to empower young men of color in our city. As our young people face challenges and adversitites, the call to action for every one of us, is to declare and explore how we can all be our brother’s keepers.
Restorative champions across the city and country are using Restorative Practices in settings such as schools, community based organizations, faith based organizations, the judicial system, and mental health organizations to heal harm and rebuild relationships. Through a series of keynote speakers and panels, the Restoring Rochester conference will provide opportunity for learning, growth, community and celebrating our tremendous potential as a Restorative Rochester.
Cost includes a continental breakfast and lunch.
Early Bird Ticket Price: $45.00 (until Friday, April 5)
Ticket Price: $60.00 (after Friday, April 5)
4 CEU credits are available
4 PDI credits for RCSD employees
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Victor Rios
Dr. Victor Rios is an award-winning college professor, author, and speaker. Dr. Rios works with educators and service providers on Educational Equity, Cultural Responsiveness, Resilience, Closing the Opportunity Gap, Teacher Well-Being, and Restorative Justice.
Based on over a decade of research, Dr. Victor Rios created Project GRIT (Generating Resilience to Inspire Transformation) a human development program that works with educators to refine leadership, civic engagement and personal and academic empowerment in young people placed at-risk.
Rios is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in comparative ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. His book Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys discusses the many ways in which young urban males of color encounter the youth control complex: a ubiquitous system of punitive social control embedded in what has come to be known as the school-to-prison pipeline.
What others say:
“Many specialists in juvenile justice say they admire what Rios has achieved in Punished: to show, from his unusual perspective, how inner-city Latino and African-American boys develop their sense of self in the midst of crime and intense policing, and how it can come about that young minority men lose trust in the institutions of civil society.” — The Chronicle of Higher Education
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Yohuru Williams

Described in Diverse Issues in Higher Education as “one of the most exciting scholars of his generation,” Dr. Yohuru Williams is the History Department Chair and the Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. He is also Chief Historian for the Jackie Robinson Foundation and Museum in New York, NY. He received his Ph.D. from Howard University in 1998.
Dr. Williams is the author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power and the Black Panthers in New Haven (Blackwell, 2000) and Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies, Grades 5-12 (Corwin Press, 2008) and the editor of A Constant Struggle: African-American History, 1865-Present (Kendall Hunt, 2002). He is the co-editor of In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Duke, 2006), and Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party (Duke, 2008). He also served as general editor for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 2002 and 2003 Black History Month publications The Color Line Revisited: Is Racism Dead? (Tapestry Press, 2002) and The Souls of Black Folks: Centennial Reflections (Africa World Press, 2003). Dr. Williams served as an advisor on the popular civil rights reader Putting the Movement Back into Teaching Civil Rights (Teaching for Change and PRRAC, 2004). Dr. Williams is presently completing a single-authored book, titled Six Degrees of Segregation: Lynching, Capital Punishment, and Jim Crow Justice, 1865-1930.
Restoring Rochester is sponsored in partnership with the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, ROC Restorative Team from the Rochester City School District, the City of Rochester and My Brother’s Keeper Challenge Grant.

Greece Olympia Field Trip
2019-04-25 08:00 - 13:00

RocCity Coalition Advisory Meeting
2019-04-23 17:30 - 19:30

Grief Cafe
2019-04-20 14:00 - 16:00

Landing Strip AVP
2019-04-18 17:00 - 19:00

Garden Work Party
2019-04-18 16:30 - 2019-11-14 18:00, 2019-04-11 16:30 - 18:00

Monthly Breakfast
2019-04-16 08:00 - 09:15

Alicia Evans
2019-04-13 17:30 - 20:30
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Email: legraydynamic@gmail.com
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Let's Talk About Hate
2019-04-13 14:00 - 17:00

Youth Year Meeting
2019-04-12 09:00 - 12:00

Gandhi Garden Work Parties
2019-04-11 16:30 - 2019-10-17 18:00
Our weekly garden work parties are back! Join us for weeding, planting, watering, harvesting, and general garden maintenance.
Volunteers of all ages and experience levels are welcome. Come spend some time outside, doing good work with good people!

Gandhi Service Fellows
2019-04-08 18:00 - 20:00

Seeds of Change Workshop: How You Can Use Nonviolence to Make Change
2019-04-06 09:00 - 17:00
Ordinary people like you have made change using the tools of Dr. King, Gandhi, Jesus, and Cesar Chavez. Learn these strategies for change and apply them in your community. This workshop covers the basic dynamics and strategies of nonviolent action. Participants discover how to envision and build campaigns, become familiar with the 198 methods of nonviolent action, and learn to connect the dots between the many issues through the lens of systems thinking. Bring friends, neighbors, elders, and students. Together we’ll explore how ordinary people can make extraordinary change!
Facilitator Bio:
Rivera Sun is a change-maker, a cultural creative, a protest novelist, and an advocate for nonviolence and social justice. She’s a love-based revolutionary and the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Way Between and other novels. Her essays and writings are syndicated by Peace Voice, and have appeared in journals nationwide. Rivera Sun is facilitates workshops in strategy for nonviolent change across the country and around the world. She connects the dots between the issues, shares solutionary ideas, and inspires people to step up to the challenge of being a part of the story of change in our times. www.riverasun.com
“Rivera Sun lives, breathes, and shares knowledge and insights of extraordinary depth in the complex world of nonviolent movement strategy, tactics, analysis, and campaign planning. My students flocked to her every time she made an appearance at Portland State University and they demand her return again and again. She helped produce a new generation of young leaders with strong analytical skills with her unique approach to activating hearts, minds and informed imaginations.” –Dr. Tom Hastings, Coordinator, Conflict Resolution BA/BS degree programs, Portland State University

Soulforce II
2019-04-04 17:00 - 19:00
Join the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence to celebrate and raise funds to support peacebuilding in Rochester and beyond. Remarks by protest novelist and nonviolence trainer, Rivera Sun, in addition to an altruist auction. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres provided. Dress is business casual.
Learn more about Rivera:
Rivera Sun is a change-maker, a cultural creative, a protest novelist, and an advocate for nonviolence and social justice. She’s a love-based revolutionary and the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, The Way Between, and other novels. Her essays and writings are syndicated by Peace Voice, and have appeared in journals nationwide. Rivera facilitates workshops in strategy for nonviolent change across the country and around the world. She connects the dots between the issues, shares solutionary ideas, and inspires people to step up to the challenge of being a part of the story of change in our times. www.riverasun.com
“Rivera Sun lives, breathes, and shares knowledge and insights of extraordinary depth in the complex world of nonviolent movement strategy, tactics, analysis, and campaign planning. My students flocked to her every time she made an appearance at Portland State University and they demand her return again and again. She helped produce a new generation of young leaders with strong analytical skills with her unique approach to activating hearts, minds and informed imaginations.” —Dr. Tom Hastings, Coordinator, Conflict Resolution BA/BS degree programs, Portland State University

Erin music rehearsal
2019-04-04 09:30 - 11:30

Conversation on Cultural Humility
2019-04-01 17:00 - 19:00
In conjunction with Phillis Wheatley Community Library, we will be hosting a discussion on cultural humility for adults 18 and older. Cultural humility is a framework for supporting lifelong learning and reflection with the goal of influencing and addressing structural inequalities.
Through interactive exercises, this workshop will introduce and support understanding of a process-oriented mindset in relation to out cultures. Cultural humility perspectives seek to address issues related to unconscious bias and other perceptual and habitual challenges that prevent us from learning and seeing each other’s full humanity.
This event is free and open to the public — food will be provided!

Compassion: Muslim and Christian Perspectives
2019-03-31 15:00 - 17:00
Learn what compassion means to people of both Muslim and Christian traditions. This workshop will include skill building that will help you to leave a more compassionate person.
For more information, contact Nick Frega at: nicholas.frega@dor.org or 585-328-3228 ext. 1287
Sponsored by the Commission on Christian-Muslin Relations of Rochester, NY

RIT Group - Maria
2019-03-27 17:00 - 19:30

Community Dinner
2019-03-26 18:00 - 22:00

Dinner with the Community
2019-03-26 18:00 - 21:00
Join us for our “Dinners with the Community” series as part of this year’s season for nonviolence!
Let’s connect, talk, mourn, celebrate, exchange stories, create ideas, dream, and get to know each other over a nice shared meal! Bring a dish if you can, but if you can’t don’t worry, we’ll be cooking up a few of our own. Participation is donation based, just give what you can. Everyone is welcome — all we ask is that you bring curiosity, respect, and an appetite!
If you want to join, please let us know by emailing bianca@gandhiinstitute.org

White Privilege Symposium Meeting
2019-03-24 14:00 - 17:00

Family-Scale Container Gardening Class
2019-03-23 14:00 - 15:00
Come spend an afternoon at the Gandhi Institute learning about easy and affordable ways you can start growing food in your home. This *free* workshop will focus on the benefits of small-scale and vertical container gardening. Participants will learn the basics of easy to make self watering systems and can even take one home for free!
This class will be capped at 20 participants, please register below to reserve your spot.
This event is cosponsored by TLC Fundraising Inc and the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.

Garden Workshop
2019-03-23 14:00 - 15:00

Kathy Peters UR Nursing
2019-03-23 10:00 - 12:00
