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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
