M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

Weekly Online Grief Circles (January-June 2024)
2024-01-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | NY
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What keeps you up at night? What contributes to hopelessness? Join us for support online and in community, to honor our pain for the world and to unlock love and energy. Every kind of grief is welcome.
Grief circles Thursdays 12-1 pm EST
Questions? kit@gandhiinstitute.org / bianca@gandhiinstitute.org

Garden Work Parties
2024-03-23 13:00 - 15:00 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Volunteer in the Gandhi community garden!
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Drop by our community garden any time between 1:00 and 3:00 pm on Saturdays to help us plant, tend, and harvest food and flowers with the community.
We also are looking for volunteers who can help us pack and deliver grocery bags to our neighbors.
Wear comfortable, weather-appropriate clothes and closed-toe shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty. Tools and gloves will be provided.

Want to have a group come by and volunteer? Contact christina@gandhiinstitute.org

Breakfast Chats
2023-12-12 08:00 - 09:00 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Join our Directors for breakfast & conversation!
Come to get to know us and talk about your part in supporting nonviolence in Rochester and beyond. Share breakfast with Gwen & Erin, our Co-directors of the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. Chat with us to learn more about the Institute’s programs and plans.
Stay for some good breakfast, conversation, and company!

Register For Breakfast:
Tuesday, 12/12 – 8:00 am
Tuesday, 1/9 – 8:00 am
Tuesday, 2/13 – 8:00 am
Tuesday, 3/12 – 8:00 am
Tuesday, 4/9 – 8:00 am
Tuesday, 5/14 – 8:00 am

May Community Dinner
2024-05-29 18:00 - 20:00 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Join us for our May Community Dinner on May 29 at 6 PM EST.
Bring a dish if you would like to, but don’t worry, we’ll be cooking up a few of our own.
Everyone is welcome — you can donate if you would like to, but all we ask is that you bring curiosity, respect, and an appetite!
Let us know that you are bringing dishes or snacks by emailing katie@gandhiinstitute.org

Sharing Stories to Build Community
2024-06-22 10:30 - 13:00 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
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Join us on June 22 at 10:30 AM EST to connect over a shared brunch & dialogue. Whether you’ve personally navigated life after incarceration or want to foster understanding and support, all are welcome to contribute their voices and experiences.
Bring a dish if you would like to, but don’t worry, we’ll be cooking up a few of our own. Everyone is welcome, but we ask that you bring curiosity, respect, and an appetite!
Questions? Email Jonathon at jonathon@gandhiinstitute.org

June Community Dinner
2024-06-25 18:00 - 20:00 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
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Summer’s here, and so are our Community Dinners! Don’t miss the next Community Dinner on June 25 at 6 PM. Bring a dish if you would like to, but don’t worry, we’ll be cooking up a few of our own! Everyone is welcome.
Stop by or register using the link in our bio! Let us know that you are bringing dishes or snacks by emailing katie@gandhiinstitute.org

Conflict In The Comments 2.0
2024-07-26 12:00 - 13:30 | NY
A 90-minute online conversation
Relationships are being created, nourished and sometimes destroyed in online spaces. Are there ways to nourish authentic dialogue and conflict resolution when things get painful online? How can we deal with online hate and misinformation – or friends and relatives reposting such things – and get through heated arguments to meaningful communication?
Join Rivera Sun and Dominic Barter to explore these questions and emergent best practices for an online conversation, moderated by Erin Thompson.
These online skills can also translate into a toolbox that we can use in the street or around the dinner table to shift from fighting to opening hearts and minds.
Register Now!

Author/Activist Rivera Sun, is the Editor of Nonviolence News, a nationwide trainer in strategy for nonviolent movements, and the author of many books and novels, including The Dandelion Insurrection and The Way Between. She is the Advancing Nonviolence Coordinator for Pace e Bene and has been a social media for social change coordinator for Campaign Nonviolence, Metta Center for Nonviolence, and others.
Dominic Barter is internationally recognized as a reference in the field of restorative responses to conflict, starting in the gang-controlled shantytown favelas of Rio de Janeiro. He has spent over 28 years developing empathetic social technologies of dialogue, including 10 years as a collaborator in Redes Cordiais, a Brazilian program for social media influencers, politicians and journalists.
Deep Gratitude to our Friends and Co-Sponsors at Pace e Bene
