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Virtual Feedback Labs

Feedback Learning Labs Most teams, organizations, and groups acknowledge the importance of giving and receiving feedback on a regular basis. However, it can be pretty rare that any of us actually exchange feedback and hear how we’re impacting others and how they’re impacting us. This creates a dearth of information that can wreak havoc on […]

Online Grief Circle

Join us for this opportunity to share what’s heavy on your heart during these uncertain times.Capacity is limited to 25, please register to reserve your spot. In an effort to make our events as accessible as possible, we’ve created a donation-based model, starting at no cost. 

Gandhi Tea Social

Grab a cup of tea and fellowship with us as we share with you how we have been able to be in relationship with the Rochester community.

Sew We Gather – Sewing Circle

Join us at the Gandhi House to enjoy an evening of community and creativity through sewing. Alex will be guiding us through slow stitching practices that bring meditative focus and take the pressure to sew productively off. Supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring your own materials and/or projects. We ask that you […]

Book Group: World as Lover, World as Self

Join Kit Miller and friends for an exploration of this wise, timely book by Joanna Macy, for those of us who are overwhelmed at times about the state of our world-ecologically, socially, politically, or all of the above. We will practice a few of the experiential pieces from Macy's decades of courageous work.  This group […]

Gandhi Tea Social

Grab a cup of tea and fellowship with us as we share with you how we have been able to be in relationship with the Rochester community.

Gandhi Tea Social

Grab a cup of tea and fellowship with us as we share with you how we have been able to be in relationship with the Rochester community.

Holiday Talking Circle

The holidays can be a joyous time for some and a grievous time for others. Some struggle with feeling excluded, others with concerns about consumption. Whatever is your mix of experience, we welcome you to bring your truth and your complexity to this annual event. This will be an in person event at the Gandhi Institute. […]

Conflict De-Escalation Workshop

Join us on December 16th for an in-person workshop to develop and exercise skills to transform conflict and de-escalate tense situations. Participants will work collaboratively to respond to conflict in ways that enable and promote safe outcomes. This event is open to all community members and free of charge (donations accepted). Walk-ins are welcome, but […]

Community Dialogue: Masculinity and Violence

Join us for the first of two community dialogues on the connections between masculinity and violence. We will discuss masculinity and media stereotypes and their ties to violence and desensitization to violence, especially in our community. This discussion is open to all community members and will take place virtually on January 20th from 5:30 - […]

Virtual: Embodying Nonviolent Communication

THURSDAYS, JANUARY 27TH - FEBRUARY 24TH / 6:00PM - 8:00PM For many folks, effective communication has never felt harder or more important. Given the challenges our communities have been facing, it can be easy and almost irresistible to disengage from others, rather than talking about what’s really going on and to share a vision of […]

Talking circles: Season for Nonviolence

Carry the vision and join us to share stories and your perspective on the 64 daily practices to embody nonviolence. This group will be facilitated by Jonathon Jones who grew up in Rochester and learned deeply about nonviolence in many forms while incarcerated. Since his return home, Jonathon teaches and speaks on nonviolence in a […]