The War on Sensemaking
What can we trust? Why is the ‘information ecology’ so damaged, and what would it take to make it healthy?
The Body Keeps Score Audiobook
In this full audiobook of “The Body Keeps the Score,” Bessel van der Kolk delves into the complex interplay between the brain, mind, and body in the healing process. Recommended for those interested in understanding how to cultivate resilience and healing.
Consensus Decision Making
Consensus decision making is a creative and dynamic way of reaching agreement between all members of a group. Instead of simply voting for an item and having the majority of the group getting their way, a group using consensus is committed to finding solutions that everyone actively supports, or at least can live with.This ensures that all opinions, ideas and concerns are taken into account. Through listening closely to each other, the group aims to come up with proposals that work for everyone.
Diego Jameau, Musician and Educator
Diego Jameau is a rare creative artist who has cultivated his natural talents for music, dance and the fine arts, each to a professional level. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jameau first learned to dance and sing from his mother, the lead dancer in the National Dance Company of Haiti. While studying with several major dance instructors, he became a member of the nationally-prized dance company, Troupe Bacalou, at age thirteen, and four years later held a position with Les Danseurs de L’Ile as the company’s lead dancer and choreographer.FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Through research, advocacy, and public education, the FAS Project on Government Secrecy works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight.
How Colonial Violence Came Home: The Ugly Truth of the First World War
The “Great War” is often depicted as an unexpected catastrophe, in particular for Europeans. But for millions living under imperialist European rule, terror and degradation were nothing new. Faced with manpower shortages, British imperialists had recruited up to . million Indian soldiers. France enlisted nearly , troops from its colonies in Africa and Indochina. Nearly , African Americans were also inducted into US forces. The first world war’s truly unknown soldiers are these non-white combatants.
