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Another example is Seeds for Change's guide to creating publicity and outreach materials (2017), which helps the reader challenge their own assumptions. Seeds for Change have also created a useful guide to facilitating inclusive meetings (2009), which describes techniques like go-rounds (going around the group and asking everyone's view in turn), active listening (splitting into pairs where each person takes turn to listen to the other for a few minutes without interrupting or
commenting), and small group discussion exercises that distribute input on decision-making more evenly across the group.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad
Besides the simple “In-Out” exercise, we can recite these four lines silently as we breathe in and out: Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment!
Peace Is Every Step
Thich Nhat Hanh
willingness to make a fool of oneself is one of the chief requisites for learning anything—if one does not try (and hence sometimes fail), one can never succeed.
Thinking With Concepts
John Wilson
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