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Deep Reads - Get Cozy and Dig in
Occupy Your Brain: The Profound Ways that Schooling Harms Society
The End of the Corporation?
How to Fix the World
Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change
Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege
Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life
A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning
When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them
Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?
A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous
Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?
On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom
Wanted: Men Who Love
Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction
Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism
Deconstructing Workplace Hierarchies: On Contrived Leadership and Arbitrary Positions of Power
The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy
Understanding Patriarchy
The White Working-Class Must Name The True Root of Their Problems If They Ever Want to Get Free
You Are Still Being Lied To: Columbus and the Myth of Human Progress
Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture
Humanity Is Being Held Hostage by an Economic and Cultural Death Cult
Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People
What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence
The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names
Foundational Knowledge For Addressing Root Causes
Everything Is a Remix | How Creative Commons Supports a Vibrant Culture
Emotional Literacy
The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose
The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves
Increasing Your Capacity to Feel
Core Nonviolence Commitments
How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts
Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success
Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy
4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)
A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees
The Neurochemistry Of Empathy, Explained With Claymation
The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh
Let Yourself Grieve
How Cynicism Masks Pain
No, You Don't Have to Admit You're Wrong to Apologize (And Other Apology Myths Debunked)
Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System
It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
Join the Empathy Revolution!
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
Dealing With Painful Emotions
Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)
6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises
Brené Brown on How to Reckon with Emotion and Change Your Narrative
Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?
11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence
Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids
Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear
Women Are Better at Expressing Emotions, Right? Why It's Not That Simple
If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It
Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger
Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure
What Is Emotional Intelligence and Why is it Important?
Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution
An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma
Masculinity is Killing Men: The Roots of Men and Trauma
Self-Esteem Might Boost Our Egos, But Self-Compassion Opens Our Hearts
Control is a Trap
The Demoralized Mind
The Great Grief: How to Cope With Losing Our World
The Important Difference Between Love and Being Loved
How Mindfulness Empowers Us
"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?
The Root Cause of Addiction
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You.
Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence
Anti-Fascist Activism & The Value of Nonviolence
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Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul
Human Beings Were NOT Meant to Be Labeled! We Were Meant to Be Free. Free to Just, Be.
Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?
The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)
What Is Addiction? - Gabor Maté
Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One
The Story of Stuff
Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)
The Story of Solutions: Why Making Real Change Starts with Changing the Game
ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever
Jacque Fresco - A Story of Change
John Perkins Explains How Economic Hitmen Rob The World In Service of Corporate Profit
How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot
The Story of Change
This Painting Captures a Disturbing Truth about the History of Our Education System
Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
He Didn't Always Speak. But when He Did, He Gave the Greatest Speech of All Time.
Without Saying a Word This 6 Minute Clip From Samsara Will Make You Speechless
The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe
Wake Up Call: End the Nightmare of Consumption
Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?
We Are Built To Be Kind
Charles Eisenstein: The Two Great Stories That Give Meaning to Our Lives
The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%
Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)
Happiness
The Empathic Civilization (Animated)
This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.
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