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| Nipun Mehta as pictured on his blog |
I can’t believe that I’ve been blogging so long, and have never blogged Nipun Mehta. It’s time to start making amends…
I’m going to start by pointing you at an audio interview that Michael Lerner of The New School conducted with Nipun earlier this year.
In April 1999, Nipun and three friends started Charity Focus as an “experiment in generosity.”
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Educators For NonViolence [EFNV.ORG] is a group of educators operating under the auspices of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education. It was co-founded by The Dalai Lama Foundation a couple of years ago.
EFNV is holding its second summer teacher conference on Friday and Saturday, 20-21 July, 2007 on the University of California campus in Berkeley CA.
The coordinator of Metta Center’s volunteers as well as coordinator of the planning activities for the EFNV conference is Jordan Pearlstein at the Metta Center.
Michael Nagler is founder of the Peace Studies program at Berkeley, and leader of EFNV. I had a Skype conversation this morning with him where we discussed the conference and the organizations.
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Links we promised during the interview:
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I sat down in a coffee shop in Berkeley (CA USA) a week ago with Jonathan Kathrein, the founder of Future Leaders for Peace.
FLFP conducts workshops in schools - from grade-school thru college - their workshop lasts 90 minutes, including a video, to capture attention and inspire; it starts with interviews of people the kids can relate to, from sports figures to real people, and continues to Jonathan sharing his stories, including the shark attack he survived at Stinson Beach in 1998; proceeding to then get the kids to share their own stories in small groups of 8 or so - their challenges and conflicts and experiences. To paraphrase Jonathan - It’s amazing how similar their challenges are and yet each one thinks they’re unique - by sharing, they learn how to better approach and overcome adversity in their lives.
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Jonathan has also written a children’s book Don’t Fear the Shark - a story of his shark attack, but one in which the shark is a bully mistreating humans because it has been mistreated itself - the story looks at how the cycle of violence arises and can be prevented. As he says, the story ends abruptly and the reader has to figure out how it would or could end.
Jonathan is also a hard-working member of the organizing committee for Educators For NonViolence.
[posted with ecto]
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Couple of things to report regarding cyber-nomads - folks who work where they want to because they work online…
First, a site I ran into months ago, WebWorkerDaily, reports lots of interesting things about people who work online, and you might want to “check them out.” A recent article Web Work Continues Explosive Growth, for instance.
Second, they report on a study from World At Work, which among other things indicates almost 15 million Americans engage in teleworking full time. (You can pick up a PDF of the report by visiting their web site.) If I calculate correctly, that’s about 5% of the population.
And just this week, an article on WebWorker Daily entitled What Type of Web Worker are You? lists four types of nomadic “Web Workers.” I am a combination of Digital Bedouin and Telecommuter. Mostly I work from my home office, but with my phone (on GPRS) and a few visits to client sites, I really distribute my work quite a bit. And I’m completely capable of picking up and working from a remote location for days when I need to. So there goes the classification scheme right away!
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