This week, visitor instructor Mandar Apte explored one of many central dilemmas of our time: how will we keep hopeful and take significant motion in a world overwhelmed by violence, division, and despair?
Mandar speaks to the ache of witnessing repeated tragedies—faculty shootings, systemic injustice, deep social disconnection—and the helplessness that may comply with. However as a substitute of shutting down, he invitations us to open up: to domesticate interior peace, join throughout divides, and convey compassionate presence into the guts of struggling.
The message is obvious and pressing—actual change begins with how we breathe, how we present up, and the way we come collectively to create a tradition of security, therapeutic, and belonging.
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A Meditation on Think about
A Speak on How you can Lead with Peace and Function
Mandar Apte is the Founder and Govt Director of Cities4Peace, a strategic peacebuilding consultancy of the Artwork of Dwelling Basis and the Worldwide Affiliation for Human Values. Previous to this, Mandar labored at Shell for almost 20 years and managed Shell’s Recreation Changer social innovation and impression funding program. Mandar can be the Producer/Director of From India With Love documentary movie that promotes India’s historical message of nonviolence. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), Mandar has studied, practiced and taught meditation practices for the previous 20 years.