Storytelling can still hold considerable impact here in the 21st century. Combine that with arts and media and you can take it to a whole new level. COMPATHOS does just this through inspiring and raising awareness by making award-winning films, digital storytelling, and new media storylabs.
This storytelling focuses on change catalysts and collective action that is meant to inspire audiences. Compathos has compiled more than 1500 resources that raise awareness and has made them available on their online platform. It is through the efforts of various nonprofits, independent filmmakers, artists in the area of social change, and entrepreneurial activists that these media efforts have been able to be presented.
Yesterday, we had an election, for which the results have become available today. Unfortunately, many have been extremely disheartened by the results, since the winning candidate, within his person, represents hate and abuse. Our country is sadly in need of healing. So, with that in mind, Compathos' Facebook post presented a link to Parker J. Palmer's book, HEALING THE HEART OF DEMOCRACY.
Those who are concerned about the election results are greatly in need of "The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit". Mr. Palmer stated in his Prelude, "For those of us who want to see democracy survive and thrive - the heart is where everything begins: that grounded place in each of us where can overcome fear, rediscover that we are members of one another, and embrace the conflicts that threaten democracy as openings to new life for us and for our nation."
Alexis de Toqueville coined the phrase "habits of the heart". These are our "ingrained ways of seeing, being, and responding to life that involve our minds, our emotions, our self-images, our concepts of meaning and purpose." Five habits are critically needed to sustain a strong democracy: We are all in this together, An appreciation of "otherness", An ability to hold tension in life-giving ways, A sense of personal voice and agency (speaking and acting our own version of truth), and A capacity to create community.
Further, on the same subject, Terry Tempest Williams noted this, " The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up - ever - trusting our fellow citizens to join with us in our determined pursuit of a living democracy?" Poignant questions to ask after this recent election.
Thanks for information from this article on Charter For Compassion: http://www.charterforcompassion.org/compathos; this article from the Center for Courage & Renewal: http://www.couragerenewal.org/habitsoftheheart/; this post on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Compathos/posts/10157694412930223; and the above links.
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