Bringing light into darkness

Give people tools they can use

I want the knowledge you find here to help when you need it: in a conversation with your partner, with an angry child or in a disagreement at work. To help you stop, understand what matters to you and ask what matters to the person in front of you.

When a tool you have learned helps you, you can teach it to someone else. Parents can share it with their children, teachers with students and partners with colleagues. The more people can hold a conversation even when it is difficult, the more disagreements can be addressed where they begin.

A reverse Tower of Babel

In the Tower of Babel story, people stopped understanding one another and scattered. I want to help the opposite movement happen: people speaking different languages learn to listen, understand and cooperate. Each has their own story, culture and beliefs, and everyone needs a way to talk about what matters.

That is why I am working to make the ten-lesson introductory course available in more languages. I want people to learn in the language they think and feel in, and use that knowledge within their families and communities. Each additional language enables more people to join.

From learning to living

Years in mediation have taught me how much the way we speak matters. Changing habits takes practice: noticing when fear drives our reactions, asking instead of assuming we know, and listening even to answers that are hard to hear. This is how knowledge gradually becomes a way of life.

I invite you to learn with me, try the tools and find your own way to pass them on. Every day, each of us meets people we can influence. That is where we can begin to make peace.

Nadav Nishri

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