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Communication Skills

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

How to Be a Great Listener

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication

Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication

The Four Mantras of True Presence

What It Means To Communicate

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

5 Steps to Improve Your Child's Communication Skills

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry

Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy

Permaculture

Films That Inspire Inner Change

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

Why You'll Be Happier When You Give Up The Blame Game

What Is Addiction? - Gabor Maté

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope (trailer)

This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.

How to Be a Great Listener

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

Trust Your Heart. Everything You Do Matters.

Charles Eisenstein - Why We Need Community To Live In the New Story

The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

Why Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Matters

How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson

Break Anxiety and Addiction by Examining Your Patterns

What Is Toxic Masculinity?

SCARS

A New Consciousness Through Growing Food and Connecting with Nature

Universal Wisdom Meditation

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

How Forests Heal People

Gabor Mate on the Myth of Normal

Ola - Health Is Everything (2013)

Do You Worry that Screen-Based Electronics Are Rewiring Your Brain?

Planet Local: A Short Film Series about the Beautiful Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 2: Diverse Farming Systems

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 4: Local Food Processors AKA Making Delicious Food

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 5: Challenges & Solutions

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 6: Ecovillages & Networks for New Farmers

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Films We're Hosting in The Spirit of the Gift, in Partnership with the Filmmakers

Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

Together We Grow (2022)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Imprint (2023)

Project Censored The Movie: Ending The Reign of Junk Food News (2013)

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion (2020)

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Surviving Earth (2014)

Indigenous Stories and Perspectives

Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series

The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Down To Earth (2020)

Schooling the World (2010)

Song From the Forest (2013)

Ever the Land (2015)

Aluna: A Journey to Save the World (2012)

From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)

Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)

Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint (2019)

PACHAKUTEC - Time of Change (2011)

Protecting Country (2018)

Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)

Honey At The Top (2016)

Seeds Of Change (2014)

Red Cry (2013)

Utopia (2013)

The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

Environmental Films

Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)

Klamath (2016)

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

Public Trust: Fight for America’s Public Lands (2020)

Regreening the Planet (2014)

Stories Of Wolves: The Lobo Returns (2013) (trailer)

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

Fantastic Fungi (2019)

Ripple Effect (2014)

Why Earth Destruction Is a Crime (2015)

HOME (2009)

Earth Days (2009)

Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)

Vanishing of the Bees (2009) (trailer)

The Dark Side of Tulum (2019)

Symphony of the Soil (2012)

Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War (2008)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Trending Articles

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

Panic Volkushka

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society

Wisdom Pills

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

Russell Means

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Reclaiming Youth International

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

Yasha Levine

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

David Cain

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class

Kathleen Harris

An Open Letter: Why I'm Leaving the Cult of Wokeness

Africa Brooke

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

27 Honest Questions for Hillary Supporters

Kris Seto

This Homophobic Tumblr Post Transformed Into a Dystopian LGBTI Adventure Novel and It Is Amazing

Joe Morgan

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

How to Defeat the Fossil Goliath?

Dr. Aaron Thierry

Guide to Depaving Cities

Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being

Chip Richards

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

George Lakey

The Martin Luther King Jr. You Don't See on TV

What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence

America Hasn’t Learned a Thing: Racism, Materialism and Militarism Still Reign Supreme

The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why I Have Mixed Feelings About MLK Day

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

The Promised Land Is Still Not Here

MLK: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence (1967)

MLK was Planning Something Huge Just Weeks Before He was Assassinated

Epic Documentaries

The Corporation is at the Root of our Uncivilized, Inequality-Driving, Earth-Killing Economy

The Corporation (2003)

The New Corporation (2022)

War By Other Means (1992)

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Voting Is a Chess Move, Not a Valentine. In Other Words: Vote to Choose Your Opponent, Then Organize!

The "No Illusions" Guide to Elections: Vote to Choose Your Opponent, Then Organize!

Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

The Anarchist Revolt Against the Ideology of Not Voting Is Finally Taking Shape

Voting Is a Chess Move, Not the Whole Game

My Appeal to Leftists Who Won't Vote or Who Believe Voting Third Party Is a Principled Stance

The Anarchist Case For Voting In Elections

To Vote or Not to Vote: For Anarchists, Is There Only One True Way?

I'm an Anarchist and I Vote

Noam Chomsky: You Don't Stop with the Lesser Evil. You Begin with It, to Prevent the Worst. Then You Deal with the Root Causes

Voting Matters (trailer)

Democracy? That Would Be Anarchy!

Democracy Is for Life, Not Just Elections

Conversation Starters for Teachers & Students

Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What's Next?

Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense

We Are The People of the Apocalypse

The Demoralized Mind

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

Without Saying a Word This 6 Minute Clip From Samsara Will Make You Speechless

Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

The Corporation (2003)

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress

This Painting Captures a Disturbing Truth about the History of Our Education System

This Is What Every Young Girl Can Expect to be Bombarded with for a Lifetime, Condensed Into 1 Min

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not to End the War or Save Lives.

Oliver Stone: The Untold History Of The United States (2012)

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

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