It’s the night before the Spiral Dance, our community’s annual huge celebration for Samhain, more generally known as Halloween, the ancient feast of the ancestors and honoring of the Beloved Dead, which long predates the Christian feast of All Souls. The Spiral Dance is the biggest, most elaborate ritual our community, [...]
The C&R training was originally developed alongside that for the Prison Service. The air fair stank of testosterone and the environment was, as you can imagine, massively macho. It was an acknowledged fact that after a team of care staff had been trained in a hospital, the number of physical restraints escalated for a short period, presumably indicative of the hyped up, wanting to be “blooded” state induced in the trainees. We were trained to teach the techniques over a period of five days. The training was focused entirely on physical skills. We would teach staff to restrain and relocate violent individuals to a safe place and then we would say to them “and this is where would use your communication skills.”
Pacifism, Activism & Social Justice — Essays and articles reporting on and discussing the relationship between personal and political peace-making, exploring examples in modern (Neo)Paganism of community actions and organized movements working for peace and justice on the local, national and global levels.
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- TPH on The Iliad: Pacifism in Ancient Greece
- An Interview with Brynneth | Voices of Pagan Pacifism on Peace in Ritual and Daily Life
- likesun on The Iliad: Pacifism in Ancient Greece
- The Wild Hunt » Pagan Community Notes: Bonewits’ Papers, Pacificism, Theology, and more! on Submission Guidelines
- Welcome: A Pre-Launch Announcement | Voices of Pagan Pacifism on Submission Guidelines
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