Dialogue, tolerance, compromise are among the tools for making and preserving peace. Conversation is an art that facilitates this but one that in the Twitter and Facebook age of polarisation has fallen into disrepair. A contemplative mind trained in listening and other-centeredness offers hope that our culture and fundamental ways of communication can be saved, for our good and the good of the planet.
Laurence will situate this talk in the context of the WCCM theme of Unified Consciousness: One Mind One Heart and will illustrate it with examples from the community that meditation continues to create.