@ Philia March Ezine

Me To We
Oops! Last month we introduced you to Me to We, a worldwide movement of
people finding purpose through living with compassion, strengthening community and making a commitment to our shared humanity. But we neglected to give you a link to the article its founders, Craig and Marc Kielburger, wrote especially for Philia. Here it is!

Ethics
“Ethics.” It’s a word we use all the time, but what does it really mean? How do we know what’s ethical and what’s not? Philosophers have been arguing over ethics for centuries, and “what’s ethical” is still a hot topic for debate. To
help us unravel this difficult concept, we turned to one of Canada’s pre-eminent philosophers, Mark Kingwell. Mark has been engaged with Philia for several years, and he shared his thoughts about ethics with us in this interview...

Good Conversation

Dialogue for Collaborative Communities
Paul Born, President of Tamarack, considers conversation to be the
essence of life. His soon-to-be-published guide, Listening! Engaging Dialogue to Build Collaborative Communities, captures his journey with community engagement and the role of dialogue in building strong communities. In the
meantime Tamarack has built a webpage to complement the guide, full of great ideas and useful resources. Get your conversation started...

The Body's Grace
Speaking Of Faith bills itself as “public radio’s conversation about
religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas”. And what a conversation! SOF’s host, Krista Tippett, engages with her guests on everything from religion in politics to environmentalism to living with mental illness – all from a deeply spiritual
perspective. In The Body’s Grace, Krista speaks with Matthew Sanford, an author and yoga teacher who happens to be paraplegic. Listen in...

Inspiring Action

Photo Voice

Photovoice is a grassroots approach to photography that creates social change by putting cameras in the hands of people with little access to society’s ‘deciders’. From villages in rural China to a homeless shelter in Michigan, people have used photovoice to amplify their visions and experience. By giving them the tools to record what is important to them in their community, photovoice invites people to promote their own and their community’s well-being, and to become catalysts for social change. Click here...

Actions

Roots of Empathy nurtures caring citizenship in the classroom, and it all
starts with a baby. The heart of the program is a neighbourhood infant and parent who visit an elementary school classroom over a school year. As the children interact with the baby, care and empathy in the classroom go up,
while bullying and aggression go down. And as the kids follow the development of "their" baby, they learn new skills to last a lifetime. Read more...

“We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted
rightly.”

– Aristotle