Youth Leader Card Games

	44 amazing young HeroInes on the planet, and their teen-led solutions for positive change, from peace to food, energy, new learning culture, development, shark angels, sacred traditions and incredible new music. Rules of Play are a mix of Top Trumps, Yu-Gi-Oh! and League of Legends, fit for children and teens - simple, fun, with magical twists, utterly unpredictable and highly educational. The people are real, the ratings and special effects are genuine aspects of changemaking. On top, each card features their story and video links, for instant viewing on mobile phones. An powerpack of inspiration and lifelong companion. Altogether, each deck also is (1) a book of 44 short stories, (2) a cinematic experience of the world's most inspirational youth videos, (3) a unique, memorable initiation to the world of youth leadership, (4) a ticket to meet HeroInes "live" in webcasts, (5) a door to a global action community of student clubs, (6) a seed for cultivating a changemaking climate at school. GET AN IMPRESSION IN THE CARDGAME VIDEO!
"I never knew young people can do this." "It makes me feel I want to get up, and do something, too." "The stuff that makes you say Sign Me Up!" "A must-have for every kid in the world, for every home and classroom."	A powerful educational resource. One game in class naturally leads to a Spark Session exercise, initiating the class to the spirit of youth leadership, - using 44 videos, stories, action packs, enabling inspired students to sustain the spirit through year-round HeroIne of the Month exhibits and founding a YL student club - taking action in support of the initiatives and replicating them around them with impact at home and abroad. These media are available for online viewing, download, in School Packs and in YL Library Packs (on DVD) in up to 19 languages. The HeroInes are super excited to connect with, empower, equip and support their generation. Make it happen with us! Browse the links on this page for vivid visual impressions. One deck is $15+shipping. Many options for cheaper bulk orders exist. See below.
	PURCHASE GAMES 1 game is $15 + postage. Go to shop 19 languages available in bulk. 70+ games. Free Fedex delivery. Arabic, Chinese, English, Filipino, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese Discounts for School Packs and bulk orders are available here
	UPLIFT YOUR CITY! Would you like an entire generation to grow up with - constant presence of youth leadership HeroIne role models in class? - inspired students taking monthly action with the HeroInes as a student club? - mini-exhibits in class feat. HeroIne of the Month, tuned to current UN theme days? and more? Let's set the spark! Find out more about YL School Packs, Library Packs, and bringing cardgames to 100, even 1,000 classrooms of your city by partnering with philanthropic clubs, sponsors etc. Find out more and get in touch to UPLIFT YOUR CITY

More information: http://www.youth-leader.org

For truth, science. For goodness, spirituality. For beauty, arts.

Truth, Goodness and Beauty

by Satish Kumar

The purpose of Resurgence & Ecologist is to practise, pursue and promote Truth, Goodness and Beauty (TGB). This ancient trinity is our foundation. When we select our articles, reviews, poems and pictures we ask ourselves: do they meet the test of TGB? Are they true and authentic? Will they do any good to our readers? Do they embody a sense of balance and harmony, in other words, are they beautiful in themselves? We try to meet the TGB criteria as far as we can.

In doing so, we ourselves, and I know our readers and contributors also, try to bring the influence of TGB into our personal, political, social and economic lives.

Science, spirituality and the arts flow from TGB. It is the purpose of science to search for truth. In order to know truth we need science. Genuine science is more than mathematics, more than measurement and more than precision; science is all that and much more. There are more ways to know the truth than a particular methodology. Intuition, experience, insight and meaning are as important as empirical knowledge, evidence and experiment.

If we take truth to mean science, as it is practised in the modern world, then science alone is not enough. Science can be used to serve the military and money, it can be used to produce nuclear weapons, subjugate the natural environment and exploit our fellow human beings. Therefore truth, and the knowledge of truth, must be integrated with goodness: the good of oneself and of all beings. And goodness is a quality of the spirit. There must be complete unity between truth and goodness; between science and spirituality. One without the other is incomplete. The sword of truth must be safeguarded within the sheath of goodness. Compassion is a wonderful companion to truth. When they are separated, both lose out.

In the modern world there is far too much emphasis on truth, on science, on physical facts, on measurement, and not enough on goodness, on compassion, on meaning and on wisdom. The balance needs to be restored. Spirituality is not the same as the organised religious orders or a particular kind of theology, or even a particular belief system. Spirituality is about relationships, about empathy, compassion and wisdom.

Even the eminent scientist Einstein said that science without religion is blind and religion without science is lame. So why split the two?

The manifestation of truth and goodness, or science and spirituality has to be beautiful. That is why the arts need to be an integral part of human fulfillment. Science correlates to truth, spirituality to goodness and the arts to beauty.

There is a corresponding trinity: head, heart and hands. With our head, with our thinking and intellect, we comprehend truth; with our heart we experience goodness and with our hands we create beauty. Unfortunately our educational and economic systems place undue importance on the head, above heart and hands. Brainworkers and intellectuals are paid better. A job behind a desk and in front of a computer in a bank or in an office is considered to be of greater value than building a house, plumbing, furniture making, pottery, or farming. According to the prevailing ethos of our society manual work must be done by machines as far as is possible, or by cheap labour, either at home, or by immigrant workers from poorer countries. Most ‘manually manufactured’ goods are expected to be made in countries like Bangladesh by poorly paid artisan craftsmen and women; the economy of a country like England aspires to be transformed into a ‘knowledge economy’. This is a very unbalanced state of affairs.

Our society needs a bigger picture – a holistic vision. The hallmark of a balanced society is to honour and respect mental work and manual work equally. We need both. Only then we can develop our head, heart and hands in total harmony; science, spirituality and the arts need to be in complete coherence leading to the trinity of TGB – truth, goodness and beauty – as an integrated whole.

Through Resurgence & Ecologist magazine our writers, poets, artists, readers and supporters are on this challenging journey. This is our holistic vision. And this issue is no exception. Particularly I recommend the article by Charles Eisenstein who urges us not to get distracted by any single-issue obsession, such as global warming or climate change. When we address a pressing issue that may be fashionable for a time we must hold the big picture in our minds. And that big picture is the picture of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.

Source: http://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article4136-truth-goodness-and-beauty.html

Compassion Training

What is the difference between empathy and compassion? Is it possible to train compassion? Can it be measured? How useful is compassion training in schools, clinical settings, and end-of-life care? Can the brain be transformed through mental training?

The free eBook: Compassion. Bridging Practice and Science by Tania Singer and Matthias Bolz describes existing secular compassion training programs and empirical research as well as the experiences of practitioners. The state-of-the-art layout of the eBook includes video clips and a selection of original sound collages by Nathalie Singer, and artistic images by Olafur Eliasson.

In addition, the film Raising Compassion by Tania Singer and Olafur Eliasson brings together workshop participants in a remarkable exchange between science, art, and contemplative practice.

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Source: http://www.compassion-training.org/

The end of the car city - A Convenient Truth

The end of the car city - A convenient truth from Alexander Ståhle