Pursue a Better World & a Meaningful Life with Our Distance Course

Last month we finished up another session of our month-long distance learning course A Better World, A Meaningful Life (it used to be called MOGO Online). We're so excited that our participants enjoyed and benefited from the course. We wanted to share some of their thoughts about it.

“I am changed because I will never again not think. Food, clothes, cars, building materials, cars we drive, banks we use, companies we support. I refuse to live in the dark and I do so, so happily. It is exciting to know 1 person, 1 family is going to make a difference.”
~ Melissa N.

“It went above and beyond my expectations. Among others, some of the strengths of this course is evident in how I was gently guided to self-reflect, focus on specific issues, analyze the problem in all its scope, yet come up with some specific, doable solutions that left me empowered and wanting to do more. Before you know it, you are taking 4-minute showers and packing away your ties that you chose carefully, but without caring enough to acknowledge what they represented! Thank you for creating a safe and supportive environment in this forum for such exploration to become possible.”
~ Kumara S.

“What I've gotten from this class is immeasurable. I've gotten a sense of peace, of backing away from a massive sense of responsibility, of a 'narrowing' of purpose, and from the feeling of hopelessness about where to start. I now feel excitement because you all helped show me that I can change the world in small, simple, and concrete ways starting right here at home.”
~ Susan M.

"I feel I am a better person, one who is looking at life with a new perspective, a new understanding of why people have chosen to make this way of life theirs. I don't think one could ever go back to the way they lived before this course. It is absolutely life changing and worth every bit of effort!”
~ Karen L.

“This class has been life changing. It has given me more to think about than what I can probably digest in a year. Hopefully it will be a lifetime pursuit. I have promised myself that I will continue to research, consider and challenge myself to be more MOGO every day. This class has prompted me to get off by complacent derriere and be more active. I have also been convinced that if I add amazing, important things to my life (volunteerism, activism...) it will not add to my feelings of being overwhelmed but it will actually bring centeredness and vitality.”
~ Deb K.

“One of the main things I have learned is that I have preoccupied myself so well with my day to day living and have conveniently, but not intentionally, kept myself in the dark about what is going on in our world with child labor abuses and the environment and our food production. It is big stuff to take in and comprehend and figure out how to deal with. I am thankful to the course for enlightening me on the force of one person’s choices and that each person’s damaging choices add up to a very big global mess....

"I am different because I am learning that it is just as much and/or just as little work to go about living either way. So why not go about it with a conscience to lessen my footprint. This change is spreading outward, impacting my children and my students in my classroom in a positive, broadening kind of way without being a threat or a forced learning...

"It has actually been fun to be more creative and responsible with how I live. It’s not hard and I feel good about putting less waste in my garbage, or walking to school and helping to lessen pollution, etc. You feel good when you are making conscious decisions to be part of a positive movement. This course has given this gift in just one month. That’s power."
~ Kathy H.

If you want to put your vision for a compassionate, just, sustainable world into practice, both in your own life and in the larger, global community, we invite you to sign up for our next session of A Better World, A Meaningful Life, which is in May. Register early to get a special discount!

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~ Marsha

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