Grief Brings Us Together

We’ve been hit in the head with a 2 x 4. The latest shooting got our attention.

It is time to grieve.

But more importantly it is a time to act; not simply react, which gives no long-term relief, but act in a concerted, preventive way to stop this never-before-seen level of violence. (See blog posting Three Levels of Response to Adversity, 09-04-2011).

“If we don’t stop it now, what’s next?” 

We inherited a paradigm of thought from the industrial age that is incomplete and based on fear. This paradigm promotes false avenues for security, creates addiction in numerous forms and underlies most of our current societal ills: random acts of violence, economic disaster, warfare and even illness. Until this paradigm is changed the violence will increase in numbers of events and intensity.

For those of you who have read my first book No More Turning Away, A Revolution in Education, Solutions for a Violent World or heard me speak, I demonstrate what this paradigm looks like and, more importantly, what to do about it. My latest book, A Renaissance in Education, Transforming the World One School at a Time (I’m still looking for a publisher) shows how our schools can be the impetus for creating this change instead of the end-point of our societal disintegration.

We can stop these shootings, but the solution is not found in duck and cover drills, more police presence or the over-protection of our children. It is found in a more complete, common sense and wiser way of dealing with life. 

Ron Veronda, Educator                            

http://www.educationforyourlife.org/blog/