Humanity Rising January 2025

Forgiveness Under Duress
Medicine for Post-Election Blues

Moderator: Tom Eddington*

Convener: Jim Garrison, President Ubiquity University

This was a week-long exploration of forgiveness, hosted by Humanity Rising and Ubiquity University. From personal to societal healing, our esteemed speakers talked about the power of forgiveness in challenging times such as thisl  Click on the program title, to access the replay for each day.

Personal, Relational and Societal Aspects of  Forgiveness

 

Dr. Fred Luskin, forgiveness pioneer, founder of the Stanford Forgiveness Project and author of best-selling book Forgive for Good, shares his groundbreaking research on forgiveness, how forgiveness is tied to gratitude and happiness and why it is imperative that we embrace forgiveness now.

 

Eileen Barker, an attorney/mediator and author of The Forgiveness Workbook and her upcoming book Healing Conflict, talks about how she became a forgiveness teacher and how she uses forgiveness to help people resolve legal disputes and heal conflict with others and themselves.

Using Forgiveness to Bridge Deep Divides

 

Dr. Christy Heacock is a forgiveness educator with expertise in civil discourse.  Drawing on her experience with world religions and wisdom traditions, she will talk about how to achieve respectful communication and understanding across different perspectives and cultures.

 

Dr. Kenneth Cloke offers deep insights into the transformative power of forgiveness and how forgiveness can address and heal societal divisions. Dr. Cloke is an internationally acclaimed mediator, teacher and author of numerous book including Mediating Dangerously and The Magic of Mediation.

Transmuting Hopelessness and Pain Through Forgiveness

 

Nicole Schmid is a Forgiveness Mentor, Reiki Master-Teacher and expert communication guide. She brings her commitment to self-reflection, emotional intelligence and spiritual devotion to the process of coming home to Self, merging the human path of life with the journey of the soul. 

 

Bursting Our Bubble

 

Olivier Clerc, an international lecturer, workshop-leader and author, shares insights on forgiveness and healing. He reveals the power of asking to be forgiven, the subject of The Gift of Forgiveness and Healing the Wounds of the Heart, and the basis of his Circles of Forgiveness which are being held in over 250 places worldwide.

Seeing The Big Picture

 

Kim Wright, a central figure in the Integrative Law Movement and author/editor of three books published by the American Bar Association (Lawyers as Changemakers, Lawyers as Peacemakers, and Trauma Informed Law), discusses the integration of forgiwrightveness and healing in the legal field and highlights transformative approaches to law that incorporate forgiveness and compassion

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Tom Eddington is an author, Executive Coach, Business Advisor, and Executive Producer of documentary films. As a scholar of Conscious Leadership, he is passionate about bringing more conscious leadership into the world which he does through his coaching and advisory work, film and media projects and Board positions. As CEO of Endangered.global he brings his commitment and experience to impacting climate change and biodiversity loss. He holds an M.S. in Organization Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.