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Campaign for Love & Forgiveness

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KEET-TV continues its fourth year of participation in a national Campaign for Love & Forgiveness, an initiative that combines public television programming, community activities and events, and on-line discussions to encourage contemplation and conversation about how love and forgiveness can effect meaningful change in individuals and society. Initiated by the nonprofit Fetzer Institute (www.fetzer.org), the campaign encourages community conversations throughout the United States, inviting participants to connect and share on the topics of love and forgiveness. KEET-TV is one of only six PBS stations in the country to receive outreach grant funding, along with the American Library Association and Story Corps, to partner with The Fetzer Institute on this campaign.

Through local partnerships with Humboldt State University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) and The Westhaven Center for the Arts, KEET-TV is offering two courses beginning this February: Four Conversations About Love and Four Conversations About Forgiveness.

Four Conversations About Love and Forgiveness will take place on Mondays from February 1 through February 22 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Westhaven Center for the Arts.  In these conversations, facilitated by Cascadia Center for Leadership founder and former Humboldt County Supervisor, Julie Fulkerson, up to 25 participants will have a safe and comfortable environment to speak honestly about their experiences and to listen and respond to each other—and to themselves—with encouragement and compassion. Conversation participants will examine the role forgiveness can play in alleviating anger and grief, as well as the physical, mental and spiritual benefits that come with forgiveness. Each conversation has a specific focus, and uses a clip from the film The Power of Forgiveness, a PBS documentary, to spark reflection and dialogue. The first conversation focuses on the nature of forgiveness, helping participants understand their own attitudes and beliefs and explore what forgiveness is–and is not. The second conversation builds on the initial exploration, looking at the ways in which forgiveness can benefit our health and well-being. Conversation Three takes participants further in their journey to forgiveness, examining the different ways that forgiveness can occur. The final conversation delves deeper into the area of self-forgiveness, which is something that can be more difficult for some people than forgiving others.
Four Conversations About Love will take place on Wednesdays from February 17 through March 10 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center.  In these four conversations facilitated by Cheryl Johnson, a career/life coach and former psychology professor, participants will explore how love and forgiveness can effect positive change in individuals and communities. In each of the four conversations about love, Johnson will use film clips from the PBS documentary The Mystery of Love to stimulate discussion on the many personal and social expressions of love. Participants will also identify actions they can take to more consciously use the power of love to heal and transform their lives and communities. The topic for Conversation One on February 17 is “Emotion, Energy, Practice, Force” and the question of “What is Love?” Conversation Two on February 24 will cover “Nature and Nurture and “The Power of Love.” The topic for Conversations Three is “When It Is Hard to Love.” Conversation Four will revolve around working “For the Benefit of Others” and “Kindness, Altruism and Volunteering.”
Each course is offered free of charge through a community outreach grant to KEET-TV from the Fetzer Institute. Registration for the courses is recommended as space is limited. To register for the Four Conversations About Forgiveness course at the Westhaven Center for the Arts, call 707-677-9493. To learn more about the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute or to register for the Four Conversations About Love course, call 826-5880 or visit www.humboldt.edu/olli.

For more information about The Campaign For Love and Forgiveness go to www.keet.org, or contact Claire Reynolds at KEET-TV at 707-445-0813.

Major funding for the Campaign for Love and Forgiveness is provided by: The Fetzer Institute in keeping with their belief that individual transformation can lead to societal change.

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