Dave Soleil

This article was written for Parenting Beyond Punishmen t as part of their month-long No Spank Challenge to encourage and teach peaceful ...

On this 30th anniversary of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, I reflect on the social turmoil of the past year. 1202 citizens were kille...

You're pissed off! You are so angry you could scream. You want to show your opponent that they are in the wrong and you are going to ma...

Imagine you are an 8-year old student in elementary school. Your teacher tells you, "Today, we are having a lockdown drill." S...

James McGregor Burns is a giant in the field of leadership studies.  His seminal work called, " Leadership " is a masterpiece.  R...

I received some feedback from my last article, "Open Letter to the Guy with the Confederate Flag." One person implied that I am ...

On the road to North Carolina, I saw many confederate flags.  Hundreds maybe.  They were attached to pick-up trucks and motorcycles, on bea...

Mother Emanuel In Charleston, SC nine African-Americans in a prayer group were massacred by a white racist.  Once again, there is a res...

As thoughtful, caring parents, we would never want to teach our kids that violence is the answer to any or every problem.  We want our ch...

Nonviolence teaches us to look beyond problems to their root.  What are the causes of these problems?  For example, when we see hunger in o...

In the midst of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, protests are happening all over the country.  Everyone is looking for solutions and the con...

One thing I value about Gandhi's leadership in the struggle for India's independence was his Constructive Program of spinning .  ...

As a service to to all of the #BlackLivesMatter groups, I am offering free 90 minute Skype or Facetime trainings in the philosophy and meth...

Can we design a school based on nonviolence?  Can we find inspiration from the lineage of nonviolence activists and change agents?  Can ...