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Communication Skills

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

How to Be a Great Listener

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication

Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication

The Four Mantras of True Presence

What It Means To Communicate

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

5 Steps to Improve Your Child's Communication Skills

Increasing Your Capacity to Feel

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry

Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy

Hope is a Verb

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

It's Hopeless, What a Relief! Now Find Your Tribe. Imagine Something Beautiful and Focus on Creating It.

Be an Island Crystal of Hope In These Times of Profound Global Turbulence

Hope vs. Fear - Motivation for Change - Anjali Appadurai

Jane Goodall - Sowing the Seeds of Hope

Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope (trailer)

Strategies of Hope: How Americans Can Fight Hate Under Trump

Give Up Hope: It's The Best Chance We Have to Save Everything We Love

Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

The Bodhisattva’s Approach to Activism: A Little Courageous Wisdom to Face a World Gone Mad

Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

We Can't Grow Infinitely on a Finite Planet

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

The Impossible Hamster

How to Fix the World

Life in a 'Degrowth' Economy, and Why You Might Actually Enjoy it

Enough Is Enough (2014)

13 Films about Post-Growth Economics

There's No Tomorrow (2012)

Visualizing a Plenitude Economy: The Secret To Creating Jobs

Growth is Not Enough

Powerdown: Let's Talk About It

Who Killed Economic Growth?

Steady-State Economics: It's The Answer To The Failed Endless-Growth Paradigm

Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone (2010)

We Have a Choice to Make. Growth or Life?

Manifesto for a Post-Growth Economy

How an Ad Man Became a Post-Growth Advocate

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance

Our Addiction to Economic Growth Is Killing Us - We Need Degrowth Now

Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era

Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs

GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth (trailer)

Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits

Endless Economic Growth is Fundamentally Unsustainable

How the Not-For-Profit Model Holds the Key to Creating a People-First Economy in Balance with Nature

Emotional Literacy

The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

Increasing Your Capacity to Feel

Core Nonviolence Commitments

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees

The Neurochemistry Of Empathy, Explained With Claymation

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Let Yourself Grieve

How Cynicism Masks Pain

No, You Don't Have to Admit You're Wrong to Apologize (And Other Apology Myths Debunked)

Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System

It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

Join the Empathy Revolution!

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

Dealing With Painful Emotions

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

Brené Brown on How to Reckon with Emotion and Change Your Narrative

Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?

11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence

Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids

Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear

Women Are Better at Expressing Emotions, Right? Why It's Not That Simple

If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

What Is Emotional Intelligence and Why is it Important?

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma

Masculinity is Killing Men: The Roots of Men and Trauma

Self-Esteem Might Boost Our Egos, But Self-Compassion Opens Our Hearts

Control is a Trap

The Demoralized Mind

The Great Grief: How to Cope With Losing Our World

The Important Difference Between Love and Being Loved

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?

The Root Cause of Addiction

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You.

Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence

Films For Action

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action's Vision for the Future

Does Films For Action Have Bias? - a Statement About Neutrality and Our Values

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

Trending Articles

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

Thich Nhat Hanh Was One of the Great Spiritual and Activist Teachers of Our Time. Rest in Love, Dear Brother!

Tim Hjersted

Buddhist Monk and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Dies at 95

Jessica Corbett

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

Russell Means

Defiance in the Face of Oppression - Iranian Artist Atena Farghadani Defends the Right to Draw

Gavin Aung Than

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

6 Reasons so Many Spiritual People Have Been Fooled by Qanon

Martin Winiecki

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

David Cain

Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education

Peter Gray, Ph.D.

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

Panic Volkushka

The Four Mantras of True Presence

Thich Nhat Hanh

20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing

Si Kahn

Videos by Second Thought

Is The State Your Enemy?

The Problem With Hyper-Individualism

The Minimum Wage Debate Explained

Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media

The Capitol Riot Explained

America's Prescription Drug Cartel

The CIA is a Terrorist Organization

Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The Developed World

Censorship and the Future of the Internet

How Ranked Choice Voting Can Save American Politics

Worker Cooperatives: Expanding Democracy In The Workplace

You're Probably Already A Socialist

Are You Really "Free" Under Capitalism?

Is Universal Basic Income The Future?

America's Two-Party Corporate Duopoly

The Blackwater Pardons, PMCs, And US Imperialism

Why American History Whitewashes Radical Figures

America's Police Problem: Brutality and Racism

America's Patriotism to Fascism Pipeline

America's Stunted Political Spectrum

Capitalism And The American Pandemic Response

Racist Statues and Revisionist History

Astroturfing: How To Spot A Fake Movement

How Exxon Deceived The World (But Not Their Investors)

Should The US Be Considered A Democracy?

Emergency Powers And Creeping Authoritarianism

America's Unemployment Problem

Foundational Knowledge For Addressing Root Causes

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

Violence Is a Preventable Brain Disorder

Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence

Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

Prof. Robert Sapolsky - The Neuroscience Behind Behavior

If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

This Video Dispels a Great Myth about Human Nature that Will Restore Your Hope in Humanity

Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

A Non-religious Man Virtually Eliminates Local Crime with Nothing More than a Buddha Statue

Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive

Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency - Director's Cut (2018)

The Economics of Happiness

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

Resist Globally, Renew Locally

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

Insane Trade!

Our Obsolescent Economy

Trump is a Symptom of Corporate Globalization

Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993) ($5)

How Globalization Fuels Terrorism and Fundamentalism

Thinking Outside the Grid

We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively

To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?

Changing Everything Except What Needs Changing: What's Missing From The Renewable Energy Debate

Trump: The Illusion of Change

The Economics of Climate Change

The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than a Smartphone

7 Billion for Dinner? Here's How to Feed Them

Environmental Films

Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)

Klamath (2016)

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

Public Trust: Fight for America’s Public Lands (2020)

Regreening the Planet (2014)

Stories Of Wolves: The Lobo Returns (2013)

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

Fantastic Fungi (2019) ($5)

Ripple Effect (2014)

Why Earth Destruction Is a Crime (2015)

HOME (2009)

Earth Days (2009)

Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)

Vanishing of the Bees (2009) ($7)

The Dark Side of Tulum (2019)

Symphony of the Soil (2012) ($6)

Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War (2008)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Wondering What to Watch? Try These First

The Corporation (2003)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Schooling the World (2010)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

Money & Life (2013)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Beware Of Images (2016)

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

Occupy Love (2013) ($6)

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Trending Documentaries

Oliver Stone: The Untold History Of The United States (2012)

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Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)

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Schooling the World (2010)

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Sicko (2007)

554 mins watched today

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

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The Century of the Self (2002)

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Beware Of Images (2016)

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The Corporation (2003)

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Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment (2020)

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InterReflections, by Peter Joseph (2020)

177 mins watched today

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015) ($2)

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Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

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The Age of Disconnection (2018)

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Slavery by Another Name (2012)

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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

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From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)

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The Take: Occupy, Resist, Produce (2004)

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The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

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Inner Climate Change: The Change Starts Within You (2020)

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The Art of Effortless Living: A Taoist Documentary (2019)

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Films For Patrons: Donate $5/mo to Gain Access to These Great Films

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018) ($5)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020) ($5)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017) ($5)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020) ($5)

A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016) ($5)

Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015) ($5)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018) ($5)

Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015) ($5)

We Are Many (2020) ($5)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010) ($5)

The Nature of Cities (2010) ($5)

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006) ($5)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016) ($5)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012) ($5)

Accidental Anarchist (2017) ($5)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019) ($5)

Paradise with Side Effects (2004) ($5)

The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017) ($5)

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012) ($5)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017) ($5)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993) ($5)

Thich Nhat Hanh was One of Our Greatest Inspirations and Mentors. May He Rest in Peace.

The Four Mantras of True Presence

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

We Need a Revolution; It Starts with Falling in Love with Earth

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

The Four Qualities of True Love

True Justice Should Have Compassion in It

Thich Nhat Hanh On Seeing Ourselves In All Beings and All Beings In Us

Do You Have Time to Love?

New Member Submissions

System Fail #9 - Chile: the Frontline Against Neoliberalism (2021)

We Are Nature (2020)

Tribes and Trance (2019)

Never Forget January 6, 2021

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The Other Side of the Glass: a Birth Film for and about Men (2013) ($7)

The FIRST Omicron DEATH!

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The Covid Narrative Is Insane and Illogical...And Maybe That's No Accident

CIA Experimented on Hundreds of Orphans, Torturing Them to Reveal Psychopathic Traits—Report

Native Hawaiians Fight US Navy for Polluting Island’s Water (2021)

What is the State? (2021)

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