Dear Friends: Greetings. In October 2020 a team of us <https://amanibana.wixsite.com/virtues/team> working or associated with the Centre for New Humanities and Compassion Studies (Bhubaneswar), Indian Social Institute (New Delhi) and Loyola Institute for Peace and International Relations (Kochi) came together to start the *Virtues in Movement *Initiative. (*Important*; *Please note:* *A number of persons have reported that when they tried to access the web page links provided below, they get a warning note. I am not sure why. These, for now, free sites are done on a bonafide web provider, wix.com <http://wix.com>. I think it is safe to disregard the warning as some friends have done. But that decision is entirely yours.)* We had a simple query to guide the initiative: *How come with so many religions, social and political philosophies/philosophers, so many inspiring constitutions, international/global charters, vision-mission-values organisational documents, hundreds of universities and thousands of courses, events after events, and a growing number of research initiatives and reports, etc humanity is still in a big mess <https://amanibana.wixsite.com/virtues/concerns>. How come? What is that we are not getting right? This initiative is another small initiative to seek some indication to know and understand...and hopefully, act...To look at not just society (outside) but also self (inside).* The initiative has 3 stages <https://amanibana.wixsite.com/virtues/initiative-stages>. *The first stage is an attempt to create an asynchronous conversation among persons from all over the world who are willing to share their personal struggles, journeys and lessons learnt (in addressing the query above). The sharing (trying to avoid the lecture mode) is through a short video (not more than 13 minutes, or shorter, or done in two or 3 parts). *It can take any format. As of today, we have a rich crop of 47 titles <https://amanibana.wixsite.com/vim-network/collections> from 12 countries. The contributors who made time for the initiative are students, professionals, young and older public intellectuals, activists, feminists, teachers, environmentalists, and community elders The effort is on pause now. We are in a review/social audit mode...to fine-tune the video sharing. We will reach out to sections and persons we were unable to again from March 2021. Please have a look at the collection (October <https://amanibana.wixsite.com/virtues/contributions>, November <https://amanibana.wixsite.com/virtues/november-collection>, December <https://amanibana.wixsite.com/virtues/december-collection>, All) <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDt7Ju2LG-iZqZR2PaYOKQg/videos>. *If relevant, please use the videos in your classes, your lectures, your training sessions, your events, your reflections, your criticisms, your articles, etc. These stories need to be heard by more people. Your constructive criticisms are welcome as it will add to our social audit process. Also, you can reach out to any person that you may want to continue a conversation with or pursue a line of action, or even draw his/her interest to your (or other) work (some sort of "friendly recruitment"). Email ids are available at the end of the videos. *(Note: I cannot promise their response though. Apologies.) An "event" (Virtual Campfire) based on this initial stage of the effort will be held on the 30th and 31st January. Will share details next week. Thank you. Warm Regards, Nat -- Nat/Nada --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames." (Rumi) --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.gcssfs.org/ http://primalvision.weebly.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadarajah-nat-manickam-b5773a71