About The Integrity for Nonviolence^® Program

(IFN) is a process that engages compassionate communication to help sharing of ideas and collaborating on solutions. A compass is a vital image that helps us navigate the path for searching this way. For more than twenty-five years, the compass has been a symbol for the process called IFN. A compass provides a viable guide for the right direction when it is firmly oriented to a true North of ethical sensibility. The systemic process contains four values like the directional points of a compass: creating respect, practicing honesty, promoting justice, and nurturing wholesome relationships.

IFN develops a deep practical understanding to help create a positive change in the world. Integrity means that we build on the essential dignity of the human person. Responding from integrity nurtures meaningful actions and fruitful results. The practice of nonviolence enables us to act from a sound personal basis and an effective organizational framework. The process consciously integrates what we say with what we do. Nonviolence requires a reverence that first seeks to do no harm. Then we become receptive to reconciling, building up, and constructively challenging each other to be our best selves and to live and work with caring confidence as this is a conscious way of being.

Integrity requires setting aside reflection time for discernment, speaking from conviction, and determining how to act. Through this process, we develop the quiet sense of knowing what is ours to do from a nonjudgmental compassionate stance.

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Integrity for Nonviolence^®

• Integrating the inner & outer life
• Dedicated to the elimination of violence by the promotion of nonviolence

Integrity: the Process of Change

The word “integrity” means a sense of wholeness… a whole person, a person somehow undivided…The person has the serene confidence in the knowledge that he or she is living rightly.

We become conscious of what we say and how we live in a way that supports, builds up and challenges one another to be our best selves and to work with caring confidence.

This reverence extends to all creation.

Practice of values

• Creating Respect through acceptance of Basic worth of the person and maintaining a non-threatening place.
• Practicing Honesty through the communication of truth and the freedom to discover the true self.
• Promoting Justice through negotiations (dialogue) and fairness and accountability and responsibility.
• Nurturing Wholesome Relationships through demonstrations of trust and support and adequate resources.

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Chart: Values for Nonviolence

Chart: Behaviors for Nonviolence