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The Nonviolent Brain : Unlocking Our Potential to Save the Planet, Animals, and Ourselves - Gena St. David

The Nonviolent Brain

Unlocking Our Potential to Save the Planet, Animals, and Ourselves

By: Gena St. David

eText | 13 May 2026

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From Gena St. David, therapist, educator, and recipient of the ASERVIC Research Award for distinguished scholarship, comes a powerful new exploration of the brain science of nonviolence—and why it is urgently needed now.

Nonviolent solutions are essential to protecting the planet, reducing animal suffering, and transforming human conflict. Yet despite people's best intentions, we continue to inflict harm—often reflexively, especially under stress. Why does a nonviolent world feel so difficult to achieve, even when people long for it?

In The Nonviolent Brain, Gena St. David introduces a groundbreaking paradigm drawn from the first grounded theory study of its kind, integrating neuroscience with compelling accounts from nonviolent practitioners from diverse cultural and spiritual traditions across the globe. Her research reveals how daily practices shape the brain's capacity for harm—or for care—and shows that effective nonviolence can be cultivated as an embodied, even pleasurable, way of life rather than a fragile cognitive ideal. The Nonviolent Brain makes these steps clear and attainable.

Practical, hopeful, and crucially relevant, this book translates nonviolence into actionable practices for volatile moments, inviting readers to imagine—and help create—a future in which the planet, animals, and people will thrive.

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