Exploring Community Resiliance

Exploring Community Resiliance is a new publication from the CarnegieUK Trust and Fiery Spirits CoP gathers a mix of experience and academic insight into how local communities are learning how to cope – and even thrive – through difficult times.
Written in an accessible style its stories highlight experience from Cumbria to the Scottish Highlands, and . . . → Read More: Exploring Community Resiliance

Pass it on – Joanna Macy and Norbert Gahbler

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pass-Joanna-Macy/dp/1888375833/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300358791&sr=1-1

If you’ve not read Joanna Macy’s other books, this is the perfect place to start. If you’re familiar with her work, this is a great refresher.

I found the stories absorbing, uplifting and inspiring. They include details not shared elsewhere.
The five stories hang together as a whole and the book is an easy read.
Thank you Joanna and . . . → Read More: Pass it on – Joanna Macy and Norbert Gahbler

Social Change 2.0 – David Gershon

A blueprint for Re-inventing Our World.

This book begins with ambitious intent: “we are being called to reinvent not only our world,” writes David Gershon, “but also the process by which we achieve this reinvention”. The familiar social change tools of protests, campaigns and lobbying are not working fast enough. To address the accelerating unravelling of our . . . → Read More: Social Change 2.0 – David Gershon

Find Your Power – Chris Johnstone

An inspiring self-help guide to positive vision and inner strengths, this book introduces the Great Turning as the essential adventure of our times, and shows how we find our power to take part in it.

See http://www.chrisjohnstone.info/

Here is what Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition movement, wrote in his foreword:

“Chris approaches the challenge of changing things, whether . . . → Read More: Find Your Power – Chris Johnstone

The Great Turning – David Korten

This book shows how humans stand at a defining moment in our history, where we face both the opportunity and the imperative to choose our future as a conscious . . . → Read More: The Great Turning – David Korten

Coming Back to Life – Joanna Macy & Molly Brown Young

This book is a practical guide to the Work that Reconnects. It introduces the Great Turning and provides a wealth of exercises to deepen our connection with our world and help us find our capacity to respond to our current global crisis.

For information, . . . → Read More: Coming Back to Life – Joanna Macy & Molly Brown Young