Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now
Wow this is the book that Ive been waiting for.. about resilient communities reported around the world, including the Zapatistas..... take a peek at amazon to read some excerpts:For the video clip (3min) from the authors, click here: http://www.hopedance.org/community-media/videos/897Walking out is not dropping out.. walking out is leaving institutions that are failing people and creating new.This is a book about communities and people who have opted out and moved onto a new set of beliefs and actions based on self empowerment and collaboration.. seven communities around the world... it ought to be the new Transition book for 2011.. read on as to why the authors want you to buy the book from amazon TODAY.. I just bought my copy!!! Published by BK one of the fastest growing and on topic books about social and personal change!From their site:<<
By the bestselling author of Leadership and the New Science and Turning to One Another
Provides an intimate experience of how seven healthy and resilient communities took on intractable problems by working together in new and different ways
immerses the reader in the experience of each community through stories, essays, first-person accounts, and over 100 color photos
This is an era of increasingly complex problems, fewer and fewer resources to address them, and failing solutions. Is it possible to find viable solutions to the challenges we face today as individuals, communities, and nations? This inspiring book takes readers on a learning journey to seven communities around the world to meet people who have "walked out" of limiting beliefs and assumptions and "walked on" to create healthy and resilient communities. These Walk Outs who Walk On use their ingenuity and caring to figure out how to work with what they have to create what they need.
In India, we meet people from Shikshantar, a community that is rejecting the modern culture of money, with its emphasis on self-interest and scarcity, in favor of a gift culture based on generosity and reciprocity. In Zimbabwe, we discover the capacity people have to adapt and invent new ways of surviving and thriving in the face of total systems collapse.
Through essays, stories, and beautiful color photographs, Wheatley and Frieze immerse us in these communities that are accomplishing extraordinary things by relying on everyone to be an entrepreneur, a leader, an artist. From Mexico to Greece, from Columbus, Ohio to Johannesburg, South Africa, we discover that every community has within itself the ingenuity, intelligence, and inventiveness to solve the seemingly insolvable. "It's almost like we discovered a gift inside ourselves," one Brazilian said, "something that was already there.>>
I send out things I believe in that can truly help in turning the tide. From what I know of Megs other writings and reading what little I did this morning, this is what we all need... stories about change, models that will inspire and move us into action and to keep that burning inspiration alive and well and CONTAGIOUS!!!! Thanks to Monika at Tamera's ecovillage who sent this to me.bob banner for hopedance.orgPLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR LISTS....On Apr 12, 2011, at 4:58 AM, Margaret J. Wheatley wrote:
Dear Friends,
The time has come!
Today is the launch date for my new book, co-authored with Deborah Frieze, Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now. Our book tour begins this evening in California's Bay Area and will continue on to Boston, Chicago and Toronto in the next weeks, with other cities scheduled for the fall. Continue reading below for more information about these events.
I'd like to invite you to support our Walk Out Walk On bestseller campaign on Wednesday, April 13. We're launching this campaign to try to get Walk Out Walk On to the top of the Amazon lists. The purpose of this is to help us secure foreign rights, which is essential for reaching our global community. To do this, we are trying to organize more than 2,000 people to buy the book on Amazon on April 13th. For this to work, we need everyone to buy on the same day. Learn more about the campaign or contact Deborah for more information.
Walk Out Walk On is filled with intimate stories and portraits of the people and places around the world that we at Berkana have come to know through years of working together. Our lives, work and ways of thinking have been transformed by these experiences and relationships; we hope these inspiring and provocative stories will do the same for you. Walk Out Walk On is more than a book. It's a movement that many of us are a part of, and we'd like to share these stories with as many people as possible. We hope you'll join us.
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