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At a time when most communities’ resources are stretched past the breaking point, how is it possible to deal with the enormous challenges that families, neighborhoods, cities, regions, and nations face today? This inspiring book takes readers to seven communities around the world where the people have walked out of limiting beliefs and practices that precluded solutions to major social problems, and walked on to discover bold new ways to meet their needs.
This book is a true learning journey, filled with intimate stories and portraits of the people and places the authors came to know through years of working together to transform their communities. The journey begins in Mexico, then moves to Brazil, South Africa, Zimbabwe, India, Greece and the U.S. The authors’ lives and ways of thinking have been transformed by these experiences and relationships – an experience they hope to recreate for the reader through vivid prose and photos. The reader will experience first hand how a change of beliefs about people results in new capacities and the possibility of a more healthy future.
About the Author
Margaret J. Wheatley is President Emerita and founder of The Berkana Institute, Meg has been working with people for many years to develop new practices and ideas for organizing people and communities. She is an internationally acclaimed speaker and author of several bestselling titles: Leadership and the New Science, A Simpler Way, Turning to One Another, and most recently, Finding Our Way.
Deborah Frieze is Brand Steward and former co-president of Berkana and co-founder of the Berkana Exchange. An entrepreneur, business strategist and social activist, Debbie joined Berkana in 2002 to help bring Berkana's vision into the world and grow the Institute. She is currently involved with several Berkana initiatives, include Feeding Ourselves Sustainably, Swaraj University and multiple Illumination and Thought Leadership projects. Debbie is also a member of The Tipping Point Network, a group seeking to catalyze a globally sustainable economy by focusing philanthropic donations on sustainable markets. Debbie has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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Challenged by Hope
3 April 2011
Format:Paperback
I have devoted most of my life to the quest for justice, the path has been beset by victory and loss, hope and frustration. I often find myself contending with a deep awareness that too many of us - including the radicals and do-gooders that I count among my friends - including my own self! All of us seem to be stuck in a paradigm that has reached a dead end. And yet it is all we know. And so we give our hearts and our passion, our energy and life force to a process that often seems doomed.
I have had the privilege of participating in some of the learning journeys beautifully described in this Frieze and Wheatley book. I can honestly tell you that they bring us as close as we can get to the experience without actually being there. What is beautiful about the book is that it brings the reader to that place of hope and upheaval that one experiences on a learning journey. We get to witness phenomenally hopeful responses to injustice and despair. Bold, autonomous, real walk outs from a system that is broken.
The reader is filled with a sense of deep human solidarity, a sense of pride in what these people can accomplish, a sense of hope in our shared capacity to walk out and walk on to something better, something new and something that is fundamentally good. But this does not happen without being beset by the nagging questions of scale, the questions of where is policy change? Where is the state? Isn't all of this just quaint - cute, beautiful but exceptional - irreplicable. We have to come up against the core assumptions of the dominant approach. And if you are a do-gooder, you have to come up against the core assumptions of your own approach.
It is not an easy process, and the conclusion is not forgone. But if you think that something is not working, not even with your own approach to change and social transformation, if you think that our humanity is in need of something else, then these walk outs are onto something, and they seem to be walking on to a very powerful place.
Read this book.
I have had the privilege of participating in some of the learning journeys beautifully described in this Frieze and Wheatley book. I can honestly tell you that they bring us as close as we can get to the experience without actually being there. What is beautiful about the book is that it brings the reader to that place of hope and upheaval that one experiences on a learning journey. We get to witness phenomenally hopeful responses to injustice and despair. Bold, autonomous, real walk outs from a system that is broken.
The reader is filled with a sense of deep human solidarity, a sense of pride in what these people can accomplish, a sense of hope in our shared capacity to walk out and walk on to something better, something new and something that is fundamentally good. But this does not happen without being beset by the nagging questions of scale, the questions of where is policy change? Where is the state? Isn't all of this just quaint - cute, beautiful but exceptional - irreplicable. We have to come up against the core assumptions of the dominant approach. And if you are a do-gooder, you have to come up against the core assumptions of your own approach.
It is not an easy process, and the conclusion is not forgone. But if you think that something is not working, not even with your own approach to change and social transformation, if you think that our humanity is in need of something else, then these walk outs are onto something, and they seem to be walking on to a very powerful place.
Read this book.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Important Stories of Resilience
19 Mar 2011
Format:Paperback
This new book by Deborah Frieze and Margaret Wheatley takes us on a delightful journey. It seems particularly appropriate that it is being released now when the brittleness of many of our systems is being revealed. Whether it is the collapse of existing regimes in the Middle East, or earthquakes and tsunamis in New Zealand and Japan, or nuclear meltdowns in Japan, I believe we are in a time when the instability of many systems is becoming more visible.
This book takes the reader on a different journey. You'll visit seven different communities in different parts of the world where people are stepping forward to make a difference. Guided by values and principles that work with life rather than against it, they know that they have the resources they need to create healthy and resilient communities.
It some ways I think this book is both invitation and challenge. It is an invitation to explore stories of how people are making a real difference in their communities across the world. It is a challenge to each of us to think about the changes needed in our own lives and communities and about how we will find our next steps forward.
Delightfully written, as we would expect from Frieze and Wheatley, and a visual treat of beautiful photos from these communities around the world, this book is a must for those who want to figure out how to make our communities healthy.
Bob Stilger
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This book takes the reader on a different journey. You'll visit seven different communities in different parts of the world where people are stepping forward to make a difference. Guided by values and principles that work with life rather than against it, they know that they have the resources they need to create healthy and resilient communities.
It some ways I think this book is both invitation and challenge. It is an invitation to explore stories of how people are making a real difference in their communities across the world. It is a challenge to each of us to think about the changes needed in our own lives and communities and about how we will find our next steps forward.
Delightfully written, as we would expect from Frieze and Wheatley, and a visual treat of beautiful photos from these communities around the world, this book is a must for those who want to figure out how to make our communities healthy.
Bob Stilger
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
this book contains the seeds of the future
23 Mar 2011
Format:Paperback
Sitting around fretting about the future of the human race is a favorite modern activity. Too many people, not enough food, climate change, not enough of this, too much of that. Most of the solutions being offered by development bankers, politicians, economists, and scientists merely shift problems from one place to another, postpone the day of reckoning, and/or create fragile interdependences that are certain to end badly, especially for the poor.
High-tech "silver bullets", like miraculous new sources of energy, won't solve the problems. Even if we do manage to create such new technologies, they are all too likely to perpetuate the status quo wherein the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and indigenous people lose their land.
Deborah Frieze and Margaret Wheatley have boldly created a window into something different.
Read this book to hear inspiring stories about people who step forward, people who are personally invested in the problems being solved and who work together; and about communities that exchange ideas with other communities as peers, rather than having short-sighted non-solutions handed down to them from a distance.
Using these stories as a starting point, Walk Out Walk On captures insights about change better than anything else I've read. It is like going on your own learning journey, with these two very wise guides.
I hope that by reading this book, others will be inspired, and the gears of change will start turning.
As the Zapatistas say: "Otro mundo es posible."
High-tech "silver bullets", like miraculous new sources of energy, won't solve the problems. Even if we do manage to create such new technologies, they are all too likely to perpetuate the status quo wherein the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and indigenous people lose their land.
Deborah Frieze and Margaret Wheatley have boldly created a window into something different.
Read this book to hear inspiring stories about people who step forward, people who are personally invested in the problems being solved and who work together; and about communities that exchange ideas with other communities as peers, rather than having short-sighted non-solutions handed down to them from a distance.
Using these stories as a starting point, Walk Out Walk On captures insights about change better than anything else I've read. It is like going on your own learning journey, with these two very wise guides.
I hope that by reading this book, others will be inspired, and the gears of change will start turning.
As the Zapatistas say: "Otro mundo es posible."
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