Transforming Pain to Power: Unlock Your Unlimited Potential - Hardcover

Beaty, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0425267482 ISBN 13: 9780425267486

Publisher: Berkley, 2014

Synopsis

Title: Transforming Pain to Power( Unlock Your Unlimited Potential) Binding: Hardcover Author: DanielBeaty Publisher: BerkleyBooks

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel Beaty is an award-winning actor, singer, writer, and motivational speaker. His critically acclaimed plays Through the Night, Emergency, Mr. Joy, and The Tallest Tree in the Forest - Paul Robeson, have garnered numerous awards including an Obie award for writing and performance and two NAACP Theater Awards. A highly requested keynote speaker and thought leader, Beaty has worked throughout the U.S., Europe, and Africa speaking and performing on programs with luminaries such as Deepak Chopra, Hill Harper, Jill Scott, Donnie McClurkin, and Bill Cosby.  An adjunct professor at Columbia University (www.columbia.edu) and youth development specialist, Beaty has spoken at all staff retreats and led leadership training for non profits including City Year (www.cityyear.org) and Year Up (www.yearup.org). In fall 2013, Beaty launched a nationwide initiative using the tools of storytelling to help individuals and communities heal trauma funded by W.K. Kellogg and Ford Foundations among others. He holds a BA with Honors in English and Music from Yale University and an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theatre.  His poem Knock Knock became an internet sensation receiving millions of views and has been transformed into a children's book, also titled Knock Knock, published by Little Brown Books. 

Review:

“Cherish this book, share it with your children, with your grandchildren so they can experience this powerful, inspiring work.”—Bill Cosby

“A wise and passionate book that lovingly guides us through steps to heal our souls and harness the power of joy.”—Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient

“Daniel Beaty has chosen to share his own compelling story to send a message of hope and healing to others working to overcome painful obstacles, including very difficult childhoods like his own. He reminds readers never to give up on themselves and of their own power to transform their futures.”—Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of Children’s Defense Fund

“Daniel Beaty’s beautifully rendered book takes us on a hero’s journey home to the self. Soul-searching and illuminating, there is a real potential for Transforming Pain to Power to help us create a needed new world. There is profound wisdom about life and healing deeply embedded in these pages. This is a gift to cherish and to give.”—Susan L. Taylor, bestselling author, former editor of Essence, and founder of CARES Mentoring

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0425267482
• ISBN 13: 9780425267486
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240