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Synopsis
What would it be like if your future self could come back to this day, today, and thank you for having taken a direction for which it would be eternally grateful?
Our future lives begin right here, on this threshold; the first step is to embody life exactly as we find it. Join David Whyte on a poetic and thoughtful exploration of the way paying close attention to the present creates a new horizon for the future.
Includes two new, unpublished poems, The Bell and the Blackbird and Just Beyond Yourself, as well as favorites Sweet Darkness, Camino, The Body in Full Presence, Coleman's Bed and a reading of the essay, Courage.
74 minutes.
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About the Author
Poet David Whyte grew up with a strong, imaginative influence from his Irish mother among the hills and valleys of his father s Yorkshire. He now makes his home, with his family, in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
The author of seven books of poetry and four books of prose, David Whyte holds a degree in Marine Zoology and has traveled extensively, including living and working as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands and leading anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, the Amazon and the Himalaya. He brings this wealth of experience to his poetry, lectures and workshops.
His life as a poet has created a readership and listenership in three normally mutually exclusive areas: the literate world of readings that most poets inhabit, the psychological and theological worlds of philosophical enquiry and the world of vocation, work and organizational leadership.
An Associate Fellow at Templeton College and Said Business School at the University of Oxford, he is one of the few poets to take his perspectives on creativity into the field of organizational development, where he works with many European, American and international companies. In spring of 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Neumann College, Pennsylvania.
In organizational settings, using poetry and thoughtful commentary, he illustrates how we can foster qualities of courage and engagement; qualities needed if we are to respond to today s call for increased creativity and adaptability in the workplace. He brings a unique and important contribution to our understanding of the nature of individual and organizational change particularly through his perspectives on Conversational Leadership.
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- PublisherMany Rivers Press
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1932887466
- ISBN 13 9781932887464
- BindingAudio CD
- LanguageEnglish
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