Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World - Softcover

Peat, F David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8895604032 ISBN 13: 9788895604039

Publisher: Pari Publishing (USA), 2008

Synopsis

How do we build a better world for our children, our businesses, our society, and ourselves? F. David Peat's latest book provides a clear answer: exercise more effective, creative, and noninvasive action from the local to the international level. Gentle Action shows ways in which businesses can respond more effectively to a changing marketplace and how organizations can grow more flexible, responsive, and sensitive to the world around them. The book will be an invaluable resource for everyone from CEOs, policy makers, and community leaders, to teachers and parents. It shows how and why things go wrong when well-meaning but inappropriate actions are taken. It provides examples of gentle actions in operation and how the creative intervention of a single person can end up being more effective than an aid program organized by a multimillion-dollar organization. Each chapter presents a series of questions and challenges for readers leading to ways in which they can bring creative change to their community or organization.

About this title

About the Author

F. David Peat was born in Liverpool and was awarded a PhD at Liverpool University before moving to Canada. In 1979 Peat decided to focus on writing and is now author of over twenty books that deal with such topics as Jungian synchronicity, creativity, chaos theory, quantum theory, and the Native American universe. In 2000 he founded the Pari Center for New Learning in the medieval village of Pari in Tuscany.

From the Back Cover

"...required reading for those aspiring to address society's most complex and pressing issues."
--Joseph Jaworski, Generon International. Author, Synchronicity: The inner path of leadership
R"...embraces positive change toward a sustainable world, showing in many fascinating stories, how each of us can contribute to healthier communities and societies."
--Hazel Henderson, author, Ethical Markets: Growing the green economy

"...brings the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer into the 21st century leading the way to a greener, kinder kind of engaged social action. Onward!"
--Eric Utne, founder, The Utne Reader

"...offers us real wisdom for how we can respond to turbulence in ways that create real possibilities and affirm life."
--Margaret J. Wheatley, author, Leadership and the New Science

Edition details

• Publisher: Pari Publishing (USA)
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8895604032
• ISBN 13: 9788895604039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174