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Author: Kerry Nelson
Publisher: Kerry Nelson
Imprint: Kerry Nelson
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9780692655542
ISBN 10: 0692655549
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 17 August 2016
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""I was delighted and moved. Kerry Nelson skillfully weaves together quotes, the suggested exercises, and the basic wisdom -- how to be an activist and retain your sanity -- or better yet, how being an activist might lead to your sanity."" Wes ""Scoop"" Nisker, author of You are Not Your Fault ""How many of us who care about all the suffering in this world wonder, ""What can I possibly do? Where would I begin?"" Kerry Nelson gives us the answers and an excellent roadmap in her inspiring book One Small Difference. This accessible and profound step-by-step guidebook takes us gently by the hand and shows how engagement is not only possible but fulfilling, meaningful and contagious. I love this book!""---James Baraz, author of Awakening Joy, co-founding teacher Spirit Rock Meditation Center ""A reflective book on taking action in a disturbing world. Easy clear steps toward engagement, wise, gentle approaches to what holds us back. I want to give this book to young friends graduating and older friends retiring-all those who are having earnest conversations right now about what is happening around us."" Louise Dunlap, Author Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing"
I was delighted and moved. Kerry Nelson skillfully weaves together quotes, the suggested exercises, and the basic wisdom -- how to be an activist and retain your sanity -- or better yet, how being an activist might lead to your sanity. Wes Scoop Nisker, author of You are Not Your Fault How many of us who care about all the suffering in this world wonder, What can I possibly do? Where would I begin? Kerry Nelson gives us the answers and an excellent roadmap in her inspiring book One Small Difference. This accessible and profound step-by-step guidebook takes us gently by the hand and shows how engagement is not only possible but fulfilling, meaningful and contagious. I love this book! ---James Baraz, author of Awakening Joy, co-founding teacher Spirit Rock Meditation Center A reflective book on taking action in a disturbing world. Easy clear steps toward engagement, wise, gentle approaches to what holds us back. I want to give this book to young friends graduating and older friends retiring-all those who are having earnest conversations right now about what is happening around us. Louise Dunlap, Author Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing
Author Information
Kerry Nelson grew up in San Francisco, and graduated from Peace and Conflict Studies and Library and Information Studies from UC Berkeley. Inspired by social justice movements, for two decades she consulted, volunteered and advocated with non-profits, unions, and individuals in the U.S., southern Africa and the U.K. She currently works as a retreat manager at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, advocates for action on climate change, and offers One Small Difference and One Small Planet workshops through her website placeforpeace.org.
