Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now

Awards:   Commended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Politics/Current Events) 2012
Author:   Margaret J. Wheatley ,  Deborah Frieze ,  Asante Salaam
Publisher:   Berrett-Koehler
ISBN:  

9781605097312


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   04 April 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now


Awards

  • Commended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Politics/Current Events) 2012

Overview

In this era of increasingly complex problems and shrinking resources, can we find meaningful and enduring solutions to the challenges we face today as individuals, communities, and nations? In Walk Out Walk On, we invite you on a learning journey to seven communities around the world to meet people who have walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create healthy and resilient communities. These Walk Outs who Walk On use their ingenuity and caring to figure out how to work with what they have to create what they need. From Mexico to India, from Columbus, Ohio to Johannesburg, South Africa, we discover that all communities have the intelligence and inventiveness to solve their seemingly insolvable problems. ""We discovered a gift inside ourselves,"" one Brazilian said, ""something that was already there.""

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Author:   Margaret J. Wheatley ,  Deborah Frieze ,  Asante Salaam
Publisher:   Berrett-Koehler
Imprint:   Berrett-Koehler
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.557kg
ISBN:  

9781605097312


ISBN 10:   1605097314
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   04 April 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Our Invitation for How to Read this Book Part I: Leaving Home Walk Outs Who Walk On Why We Visit These Communities Your Hosts (The Authors) Seven Healthy and Resilient Communities The Role Walk Outs Play in Creating Change Preparing to Leave Home The Courage to Quest A Few Questions For You Packing For the Journey Part II: Journeying Mexico: From Scaling Up to Scaling Across Brazil: From Power to Play South Africa: From Problem to Place Zimbabwe: From Efficiency to Resilience India: From Transacting to Gifting Greece: From Intervention to Friendship United States: From Hero to Host Part III: Returning Home Will You Walk On? Stepping On to the Invisible Path Part IV: Reflections Choosing to Act We Never Know Who We Are Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Credits and Sources Website About the Authors About Berkana

Reviews

If there is any hope for us, it lies in rediscovering and recreating community. Do not doubt this is possible. Read Walk Out Walk On and see for yourself--and see your self. --Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline and coauthor of Presence and The Necessary Revolution Exuberant and galvanizing, this book takes us to where the future is happening--not in the corridors of power but at the grassroots where a 'trans-local' movement is unleashing human creativity and smarts. --Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self This book gives insight and beauty to what is becoming the new, new world--an intimate journey with communities and citizens creating a future with their own hearts, hands, and relationships. --Peter Block, author of Community and coauthor of The Abundant Community


If there is any hope for us, it lies in rediscovering and recreating community. Do not doubt this is possible. Read Walk Out Walk On and see for yourself-and see your self. -Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline and coauthor of Presence and The Necessary Revolution Exuberant and galvanizing, this book takes us to where the future is happening-not in the corridors of power but at the grassroots where a 'trans-local' movement is unleashing human creativity and smarts. -Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self This book gives insight and beauty to what is becoming the new, new world-an intimate journey with communities and citizens creating a future with their own hearts, hands, and relationships. -Peter Block, author of Community and coauthor of The Abundant Community


If there is any hope for us, it lies in rediscovering and recreating community. Do not doubt this is possible. Read Walk Out Walk On and see for yourself--and see your self. --Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline and coauthor of Presence and The Necessary Revolution Exuberant and galvanizing, this book takes us to where the future is happening--not in the corridors of power but at the grassroots where a 'trans-local' movement is unleashing human creativity and smarts. --Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self This book gives insight and beauty to what is becoming the new, new world--an intimate journey with communities and citizens creating a future with their own hearts, hands, and relationships. --Peter Block, author of Community and coauthor of The Abundant Community


Author Information

Margaret Wheatley cofounded and led the Berkana Institute, a global foundation that partners with people developing healthy and resilient communities. Margaret is the author of five other books, including Leadership and the New Science and Perseverance. Deborah Frieze succeeded her. Berkana partners with people developing healthy and resilient communities worldwide, many of whom are described in this book.

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