Contributing Useful Action in Difficult Times - Margaret J. Wheatley, Ph.D. - C0461

Margaret Wheatley is an internationally acclaimed writer, speaker, and teacher.  She began caring about the world's peoples in 1966 as a Peace Corps volunteer in postwar Korea. She is co-founder and President Emerita of The Berkana Institute, a charitable foundation that works with people around the world who strengthen their communities using the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions, and environment. She is a guide in leading people back to understanding who we are as human being able to create the conditions for our basic human qualities of generosity, contribution, community, and love. She is a grand contributor in creating an Island of Sanity in the midst of wildly disruptive seas.  Her books include Leadership and the New Science  (Berrett-Kohler 1998), Perseverance (Berrett-Kohler 2010),Turning To One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope in the Future (Berrett-Kohler 2009), So Far from Home: Lost and Found In Our Brave New World (Barrett-Kohler 2012), Who Do We Choose To Be: Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity (Berrett-Kohler 2017)

Tags: Margaret J. Wheatley, Meg Wheatley, leadership, despair, Warriors for the Human Spirit, nonviolent, generosity, aggression, activism, expectations, disappointments, hope, fear, staying present, cycles of civilization, useful action, not attached to outcome, Community, Community, Meditation, Philosophy, Buddhism, Social Change/Politics