[Ccpg] Join me in Walking Out and Walking On by Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze / Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now

Wed Apr 13 07:45:48 PDT 2011

> Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live  
> the Future Now
>
> Wow this is the book that Ive been waiting for.. about resilient  
> communities reported around the world, including the Zapatistas.....  
> take a peek at amazon to read some excerpts:
> http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Out-Learning-Communities-Paperback/dp/1605097314/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1302616146&sr=1-1
> For the video clip (3min) from the authors, click here: http://www.hopedance.org/community-media/videos/897
>
> Walking out is not dropping out.. walking out is leaving  
> institutions that are failing people and creating new.
>
> This is a book about communities and people who have opted out and  
> moved onto a new set of beliefs and actions based on self  
> empowerment and collaboration.. seven communities around the  
> world... it ought to be the new Transition book for 2011.. read on  
> as to why the authors want you to buy the book from amazon TODAY.. I  
> just bought my copy!!! Published by BK one of the fastest growing  
> and on topic books about social and personal change!
> From their site:
> <<
> By the bestselling author of Leadership and the New Science and  
> Turning to One Another
>
> Provides an intimate experience of how seven healthy and resilient  
> communities took on intractable problems by working together in new  
> and different ways
>
> immerses the reader in the experience of each community through  
> stories, essays, first-person accounts, and over 100 color photos
>
>
> This is an era of increasingly complex problems, fewer and fewer  
> resources to address them, and failing solutions. Is it possible to  
> find viable solutions to the challenges we face today as  
> individuals, communities, and nations? This inspiring book takes  
> readers 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.
>
> In India, we meet people from Shikshantar, a community that is  
> rejecting the modern culture of money, with its emphasis on self- 
> interest and scarcity, in favor of a gift culture based on  
> generosity and reciprocity. In Zimbabwe, we discover the capacity  
> people have to adapt and invent new ways of surviving and thriving  
> in the face of total systems collapse.
>
> Through essays, stories, and beautiful color photographs, Wheatley  
> and Frieze immerse us in these communities that are accomplishing  
> extraordinary things by relying on everyone to be an entrepreneur, a  
> leader, an artist. From Mexico to Greece, from Columbus, Ohio to  
> Johannesburg, South Africa, we discover that every community has  
> within itself the ingenuity, intelligence, and inventiveness to  
> solve the seemingly insolvable. "It's almost like we discovered a  
> gift inside ourselves," one Brazilian said, "something that was  
> already there.>>
>
>
> I send out things I believe in that can truly help in turning the  
> tide. From what I know of Megs other writings and reading what  
> little I did this morning, this is what we all need... stories about  
> change, models that will inspire and move us into action and to keep  
> that burning inspiration alive and well and CONTAGIOUS!!!! Thanks to  
> Monika at Tamera's ecovillage who sent this to me.
>
> bob banner for hopedance.org
> PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR LISTS....
>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 12, 2011, at 4:58 AM, Margaret J. Wheatley wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> The time has come!
>>
>> Today is the launch date for my new book, co-authored with Deborah  
>> Frieze, Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities  
>> Daring to Live the Future Now. Our book tour begins this evening in  
>> California's Bay Area and will continue on to Boston, Chicago and  
>> Toronto in the next weeks, with other cities scheduled for the  
>> fall. Continue reading below for more information about these events.
>>
>> I'd like to invite you to support our Walk Out Walk On bestseller  
>> campaign on Wednesday, April 13. We're launching this campaign to  
>> try to get Walk Out Walk On to the top of the Amazon lists. The  
>> purpose of this is to help us secure foreign rights, which is  
>> essential for reaching our global community. To do this, we are  
>> trying to organize more than 2,000 people to buy the book on Amazon  
>> on April 13th. For this to work, we need everyone to buy on the  
>> same day. Learn more about the campaign or contact Deborah for more  
>> information.
>>
>> Walk Out Walk On is filled with intimate stories and portraits of  
>> the people and places around the world that we at Berkana have come  
>> to know through years of working together. Our lives, work and ways  
>> of thinking have been transformed by these experiences and  
>> relationships; we hope these inspiring and provocative stories will  
>> do the same for you. Walk Out Walk On is more than a book. It's a  
>> movement that many of us are a part of, and we'd like to share  
>> these stories with as many people as possible. We hope you'll join  
>> us.
>>
>> We'll be offering more news and updates about this beautiful new  
>> book. You can become a fan of Walk Out, Walk On on Facebook and  
>> follow The Berkana Institute and Deborah Frieze on Twitter at   
>> @berkanainst and  @dfrieze.
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