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The Mindful Quaker
Valerie Brown, who is both a Quaker and a Buddhist, explores the gifts that Buddhism has to offer Friends in our search for unity with the Divine Ground, for clarity in our worship, and for equanimity in our lives.
The Human Capacity for Transformational Change
Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have reframed existing divisions as connecting relationships, bringing together as dynamic systems the supposed opposites of parts and wholes, stability and change, individuals and society, and rational and creative thinking. This reframing of opposites as interconnected wholes has led to realisation of the power of a collective mind. This book offers ways and means of creating the synergies that are crucial in influencing a desired transformational change towards a just and sustainable future. It describes how and why our current decision-making on any...
Hope Leans Forward
Rich in Buddhist and Quaker spiritual wisdom and practice, Hope Leans Forward helps us navigate life's essential questions of true aliveness and meaning--guiding us to discover greater bravery and courage to meet these fractured times. As we cultivate clarity and discernment, we see ourselves truly connected to a larger whole.
Leonardo's Vision
“In this rich treasure trove of historical inspiration, contemporary ideas, and future-oriented how-to’s, Valerie Brown has brought together a lifetime of work synthesizing science, participatory processes, and action for sustainability. A seasoned explorer, she moves effortlessly between disciplines as she describes a comprehensive approach to tackling the great challenges of our time—together. Because together is the only way they can be tackled. Read, learn, and act.” - Alan AtKisson, author, Believing Cassandra, and Executive Director, Earth Charter International.
Build Them Up
Build Them Up is a practical guide for parents and caregivers that provides strategies to improve parent/child relationships, build self-esteem, and foster self-confidence in children. At the end of each chapter, there are reflection sheets to help you review your patterns and take actions to strengthen your family and school communities.
The Prodigal's War
People in the Gyre are afraid of the Dragon Uln. They view her as a vicious enemy. But when the Emperor TerGhahn of the Ghahnean Empire captures her to use her energy for his visions of conquest, Uln's true role in the Gyre begins to be revealed. Unhappy at home in the prosperous kingdom of Pengellar, Princess Arenee is charmed and then kidnapped by the sorcerer Corbello, who is secretly working for the Emperor. When she escapes to the Ghahnean capital, she's horrified by the dragon's suffering and resolves to free her. Back at home, Pengellar has been grieving for two decades over the disappearance of Prince Antar, the Old King's younger son. Antar lives, but has lost his memory and has spent the decades living the dissolute life of a mercenary soldier in Ghahn. The prince and his niece cross paths briefly in Ghahn but don't recognize each other until the single battle of the Prodigal's War. This pivotal crisis brings together threads long sundered.
Tackling Wicked Problems
From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to sustainable futures. Tackling Wicked Problems provides readers with a framework and practical examples that will guide the design and conduct of their own open-ended enquiries. In this approach, academic disciplines are combined with personal, local and strategic understanding and researchers are required to recognise multiple knowledge cultures, accept the inevitability of uncertainty, and clarify their own and others' ethical positions. The authors then comment on fifteen practical examples of how researchers have engaged with the opportunities and challenges of conducting transdisciplinary inquiries. The book gives those who are grappling with complex problems innovative methods of inquiry that will allow them to work collaboratively towards long-term solutions.
Collective Learning for Transformational Change
This book offers a step by step guide for those seeking to undertake a transformational change process based on strong collaboration among diverse interests. Guiding transformational change goes beyond small changes to an existing system. It leads to lasting change in the system itself.
Heartfulness
Valerie Brown guides readers toward renewal of mind, heart, and spirit by encouraging them to take time away from the busyness of their lives through retreat. Drawing on her experience as a retreatant and retreat leader, she introduces readers to opportunities for personal restoration within a variety of focused retreats. She wonders how the Quaker experience of expectant waiting influences the retreat process and how retreats influence expectant waiting. She encourages the "big questions" - What has meaning and purpose in my life? What am I avoiding? What brings me most alive? - and offers specific practices for retreatants to cultivate in everyday life.
The Road That Teaches
This book explores some of the world's great pilgrimages, destinations, and the author's reflections on the lessons she learned from them. Read this book to discover how travel can be transformational, how to be more mindful while traveling and every day, the adventures of traveling alone, the delights of encountering new people and places, ancient pilgrimage journeys and sacred travel worldwide. Written from the perspective of a Buddhist Quaker spiritual teacher who has a knack for capturing life's wonders in words.
