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Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future

""I believe we can change the world if we start talking to one another again."" With this simple declaration, Margaret Wheatley proposes that citizens band together with their colleagues and friends to create the solutions for social change, both locally and globally, that are so badly needed. Such change will not come from governments or corporations but from the ageless process of thinking together in conversation. Turning to One Another encourages this process. Part One explores the power of conversation and the conditions — simplicity, personal courage, real listening, and diversity — that support it. Part Two provides ten ""conversation starters"" — questions that in Wheatley's experience have led people to share their deepest beliefs, fears, and hopes.

Subject
leadershipself-helpeducationphilosophypsychology
Themes
communitysocial justicespiritualityteacherscommunication
Audience
adult
Length
short · 150 pages

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