Changing Course: Windcall and the Art of Renewal
Innovative program helped cure compassion overload Seeing the need to help non-profit leaders sustain their vision, balance and resilience, lifelong activists and philanthropists Albert and Susan... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1597140716
ISBN13:9781597140713
Release Date:January 2007
Publisher:Heyday Books
Length:216 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 7.1" x 10.0"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Walk the walk of social change
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Author Susan Wells artfully weaves together inspiring stories from three points of view: social change-makers, her role as a mentor, and, for the reader, the power of open space to restore us. Her book is a counterpoint to today's obsession with benchmarks and metrics (in nonprofit and for-profit settings) rather than the people who create change.
Inspiring
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
While I'm not in the non-profit world, I found this book to be incredibly inspiring. This book is about community, supporting the people on the front lines, retreat and the difference one or two people can make. The writing is poetic - so much so that I felt transported. I wish I knew of a way to get this book into a wider variety of bookstore subject areas as many more people would benefit from this than just folks in the non-profit world.
Important lessons for each and every one of us
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
What a lovely story - full of simple truths that any one of us can benefit from. It's a pretty fast read (less than 200 pgs), full of heartfelt, revealing portraits of real people and their experiences of renewal. The author and the people profiled provide us with a solution to the always-present problem of burnout - specifically for those who work in the fields of social and environmental justice. I think the story is applicable for anyone who may have 'lost themselves' in their work and now suffers from the various symptoms that so easily creep in. It's a beautifully written, personal reflection by one of the co-founders of an inventive program they call Windcall. I readily recommend this book to anyone who has a spouse, friend, sibling or coworker that could use an optimistic reminder that we are not simply our work. And that the vital life force and creativity that often gets snatched away if one's identity becomes too locked and identified only with work-related responsibilities can indeed be restored and renewed.
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