Transformative Approaches To Leading, Creating Change, Planning, and Problem Solving
The Books
Talk Matters!
Talk Matters! Saving the World One Word at a Time integrates brain and behavioral sciences, mindful awareness, with collaborative processes to help us work better together to do good things for our world. The eight essential practices offer us ways to avoid getting hijacked by our survival instincts, engage with people who differ from us, and open our organizations and communities to real, lasting change. Gelinas uses real-world examples to illustrate the processes and practices to help you start achieving life-serving results in your interactions as a leader, participant, or change agent.
“Talk Matters! is an important book for our times, weaving profound wisdom with practical tools, supporting our understanding of the courage required to more fully meet ourselves and each other for the purpose of making the world a better place.”
—Marc Lesser, author of Know Yourself, Forget Yourself
Space Is Not Empty
Space Is Not Empty: How Hidden Fields are Shaping Your Life and Our World, co-authored with Alan Briskin, weaves together the authors combined eighty years of experience in social psychology, systems thinking, and contemplative practices to explain how field influence us physically, emotionally, and cognitively—often without conscious awareness. Discover how awareness of these dynamic spaces can help foster collaborative relationships, bridge social, political, and religious divides, and effect more constructive, meaningful and lasting change.
“This book will make a groundbreaking and vital contribution to the theory and practice of social transformation.”
—Adame Kahane, director of Reos Partners and author of Collaborative with the Enemy
ABOUT
About Mary & Roger
Mary Gelinas, Ed.D. and Roger James, Ed.D. are authors and experienced Organization Development consultants, process designers, facilitators, educators, and thinking partners. They help leaders, organizations, boards, and communities create their desired futures through innovative, collaborative, and practical approaches that are based in the behavioral and brain sciences. Mary and Roger specialize in tested, pioneering, and transformative approaches to leading, creating change, planning, and solving problems.
Mary and Roger have backgrounds in organization development and have been effectively serving communities and organizations in all sectors—business, government, education, healthcare, and not-for-profits—for nearly 40 years.
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