Thriving Women Thriving World: An invitation to Dialogue, Healing, and Inspired Actions (en Inglés)
Reseña del libro "Thriving Women Thriving World: An invitation to Dialogue, Healing, and Inspired Actions (en Inglés)"
This book is a celebration of women. It is an invitation to journey from #MeToo to thriving women via appreciative inquiry, dialogue, and story telling. It addresses topics, through an appreciative lens, that may be difficult to talk about, yet must be talked about to heal social wounds and create conditions for women to thrive worldwide.The book includes a foreword by Taos Institute, co-founder, Mary Gergen, PhD, a chapter describing ways to use the question in the book, and nine chapters containing 94 Appreciative Inquiry questions, poems, stories and specific practices to make a positive difference in the lives of women and girls at home, at school and at work. The final chapter puts forth five Arts of Thriving that emerged in the writing of the book: Curating Life-Affirming Stories, Creating Meaningful Disruptions, Caretaking Generative Relationships, Celebrating Strengths and Successes, and Cultivating Conditions for Thriving.Thriving Women Thriving World is written to be user friendly for women and men, in separate conversations and together. It is intended to foster relationship enhancing conversations and collaborative actions among people in a wide range of settings around the world. It is a valuable resource for coaches, consultants, facilitators, educators, leaders, and parents - for anyone seeking resources for compassionate conversations about gender issues. About the authors: The nine authors that collaborated to write this book range in age from 35 to 70. They live in South Africa, Canada, Mexico, and the United States and work on all 7 continents. They bring together expertise in consulting, executive coaching, organizational development, education, community organizing, Appreciative Inquiry, and positive psychology.
