Category: Books
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Book Review: The I of the Beholder
The ”I” of the Beholder: A Guided Journey to the Essence of a Child by Annemarie Roeper is an amazing book. Annemarie Roeper spent a lifetime working with children. She was very sensitive to their needs and found delight in their beautiful Selves.1 Over the years, she began to see her daily experiences from the…
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Organizing retrospective 111-116
This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened lately. The purpose is to reflect on the work itself. Here is my previous retrospective. Here is my next retrospective. What has happened? What needs to be done? This is my…
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Organizing retrospective 110
This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened during the week. The purpose is to reflect on the work itself. Here is my previous retrospective. Here is my next retrospective. What has happened? What needs to be done? This…
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Organizing retrospective 109
This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened during the week. The purpose is to reflect on the work itself. Here is my previous retrospective. Here is my next retrospective. What has happened? What needs to be done? This…
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Organizing retrospective 106
This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened during the week. The purpose is to reflect on the work itself. Here is my previous retrospective. Here is my next retrospective. What has happened? What needs to be done? This…
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Book Review: The Dynamics of Transformation
The Dynamics of Transformation: Tracing an Emerging World View by Grant Maxwell is a book about how a new world view has been emerging over the last few centuries. We participate in the unfolding meaning of the world. Participatory insight is an outcome of an integrative method, which seeks to reconcile opposed assertions. The integrative method…
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Book Review: The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk is a book about how the body continues to keep the score even if we try to ignore the alarm signals from the emotional brain.1 The rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain…
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Book Review: The Supreme Art of Dialogue
The Supreme Art of Dialogue: Structures of Meaning by Anthony Blake is, as the title says, a book about the art of dialogue. The structures of meaning in the sub-title refers to the flows that arise in the making of meaning during dialogue.1 David Bohm argued that society can be deeply affected by people are…
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Book Review: Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning
Introduction Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning is a most interesting book. Eugene Gendlin examines the edge of awareness, where language emerges from non-language.1 This book is a philosophical work. Gendlin explores how concepts relate to experiencing.2 He adds a body of theory that refer to experiencing, and that can grasp the way in which experiencing…
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Book Review: The Garden Awakening
The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and Ourselves by Mary Reynolds is a book about designing gardens that are beautiful, radiant with life, bursting with energy, in harmony with the Earth.1 Mary Reynolds has discovered through her work as a garden and landscape designer that gardens can become very special if we invite…