Creative Social Change

"What is our vision of a healthy person, organization, or world? How do we dream together a world both economically sound and spiritually profound? Leadership for a Healthy World is a valuable and timely resource for leaders, educators, activists, and visionaries dreaming together the new story for an interdependent world. No longer solving isolated problems, this book ushers in a deeper conversation about where we are gong as a species and how we can be in a new relationship with the land, with nature, community and our own highest self." (Alan Briskin, PhD, author of The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace, Daily Miracles, and The Power of Collective Wisdom) ----- "Kathryn Goldman Schuyler has curated a fierce, brave book that offers immense hope whilst looking our future square in the eye. The voices presented in this book embody a powerful, inspiring collaborative effort that harnesses a diversity of wisdom traditions to urge a return to wholeness, relatedness, inclusivity and interdependence. It calls for us to detox and heal ourselves and our world as we, as ancestors of the future, imprint our stewardship on this planet." (Dr Chellie Spiller, Associate Dean Maori and Pacific, University of Auckland Business School) ----- "This book throbs with the aliveness of wise thinking, deep questions, exciting narratives and innovative global change projects for generating a more healthy and sustainable world. Reading it gave me hope, enthusiasm and new ideas for practical actions I can implement within my own leadership and organisations. Kathryn Goldman Schuyler has skillfully edited a collection of the most profound and powerful thinking, dialogue and guidance; especially for those in leadership positions. I cannot recommend this book highly enough for anyone wanting to assure their own wholeness alongside a genuine legacy of making the world a better and healthier place to live, work and lead in." (Dr Lynne Sedgmore CBE, Former Chief Executive of 157 Group, Centre for Excellence in Leadership UK, Debretts 500 list, UK, 2015) ----- "We have the technology to create a healthy world. Now we stand at the precipice of the last, great frontier in making this happen - our relationships with one another. This wonderfully insightful and actionable book helps all of us to make the leap." (Chris Ernst, Changemaker, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and Author, Boundary Spanning Leadership.) ----- "21st century enterprises are awakening to a simple fact of modern life: achieving commercial success without preserving the health and well being of our world is a fool's errant. Leaders who want to confidently embrace this challenge of building a truly healthy world should carefully read Dr. Schuyler's book." (Michael Carroll, Author of Awake at Work and The Mindful Leader) ----- "This book combines and offers elegant theory, hard-earned wisdom and real-life solutions in the service of transforming complex systems from pathology to health. As I have worked in leadership development in South Africa for more than 25 years (a country with its own share of shame, pain and hope, and a host of wicked problems), I am skeptical when I open a new leadership book. My skepticism faded as I read, as I encountered ideas and shared experiences that deepened my thinking and stirred new creative impulses. If enough leaders embrace the thinking and practical possibilities described here, then the vital attitude of simultaneously caring for our psyches, our communities and our one precious planet may become a mainstream way of being." (Helene Smit, Author of Beneath - Exploring the Unconscious in Individuals and Depth Leadership) ----- "At a time when people know what must be done, but the deeper issue is how to make it happen, this guide to deep change does not offer the definitive answer, but rather experiences, models and actions that can help us look at our own communities and make a d

Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, Alliant International University; Coherent Change, San Francisco, CA, USA John Eric Baugher, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, USA Karin Jironet, InClaritas Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1. Introduction - Kathryn Goldman Schuyler PART I: THE GROUND: FOUNDATIONS FROM THOUGHT LEADERS - Kathryn Goldman Schuyler 2. Visions of a Healthy World: Views from Thought Leaders - Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, with Margaret Wheatley, Otto Scharmer, Ed Schein, Robert E. Quinn, and Peter Senge PART II: AIR AND WATER: WHAT FLOWS LIVES - Karin Jironet and John Eric Baugher 3. Reframing Organizational and Social Change: From Domination to Partnership - Riane Eisler 4. Ecological Consciousness, Moral Imagination, and the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development - John Eric Baugher, Walter Osika, and Karl-Henrik Robert 5. Use it or Lose it: About Leadership Ethics in the United Nations - Karin Jironet 6. Leadership for the Greater Good: Developing Indicators of Societal and Environmental Health - Samuel G. Wilson 7. Developing Relational Leadership in Africa - Charles J. Palus, Steadman Harrison III, and Joshua J. Prasad PART III: SEEDS AND PLANTS: LOCAL CASE STUDIES - John Eric Baugher and Karin Jironet 8. The Inner Practice of Community Development: Embracing Deep Democracy in Mexico - Patricia A. Wilson 9. Sumak Kawsay among Indigenous Women Leaders of Ecuador - Carolina Bown 10. Kiwi Ways of Leading: How 30 New Zealand Government Chief Executives Are Encouraging Healthier Cultures - Jane McCann 11. The Arts Are Not a Luxury: The Arts as a Source of Community in California - Barbara Rose Shuler 12. Strengthening Communities through Adaptive Leadership: A Case Study of the Kansas Leadership Center and the Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center - Max Klau and Jill Hufnagel 13. Women and Leadership in Rwanda, Emerging Transformation: The Spiritual, Social, and Political Dimensions of Transmuting Suffering - Eliane Ubalijoro, Bagwiza Jacqueline Uwizeyimana, and Marilyn Verghis 14. A Living, Healthy World: Implications for Thought and Action - Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, John Eric Baugher, and Karin Jironet