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Collective Action & Resilience In the Face of Global Challenges - Margaret J. Wheatley - C0635 (1)
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Margaret J Wheatley, Ph.D. is an internationally acclaimed writer, speaker, and teacher. She began caring about the world's peoples in 1966 as a Peace Corps volunteer in postwar Korea. She is cofounder and President Emerita of The Berkana Institute, a charitable foundation that works with people around the world to strengthen their communities using the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions, and environment. She is a guide in leading people back to understanding who we are as humans, being able to create the conditions for our basic qualities of generosity, contribution, community, and love. She is a grand contributor in creating an Island of Sanity in the midst of wildly disruptive seas. Her books lnclude Leadership and the New Science (Berrett-Kohler 1998), Turning To One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope in the Future (Berrett-Kohler 2009) and Opening to the World As It Is: Poems of Experience (Berkana Publications 2024)
Interview Date: 3/14/2025 Tags: Margaret J Wheatley, Meg Wheatley, conscious communities, Islands of Sanity, generosity, kindness, human spirit, despair, overwhelm, Teddy Roosevelt, singing together, Personal Transformation, Social Change/Politics, Indigenous Wisdom
453 episodes
Manage episode 483953747 series 1250063
Margaret J Wheatley, Ph.D. is an internationally acclaimed writer, speaker, and teacher. She began caring about the world's peoples in 1966 as a Peace Corps volunteer in postwar Korea. She is cofounder and President Emerita of The Berkana Institute, a charitable foundation that works with people around the world to strengthen their communities using the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions, and environment. She is a guide in leading people back to understanding who we are as humans, being able to create the conditions for our basic qualities of generosity, contribution, community, and love. She is a grand contributor in creating an Island of Sanity in the midst of wildly disruptive seas. Her books lnclude Leadership and the New Science (Berrett-Kohler 1998), Turning To One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope in the Future (Berrett-Kohler 2009) and Opening to the World As It Is: Poems of Experience (Berkana Publications 2024)
Interview Date: 3/14/2025 Tags: Margaret J Wheatley, Meg Wheatley, conscious communities, Islands of Sanity, generosity, kindness, human spirit, despair, overwhelm, Teddy Roosevelt, singing together, Personal Transformation, Social Change/Politics, Indigenous Wisdom
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