How can we foster the development of initiatives? How can enterprises such as community projects, schools, farms, and businesses be well founded? How can we work as equals, sharing responsibilities, encouraging one another in our development, and offering a high-quality product or service? Vision in Action is a workbook for those involved in social creation―in collaborative actions that can influence the social environment in which we live and where our ideas and actions can matter. This is a user-friendly, hands-on guide for developing healthy small organizations―ones with soul and spirit. Chapters: 
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<li> The Human Being and Organizational Life</li>
<li> The Conscious Development of Initiatives</li>
<li> Starting Initiatives</li>
<li> Getting Going: The Growing Pains and Childhood Diseases of Initiatives</li>
<li> Ways of Working together in the Developing Organization</li>
<li> Re-creating the Organization: Vision, Mission, and Long-Range Planning</li>
<li> Development and Fund-raising</li>
<li> Initiatives and Individual Development</li>
<li> Signs of Hope: Imaginations for the Future</li>
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 "A well-written exposition of organizational development and the problems that groups tend to encounter as they progress. I highly recommend it to anyone in the field." ―Caroline Estes, cofounder of Alpha Farm and master facilitator "This well thought-out book breathes life into the worn-out concept of vision. One finds in it an enlivening imagination of how to develop new initiatives. Like all worthwhile advice, it is based on hard-won life experience. Work with this book and you will find heal help in developing small organizations." ―Robert Michael Burnside, Director, Organizational Development Products, Center for Creative Leadership

Vision in Action: Working with Soul & Spirit in Small Organizations (Spirituality and Social Renewal)

Business & Money

Schaefer, Christopher

Voors, Tÿno

Management & Leadership

Lindisfarne Books

<div>This anthology covers diverse yet interconnected themes, including what it means to be a conscious witness of our times, questions about 9/11, the second Bush administration and the American Empire Project, the global economic crisis, income inequalities, personally navigating chaos and the election of Donald Trump. Here are alternative, radical ideas for social reform and tackling inequality. They offer an account of how American economic and political elites have undermined democracy and drastically weakened the U.S., while causing untold suffering in the Middle East and around the world. The author shows how we can make a lasting difference. The seeds of practical hope are nurtured for navigating chaos and for countering fear. He also suggests what we can do to re-imagine America as, "the promise of a new beginning." He calls for a new Covenant between the American people and its government that engages both conservatives and progressives</div>

Re-imagining America: Finding Hope in Difficult Times (Social and ethical issues)

Economics

Hawthorn Press

Partnerships of Hope gives an inspiring account of the social mission of Waldorf Education, describing the opportunities and challenges of building Waldorf school communities. If you have wondered about governance, leadership, and decision-making in Waldorf schools and how they relate to Steiner’s social intentions, this book provides a number of insightful answers, placing them into the larger matrix of the political and economic crises facing Western societies. Of particular interest for the future is Schafer’s articulation of the deeper values and principles imbedded in Waldorf Education, values which he maintains are the foundation of a new, spiritually based and healing society.

Partnerships of Hope: Building Waldorf School Communities

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Association of Waldorf Schools of North America, The

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