Title: Walk out, walk on : a learning journey into communities daring to live the future now /
Authors: Wheatley, Margaret J.; Frieze, Deborah.
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Communities Case studies.; Community development Case studies.; Community leadership Case studies.
Abstract: In this era of increasingly complex problems and shrinking resources, can we find meaningful and enduring solutions to the challenges we face today as individuals, communities, and nations? In Walk Out Walk On, we invite you on a learning journey to seven communities around the world to meet people who have walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create healthy and resilient communities. These Walk Outs who Walk On use their ingenuity and caring to figure out how to work with what they have to create what they need. From Mexico to India, from Columbus, Ohio to Johannesburg, South Africa, we discover that all communities have the intelligence and inventiveness to solve their seemingly insolvable problems. "We discovered a gift inside ourselves," one Brazilian said, "something that was already there."
Contents: Walk outs who walk on -- Why we visit these communities -- Your hosts (the authors) -- Seven healthy and resilient communities -- The role walk outs play in creating change -- The courage to quest -- Packing for the journey -- Mexico : from scaling up to scaling across -- Brazil : from power to play -- South Africa : from problem to place -- Zimbabwe : from efficiency to resilience -- India : from transacting to gifting -- Greece : from intervention to friendship -- United States : from hero to host -- The patterns that connect -- Will you walk on? -- Stepping onto the invisible path -- Choosing to act -- We never know who we are.