"Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--
Packed with fun activities for self-reflection and development, this creative workbook is the ultimate toolkit for all young activists looking to make a difference and create change. Each chapter includes voices from inspiring young game changers to encourage readers to channel their passion for social justice into positive action. Focusing on identity, discrimination and oppression, it offers the space to explore new ideas, self-reflect and expand awareness of the systems underpinning injustice. Chapters engage with a range of social justice and identity issues, including race, gender, sexual orientation and disability, providing the tools needed to facilitate and encourage personal growth. Through creative art activities, journal prompts, interviews and more, this workbook will inspire, engage and empower you to realize your own social justice project and put it into action.
A practical guide to listening well in restorative justice programs and any relationship. The Little Book of Listening is an introduction to and practical guide for listening as an emergent strategy for creating a transformed world. It presents radical listening as an essential macro-skill, one that is essential in forming “right relationships” with ourselves and others that are the necessary prerequisite to all lasting forms of social change. This is a collaborative book, constructed from the contributions of twenty-six listeners from a wide variety of backgrounds who have shared their strategies, experiences, inspiration, and hopes for a transformed world through listening justly and equitably. One of the primary goals of the book is to offer practical tools for readers to develop the skills to listen to themselves and others more effectively, drawing attention to the barriers and filters that so often distract us from listening. Another goal is to inspire readers through the personal stories of how just listening has impacted the authors and invite readers to adopt these approaches themselves. Finally, we aim for this text to be a resource for practitioners in the fields of justicebuilding and peacebuilding. Conversations are how humans explore new ideas and reach new understandings: paradigms shift and the world is changed by our communication with each other. Whatever processes are used, it is imperative that facilitators and participants listen deeply, humbly, and attentively, without ego or agenda, to themselves and to one another.
Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants around us. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.
Seven Proven Ways To Thrive In Your Life Pursuing happiness doesn’t bring happiness. Choosing it can. Accept that it is not only your right to be happy, but it’s a benefit to everyone in your life when you are. But how to choose happiness? How to stay in the habit of happiness? That is the tricky part, and what this book will do for you is provide answers and systems for you to follow. You will discover what a shift of perception can do for you and how to do it. Not theory. Practical steps that work. A tiny shift of perception can change your entire life. Using the metaphor of gardening, Beca Lewis once more guides us through practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to thrive in your life. Discover your true self and desires, and learn what to do to provide what you need. This book will guide you towards good habits and tiny thought changes that lead to amazing results. If finding out who you are and then living it has been difficult in the past, the problem is not who you are. The problem is the conscious and unconscious perceptions that have guided your life. If you are not thriving, filling out the garden of your life with happiness and joy, or you find yourself constantly doing the same thing with the same results, and they are not the ones you want, this is a book that will help you do things differently, and get the results that you desire. Here in this book, you will find a proven system with practical to-do tips that will shift your life towards what you want it to be. Beca is known for her ability to shift complex ideas about perceptions into simple tools that can easily be applied to daily life. She draws from deep spiritual roots while bringing in ideas from quantum physics to neuroscience to build an easy-to-understand guide for growing a life filled with happiness and purpose. Learn how to: *Discover your true purpose in life *Claim and live happiness no matter what else is going on *Give yourself what you need to thrive *Overcome doubt, despair, discouragement *Set a pattern of behavior that works for you … and much more Blooming Your Life will shift how you think about your life and yourself. It will give you the proven tools to transform your thinking so that your life, and the lives of those you love, can be consistently filled with happiness. And it is happiness that can shift the world away from greed and despair into what we all want to experience—heaven on earth.
A sacred healing journey to awaken the boundless power of your words, thoughts, and voice. Includes guided audio practices. “The medicine of Grace is sound,” says gina Breedlove. “Sound is an immediate point of entry to the mind, body, and spirit, and has been sourced as a healing modality since humans appeared on the earth.” With The Vibration of Grace, this extraordinary teacher and healer shares a sweeping, glorious guide to help you invoke the power of sound as a vehicle of love and liberation—for yourself and your loved ones, and in service to our world. Guided by a sacred presence she has known all her life as Grace, Breedlove has spent decades exploring the many ways sound and vibration can enable us to grow, heal, and connect. Here she shares profound insights, heart-opening stories, and clear instruction for rituals and daily practices, including: • Identifying your soul tone—how to locate and work with the vibrational presence that is uniquely “you”• The language of healing—invoking the sacred energy of words to create, bless, and transform• Soul retrieval—a time-honored ritual to release stored fear and free up your energetic resources• Grief letting—powerful practices to witness, move through, and transform grief into healing energy, by yourself or in groups• Ways to overcome the cultural shaming that causes you to repress your voice and self-expression• Self-care tools, including daily sound rituals and medicine bath practices• Resources to support your journey—including links to Breedlove’s guided recordings for each ritual The Vibration of Grace shows us the power of sound has no limit. We can use it to harmonize with the wisdom of our ancestors, communicate with our body and soul, resonate with divine truth that disrupts systems of tyranny, and add our strength to the chorus that sings of a new and better world to come. “Let the space between us be open and blessed,” says gina Breedlove. “May your ancestors and mine guide us through each ritual, to a place of sovereignty and dominion over our lives.”
Perception is Reality: Dive into Four Mind-Bending Books on the Power of Perception Are you ready to question everything you think you know? Dive into the world of perception and reality with this box set featuring four mind-bending books that explore the idea that perception shapes our understanding of the world. "What we perceive to be reality magnifies," said Beca Lewis, and this box set of four powerful books takes that idea to the next level. In this collection, you'll delve into the intersection of spirituality and perception, discovering how our beliefs shape our experiences of the world. “Perception is not only the basis of our reality, but also an integral part of quantum physics," said physicist Neils Bohr. This box set of four powerful books explores the fascinating link between perception and quantum physics, revealing how our beliefs shape the very fabric of the universe. All four of these books will challenge your beliefs and open your mind to new possibilities. With thought-provoking ideas and fascinating insights, this box set is a must-read for anyone interested in the mysteries of the mind and the nature of reality. This box set contains: Imagination Mastery, Seven Steps To Right Thinking, Perception Mastery, Blooming Your Life
Powerful, body-based practices to help you reclaim confidence, dignity, and self-worth. As a woman of color, you are more likely to experience oppression, discrimination, and physical or sexual violence in your lifetime. In addition, your family may have experienced generational trauma and systemic racism going back for centuries. This old and new trauma can manifest in both the mind and body. However, there are ways you can free yourself from this trauma, build confidence in yourself and your abilities, and restore your powerful sense of self. Written by a woman of color for women of color, Decolonizing the Body offers proven-effective somatic, body-centered practices to help you heal from systemic oppression, trust the profound wisdom of your own body, and reconnect with your true self. And by slowing down, cultivating a daily ritual, and setting strong boundaries, you can reclaim your inherent dignity and worth—as well as those aspects of yourself that you may have cast aside in an effort to survive. With this empowering guide, you’ll discover: How bodies are colonized through systems of oppression Why slowing down is essential for healing How to listen to what your body needs How to create a space for ritual in your daily life How to strengthen feelings of capability How to cultivate community—starting with yourself To decolonize the body is to become whole again, and to come home again. Let this book be your guide on this crucial journey.
Meditations, Stories & Rituals for Life's Crossroads All too often, when we find ourselves at a crossroads, the conventional ways of understanding where we are can fall short of the mark. Intuitively, we know we need something more. Sacred astrology teaches that there are several distinct rites of passage that can show up as a psychospiritual crisis characterized by intense challenge and confusion. We are betwixt and between—no longer who we used to be, but not yet who we are becoming. However, these powerful thresholds are where the real magic of our lives happens. They usually coincide with significant turning points that lead us toward our life's unique purpose. Learn how myth, folklore and story can be a source of guidance in difficult times. Illuminate the archetypal dimensions of your own story and re-enchant your life. Learn when to expect the crossroad times throughout your life so you can make peace with the past, navigate the present, and create a more purposeful future. Discover the keys to self realization and step into alignment with who you’re becoming. Create a self-care tool kit for the distinct issues that arise with each crossroads, and get clear about what you're calling in. Unlock new levels of self awareness through ritual, guided meditation, and journal reflections crafted specifically for each threshold. You will also learn how to support family, friends, coworkers, and clients who are going through difficult times with a transpersonal understanding of where they are and what they're going through. Having insight into what time it is in your life can be a lantern in the dark.