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Don Morris
CHANGE AGENT
Don Morris is passionate about human and environmental issues. Particularly … dignity, justice, respect, critical thinking, people having a voice, and truth-telling. After beginning his career as a police officer, Don completed two degrees and changed his focus and worked in various helping profession roles over several decades.
AUTHOR
A compelling thinker and writer about grounded and hopeful ways for us humans to do better.
SPEAKER
An insightful and lucid communicator and advocate of dignity and rationality.
MENTOR
An attentive, empathic and wise support and guide; promoting awareness, respect & accountability.
Reviews
FROM READERS
This book is a ‘no holds barred’ odyssey that poses piercing, insightful, and at times,
confronting questions. Some readers may find some of the initial chapters challenging or even impassable at times. If this is you, a great place to re-enter is at the mid-point where Don introduces a range of practical tools and techniques starting with how to moderate projection and building self-awareness. He builds on these techniques by providing real-life, everyday examples of the type of values-based leadership and mindful normality that Don advocates throughout his book.
JAMES HEDGES
I’ve never read anything quite like Can We Do Better? What a gutsy, challenging and inspiring book. At first, I was daunted by the size, so I read a chapter here and there, put it down, then read a few more chapters that took my eye. Eventually, I read the whole book. It’s not an easy read for me as a man. There are a lot of sobering and confronting realisations. And there is a lot of detail about why we humans do the awful things we do. But the final several chapters offer hope. Don’s ideas about possible future roles of women and First Peoples made good sense.
I’m keen to do the Companion Workbook, and to read the anthology.
BRIAN CRAWFORD
My partner and I read these poems together. One per night, as time permitted. We shared some of them with our friends.
They certainly made for some lively discussion. This book holds up a mirror to us humans. The realities they reveal are stark. But the hope they offer is encouraging.
For some, these poems will be liberating. For others, they will be uncomfortable. They are well worth the effort and the risk.
JANE ALSON
