A COMPANION WORKBOOK FOR
Can We Do Better?
Can We Do Better? is a book that calls for a hands-on, follow-up book. Sometimes we need a practical – ‘where to from here, how to’ book. This Companion Workbook is a practical guidebook to identify ideas and strategies that may help you clarify and apply your emerging values, priorities, directions and actions in your relationships, roles and responsibilities.
The Companion Workbook is replete with processes to help you turn theory into practice, to turn good intentions into actions, to bring values and priorities to life within your circles of influence. It will help you move forward with what has resonated for you from your encounter with Can We Do Better? You will be much clearer and more focused after completing the Companion Workbook.
Excerpt
of Workbook activities for Chapter 68
‘Yours and My Place in Big Picture Issues and Future Possibilities’. The following questions can help readers to identify and commit to practical strategies to help build apply values and principles and for nurturing reverence and critical thinking. In the Workbook there is space to write meaningful, practical notes in response to each question.
“From this point onward, we will explore hope, possibilities, options and alternatives that can help us nurture reverence, dignity, integrity and critical thinking in personal, relational, ecological, societal, institutional, national and global domains.
What network of actions are needed to help you and I and a critical mass of us to move forward with dignifying personal, relational, communal, ecological, and global values, and critical thinking? Who among us can contribute to a revolution of dignifying values and critical thinking?
What will you do to nurture values and critical thinking in your spheres of influence?
Do you know of actual and potential poets, essayists, critical thinkers, educators, academics, scientists, commentators, community leaders, mentors, champions, custodians, and elders who can help local and global communities to embrace Yin-oriented dignity and critical thinking?
Who are they?
Will you encourage them to step forward as voices of sanity, decency, reason and integrity?
Margaret Mead said … Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Do you know of a small group or groups that might inspire and nurture dignity and critical thinking?
Who are they? Name them.
Write some action-notes for yourself. The role models in the forthcoming chapters, 69–73, might help you refine your response to the invitations and challenges of this chapter.”