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Recommended Reading
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The Nonprofit-Strategy-Revolution:
Real-Time Strategic Planning in a Rapid-Response World
by David La Piana
The Nonprofit-Strategy-Revolution is a very hands-on practical read for those who want to think and plan in the real world. La Piana provides the reasoning and the framework needed for making and strategizing a practical process. All of the forms needed are provided, as well as the format for a full day planning session with your team.
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The Lobbying Strategy Handbook: 10 Steps to Advancing Any Cause Effectively
by Patricia J. Libby
The Lobbying Strategy Handbook gives a fairly sound foundation in the basics of law making, the governmental budgeting process and lobbying. The most important part follows with a clear, "how to", ten-step advocacy campaign procedure, with some real-life case studies.
Libby created and directs a university institute for non-profit education in California and previously ran several non-profits, lobbying for their key issues. She clearly knows what she is writing about from first hand experiences. The reader might not qualify for a degree reading this book, but they will certainly know how to develop and promote a legislative strategy.
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Art Is a Spiritual Path
by Pat B. Allen
Art is a spiritual path—not a religion, but a practice that helps us knit together the ideals and convictions that guide our lives.
Creating art can be prayer, ritual, and remembrance of the Divine. And the sharing of this creativity with others in small groups can serve as sanctuary, asylum, ashram, therapy group, think tank, and village square. Pat Allen has developed a reliable guide for walking the path of art through a series of simple practices that combine drawing, painting, and sculpture with journal writing.
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Art as Medicine
by Shaun McNiff
McNiff introduces his pioneering methods of using the creative arts to renew and heal the imagination, such as interpretation through performance and storytelling, collaborative creation, and dialoguing with paintings, as opposed to talking about paintings. 30 halftones.
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Art-Based Research
by Shaun McNiff
In this book, Shaun McNiff, one of the field's pioneering educators and authors, breaks new ground in defining and inspiring art-based research. He illustrates how practitioner-researchers can become involved in art-based inquiries during their educational studies and throughout their careers, and shows how new types of research can be created that resonate with the artistic process. Clearly and cogently expressed, the theoretical arguments are illustrated by numerous case examples, and the final part of the book provides a wealth of ideas and thought provoking questions for research.
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Unstuck:
Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
by James S. Gordon
One of our country’s most distinguished psychiatrists and a pioneer in integrative medicine, Dr. Gordon believes that depression is not an end point, a disease over which we have no control. It is a sign that our lives are out of balance, that we’re stuck. It’s a wake-up call and the start of a journey that can help us become whole and happy, one that can change and transform our lives. Unstuck is a practical, easy-to-use guide explaining the seven stages of Dr. Gordon’s approach and the steps we can take to exert control over our own lives and find hope and happiness. Unstuck is designed for anyone who is suffering from depression, from mild subclinical depression (“the blues”) to its severest forms.
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Manifesto For A New Medicine: Your Guide To Healing Partnerships And The Wise Use Of Alternative Therapies
by James S. Gordon
Gordon encourages communication and cooperation between these two worlds to address the drawbacks of an illness-oriented medical model burdened with the costs of chronic care. Historical forces of the wellness movement, principles of self-help, and concepts of teamwork are woven into a tapestry he calls the "therapeutic partnership." Gordon issues an important mandate for an integrated and individualized biopsychosocial medicine to meet the future clinical needs of the nation. Written for the medical and allied healthcare communities, this book is recommended for any healthcare provider interested in comprehensive care.
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Gluten Nation: The Alarming Role That Gluten Plays in Arthritis, ADHD, Autism, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, Diabetes, Fibromyalgia and Other Ailments
by Alexander Shikhman, Jacqueline Townsend Konstanturos, and Mary Lyons Collard
Over 20 million Americans are gluten intolerant, and most don't even know it. In the world of science and medicine, it is widely known that wheat is the primary cause of celiac disease, a debilitating chronic inflammatory disease affecting the intestine. What is not so widely known is that gluten sensitivity runs a spectrum - only the worst cases becoming celiac disease. The "grain of pain" is a contributing factor in many illnesses, including autoimmune disease, arthritis, autism, ADHD, bipolar disorder, diabetes, cancer, fibromyalgia and more.
In this book you will meet some people who got their life back by giving up gluten. You will also be armed with the knowledge to determine if gluten might be affecting you or your loved ones. If you decide to try a gluten-free lifestyle, this book also provides a guide to getting started with your new life.
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Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery
by Dean Ornish
Ornish, author of the popular Stress, Diet, and Your Heart bases his book on an extensive study that found his "Opening Your Heart" program resulted in the reversal of coronary artery blockage. He gives thorough background to his study, backing up his claims with scientific evidence, and provides case histories of people who have followed the program. In describing ways to reverse heart disease, he offers suggestions on how to control diet (with helpful recipes from noted chef Wolfgang Puck), as well as on how to quit smoking and how to exercise. Recommended for general collections.
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Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness
by Diane E. Meier, Stephen L. Isaacs, and Robert Hughes
Palliative Care is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is transforming the way Americans deal with serious illness.
Diane E. Meier, M.D., one of the field's leaders and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius award" in 2009, opens the volume with a sweeping overview of the field. In her essay, Dr. Meier examines the roots of palliative care, explores the key legal and ethical issues, discusses the development of palliative care, and presents ideas on policies that can improve access to palliative care.
Dr. Meier's essay is followed by reprints of twenty-five of the most important articles in the field. They range from classic pieces by some of the field's pioneers, such as Eric Cassel, Balfour Mount, and Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, to influential newer articles on topics such as caregiving and cost savings of palliative care.
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Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future by Andrew Weil
Andrew Weil, M.D., has degrees in biology and medicine from Harvard University. Author of the best-selling Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, he traveled the world experiencing and studying healers and healing systems and has earned
Bestselling Books: Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being, 8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power, Eating Well For Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating.
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Consensus Organizing
by Michael Eichler
The first new form of community organizing since Saul Alinsky, this book connects the poor to the rest of society. Written in a logical, teachable, and pragmatic style, Consensus Organizing: Building Communities of Mutual Self Interest is a model of social change for the 21st century. Through real examples, author Mike Eichler illustrates how anyone can practice consensus organizing and help the poor, forgotten, and disempowered.
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The Heart Speaks
by Mimi Guarneri, M.D., FACC
A lyrical writer as well as a cardiologist, the author, founder and medical director of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, describes how she learned that beyond the power of our most sophisticated medical equipment is a physician's humanity—"the listening ear, the healing touch, the devices of healers throughout time." Guarneri became highly accomplished at angioplasty and stent procedures, but came to realize that those she treated could also be helped by proper nutrition and stress reduction techniques such as yoga and visualization. Guarneri deplores the financial constraints that prevent doctors from spending time with patients and that many physicians have developed "a mechanic's mentality," focused on fixing rather than getting to know their patients.
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The New Medicine
by Ronald H. Blumer, Muffie Meyer
www.thenewmedicine.org
This is the companion book to the widely acclaimed Public Television Series "The New Medicine", and features in depth interviews with the participants of this program-world experts in their fields. These physicians and scholars work in leading medical schools and clinics across the country, including Harvard, the University of California and Duke. They present the hard scientific evidence behind the fact that our mental state has a direct influence on our physical health. Together they make a compelling case that physicians must treat the whole person with an illness, not just the illness alone in order to promote true healing. Many are practitioners of Integrative Medicine, which stresses that listening to a patient's concerns and building rapport is absolutely essential for an accurate diagnosis and effective treatment plan.
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The Art of Original Thinking
The Making of a Thought Leader
by Jan Phillips
http://www.janphillips.com
The Art of Original Thinking: The Making of a Thought Leader is a brilliant guide to original thinking, inspired living, and visionary leadership - a hands-on guide to becoming a thought leader. Author Jan Phillips challenges us to question assumptions, free ourselves from illusions, dispel myths, and question the origins of our thoughts. Phillips' artful blend of storytelling, real-world examples, insightful interviews, and research sheds light on people, groups, and businesses around the world that are profiting exponentially through conscious choices and creative collaborations. www.artoforiginalthinking.com
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Building a Life of Value: Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us.
by Jason Merchey
www.valuesofthewise.com
How Do Your Build a Meaningful Life? More than just a book of quotations, this book is a fusion of great thinking from classical to contemporary, from philosophical to poetic. It is a concert of voices, harmoniously blended by Jason Merchey and his thought-provoking essays. It will stimulate your thinking, energize your spirit, and deepen your understanding of human nature. It presents progressive ideals at their best - humane, humanistic, and high-minded. Consider it your shaman, your oracle, your foundation, your blueprint for truly building a life of value. With these ideas we can improve ourselves, our planet, and our future.
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Living a Life of Value: A Unique Anthology of Essays on Values & Ethics
by Contemporary Writers
by Jason Merchey
www.valuesofthewise.com
Living a Life of Value is a unique anthology of essays on values & ethics by contemporary writers such as Howard Zinn, Jan Phillips, Sean Gonsalves, and Riane Eisler.
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Waking, A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendance
by Matthew Sanford
http://www.matthewsanford.com
Matt Sanfords life and body were irrevocably changed at age 13 on a snowy Iowa road. On that day, his familys car skidded off an overpass, killing Matts father and sister and leaving him paralyzed from the chest down and confined to a wheelchair.
In searingly candid, frequently poetic language, Sanford pulls back the curtain on what it means to survive devastating trauma, from returning to a broken life to the uncertainty of finding sexual intimacy with a paralyzed body. But first and foremost the author offers a powerful message about the endurance of the human spirit, and of the body that houses it.
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