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| Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future | 
 enlarge | Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 19446
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 150
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 1576751457
Dewey Decimal Number: 177.2
EAN: 9781576751459
ASIN: 1576751457
Publication Date: January 9, 2002
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Meg Wheatley makes sense...once again November 18, 2004
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Dialogue. One word yet so many connotations. In our complex world of technology, toys, processes, downsizings, mergers, etc. there is one key element that continues to cause and raise exponentially increasing problems. That problem is communication. Or, lack thereof. I think that many of us forgot the art and the science of dialogue. Talking. Listening. One-on-one.
I think that we're given so many tools to work wherever and whenever; it's the likeness to using a keyboard or a calculator instead of writing with a pen and doing the actual computations. In the myriad and flurry of systemic, organizational maneuvers we forgot how to talk to each other and with each other. For some people, they've never learned the beauty and mystery of dialogue.
Dialogue, to me, is the ability to acutely listen to a story, enjoy it, have non-verbal reactions, and take it in while challenging the message with my own filters. We all have filters that are individual to us and therefore send us what messages we want to hear and shut out the ones we don't want. If we can flip off our filters for a moment and just pretend that we've met that neat person on the street, someone new in the grocery market, or an intriguing individual at a party and dialogue (share information and exchanges back and forth) then life becomes an enriching experience. And, it is a guarantee that from that individual you will always learn something new.
Meg Wheatley's book reminds me of "going back to the basics." Just talk to people. Listen with open ears and concentration with what they have to say. A lot of our world problems would be solved with better communication that lacks threat if we dialogued and if parties were willing to dialogue.
Respectfully submitted,
Andrea M. Ahlsen
Batavia, IL.
Soothing to the Mind March 12, 2003
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
A wonderful new-age sort of book that truly is soothing to the mind. In a world of chaos, Meg brings us a reality check. Simple solutions and questions to rediscover humanity. I loved it.
Sweet. Satisifying, Simple April 3, 2002
18 out of 26 found this review helpful
What a precious book! For those already well engaged on their personal path this book offers many heartfelt and truthful reminders for the life-work we face. For those looking to break into or expand their "own life" it offers a satisifying sense of the personal and spiritual tools and work at hand. I can not think of anyone I know who could not find this a useful or encouraging book.
Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations that Restore H March 15, 2002
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
Margaret Wheatley reminds us that the simple act of conversation is critical in changing attitudes and perceptions. Thinking about our beliefs, listening to others'ideas, and working together to restore hope to the future are simple, yet powerful.
Telling our stories February 25, 2002
67 out of 82 found this review helpful
I am an FOM. (Friend of Meg [Wheatley]) I am also a person who flourishes in a world of dreams, dreams that lead us to realize greater potential in ourselves. With that said, I must admit to the following: Reading Meg's new book felt uncomfortable. Not because I thought I wouldn't like it, nor did I worry about what Meg would think about how I experienced the book. I actually felt apprehensive about the subject matter. What could she say about something as ordinary and matter of fact as talking with one another? Well, I threw out my anxieties and opened myself to whatever might speak to me. Isn't that what a friend would do?I read Meg's book in one sitting. Actually, it was a train ride from Seattle to Portland. I was grateful for the confinement of the train, leaving me undisturbed to delve into Meg's world, save for a few pre-dusk glances out the window, taking in the natural beauty of our WA state coastline. turning to one another holds nothing new, as Meg would admit. However, when read in light of this past calendar year, her words hold all things new. Meg Wheatley has posited for her readers what I experience as a charge for all storytellers: How do you take what is common knowledge, retell it in light of what makes meaning in your life, and then let it go, out to the universe, praying it will be read with new eyes and heard with open ears. turning to one another does just that, for me, its reader. And, without speaking in generalities, I feel this book will play its revelatory tune loud and clear to all who look inside its pages. Meg has asked us to put aside our technological armor, turn it off and sit. Sit with the silence, with the uncomfortable feelings of being silent. Sit with the many who are silent, too. Waiting. Perhaps then, in the silence of our hearts, we will rise to a place where we can speak. And if so moved, then we will do what Meg encourages us to do, "turning to one another, in simple conversations to restore hope to the future." Our future. Meg Wheatley asks nothing more than a willing reader, compassionate eyes, empathic ears and the voice to speak new words. Words of hope, words of vision, of dreams for the future. Telling our stories. Not such a daunting task. Or is it?
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