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ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
We live in a time of fast moving, complex change on both the personal and the global level. Welcome or unwelcome, nothing is more certain than the constant and uncertain movement of change. Whether change is met with excitement or met with fear, we can easily become overwhelmed by all of that movement.
ChangeAbility = the ability to effectively navigate change with more ease
What is your ChangeAbility? Sharon Weil engages twenty-five leading change-makers: artists, political and environmental advocates and activists, teachers, spiritual leaders, psychotherapists, somatic practitioners, and more in a conversation about how to meet change, hold hope, align with nature, have courage, and find the passion that fuels responsive innovation. Based on Weil’s acclaimed podcast, Passing 4 Normal: Conversations with Authors, Artists, Activists and Awakeners about Seeding Change in the World, this book weaves together the insight, humor, compassion and hard-earned wisdom of those who have mastered the art of ChangeAbility in a wide range of applied experiences.
ChangeAbility = the ability to effectively navigate change with more ease
What is your ChangeAbility? Sharon Weil engages twenty-five leading change-makers: artists, political and environmental advocates and activists, teachers, spiritual leaders, psychotherapists, somatic practitioners, and more in a conversation about how to meet change, hold hope, align with nature, have courage, and find the passion that fuels responsive innovation. Based on Weil’s acclaimed podcast, Passing 4 Normal: Conversations with Authors, Artists, Activists and Awakeners about Seeding Change in the World, this book weaves together the insight, humor, compassion and hard-earned wisdom of those who have mastered the art of ChangeAbility in a wide range of applied experiences.
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346 pages, Hardcover
Published May 24, 2016
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Sharon Weil
6 books14 followersSharon Weil has long engaged the conversation about courage and change as an author, activist, award-winning filmmaker, and somatic educator. She is the author of the novel, Donny and Ursula Save the World, a quirky, political, romantic mishap-adventure. She is also the host of the acclaimed podcast Passing 4 Normal: Conversations with Authors, Artists, Activists, and Awakeners about Seeding Change in the World. In the podcast, Sharon discusses strategies for inspiring change and implementing courage with her guests: fascinating, everyday heroes actively working with change in a wide array of applications. Her book ChangeAbility is based upon discoveries gleaned from the conversations featured in this podcast.
Sharon is an advocate for social justice and the natural world through supporting solutions to climate change, community arts and holistic health and healing. Until 2014, she was the president of The Lia Fund (a private foundation that has now closed), which funded over one hundred innovative and responsive grantee organizations.
Sharon’s writing and worldview is informed by twenty-five years as a teacher of Continuum, a fluid-based somatic practice that aligns one with a natural state of being through breath and movement. The idea that within our fluid nature we, as humans, are far more mutable that we can imagine sets the stage for embracing the constant evolution of change as part of our very existence.
As a screenwriter, Sharon’s guilty pleasure is romantic comedy. She has written several. She was awarded the Women in Film Lillian Gish Award as writer and co-producer, for Best Children’s Film for Sweet 15, which also won an Emmy Award for its director.
In addition to writing, Sharon has been a director, producer, or editor of many film and television projects: narrative, documentary, commercials and music videos. She has directed several original theatrical productions, as well as written and performed her own work in one-woman shows and shared spoken-word evenings. She is a film graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Sharon has three daughters, two dogs, a compassionate heart, and one wild imagination. She meets the world with a great sense of possibility and the required sense of humor. She is an eclectic Los Angeles native, a frequent visitor to Northern California and Nashville, and a citizen of the world.
Visit her at www. sharonweilauthor.com
Sharon is an advocate for social justice and the natural world through supporting solutions to climate change, community arts and holistic health and healing. Until 2014, she was the president of The Lia Fund (a private foundation that has now closed), which funded over one hundred innovative and responsive grantee organizations.
Sharon’s writing and worldview is informed by twenty-five years as a teacher of Continuum, a fluid-based somatic practice that aligns one with a natural state of being through breath and movement. The idea that within our fluid nature we, as humans, are far more mutable that we can imagine sets the stage for embracing the constant evolution of change as part of our very existence.
As a screenwriter, Sharon’s guilty pleasure is romantic comedy. She has written several. She was awarded the Women in Film Lillian Gish Award as writer and co-producer, for Best Children’s Film for Sweet 15, which also won an Emmy Award for its director.
In addition to writing, Sharon has been a director, producer, or editor of many film and television projects: narrative, documentary, commercials and music videos. She has directed several original theatrical productions, as well as written and performed her own work in one-woman shows and shared spoken-word evenings. She is a film graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Sharon has three daughters, two dogs, a compassionate heart, and one wild imagination. She meets the world with a great sense of possibility and the required sense of humor. She is an eclectic Los Angeles native, a frequent visitor to Northern California and Nashville, and a citizen of the world.
Visit her at www. sharonweilauthor.com
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December 28, 2023
To read and to play (with the "play book")
It was a great "end of the year, welcoming changes" book for me. I am motivated and brought up various new ideas to implement in 2024! ;)
"When holding patterns exist for a long time without change or innovation, they become closed systems, looping the same limited information over and over again without refreshment. The nature of any closed system is that without the circulation of new information, the closed system will become inflexible to change and eventually in its looping, go into decline."
"When we say that someone is “closed-minded,” it is that they don’t allow for the circulation of new ideas, and we lose interest in hearing their old ones loop over and over again."
It was a great "end of the year, welcoming changes" book for me. I am motivated and brought up various new ideas to implement in 2024! ;)
"When holding patterns exist for a long time without change or innovation, they become closed systems, looping the same limited information over and over again without refreshment. The nature of any closed system is that without the circulation of new information, the closed system will become inflexible to change and eventually in its looping, go into decline."
"When we say that someone is “closed-minded,” it is that they don’t allow for the circulation of new ideas, and we lose interest in hearing their old ones loop over and over again."
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