The Spiritual Activist: Practices to Transform Your Life, Your Work, and Your World

by Claudia Horwitz

Burnout is a risk for social workers, teachers, non-profit administrators, volunteers, trainers, artists, and anyone who is trying to make a difference in their world. Claudia Horwitz, who has more than fifteen years of experience working for social justice, believes that faith and spiritual practice play a vital role in the ongoing struggle for change.

The Spiritual Activist is a practical guide to individual and social transformation through spirituality and faith. It will help you to make opportunities to slow down, to build stronger relationships at home and at work, and to embrace the world around you. Horwitz shows you how to use reflection, ritual, silence, movement, and the happenings of daily life to help you find unity between your inner journeys and outer commitments. Each chapter contains:

* easy activities to help you reconnect with your core values, beliefs, and sources of strength
* questions for reflection
* resources
* stories from socially conscious leaders discussing their own spiritual life and practices

Genres: Spirituality, Activism, Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published August 16, 2002

Reviews

[Jocelyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a wonderful and uplifting book to help find your spiritual self without attaching it to any one religion. Its also gives the everyday person strategies to handle various situations in life.

[Annie Rachele · Rating 5 out of 5]

The teachings of Claudia Horwitz helped me toward my inner peace, sense of mission, and how to refuel spiritually, in order to be of more service to others and in community. This book will help all activists, community organizers, cultural workers, teachers to are in the practice of mobilizing and transforming communities, but need a 'how to' --- to sustain themselves and to sustain the work.

I highly recommend this book, and if you get a chance to go on retreat to a workshop with Claudia Horwitz, run! I did, and her practice and her presence changed me for the stronger, the better, the deeper...

[Renee · Rating 2 out of 5]

Horwitz, a Durham, NC resident, social activist, and yoga teacher (at least at the time of publication, 2002), offers ways to incorporate spiritual practice into your life as a foundation for sustaining commitment to social activism. Each chapter contains suggested activities, questions for reflection, resources, and stories from a variety of socially conscious people from a range of spiritual/religious practices. The stories are my favorite part of the book. I might have been more enamored of this book in my younger years — it really didn’t captivate or inspire me — but it does offer much good food for thought and reflection.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful!