A guide to the practice of compassionate listening when dealing with communities in conflict, written by Quaker peace... More > activist, Gene Knudsen Hoffman and colleagues. This document carries a Creative Commons SA2.5 reproduction license, which means that individuals and organizations are welcome to make all the copies they may need. < Less

A structured, intensive exploration of seven challenging skills you need for a lifetime of better communication in working, partnering and parenting.

In Mary Within Us, David Richo demonstrates how we have always venerated not the literal Mary but the feminine dimension of... More > the divine that she represents and enriches. Using the titles in the Litany of Loreto with depth and reverence, this book opens a dialogue about Mary as a personification of the virtues and destiny of the human psyche, including the so far unexplored dark side. < Less

A structured, intensive exploration of seven challenging skills you need for a lifetime of better communication in working, partnering and parenting.

A guide to the practice of compassionate listening when dealing with communities in conflict, written by Quaker peace... More > activist, Gene Knudsen Hoffman and colleagues. This document carries a Creative Commons SA2.5 reproduction license, which means that individuals and organizations are welcome to make all the copies they may need. < Less

Craig Felton's poems from prison tell the raw truth of the prison experience and the story of his growing consciousness of... More > himself as an alive, creative and compassionate being. < Less

Uma exploração intensiva e estruturada de sete habilidades para uma vida comunicando melhor no trabalho, na família, com... More > amigos e na comunidade. (Portuguese translation by Irene Schardijn of The Seven Challenges: A workbook and reader about communicating more cooperatively, 4th ed., by Dennis Rivers.) < Less

In Mary Within Us, David Richo demonstrates how we have always venerated not the literal Mary but the feminine dimension of... More > the divine that she represents and enriches. Using the titles in the Litany of Loreto with depth and reverence, this book opens a dialogue about Mary as a personification of the virtues and destiny of the human psyche, including the so far unexplored dark side. < Less

Sarada (Ruth Ingeborg Folling Tate) tells the story of her life, her spiritual adventures and misadventures the form of a... More > long letter. Her spiritual quest to to see into the heart of things led her into the Vedanta Society at age 17 and onward to encounters with Swami Prabhavananda, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Alan Watts, Chogyam Trungpa and others, over the course of sixty years. Like the Hindu saint, Ramakrishna, whom she once followed, her quest has led her through several religions. Now 83 (in 2005), she is drawn to the gentle Zen of Thich Nhat Hanh and has renewed her interest in the consciousness insights of General Semantics (an analysis of how language works to confuse us, and what is beyond language). < Less

This book records my ongoing quest for visual models of human unfolding. By that I mean to ask, what sort of diagrams might... More > help us understand human interaction and development in such ways that we would be able to interact with one another, and develop as persons, more creatively, successfully and nurturingly? Many cultures have used geometry and diagrams to represent and understand important aspects of life. Among the most notable examples are Dine(Navajo) sand paintings, Hindu and Tibetan mandalas, ancient Greek mystery teachings centering on geometry, and the designs of cathedral windows.

Such diagrams have been found helpful because they allow us to model a complex set of relationships or interactions which would be difficult, if not impossible, to describe using the long-string-of-ideas structure of everyday language. My work draws inspiration from these ancient traditions, as well as from architectural drawing and computer programming data flow diagrams. < Less