Experiential Activities for a Better World:
A Guidebook for Facilitators, Teachers and Group Leaders
by: Marilyn Levin
Experiential Activities for a Better World powerfully delivers the information and inspiration you need to become a catalyst for personal and global transformation using experiential activities. It provides insights, methods, perspectives, tools and over 100 activities for facilitators, teachers, counselors, trainers, and group leaders – anyone who would like to transform injustice and inspire hope and healing in themselves and others.
You can use the insights, tools and activities in this book to work with yourself, another person, pairs of people, small groups and large groups. Many of the approaches, tools and activities in the book can be used by people with little or no experience. For people with experience, there are additional chapters of instruction and intermediate and advanced activities and handouts.
Experiential Activities for a Better World begins with an exploration of the amazing possibilities that exist when we individually and collectively access our power to transform who we are. The book then explores the cultural conditioning (the training we get about who we are “supposed” to be and how we are “supposed” to act), not the personal failing that has us falling short of our potential as human beings.
This transformational approach to a better world calls for an awareness that our culture marginalizes whole groups of people and creates barriers for entire segments of society. But more importantly, it calls for an emphasis on the possibilities for healing instead of a fixation on the problems. The transformational approach encourages people to take responsibility rather than find fault or blame. It is grounded in the amazing capacity of humanity instead of the overwhelming nature of the challenges. It seeks to replace retaliation with reconciliation, judgment with acceptance and struggle with possibility. And, it advocates personal transformation as the access point to global transformation.
I applaud your courage and enthusiasm in working for a better world. It is impossible to do so without error. I encourage you to approach this work with immense compassion and courage. Have deep compassion for how we have all been conditioned to mistreat ourselves and others. Have great courage in your conviction that healing is possible for humanity.
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Copyright © 2008 Marilyn Levin
