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| Description: |
| In a time of uncommon change and isolation, this book focuses on how to create environments where more individuals can feel cherished, productive, and fulfilled. Strategies are suggested for tapping into one’s creative potential and putting that talent to work, resulting in greater health and balance in family, business, school, social, and civic settings. Topics addressed include the power of words, metaphor, natural guides to community building, learning styles, intercultural learning, core personalities, and ways to reduce stress and prejudice. |
Author Biography: |
| The authors have spent the last 30 years together working on ways to improve the quality of life for learners of all ages. They began their careers as educators, met and married, and raised a son. Along the way, they each were directors of national level education programs. They have pioneered work to foster cooperation and collaborative problem solving in settings as diverse as homes, schools, businesses, and municipalities. They have always believed in each person’s capacity to learn, be creative, exercise leadership and participate in the process of protecting the civic health of this Nation’s communities. They have a deep conservation ethic and commitment to the health of natural systems. Drawing on all these interests and experiences, they have created Coming Home. Cheryl Charles has served as National Director of the widely used K-12 environment education programs, Project Learning Tree and Project WILD. She served as Chair of the Board of John Denver’s Windstar Foundation, President of the Windstar Land Conservancy, and co-founded a think tank to focus on issues facing communities. In the past ten years, she has expanded her scope to bring collaborative skills to the competitive environment of the financial services |
Reviews/Endorsements: |
| A fundamental challenge for our time is the move to embrace community and environment within the context of individual values. It is this pathway that Charles and Samples have mapped as a gentle, step-by-step progression. —Mary Catherine Bateson Author of Full Circles, Overlapping Lives and Willing to Learn
This inspiring and practical book puts the emphasis where it belongs—on what each of us can do as individuals to make the world a better place. I learned a long time ago that the buck stops with me. This book brings that lesson home to each of us. Read it and put the ideas to work in your own life. Our communities will all be the better for it. Bravo, Cheryl and Bob. As an elected and appointed government official, I have met people throughout the world and from all walks of life. There is a deep yearning among us all to make our communities peaceful, healthy and safe for generations to come. Bob and Cheryl The message that Cheryl and Bob offer is critical to success. Culture is the only thing the competition can’t copy. Having that sense of community separates the top tier of companies. Cheryl and Bob live the lives of personal responsibility and leadership for the common good. They know that strong communities start with personal commitments. As a Mayor, a Congressman, and a business leader, I know first hand the challenge of building strong communities through resolving conflicts, and I have seen personal responsibility change outcomes for the better. As public officials, we are seeing an increase in ethnic, economic, and other divisive factors in our communities. Coming Home serves a critical role in helping us deal Coming Home is a field guide for the renewal of optimism. Charles and Samples offer a joyful celebration of their 30 year collaboration in search of the keys to healthy human communities. Drawing upon a deep knowledge and appreciation for the inherent harmony of natural systems, they invite each of us to join in In a world preoccupied with terror, war and mutual distrust, Cheryl Charles and Bob Samples have paused to show us how we might “create a peaceful, healthy and sustainable future for generations to come.” This book, this bouquet of words, is extraordinary. It lifts first the body, then the mind and finally the spirit. What a blessing it is for those who choose to receive its grace. It brings balance to the heart, understanding to the intellect and beauty to the soul. What a gift! My Keresan people have a story that this continent was originally home to the horse as well as many others. When the earth cataclysmically changed because of man’s foolish disobedience, the horse and many of the original peoples were gone. |
