Christina Baldwin

Discusses how to transform journal writing into a tool for self-growth, heightened awareness, and personal fulfillment, using techniques that will help discover the bond between spiritual and everyday events. Reissue. 17,500 first printing.

Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

Life's Companion

Making Sense of Our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story

Storycatcher

Explains the practice of using peer-led, spirit-centered circles to accomplish specific tasks, and offers suggestions for getting started and setting goals

The First and Future Culture

Calling the Circle

Presents a personal guide for listening to one's inner voice, filled with such meditative phrases as "maintain peace of mind," "surrender to surprises," and "practice certainty of purpose."

A Spiritual Practice for Times Like These

The Seven Whispers

Excerpts from Ms. Baldwin's own journal illustrating its therapeutic nature are included in a guide to acquiring self-knowledge through keeping a diary

Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing

One to One

Ann Linnea

For leaders, facilitators, social change agents, and anyone charged with convening groups, Baldwin and Linnea offer a foundational guide to the circle process, the simple yet profound practice through which people sit within a negotiated social frame that fosters clear speaking, compassionate listening, and the making of well-grounded decisions.

A Leader in Every Chair

The Circle Way

The original small-press edition of Calling the Circle has become one of the key resources for the rapidly-growing "circle" movement. This newly revised edition brings Christina Baldwin's groundbreaking work to an even broader audience ranging from women's spirituality groups to corporate development teams. 50,000 years ago, women and men gathered around campfires to decide the key issues in their lives. Today, groups everywhere are discovering a new form of this ancient ritual for communication, mutual support, teamwork, and social change. Now, in a book as consciousness-changing as Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade or Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline, Christina Baldwin offers this powerful new tool to everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity. In this simple, profound practice, participants sit in a circle, pass a talking piece from person to person, and speak and listen from the heart. Christina Baldwin gives detailed instructions and suggestions for getting started, setting goals, and solving disagreements safely and respectfully. She also offers inspiring examples of circles in action: a women's spirituality group, a father and son in crisis, a PTA group that averts a school strike and a work project team that accesses a new level of creativity and caring.

"Story is the heart of language. Story moves us to love and hate and can motivate us to change the whole course of our lives. Story can lift us beyond our individual borders to imagine the realities of other people, times, and places. Storytelling - both oral tradition and written word - is the foundation of being human. In this powerful book, Christina Baldwin, one of the visionaries who started the personal writing movement, explores the vital necessity of re-creating a sacred common ground for each other's stories. Each chapter in Storycatcher is carried by a fascinating narrative - about people, family, or community - intertwined with practical instruction about the nature of story, how it works, and how we can practice it in our lives. Whether exploring the personal stories revealed in our private journals, the stories of family legacy, the underlying stories that drive our organizations, or the stories that define our personal identity, Christina's book encourages us all to become storycatchers - and shows us how new stories lay the framework for a new world."--Publisher.

Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

An essential guide to cultivating sober relationships while in recovery The early days of recovery can be overwhelmingly lonely. But this is the time you need friends most. New Life, New Friends is a unique and practical guide to cultivating supportive relationships. Drawing on the words and experiences of many people in recovery, it shows how to: • Find people who share your commitment to personal change and growth • Cope with self-consciousness and low self-esteem • Choose a sponsor and make the most of your Twelve Step group • Establish boundaries and “ground rules” to keep relationships on track • Handle work or social situations where drinks, drugs, or unhealthy foods are available • Learn to ask for what you need—and to say no when necessary • Deal with family anger, guilt, or rejection • Develop the most important friendship of your life—with yourself Praise for New Life, New Friends “New Life, New Friends honors the often neglected, but very important relationship that is a cornerstone of the recovery process.”—Stephanie Covington, PhD, author of Leaving the Enchanted Forest “A practical workbook that should accompany people as they leave treatment and begin the exhilarating journey to recovery.”—Jack Mumey, author of The Joy of Being Sober

Making and Keeping Relationships in Recovery

New Life, New Friends

Story is the heart of language. Story moves us to love and hate and can motivate us to change the whole course of our lives. Story can lift us beyond our individual borders to imagine the realities of other people, times, and places. Storytelling — both oral tradition and written word — is the foundation of being human. In this powerful book, Christina Baldwin, one of the visionaries who started the personal writing movement, explores the vital necessity of re-creating a sacred common ground for each other's stories. Each chapter in Storycatcher is carried by a fascinating narrative — about people, family, or community — intertwined with practical instruction about the nature of story, how it works, and how we can practice it in our lives. Whether exploring the personal stories revealed in our private journals, the stories of family legacy, the underlying stories that drive our organizations, or the stories that define our personal identity, Christina's book encourages us all to become storycatchers — and shows us how new stories lay the framework for a new world.

The Seven Whispers Maintain peace of mind Move at the pace of guidance Practice certainty of purpose Surrender to surprise Ask for what you need and offer what you can Love the folks in front of you Return to the world In The Seven Whispers, journal writing pioneer Christina Baldwin teaches us to listen to the inner voice that originates from each of our souls — the voice of spirit. Though we may call this voice by whatever name has meaning for us — spirit, intuition, or God — hearing it is a universal human experience. Built around seven phrases, or whispers, Baldwin’s book is a personal guide for finding and listening to that voice. A powerful call to reenvision our lives, told in the voice of a trusted friend, The Seven Whispers delivers a wonderfully inspiring yet practical spirituality.

An authoritative and accessible guide to this foundational form of collaborative decision-making Uses images, stories and step-by-step instructions to teach the basics of circle and explore it’s deeper meanings Written by two pioneers in reviving, standardizing and popularizing circle process More and more organizations are looking for alternatives to rigid, top-down hierarchy. Even the most old-school now realize that good ideas can come from anywhere and that fostering collaboration and group cohesion is vital to any healthy enterprise. But what approach can best create an environment that ensures clear speaking, compassionate listening, and the making of well-grounded decisions? The most ancient one: the circle. The circle was the form of original gathering that taught human beings how to create social patterns. All modern group processes open to collaboration or to flattening the hierarchy are based in some way on circle practices. Here two veteran practitioners offer a comprehensive guide to this foundational form of human interaction The Circle Way lays out the basics of circle conversation based on the original work of the coauthors, who have studied and standardized the essential elements of circle practice and have been implementing them in a variety of organizations for over fifteen years. It opens with a unique visual guide to circle and then presents both structure and story so that readers understand how these elements come into play and how they are interrelated and interactive. Baldwin and Linnea include detailed instructions and suggestions for getting started, setting goals, and solving conflicts. And they delve into the deeper aspects of circle, illuminating the profound transformation the process has on people who participate in it.

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