Creating Community

Creating Community
How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future

Dr. Riane Eisler’s newest book, coauthored with anthropologist, Douglas P. Fry, PhD, is titled Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future (2019).  At a time of great divisiveness in our culture, Dr. Eisler’s most recent publication offers an  alternative to domination and division. This [...]

2020-01-25T17:45:40-06:00January 21st, 2020|Categories: Creating Community|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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Creating Community
The Myth of Alzheimer’s – How It Resonated

This well-researched 2008 publication covers the concept of Alzheimer’s disease from its intriguing history to the monumental challenge it has become today. The book’s practical perspective provides a new lens by which to view the challenges of living with brain aging. Anecdotal sharing of my personal experiences of past [...]

2020-01-10T18:20:09-06:00January 7th, 2020|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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Mindful Presence
The Ring Theory – When It’s Not About You

Comfort IN, Dump OUT... How not to say the wrong thing? What is The Ring Theory – and what is its best application? How to unpack this technique? Upon receiving a diagnosis of dementia, one’s social contacts can change abruptly, and sometimes end.  Old friends and associates stop coming because [...]

2020-01-10T18:16:55-06:00January 6th, 2020|Categories: Creating Community, General, Mindful Presence|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments
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Creating Community
Human Rights Violations of Elders With Dementia Led to Suffering and Death

I was simply stunned. This time, it hit close to home. My deceased father had been in a highly invisible group of people ... a group which, in many cultures, is revered and held in esteem. Writing this in a chaotic post-truth era, the words of the Acting White [...]

2020-01-10T18:18:20-06:00January 6th, 2020|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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Creating Community
Amazon #1 Best Seller – Luminous and Scholarly

I learned about The Chalice and The Blade during a 1987 dinner meeting of Women in Management in Chicago's downtown chapter. The book is now considered a classic.  It is an important historical review of the shaping of human culture, comparing two basic models of society – the dominator [...]

2020-01-10T18:15:30-06:00January 5th, 2020|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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