Here you'll find DVDs and other video, podcasts, kits, audio books, radio interviews, T-shirts, and more. This list changes frequently. The videos are quite different than the usual training videos. I keep experimenting with new ways to present ideas and develop a sense of wonder. Please notice that as you read through the descriptions.
NEW DVD: FOR PERSEVERING PEOPLE
with Margaret Wheatley
$25.00 plus S&H
How do we not lose our way in this difficult time?
How do we maintain our clarity, stamina and faith as we experience disruptions, set-backs and obstacles?
How do we persevere on behalf of the people, places and causes we love?
Based on Margaret's book Perseverance, this DVD is a gentle, encouraging inquiry into these and other questions, and provides you with the opportunity to reflect on the challenges and strengths of people who persevere.
Filmed in the natural beauty of Sundance and Provo River Canyon in Utah, Margaret guides you through a series of reflections so that you might notice how you're being affected by dynamics that can demoralize and exhaust us. She calls us to notice that we all come from ancestors who persevered (otherwise we wouldn't be here) and to claim our identity as one who wants to persevere.
Throughout, you're given time to pause and reflect in the presence of nature's beauty. It is our intent that you'll feel rested, provoked and refreshed by the experience of this DVD.
Chapter One: How are you being affected by these times?
Chapter Two: Staying in the middle of the river
Chapter Three: Perseverance requires mindfulness
Chapter Four: Dealing with opposition, urgency and change
Chapter Five: Turning to one another
Watch a preview:
FOR PERSEVERING PEOPLE's price is $25.00 plus shipping/handling. US/Canada orders use the buttons below. For orders outside the United States, please email us at nicole@margaretwheatley.com. For quantity orders of more than 20 DVDs, or for expedited shipping, please email us at nicole@margaretwheatley.com
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DVD: EIGHT FEARLESS QUESTIONS
An Inquiry with Margaret Wheatley
$25.00 plus S&H
1. Does the world need me to be fearless?
2. Who do I choose to be for this world?
3. How do I name myself?
4. Can I bear witness to what is?
5. Can I work with what's available?
6. Can I give up needing to make a difference?
7. How do I imprison myself?
8. How do I offer my work?
Join Dr. Margaret Wheatley, renowned author and teacher, in exploring eight questions designed to help you develop clarity about your work and the contribution you want to offer at this troubled time. In her gentle but forceful way, Dr. Wheatley takes us deeper into the questions of identity, reality, and our capacity to discover fearlessness for the people and issues we most care about. Watch this video excerpt from the DVD:
EIGHT FEARLESS QUESTIONS' price is $25.00 plus shipping/handling. US/Canada orders use the buttons below.
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Engaging Community Toolkit A Toolkit for Building Healthy and Resilient Communities
Created by The Berkana Institute and Neighborhood Centers Inc.
$179.00
Whatever the problem, community is the answer.
The mantra for this time seems to be “We’re all in this together.” With The Berkana Institute, we’ve worked with many communities who’ve made this statement come alive; they’ve discovered the wisdom and wealth present in themselves, their traditions, and their environments. We believe wholeheartedly that community is the best resource to get through difficult times. This is even more important in this age of fractured relationships and extreme politics when it can be difficult to remember what good community feels like, how joyful it feels when we’re working well together.
There is no power for change greater than when a community discovers what it cares about.
This toolkit contains a variety of approaches for engaging community: information and processes in a rich variety of media, and in both English and Spanish. We want to make it possible for every community--large or small, defined by geography, ethnicity, beliefs, income level, shared pain or shared opportunity—to know how to engage their members to resolve their current challenges and create the futures they desire.
Contents of Engaging Community Toolkit Everything is in both English and Spanish)
Turning To One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future. Book by Margaret Wheatley
The Power of Community. DVD presentation by Margaret Wheatley. 40 minutes with Spanish subtitles
12 Principles for Healthy Community Change. Set of beautifully illustrated cards containing these principles and questions to explore. Illustrations by Nancy Margulies
Large colorful poster of the 12 principles and questions
A guide for hosting good conversations
Unlocking the Strengths of Our Communities: A Step-by-Step Guide to Appreciative Community Building. Developed by Neighborhood Centers Inc. Six questions that uncover the strengths of diverse communities and change the conversations.
Unlocking the Strengths of our Communities. CD of materials for printing, including customizable tools, agendas and other resources used by Neighborhood Centers Inc. in their work with communities.
Articles by Margaret Wheatley and others. CD for printing articles, with the encouragement to distribute these articles freely.
video clipfrom the Power of Community DVD on creating healthy community change.
Women's Circle Starter Kit
$85.00
The Women's Leadership Circle Kit is designed for women interested in starting a Women's Leadership Revival Circle, as well as women who wish to dive into the conversations and inspiration from the Berkana Institute's Women's Leadership revival tour.
We know the experience of calling a circle and exploring the gifts and power of women's leadership is frequently one of joyous discovery, great companionship, and deep encouragement. We know the unique gifts of women's leadership are deeply needed at this time. We celebrate how women everywhere are stepping more deeply into their leadership and into service. Know you are in good company as your consider starting a circle, women all over the world are doing the same: taking time for reflection, learning, and planning the wise actions that will make a difference in their organizations and communities.
This Circle Kit contains an abundance of resources to support and nourish a Women's Leadership Revival Circle.
Ordering information:
The Women's Circle Starter Kit is $85, plus $10 shipping and handling in the US. Shipping outside the United States is available. Orders from Canada are International. To order, click through to the Berkana web site at https://www.z2systems.com/np/clients/berkana/product.jsp?product=1.
IT'S BACK:
Turning to One Another Poster $12.00
"There is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about."
A beautiful 15" x18" poster of key points to support a conversation, whether it be in a small group, a community, or a network.
For more information or to order, contact Nicole Pesci at email nicole@margaretwheatley.com, or phone 801.376.8847.
T-SHIRT:
Practice Peace: Proceed Until Apprehended
A few years ago, working in a large healthcare system, a woman offered me her family motto, "Proceed until apprehended!" Since that time, I've spoken it to many people and asked that we let it guide our actions.
Recently, two sisters who have a socially enlightened T-shirt company offered to design the motto into a shirt, and also to benefit The Berkana Institute.
So now we have a great T-shirt with a powerful message and a beautiful image. (The image of hands tenderly cradling the world was taken from a recent poem of mine.)
Visit www.thefirstmove.net/pua to see the shirt and place your order. $3.00 of each shirt purchased goes to Berkana.
May we all "Practice Peace and proceed until apprehended."
DVD: It's About Time
$40.00 plus $4.00 s/h
This DVD has been designed for multiple audiences. It is designed to be used by individuals for personal reflection, by work groups, and for organizational training sessions. It includes a variety of materials to facilitate group learning.
In this DVD, Meg Wheatley focuses on the necessity for taking time to think, learning from our experience, and reflecting with colleagues - behaviors that are quickly disappearing in most organizations. She offers gentle yet provocative comments that allow you to assess how you, your work and your family are being influenced by this great speed up. Her questions help you notice how lack of time is impacting the quality of your work, your organization's effectiveness, and your family's health. She then describes simple practices to restore thinking to your work and quality to your relationships at work and at home.
The DVD set includes:
Twelve provocative chapters, including "The Myth of Multi-Tasking"; "Assessing Your Organization's Time Culture"; "Stressed-Out Kids". A Reflection Space. Periodically, you are invited to go to this tranquil space to take time to think about the questions raised. A special chapter featuring an informal conversation with Dr. Wheatley where she details how time is used and abused in organizations. A CD-Rom containing the two DVD transcripts, plus several articles by Margaret Wheatley for you to print out and circulate.
Based on the best selling book, this video instantly brings to life the breakthrough management concepts set forth by Dr. Margaret Wheatley. Moment-by-moment- a profoundly inspiring, spell-binding blend of imagery takes you beyond yourself, beyond your environment, beyond the usual perspectives. You see and hear Dr. Wheatley against an intriguing backdrop of visual metaphors while she describes Nature's living systems as models for new ways of revitalizing today's organizations.
(CRM Films, 22 minutes, to order call 800-421-0833) http://www.crmlearning.com/leadership-and-the-new-science
Lessons From the New Workplace
This long-awaited sequel to CRM's best selling Leadership and the New Science video offers compelling applications to help your organization adapt to chaos and change while increasing its capabilities, competence and endurance. In this powerful documentary, you'll see how the U.S Army, a leading Fortune 500 company, and a visionary educational system renewed themselves to become flexible, adaptive, leader-full learning organizations. Discover powerful new ways of coping with organizational chaos and change and using them as positive forces for breakthroughs in teamwork, creativity and productivity.
(CRM Films, 21 minutes, to order call 800 421 0833) http://www.crmlearning.com/lessons-from-the-new-workplace
It's a Wonderful Life: Leading Through Service
A compelling and illuminating journey into Servant Leadership, graphically illustrated using poignant clips from the film, It's A Wonderful Life. By looking at heroes we admire -- in this case, the beloved George Bailey -- viewers understand the fundamental ingredients of Service Leadership and the rewards of a life of small acts of service. (Advanced Knowledge, 25 minutes, to order call 800 700 2914)
Twelve Angry Men: Teams That Don't Quit
Selected clips from the classic movie starring Henry Fonda. Narrated by Dr. Margaret Wheatley, the video highlights five qualities that support effective teams: open inquiry, accepting responsibility for making a decision, participation and equality of team members, the value of conflict in uncovering ideas and new information, and the essential role of diversity in decision-making. (Advanced Knowledge 25 minutes, to order call 800 700 2914)
Lecture Series (from live broadcast):
Creating Organizations That Support Great Work With Margaret Wheatley, James Autry and Myron Kellner-Rogers.
Margaret Wheatley teams up with James Autry, author (Love and Profit: The Art of Caring Leadership), poet, consultant and former President of Meredith Corporation's Magazine Group, and Myron Kellner-Rogers, co-author, A Simpler Way, international consultant and speaker. Together they show us how we can create far more effective and meaningful organizations by:
Tapping into people's inherent desire for connection to their work
Rethinking our beliefs about the very nature of organizations
Inspiring people to contribute far beyond current levels
(International Institute for Learning, 100 minutes, to order call 800 325 1533)
Creating Organizational Futures Featuring Margaret Wheatley, poet David Whyte, and pianist Michael Jones, in a live broadcast from Trinity Church Wall Street.
In this beautiful, arresting, and stimulating video, Wheatley and Whyte address critical questions that organizations and individuals must ask in an increasingly volatile environment:
How do we keep alive the energy needed to generate creative solutions, visions, strategies?
How do we nourish ourselves and our colleagues to be creative and courageous?
What qualities are now required of us as leaders?
(International Institute for Learning, 100 minutes, to order call 800 325 1533)
TURNING TO ONE ANOTHER: SIMPLE CONVERSATIONS TO RESTORE HOPE TO THE FUTURE
Unabridged, 2hrs 47 min audio book available for purchase/download through Audible.com: http://tinyurl.com/ttoa-audible
Also available to rent on CD or download at www.theaudiobookstore.com.
LEADERSHIP AND THE NEW SCIENCE (2nd edition)
Available to rent on CD or download at www.theaudiobookstore.com.
2 cassettes, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
A SIMPLER WAY
Available to rent on CD or download at www.theaudiobookstore.com.
2 cassettes, Berrett Koehler Publishers, Inc
SERVANT-LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP IN THE 21st CENTURY June 10, 1999; General Session featuring Margaret J. Wheatley, Sound Images, Inc. COURAGE, CONVERSATION AND CHANGING THE WORLD
with Margaret Wheatley New Dimensions Radio Interview, Spring 2005
Never before in human history have we been exposed to so much data from so many sources, a veritable deluge. Is it any wonder that people are anxious, cynical, worried, unhappy in their work, and seeking ways to escape? Is there a way out beyond drugs, legal and illegal, or losing ourselves in television, which doesn't tell visions ever? According to Wheatley, "We have to slow down. Nothing will change for the better until we do. We need time to think, to learn, to get to know each other. We are losing these great human capacities in the speed-up of modern life, and it is killing us." For years, Margaret Wheatley has written eloquently about humanizing our organization and helping people work together more effectively and compassionately. In this engaging and provocative dialogue, she shows how organizations can function more like responsive self-organizing, living systems, rather than cold mechanisms of control. Wheatley also expands her ideas into the wider arena of human society.
Topics explored in this dialogue with New Dimensions host Michael Toms:
What is radical thinking?
How to start conversations to make a difference
How being centered can manifest real change
How your languaging may be unconsciously aggressive
Why you need to pay attention to what’s in front of you
New Dimensions Radio is a listener supported public benefit, social profit, tax-exempt organization.
How do we not lose our way in this difficult time?
1. Does the world need me to be fearless?
Engaging Community Toolkit
We know the experience of calling a circle and exploring the gifts and power of women's leadership is frequently one of joyous discovery, great companionship, and deep encouragement. We know the unique gifts of women's leadership are deeply needed at this time. We celebrate how women everywhere are stepping more deeply into their leadership and into service. Know you are in good company as your consider starting a circle, women all over the world are doing the same: taking time for reflection, learning, and planning the wise actions that will make a difference in their organizations and communities.
So now we have a great T-shirt with a powerful message and a beautiful image. (The image of hands tenderly cradling the world was taken from a recent poem of mine.)
This DVD has been designed for multiple audiences. It is designed to be used by individuals for personal reflection, by work groups, and for organizational training sessions. It includes a variety of materials to facilitate group learning.
