Survival of the fearless.

 

t o p i c s

These are the topics for which we need catalog material--please contact us with your suggestions:

• Conflict resolution techniques
• The practice of council
• Town Hall meetings, how to conduct
• Community ceremonies and celebratory traditions
• Vision and wilderness quest techniques
• Rites of passage into adulthood, successful examples of
• Steps in critical thinking
• An ecology lesson plan for children
• Small community self-policing
• Indigenous/local treatments for substance abuse (e.g., Glendinning's book Chiva)
• Methods of community counseling (example: "retribalization")
• Quotations by wise elders from cultures around the world
• Information on gift exchange economies
• A gallery of key democratic documents
• Resisting the lure of advertising
• Voluntary simplicity practices
• Information on local currencies
• Community gardening how-tos and examples
• Augusto Boal and the Theater of the Oppressed

Topics we will NOT post: anything related to violence (even self-defense), intimidation, weaponry, rebellion or revolution, sexism, racism, advertising, or religious propaganda. Spiritual practices are fine if offered for practical use by a wide range of practitioners (example: meditation techniques).

 

To be posted:

• Crisis counseling techniques
• Brief psychotherapy modalities
• A mini-course in emotional self-defense
• Domestic violence counseling
• Facing Change and Rupture
• Gandhi on nonviolence
• Quotations by Martin Luther King Jr.
• A glossary of ecologically relevant terms
• Basics of ecopsychology, the study of the human-environment relationship
• Basics of ecotherapy
• How We Got Here: An Analysis of the West In Crisis
• Disaster preparedness checklist
• Post-disaster effective practices
• Paolo Freire and conscientization (critical thinking)
• Basic principles of liberation psychology
• Utopic imagining exercises and group practices
• Landsoul Charting
• Practical bioregionalism
• Examples of deep wisdom in folklore and myth
• Basics of facilitating a meeting
• An eightfold method for practical dream interpretation