Space Is Not Empty - Alan Briskin

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Résumé :
Have you ever walked into a room and known immediately that something was off? Maybe your skin tingled or your stomach clenched, maybe you noticed how eyes were averted or chatter was strained. Or maybe the opposite was true and you were walking into a place of safety and comfort, where your breathing came more easily, your heart rate calmed, and your tension melted away.

In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary book, Alan Briskin and Mary V. Gelinas weave together a combined eighty years of experience in social psychology, systems thinking, and contemplative practices to explain how fields influence us physically, emotionally, and intuitively-often without our conscious awareness.

What if we could learn to pay attention to these fields that are operating in and around us, understand their messages, and use them to act more intentionally and compassionately? Discover how awareness of these dynamic spaces can help foster collaborative relationships, bridge social, political, and religious divides, and effect more constructive, meaningful and lasting change....

Biographie:
Alan Briskin, PhD, is an award-winning author, artist, and researcher whose clients have included George Lucas Educational Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, and the Goi Peace Foundation. Honored by Saybrook University as a Noted Humanist Scholar, he is the author of five books, including The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace (1996), which won the Body Mind Spirit Magazine's Award of Excellence, and The Power of Collective Wisdom (2009), which won the Nautilus Book Award in Business and Leadership. Alan lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Jane O'Brien.

Mary V. Gelinas, EdD, is an author, educator, and consultant with more than forty years experience working in brain research, contemplative practices, social psychology, and systems thinking. Her organizational redesign projects focus on innovative and inclusive solutions for business, government, health care, and education, for such diverse clients as the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Her book, Talk Matters! Saving the World One Word at a Time, was a finalist for the Best Independent Book Award in 2017. Mary lives in Arcata, California, with her husband, Roger James....