Bøger af Frank Forencich

How do you respond to your encounter with "The Knowledge?" How do you react to the terrifying realization that our biosphere and our future are in grave and imminent danger? Do you retreat into the comfort of denial, hopium, and inactivism, or do you take a stand for the planet and the future?In the popular imagination, activism is usually seen as an inconvenient, difficult, and stressful enterprise. But what if we're wrong about all that? What if there are genuine health benefits that come with engagement? Could activism actually make the human animal stronger? This book offers a positive vision and a path towards meaning and relevance in the face of extreme, almost unbearable circumstances. If your hair is on fire about the state of the planet and you're in need of medicine, this book is for you.

As we all know, today's world presents us with an unprecedented set of perplexing challenges: habitat destruction, lifestyle disease, crushing stress, fragmented attention, anxiety and social conflict. Our bodies are suffering, our minds are confused and our spirits are in turmoil. We need knowledge and understanding, but we also need experience, participation and engagement. In other words, we need a practice. Beautiful Practice is a multi-disciplinary guide to the art of living skillfully and mindfully in the modern world. This book will lead you through a progressive series of lessons, each designed to reveal one crucial aspect of living our beautiful adventure. Use these lessons to develop a personal practice, refine an existing program or create a new practice from scratch. This book is for trainers, coaches, classroom teachers, yoga teachers, martial artists, professionals, managers and parents; the ideas in this book will enhance your efforts in any discipline. So please join in. Sweep the dojo, empty your cup, bow to the mat and let's begin.

Climate change, habitat destruction and species extinctions threaten our biosphere. Political chaos, inequality and extremism wreak havoc with our societies and culture. Obesity, diabetes, depression and stress-related disorders cause our bodies pain and unhappiness. As ecopsychologist Theodore Roszak put it, "The earth hurts, and we hurt with it." Our bodies are the canaries in the coal mine of the modern world. Health and medical industries focus on the well-being of the canary, but miss the larger message. Something is tragically wrong with the way we're living. We need another way. "The Art is Long" takes a big-picture view of human health and the human experience. This is an exploration of the "long body," the totality of our individual bodies plus our life-supporting systems of habitat, tribe and culture. Being healthy is just a beginning.

Have you ever wondered why you and the people around you are suffering? Do you find it strange that you''ve landed in adulthood in the midst of a planetary crisis with minimal preparation to meet the challenges of today? Have you suspected your education may have been an exercise in futility and a waste of precious time?You''ve spent plenty of time in school, all under the belief that someday the hard work would pay off. But when the day finally arrived, you were shocked to discover a world in chaos. The realities of looming ecological disaster, social injustice, pandemics, and other systemic ills suddenly came into focus, and you began to feel radically unprepared, even incompetent. What we need is relevance. As athletic trainers and coaches know, success depends on teaching the skills you need to thrive in this complex world-the place we inhabit. Practice and experience must be specific to conditions. Otherwise, your effort is wasted. Teachers, trainers, coaches, therapists, doctors, and parents all share a similar challenge: how to prepare the human animal for life on this planet, at this moment in history. The Sapience Curriculum: Teacher''s Guide for an Age of Turmoil offers lessons, essays, and campfire talks designed to do just that.