Anything by Alan Watts (there is a lot on YouTube), Vandana Shiva, Steve Hagen, Bayo Akomolafe, Alice Walker, Eckhart Tolle, Joanna Macy, Jeff Brown, Irene Lyon and the countless number of First Nations teachers whose oral wisdom dates back thousands of years.
Related Movements and Organisations
Earthbound
Earthbound like Holistic Activism is part of a wider movement that understands how our activism must go deeper than merely reacting to the destructive nature of humans who have lost their way. We must through our activism be part of the healing that causes this disconnection.
Acknowledging the full extent of the climate and ecological emergency can be overwhelming for many, and in the face of wanting to make positive change, we can become constricted by the very behaviours that led us into it.
Dan and Johanna now run courses that help people to “come back to Self, come back to Earth, and come back to Life”.
Interesting Reading
The Entangled Activist
“The Entangled Activist is the story of how activism is entangled in the problems it seeks to solve, told by a hard-hitting campaigner who learns to see activism very differently. After years of thinking that her task was to ‘get the bastards,’ campaigner, writer and reporter Anthea Lawson came to see that activism often emerges from the same troubles it is trying to fix, and that its demons, including righteousness, saviourism, burnout and treating other people badly, can be a gateway to understanding the depth of what really needs to change.”
https://www.anthealawson.uk/the-entangled-activist
Society is made of narrative. Realising this Is awakening from the matrix – Caitlin Johnstone
Collaboration and empathy as evolutionary success stories Daniel Christian Wahl
How to get people to overcome their bias -Tom Stafford
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170131-why-wont-some-people-listen-to-reason
Assertiveness, Non-Assertiveness, and Assertive Techniques (pdf) –
https://socialwork.buffalo.edu (online)
The Best Summary of How to Win Friends and Influence People
https://fs.blog/2012/07/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people
15 Common Logical Fallacies and how to spot them – Karla Cook
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/common-logical-fallacies
Embracing Your Demons: An Overview of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy – Russell Harris
Click to access Dr_Russ_Harris_-_A_Non-technical_Overview_of_ACT.pdf
Interesting Viewing
Esteem – the power of vulnerability (full documentary 2017)
YouTube Documentary made with eco-psychologists and deep ecologists about how our relationship with the environment is a reflection of our internal worlds.
Holistic Activism 