Choosing Life - Embracing Spirituality in the 21st Century by Joycelin Dawes (published 2008 by the Quaker Universalist Group). This exciting new booklet puts forward the need for spirituality to embody life-affirming practice and values that sustain us as we engage with the global challenges we face, and draws extensively on the author's personal experience and reflection, study and research. Reviews of Choosing Life ~ "This unassuming little booklet contains a great deal of quiet wisdom, hewn from a rich, interesting, but above all, reflected-upon life.It's wide-ranging and well-informed but also personal and intimate. I can't recommend it highly enough, and we have three copies in the library!" Living Spirituality Network Newsletter , Spring 2009 "Drawing on the author’s extensive experience of contemporary spirituality, this highly accessible booklet outlines an engaged spirituality for our time, one that takes the reality of our troubled world and the global challenges we face as the basis for urgent, compassionate action. Combining experiential exercises with clear conceptual frameworks – and always with an eye to how our spirituality needs to find practical expression in the world – Choosing Life encourages each of us to be experimental, to find our still centre and express our love for life and our connectedness with all phenomena. Helping us make sense of the changing spiritual landscape of early twenty-first century Britain, this is an exciting call to a life-affirming, sustaining and sustainable spirituality which for the author is grounded in the Quaker tradition of collective discernment but which has a universal relevance and appeal." Alex
Wildwood,Quaker
educator, author and retreat organizer, Swarthmore Lecturer 1999 Available from the Quaker Universalist Group, Jo Teagle, 14 Regent Court, Groby Rd, Altrincham, Cheshire WA14 1PQ . Price: £ inc P&P in the UK. (Cheques made payable to QUG) or Joycelin Dawes, 14 Bartrams Lane, Hadley Wood, Herts EN4 0EH (cheque made payable to Joycelin Dawes).A new workshop Equipping for Change, drawing on Choosing Life, will take place at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Oct 5th-8th, 2009; see Linked Workshops |