I have chosen to spend my day with Jenifer Fox …over Eckhart Tolle !!

Two days ago I received a copy of Jenifer Fox’s brand new book, Your Child’s Strengths. I decided on this Sunday morning, I’d take a peek at it, having planned already to spend my day with Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth. I had started Tolle’s book a few days earlier and was very much into it. Wow! I am awestruck and I thank my intuition!

Jenifer’s book is wonderful; clear and powerful. Her work and message is so significant for our global transformation. It is on target and right on! For us to create “A New Earth ” a la Tolle, we need to start with our children NOW by focussing on their strengths instead of their weaknesses. We need to help them discover their strengths, develop their strengths and use their strengths. When we consciously change how we relate to and teach children, we won’t have to worry about leaving a legacy; collectively we will be creating a living legacy; and, in my book, that is what sustainablilty is all about. Teach a child to fish…to paraphrase an analogy.

We live and work in an extremely fast-paced, increasingly complex and interdependent global economy, where the old forms and traditions are no longer serving. How much more crucial is it, then, to enable children to find their strengths and open them up to the fabulous possibilities such awareness brings, before institutionalized, emotional, physical and psychic constructs find them and shape them in ways that do them harm, and, as a result, harm our world.

The Oprah Show is offering an on-line program, starting March 3 where she and Eckhart Tolle will teach A New Earth, I will be recommending she consider a similar training with Jenifer Fox. Jenifer’s personal story touches the heart; her writing is entrancing. I am SO excited with this book. On a personal note, it has also inspired me with my work “Pathways to strength-based systems”. We are not alone!!

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