MORRIS, Don
ISBN 978-1-923589-52-0
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Role Models, Mentors. Leaders, and Elders
Our Potential to Be the Difference that Makes a Difference
To quote Hal David’s iconic 1965 song…
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love Not just for some but for everyone”.
This book suggests that Role Models, Mentors, Leaders and Elders can nurture and build love for one and all. Over time … more and more of ‘us’ … in these roles … can help build loving values in families, relationships, communities, and ecologies … locally and globally.
Through ever-increasing role-modelling, mentoring, leading and eldership, many persons and peoples of the Earth can nurture and proliferate love in the form of dignity, respect, kindness, fairness, generosity, integrity, and accountability.
You and I and ‘a host of us’ can nurture loving-valuesin- action to benefit all people, all our fellow species, and all of Nature. Millions of ‘us’ have the combined potential to fulfil these noble and necessary roles to help serve and heal our World and our Earth.
Over decades, a minority of exemplars can become many. Exemplars of love can become the new norm, the new normal way to be human. We can do this. We must do this.
This book is original and thought-provoking.
It is a quick and easy read.
ISBN 978-1-923443-85-3
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ISBN 978-1-923523-43-2
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Dickheads, Wankers, and Arseholes
A bold and cheeky guide to decoding three male types and syndromes
If you haven’t read a book about Dickheads, Wankers, Arseholes? Here it is.
If you haven’t read about the syndromes of dickheadery, wankery and arseholery? Now you can.
It’s about time someone wrote about these bleedingly obvious personality ‘types’ … and about three enmeshed, problematic, and far-reaching cultural syndromes.
This book is plain-speaking, perceptive, penetrating, cheeky, and original. It is widely relevant, practical, and replete with insightful analysis. It is written in a distinctly Aussie voice.
And … it is written by a ‘man’ … with decades of experience through a blend of Policing, Community Corrections, Social Work, teaching at university, Consultancy, and training Police at all levels in a range of subject areas.
For some readers … there may be some seismic shocks. Look out … men.
Get ready to nod and sigh and refl ect on the painfully obvious that you may have intuited and-or observed … but had not crystalized into detailed understanding.
Grab this book … and get reading!
ISBN 978-1-922957-98-6
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Can We Do Better?
All Don’s books are about hope for us humans to do better than a mishmash of historical and current issues and harms that arise from misguided, dysfunctional and destructive expressions of masculinity. As clarified in all the poems — misguided, dysfunctional, harmful masculinity is not by all men, or even by most men, but is too-often manifested here, there and everywhere by too many men, in too many realms, over too long a time.
The poems weave a detailed network of patriarchal issues in culture, religion, politics, institutions, communities, families, and relationships. They highlight the impact of manmade harms to the earth, First Peoples, women, children, and other often-disempowered societal groupings.
Some men might struggle with this unusual and confronting anthology. In contrast, it is likely that a good proportion of women will sigh and nod as they work their way through the poems and the themes.
The poems advocate that societal evolution is contingent upon a critical mass of us facing key facts, truths and realities about wayward masculinity. The anthology concludes with a range of powerful and hopeful invitations that may help us humans do better than our history of man-made harms to ourselves, our kindred species, and the earth … our Mother.
ISBN 978-1-923156-08-1
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Are We Better Than?
ARE WE BETTER THAN? is the fourth in series of books that tackle pervasive and perplexing human issues. It is the scaled-down, abridged little-sister version of Can We Do Better? … which is the first and by the far the largest of the series. Comprising about half the number of pages of Can We do Better? … Are We Better Than? is less daunting and more manageable. This will appeal to people who prefer a smaller, easier, more compact read.
All Don’s books are about hope for us humans to do better than a mishmash of historical and current issues and harms that arise from misguided, dysfunctional and destructive expressions of masculinity. As clarified throughout the book, misguided, dysfunctional, harmful masculinity is not by all men, or even by most men, but is too-often manifested here, there and everywhere … by too many men, in too many realms, over too long a time.
Are We Better Than? weaves a detailed network of patriarchal issues in culture, religion, politics, institutions, communities, families, and relationships. It highlights the impact of man-made harms to the Earth, First Peoples, Women, Children, and other often-disempowered societal groupings. Some men might struggle with these unusual and confronting themes. In contrast, it is likely that a good proportion of women will sigh and nod as they read.
Are We Better Than? concludes with a range of powerful and hopeful invitations that may help us humans do better than our history of man-made harms to ourselves, our kindred species, and the earth … our Mother.
About the Author
Don Morris is a family man and a retired veteran social worker. His professional background integrates counselling, program management, organisational improvement, cultural change, leadership development, teaching at university, and running his consultancy business.
Don is people-focused, a big-picture thinker, and a change agent. He is dedicated to promoting social justice and critical analysis of human issues. Don is perceptive, an original thinker, and solution-focused. He tackles issues with clarity, focus and determination.
In this anthology, Don is a ‘conscious dreamer’ and a mindful visionary. He is lucid about respective and combined influences of religion, populism, political machinations, pop-psychology, junk-science, conspiracy madness, internet misinformation, and social media inanity. In the face of these, Don is committed to educational processes that give voice to facts, truths and realities. He is also committed to possibilities for us to do better than so much unhelpful stuff that dumbs us down and holds us back.
In all his books, Don drills down into ‘inconvenient truths’ and synthesizes diverse macro and micro issues. He proposes ways for us to build a conscious blend of awareness, dignifying values, rationality, integrity, and accountability. Don reminds us that these interrelated priorities apply to individuals, relationships, institutions, communities, cultures, and governance. They are also crucial to our care and custodianship of human and environmental ecologies.
Don is person of mind, heart and hand. He is thinker, a lover, and a doer. His books encourage readers to think intelligently, rationally and strategically … to feel sentiently, passionately and earnestly … and to act purposefully, constructively and hopefully.
