Trusting Change - Finding Our Way Through Personal and Global Transformation

"In Trusting Change, minister and award-winning writer Karen Hering offers pastoral support and spiritual skills building for individuals on the cusp of personal change within the collective context of a world that is reshaping itself at a faster pace than ever. In Trusting Change, minister and award-winning writer of Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within, Karen Hering offers pastoral support and spiritual skills building for individuals on the cusp of personal change within the collective context of a world that is reshaping itself at a faster pace than ever. The book's ten thresholding skills give readers practical tools for living on the threshold and through change, but this is not a typical "how-to" guide and its beautifully written and evocative language will connect readers with their own deeper consciousness. From the book's first page, the reader is greeted by a warm storyteller ready to journey with them through uncertainty and change. Hering does not pretend that change is easy but notes its inevitability and some of the ways readers can participate in it, allowing them to trust it more in the future. Sharing wisdom found in nature and in metaphors, the reflections include evocative questions and creative, often embodied exercises that invite the reader into a larger story of change. This book is a conversation with the reader meant to also stir conversations between readers as we learn to live into and through our transformative times together"--

List of contents

Prologue

Introduction

How to Use This Book

Beginning Here

NO LONGER

1. Letting Go

2. Grieving

3. Practicing Equanimity

THE PAUSE

4. Taking Part in Stillness

5. Navigating the Unknown

6. Preparing for the Journey

7. Claiming Companions

NOT YET

8. Moving On

9. Imagining a Way

10. Widening What We Trust

Honoring Our Journey

About the author

Karen Hering is an ordained minister in St. Paul, Minnesota, and serves as a threshold guide to people and communities on the cusp of change. She is the author of Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within, winner of a silver Nautilus award and named one of the best spiritual books of the year by Spirituality & Practice. Her writing has appeared in literary journals, periodicals, and anthologies. She leads retreats and programs in a literary ministry that engages writing as a spiritual practice and a healing tool for personal and social change.

Summary

Minister and award-winning author of Writing to Wake the Soul Karen Hering invites readers on the cusp of great change—which is all of us today—to explore the new possibilities emerging in our times.

Whether you are living through significant personal transitions or navigating a world reshaping itself faster than ever, the book offers ten skills for living on the threshold as well as spiritual practices and inspiration for connecting with your own inner wisdom. From the first page, you’ll find a storytelling companion ready to journey with you through uncertainty and change. Hering does not pretend that change is simple. But she offers reassurance that it becomes easier to trust the more we participate in it.

Sharing wisdom found in the body, in nature, and in metaphors, these reflections include creative and embodied exercises that invite readers into a larger story of change. With suggestions for using the book alone and with others, Hering reminds us that trusting change is made possible by sharing its challenges and its possibilities with others. This book is a conversation with the reader meant to also stir conversations between readers as we learn to live into and through our transformative times together.

Foreword

• Online campaign featuring social media images with blurbs and reviews of the book as well as designed graphics of selected excerpts.



• Early reviewer promotion through advance copies to encourage reader reviews and generate buzz.



• National review outreach to trade and print publications (PW, Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal, Foreword, New York Times) and online (NPR, Spirituality & Practice, Book Riot)



• Advertising in print publications (Sojourners) and online (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Sojo mail)



• Promotion on the publisher’s website (skinnerhouse.org), Twitter feed (@skinnerhouse), Instagram page (@skinnerhouse), Facebook page (/skinnerhouse), Tumblr page (@skinnerhousebooks), Pinterest (@skinnerhousebks) and publisher’s e-newsletter.



• Events in-person events in Minnesota and select virtual events by request. Hering also travels widely to consult groups and organizations on their change work.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Hering, Karen (Karen Hering) Hering
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.2022
• EAN: 9781558968844
• ISBN: 978-1-55896-884-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement, SELF-HELP / Spiritual, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General