Our library in Hewett Centre is open every Sunday after service during Coffee Hour in Hewett Centre, and our Library Team offers related reading lists based on the topic of Sunday service. Here is their list for the upcoming service featuring the Healthy Relations Team on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025 at 11 a.m. All are welcome in Hewett Centre after the Sunday service to check out some books and to have coffee and conversation.
VanU library books related to this Sunday’s sermon:
1. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, by Marshall B. Rosenberg, 2003, 153.6 ROS [From LibraryThing: “What if you could defuse tension and create accord in even the most volatile situations-just by changing the way you spoke? Over the past 35 years, Marshall Rosenberg has done just that, peacefully resolving conflicts in families, schools, businesses, and governments in 30 countries all over the world. On Nonviolent Communication, this renowned peacemaker presents his complete system for speaking our deepest truths, addressing our unrecognized needs and emotions, and honoring those same concerns in others. With this adaptation of the bestselling book of the same title, Marshall Rosenberg teaches in his own words: Course objectives: – Identify the four steps of the Nonviolent Communication process. – Employ the four-step Nonviolent Communication process in every dialogue you engage in. – Utilize empathy to safely confront anger, fear, and other powerful emotions. – Discover how to overcome the blocks to compassion and open to our natural desire to enrich the lives of those around us. – Observations, feelings, needs, and requests-how to apply the four-step process of Nonviolent Communication to every dialogue we engage in. – Overcoming the blocks to compassion-and opening to our natural desire to enrich the lives of those around us. – How to use empathy to safely confront anger, fear, and other powerful emotions. – Here is a definitive audio training workshop on Marshall Rosenberg’s proven methods for “resolving the unresolvable” through Nonviolent Communication”].
2. Nonviolent Communication Companion Workbook: A Practical Guide for Individual, Group, or Classroom Study, by Lucy Leu, 2003, 153.6 LEU [From LibraryThing: “… Learning the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process has often been equated with learning a whole new way of thinking and speaking. The NVC Companion Workbook helps you easily put these powerful, effective skills into practice with chapter-by-chapter study of Marshall Rosenberg’s cornerstone text, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. Find a wealth of activities, exercises, and facilitator suggestions to refine and practice this powerful way of communicating. Join the hundreds of thousands worldwide who have improved their relationships and their lives with this simple yet revolutionary process. Included in the new edition is a complete chapter on conflict resolution and mediation”].
3. Dealing with People You Can’t Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst, by Dr. Rick Brinkman and Dr. Rick Kirschner, 2002, 158 BRI [From LibraryThing: “… Kirschner and Brinkman have updated their global bestseller to help you wring positive results from even the most twisted interactions you’re likely to experience today. Learn how to get things done and get along when you’re dealing with people who have the uncanny ability to sabotage, derail, and interfere with your plans, needs, and wants. Learn how to: – Use sophisticated listening techniques to unlock the doors to people’s minds, hearts, and deepest needs. – Apply “take-charge” skills that turn conflict into cooperation by reducing the differences between people. – Transform the destructive behavior of Tanks, Snipers, Know-It-Alls, Whiners, Martyrs, Meddlers, and other difficult types of people Whether you’re dealing with a coworker trying to take credit for your work, a distant family member who knows no personal bounds, or a loud cell phone talker online at the grocery store, Dealing with People You Can’t Stand gives you the tools for bringing out the best in people at their worst.”].
4. Community Organizing: Canadian Experiences, edited by Brian Wharf and Michael Clague, 1997, 361.250971 [Written by a UCV member. From LibraryThing: “Community Organizing: Canadian Experiences tells the story of community development in Canada, with the objective of determining lasting legacies and extracting lessons from the varied experiences.This edited volume has a number of objectives. First, it traces the beginnings of community organizing in Quebec and Anglophone Canada. Second, the book tells the stories of some of the significant initiatives from both community and state during the ‘heydey’ years – initiatives such as The Company of Young Canadians, Opportunities for Youth, and the Local Initiatives Program. Third, it describes some current initiatives like feminist organizing and the environmental movement, in an era of diminished and ever-decreasing resources. Fourth, the book attempts the ambitious task of identifying who participates in community organizing activities and analyses the early ‘heyday’ and current experiences in community organizing in order to extract lessons and identify legacies.”].
5. The book of forgiving, by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu [From Grow it Forward: “This book is about understanding, embracing, and practicing forgiveness. Forgiveness seems to be a simple and straightforward process, but reading this book brings light to the richness, complexity, and depth of choosing to live a life of forgiveness. The authors begin with some challenging propositions; that nothing is unforgivable and there is no one who is beyond redemption. “We are not created to live in suffering and isolation. We are created to live in love and connection with one another. When there is a break in that connection, we must have a method of repair”. The authors have great credibility in the subject of forgiveness. Desmond Tutu is a priest in South Africa and was intimately involved in the struggle to break free from apartheid, and also grew up witnessing domestic violence in his home. His daughter Mpho is also a priest in South Africa and lived through the murder in her own home of her beloved housekeeper. What follows is an overview of the process of forgiveness they have described and key excerpts that explain how to walk the path of forgiveness in your own life”].
6. Connections: A Story of a Family, compiled by Woodrow Whitefield Coward, 1999, 921 COW.