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FCBF official booksellers:
The 2013 Fox Cities Reads is underway! Pick up a copy of Last Child in the Woods and the Nature Priniciple by Richard Louv at your local library and join in community-wide discussions about the book. The author will visit the Fox Cities April 22-24 during the Fox Cities Book Festival.
Author Biography
Since 2003, Adam has been training facilitators, leading workshops and discussions, developing resources, and making the case for reflective discussion as a key strategy for strengthening community.
Adam is the editor of Taking Action: A Reader (2011), Hearing the Call across Traditions (2009) and the co-editor, with Elizabeth Lynn, of The Civically Engaged Reader (2006). Several years ago, Adam created "Justice Talking/Meaning of Service," a discussion program for AmeriCorps and other service organizations across the country.
He is the board chair, co-founder, and former director of Camp of Dreams, a non-profit organization providing year-round programming for underserved young people in Chicago; a philosophy and literature instructor in The Odyssey Project, a college-level humanities program for low-income adults; and a past leader of wilderness trail crews for the US Forest Service. Adam received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2003.
Additional Information
Reading and discussion of The Civically Engaged Reader and his latest book, Taking Action.
This session will be held in the Warch Campus Center Cinema.
Tags: In the workshop we will look at Compassion in our community utilizing the tools and techniques created by the Center for Civic Reflection and its Director Adam Davis.
The practice of civic reflection brings a group of people with common work together to talk about the motives, principles and purposes of their civic engagement. Gathering in a hospitable place, they share a meal followed by a facilitated discussion. Carefully selected, short but thought-provoking readings anchor each discussion. Facilitators ask questions rather than make pronouncements. They listen and help to clarify issues and thinking rather than deliver long speeches.
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