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Author Schwartz, Stephan A.

Title The 8 laws of change : how to be an agent of personal and social transformation / Stephan A. Schwartz.

Publication Info. Rochester, Vermont : Park Street Press, [2015]

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  303.4 SCH    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  303.4 SCH95    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  303.4 SCHWARTZ    Check Shelf
Description 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-210) and index.
Summary "Scientifically based strategies for enacting successful and enduring change on personal, societal, and global levels, no matter what your background. Shares the stories of people who have changed history, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Ben Franklin, and Gandhi, detailing how they used the 8 laws of change. Based on more than 16 years of scientific and historical research as well as the author's own experiences during the Civil Rights movement. Explores research in the fields of medicine, neuroscience, biology, and quantum physics to reveal the science of how the 8 laws of change work. Inspired by his own powerful experiences during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and other social movements in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, Stephan Schwartz spent 16 years researching successful social transformations, uncovering the science and the patterns behind them all. He found that there are three ways to create social change. The first is the advancement of technology and science. The second--change compelled by physical power--is almost always coercive and violent and, for those reasons, not long lasting. The third avenue of change he discovered--the most successful and enduring--is one brought about by something so subtle it is often not taken seriously: small individual choices based on integrity and shared intention. Revealing how the dynamics of change are learnable, Schwartz explains the 8 laws of individual and social behavior that can enable any person or small group--even ordinary people without great wealth, official position, or physical power--to bend the arc of history and create successful lasting transformation. He shares the stories of individuals who have actually changed history, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Benjamin Franklin, Mother Teresa, and Mahatma Gandhi, detailing how they implemented the strategies and tactics of the 8 laws to achieve their success. The author explores research in the fields of medicine, neuroscience, biology, and quantum physics to reveal the science of how these laws of change work. He explains why compassionate and life-affirming changes have the most enduring impact and shows how each of the 8 laws cultivates a sense of "beingness" in the individual, empowering your integrity and connecting you to something greater than yourself--the key to lasting change on the personal, societal, and global levels"-- Provided by publisher.
"Scientifically based strategies for enacting successful and enduring change on personal, societal, and global levels, no matter what your background"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Social change -- Philosophy.
Change (Psychology) -- Philosophy.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth.
SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.
Added Title Eight laws of change
ISBN 9781620554579 (paperback)
1620554577 (paperback)
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