Family Activism - BK Life Book by Roberto Vargas

FAMILY ACTIVISM: Empowering Your Community, Beginning with Family and Friends

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Visit author at http://www.rockwoodleadership.org/

In our daily lives we experience countless opportunities to empower, inspire, and support positive change in those around us. In Family Activism Vargas explains how fostering what he calls familia—close, loving connections with our relatives and with those we choose to call family—can help us develop the skills and attitudes we need to tackle broader problems in our community, our nation, and the world.

Vargas explains the ideas underlying the familia approach and the techniques that support it using examples from his own life, some of them very emotionally charged. He does more than just describe practices like the family council, unity circles, and family ceremonies—he shares how they transformed him as a husband, father, son, brother, friend, and as a committed community activist. Each chapter ends with a series of questions that will help readers understand these practices more deeply and apply them inside and outside of the family.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• community
• activism
• family
• democracy
• current
• affairs
• social
• justice

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I worked with him.  He really does make a huge difference in communities.