Full Description
In times of extreme cascading global crises facing humanity, all responsible humans need to re-evaluate the dominant worldview that has brought us to this point of facing extinction. As a species we need to relearn the "good" ways from our greatest allies in Nature and from Indigenous cultures that lived in relative harmony with Nature. Equally, we need to learn the best ways to think critically and act on the holistic understanding that may guide us beyond our individual and collective trance and illusions cast forth like chains upon modern societies through elites who manipulate fear.
Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows offers a unique strong "medicine" for the reconstruction of a healthy, sane, and sustainable future for all. Utilizing the form of an intellectual biography of Four Arrows (aka Dr. Don Trent Jacobs) and his daring activist life and true teaching stories, the author creates a powerful adventure into the firey philosophy, activism, and emancipatory inspirations of one of the world's great visionary prophetic educators and social transformers. Through a number of unique experiences, including firefighting, white-water kayaking, wild horse training, world-class athletic competitions, and counter-cultural activism, Four Arrows has become a connoisseur of fear and courage. This book shows how he walks a universal ethical path of Fearlessness at a time when too many remain trapped by their fears.
Among other readers, high school teachers and post-secondary teachers across diverse disciplines will find great ideas, eliciting dialogues and study questions for students, who now face a globalizing world where they can take charge of the future via fearless engagement.
Contents
Photographs and Figures - Acknowledgments - Shirley R. Steinberg: Foreword: On Being a Warrior - Preface - Introduction - Part I: Fearless - Fearless Waters Deep - "Walking a Path of Harmony" - Radicalization of a Moralist - Part I Study Questions and Practices - Part II: Fearlessness - CAT-Nature as (Com)passionate Gifting - Dancing in/with the Spirit of Fearlessness - Part II Study Questions and Practices - Interlude - Part III: Courage(ous) - Radical Honesty: Harnessing the Magic of Fear - Befriending the "Gift of Fear" - Part III Study Questions and Practices - Part IV: Brave(ry) - The Bronco and the Boat - Part IV Study Questions and Practices - Four Arrows: Epilogue - Appendix: The CAT-FAWN Model - Index.
