Role Models, Mentors. Leaders, and Elders: Our Potential to Be the Difference that Makes a Difference

by Don Morris

Overview

This book encourages all who read it to be an excellent role model with whomever they share time and space. It is about using positive and respectful values, personal example, mentoring, leadership and eldership to enable people and communities to do better and to be their best. It is about contributing competently, positively and actively to relationships, communities, ecologies, and the Earth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781923589520
Publisher:	Don Morris
Publication date:	11/07/2025
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Don Morris is a family man and a retired veteran social worker. His professional background integrates counselling, program management, organisational improvement, cultural change, leadership development, teaching at university, and running his consultancy business.Don is people-focused, a big-picture thinker, and a change agent. He is dedicated to promoting social justice and critical analysis of human issues. Don is perceptive, an original thinker, and solution-focused. He tackles issues with clarity, focus and determination.In this anthology, Don is a 'conscious dreamer' and a mindful visionary. He is lucid about respective and combined influences of religion, populism, political machinations, pop-psychology, junk-science, conspiracy madness, internet misinformation, and social media inanity. In the face of these, Don is committed to educational processes that give voice to facts, truths and realities. He is also committed to possibilities for us to do better than so much unhelpful stuff that dumbs us down and holds us back.In all his books, Don drills down into 'inconvenient truths' and synthesizes diverse macro and micro issues. He proposes ways for us to build a conscious blend of awareness, dignifying values, rationality, integrity, and accountability. Don reminds us that these interrelated priorities apply to individuals, relationships, institutions, communities, cultures, and governance. They are also crucial to our care and custodianship of human and environmental ecologies.Don is person of mind, heart and hand. He is thinker, a lover, and a doer. His books encourage readers to think intelligently, rationally and strategically ... to feel sentiently, passionately and earnestly ... and to act purposefully, constructively and hopefully.