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GENTLE ACTION:
To Be Released Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World
in the UK:
October 1st, 2008 F. David Peat

ISBN 978-88-95604-03-9
198 x 129 mm ~ 176 pp ~ £9.99 pb

 Creative alternatives to society's dependence on quick-fix

solutions.
Can we build a better world for our families, our businesses, our society and
ourselves? F. David Peat’s latest book provides clear answers: Ways to exercise more
effective, creative and non-invasive action in everything from the local to the inter-
national level. In a world that is ever more complex in terms of economics, global-
ized markets, social change, international conflicts, poverty, disease and environ-
mental degradation, we often feel that
we are in danger of losing control. As a
The book includes:
result individuals, businesses and orga-
• Shaking hands to transform a
nizations experience an urgent need to
community
react when things appear to be going
• Beyond the clockwork world
wrong. But so often these actions, taken with the best of intentions,
• Facing complexity
turn out to have a negative effect.
• The power of butterfly effects
Gentle Action shows how, through an an act of creative suspension, • Flexible response
businesses can respond more effectively to a changing marketplace • Creative suspension for organi-
and organizations, policy groups and communities can grow more zational creativity
flexible, responsive and sensitive to the world around them. Rather • The importance of trust
than treating situations as external to ourselves, the keys to the issues • Gentle Action in action
we face today demand solutions from within.
Each chapter concludes with a series of questions and challenges for the reader, leading to ways in which creative
change can be brought to both individuals and groups. The book will an invaluable resource for everyone from
CEOs, policy makers, community leaders, opinion makers, aid organizations, business groups, consultants and
politicians as well as teachers and parents and all those who would like to make a positive impact on the world
and society around them.
F. David Peat is the author of over twenty books including Pathways of Chance, Synchronicity, Blackfoot Physics,
From Certainty to Uncertainty, The Blackwinged Night, Superstrings, Einstein’s Moon and Turbulent Mirror.

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