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My most important piece of writing is my book Find Your Power. Other things I’ve written available on the web include:
This article describes five strategies to find our power when feeling
overwhelmed by global issues.
It was printed in Permaculture magazine, and is viewable on their
website at http://www.permaculture-magazine.co.uk/articles/articles_49.html
You can also download it here.
Also published in Permaculture Magazine, this article applies permaculture
ideas to preventing burnout.
You can download it here.
BMJ 7192 Volume 318: Saturday 1 May 1999
This piece was published in the Career Focus section of the British
Medical Journal. Based on my Burnout Prevention course, it was written
for a medical audience. However the principles it outlines can be
applied to burnout prevention in any field. You can read it on the
web at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/318/7192/S2-7192
This was originally produced as a leaflet to introduce Deep Ecology
workshops. It has now been translated into several languages, published
on various websites and printed in the Irish ecological paper Earthwatch.
You can read it on the web at:
http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/johnston.htm
This article has also been translated in German and Spanish.
This was written in response to the last invasion of Iraq. It draws
attention to the condition of oil dependence syndrome and concerns
that world oil supplies may run out within the lifetimes of many
people currently under 40 years old. It was sent out as an email,
found its way onto a couple of websites and was later published
in Touchstone magazine. It can be viewed at:
http://www.dance.demon.co.uk/peace/06DeepEcology.html
Thanks to John Seed of the Rainforest Information Centre, past copies
of the email newsletter The Great Turning Times (and an earlier
version of this, called Deep Ecology News) are available at: http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/news.htm
These include editorials by Chris.
As part of his work with the Bristol Area Specialist Alcohol Service,
Chris wrote a series of information leaflets about home detoxification
for people dependent on alcohol. These are used in a number of cities
in the UK. His information leaflet on blood test results are now
often used as part of a brief intervention with problem drinkers.
These leaflets are viewable at: http://www.avon.nhs.uk/alcohol/leaflets/leaflets.htm
Some other writings
Chapter 8 in Creative Advances in Groupwork, eds. Anna Chesner and
Herb Hahn, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, 2002 (ISBN 1 85302
953 X). This chapter describes Deep Ecology workshops designed to
deepen participants’ feeling of connection with our world
and strengthen their power to respond to global issues. Drawing
on the work of Joanna Macy and John Seed, the chapter describes
the principles and practice of this type of empowerment process,
as well as reporting the results of a follow up outcome study. In
this, a postal questionnaire was sent to participants a year after
they had attended one of these workshops. Over 90% of respondents
reported a strengthening in both their sense of connection with
the world and their feeling that they could make a difference within
it. Over 80% replied that the experience of the workshop had changed
their life, and for this, over a quarter had marked the response
‘very deeply’.
You can buy this book at
http://www.jkp.com/catalogue/book.php/isbn/1-85302-953-X
This booklet introducing systems thinking and the Deep Ecology approach
was published by the Institute for Deep Ecology (UK) in 1994, and
revised in 1997. It has been used as a core text on university courses
in several countries. It is currently out of print, though extracts
from it are still used on several distance-learning packages.
This booklet is only available for participants at Chris’s
courses as it was written to accompany them.
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