{"product_id":"the-heart-aroused-isbn-9780385484183","title":"The Heart Aroused","description":"\u003cb\u003e“With this insightful book, David Whyte offers people in corporate life an opportunity to reach into the forgotten and ignored creative life (their own and the corporation’s) and literally water their souls with it. The result is a very well written book that can truly heal.”—Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PH.D., author of \u003ci\u003eWomen Who Run With the Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Gift of Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFind professional and personal fulfilment through the poetry of both classic and modern masters—now revised and updated\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHas your work lost its meaning? Have you forgotten the goals you hoped to achieve when you began your career? Are you afraid of pursuing your dreams?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Heart Aroused\u003c\/i\u003e, David Whyte brings his unique perspective as poet and consultant to the workplace, showing readers how fulfilling work can be when they face their fears and follow their dreams. Going beneath the surface concerns about products and profits, organization and order, Whyte addresses the needs of the heart and soul, and the fears and desires that many workers keep hidden.\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when corporations are calling on employees for more creativity, dedication, and adaptability, and workers are trying desperately to balance home and work, this revised edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Heart Aroused\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential guide to reinvigorating the soul.\"\u003ci\u003eThe Heart Aroused \u003c\/i\u003eis truly extraordinary. It brings a poet's ever-deepening imagination to the world of business and work. It steadies us, gives us grounding, and offers profound images for locating our work deep in the soul. The very style of the book presents a new dimension of language and reflection, with a contemplative tempo, that could help us radically and fruitfully reimagine the workplace.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Thomas Moore, author of \u003ci\u003eCare of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSoul Mates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"David Whyte's images resonate to the core. As a poet who has taken his work into the corporate world, he pioneers a vision that is at once practical and illuminating.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst and author of \u003ci\u003eLeaving My Father's House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"With this insightful book, David Whyte offers people in corporate life an opportunity to reach into the forgotten and ignored creative life… and literally water their souls with it. The result is a… book that can truly heal.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., author of \u003ci\u003eWomen Who Run with the Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID WHYTE\u003c\/b\u003e grew up among the hills and valleys of Yorkshire, England. He is one of the few poets to take his perspectives on creativity into the field of corporate development, educating workers of many American and international companies about how to foster qualities of courage and engagement in their careers. In addition to four volumes of poetry, he has published an audiocassette lecture series and an album of poetry and music. His latest book is \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Unknown Sea: Work as Pilgrimage of Identity.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives with his family in the Pacific Northwest.What would our days be like if we came out of hiding and brought our fears, loves, and dreams directly into the workplace?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Heart Aroused\u003c\/i\u003e, poet David Whyte shows that the best way to respond to the current call for creativity in organizational life is to overcome our habitual fear and reticence and bring our full passionate, creative human souls, with all their urgencies and unnamed longings, right inside the office with us. When Whyte, who often consults for corporate clients, walks into an organization, it is not just to advise, strategize, and make recommendations. Instead, he clarifies our personal--not organizational--difficulties at work by placing them in the age-old context of poetry and story. To follow Whyte through his brilliant, soulful discussion is to raft the turbulent stream of conflicting currents that make up our lives in American organizations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhyte uses poetry to bring to life the experience of change itself. When he retells the story of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, he shows us how to face the nightmares that intrude into even the most organized workplace, nightmares we face in the demands, conversations, and relationships that make up our work life. He shows how to say what we mean and stand by it, even in the face of hostile authority--based on how poets William Blake, Rainer Maria Rilke, and T. S. Eliot lived their beliefs--in the simplest of words. He reveals how power must be built on vulnerability, how innocence cannot be sacrificed to experience, how creativity is the art of wedding simplicity and clarity with chaos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow available in paperback with an all new user's guide, \u003ci\u003eThe Heart Aroused\u003c\/i\u003e shows how to use the language of prophecy, poetry, and enlightenment to give voice and strength to our most creative but most hidden desires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in England, David Whyte is one of the few poets to have taken his perspectives on creativity into the field of organizational development, where he works with many American and international companies. He has published several audio collections and three books of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSOUL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what is soul, and what is meant by the preservation of the soul? By definition, soul evades the cage of definition.  It is the indefinable essence of a person's spirit and being.  It can never be touched and yet the merest hint of its absence causes immediate distress.  In a work situation, its lack can be sensed intuitively, though a person may, at the same moment, be powerless to know what has caused the loss.  It may be the transfer of a well-loved colleague to another department, a change of rooms to a less appealing office, or, more seriously, the inner intuitions of a path not taken. Though the \u003ci\u003eOxford English Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e's lofty attempt at soul is \u003ci\u003ethe principle of life in man or animals\u003c\/i\u003e, depth-psychologist James Hillman describes it in far more eloquent terms in his provocative book of selected writings, \u003ci\u003eA Blue Fire\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo understand soul we cannot turn to science for a description.  Its meaning is best given by its context...words long associated with the soul amplify it further: mind, spirit, heart, life, warmth, humanness, personality, individuality, intentionality, essence, innermost purpose, emotion, quality, virtue, morality, sin, wisdom, death, God.  A soul is said to be \"troubled,\" \"old,\" \"disembodied,\" \"immortal,\" \"lost,\" \"innocent,\" \"inspired.\" Eyes are said to be \"soulless\" by showing no mercy.  The soul has been imaged as...given by God and thus divine, as conscience, as a multiplicity and as a unity in diversity, as a harmony, as a fluid, as fire, as dynamic energy, and so on...the search for the soul leads always into the \"depths.\"\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Crown Currency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302602690789,"sku":"NP9780385484183","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385484183.jpg?v=1767739741","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-heart-aroused-isbn-9780385484183","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}