A Book to Help (quietly) Change the World
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul is a book that explores six possible pathways to change the world, if you’re the quiet and sensitive type. Find your way to help, without burnout and avoid giving yourself a nervous breakdown:
- Connectors – build conversations and interactions for change
- Creatives – artists and creators can bring issues to public awareness
- Record keepers – archivists preserve information for collective memory and history
- Builders – tips for inventors, engineers and programmers to change society
- Equippers – educators, mentors and elders to build skills and knowledge
- Researchers – data-driven individuals who use information as a tool for change
Social justice work is not just about raised voices and raised fists. Author Dorcas Cheng-Tozun (a quiet change-maker herself) looks how to be a peacemaker (and peaceful at the same time).
True change takes root in our daily actions – in the way we listen, the care we show and the choices we make, even when nobody’s watching.
Here’s to the quiet changemakers, the everyday folks who carry the world on their backs, one cup of tea and one smile at a time!
Tips to be a Quiet Changemaker
- Bring soup to a sick friend, or share a loaf of bread.
- Drop off spare veggies from the garden, to the family next door.
- Lend books you love or tools you’re not using.
- Choose the farmers’ market over the big chain.
- Challenge unfairness and bullying at work or school.
- Use a canvas bag instead of plastic.
- Cook what’s left in the fridge, before buying more.
- Learn to fix and repair things, before buying new.
