Transformative Inquiry Community & Belonging Book Presentation

Join us for an engaging exploration of how we can build a world where we all belong. Whether you've read the entire book, a few chapters, or simply want to listen and learn, you are welcome.

Book Selection

The Power of Bridging: How To Build A World Where We All Belong by john a. powell.

Each year, the Transformative Inquiry Community & Belonging Book Committee, composed of faculty and students from the Transformative Leadership M.A. and Transformative Studies Ph.D. programs, comes together to select a book that speaks to the needs of our time. This year's selection offers timely insights on building connections across difference.

What to Expect

Hosted by Jeanine Canty, Ph.D., Professor of the Transformative Studies program, this interactive session will present key concepts of the book.

You'll engage in small group discussions, reflect on your own stories of bridging, belonging, and othering, and explore practical skills for working more affectively with people of different political, religious, regional, class, cultural, and other worldviews. This is an opportunity to discover how bridging can transform the way we relate to difference in our communities and in our world, and to get a taste of the Transformative Inquiry community.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Meet the Host

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Jeanine M. Canty, Ph.D., is a professor of transformative studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, telecommuting from Boulder, CO. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of worldview expansion and change. She is author of Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet and both editor and contributor to the books Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices and Globalism and Localization: Emergent Approaches to Ecological and Social Crises. Her newest book is an expanded, second edition of Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices (Routledge, April 2025).