Can We Do Better?

If you prefer to think outside the box, then this book is for you. It is an insightful, penetrating, and far-reaching call to decency, integrity, and accountability. The book is a clarion call to re-evaluate our man-made world of dogmas, ideologies, myths, and masculine institutions and industries. It is a strongly worded call to embrace facts and critical thinking; especially, in the face of religious, political, and conspiratorial distortions of key human and environmental issues. Can We Do Better? is a clear-headed invitation to informed, rational and values-based citizenship, custodianship, and leadership. Necessarily, therefore, this book is a robust call to integrity and accountability in governance.Every chapter invites us to be aware, factual, honest, sensitive, compassionate, and responsible. In contrast to the modern prominence of individualistic transactional leveraging, this book advocates values-based relationships, communities, and ecologies.We men are invited to confront some ‘inconvenient truths’, and to learn from and internalise Yin-based wisdom. To promote Yin-based wisdom, this book encourages women and First Peoples to step forward as role models, educators, stewards, and leaders. In conjunction with Yin-based wisdom, this book argues that a critical mass of us need to embrace holistic and homeostatic systems principles and priorities.‘Holistic systems wisdom’ is crucial in reducing longstanding fragmentation, harms, suffering and disasters. So… be curious and read this compelling and innovative book.Look out for the publication of a ‘Companion Workbook’ that is designed to enable you to explore and apply the values and principles in Can We Do Better?

Don Morris is a family man and a retired veteran social worker. Retirement is fun-filled with family, friends and projects. Don and his wife relax at local coffee shops all over their coastal paradise. Don’s four decades of professional experience integrates counselling, program management, organizational improvement, leadership development, teaching social psychology-based subjects at university, and running his consulting business. Don is people-focused, a big-picture thinker, and a change agent. He is passionate about values, social justice and critical analysis of human issues. Don is incisive, articulate, solution-focused and innovative. He tackles issues with heart, originality, clarity and tenacity. This Companion Workbook reflects Don’s passion, insight, vision and commitment.