Creating Your Right Life

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0513
2012

Are You Ready to Share “A Wild New World”?

Finding Your Way in a Wild New World

Hello, Fellow Wayfinders!

Many of you have been reading – and rereading – Martha’s latest book, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World, and telling us how much it has touched and transformed your life and the way you live in the world. We’ve heard how incredible it was to recognize yourself in just the first few pages of the book and how you finally felt seen and understood in a way you’ve never felt before. (And for those of you who worry about being on The Team – believe this: if you read the book and resonated with the material in any way – or with Martha’s other works in general – you are on The Team!)

Because the exercises in this book are meant to be put into practice in your life and are all intended to work together, we’ve created a book discussion guide to help deepen your experience with the book. It also gives you a great way to share it with others, including ideas on how to organize and promote your discussion. We’ve found that there is nothing more exhilarating than sharing the magic of Finding Your Way in a Wild New World with fellow members of The Team – like experiencing Wordlessness through the path of play, bending spoons, cracking puzzles, or sharing how you’ve learned to wayfind your way through the day.

>Download the Finding Your Way in a Wild New World Book Discussion Guide Now!<

Be it as an in-person book club party or a virtual Facebook group, we hope you enjoy sharing this book with others. In the spirit of sharing, please feel free to add your local book club event to the comments of this post in order to promote it with other members of The Team. 

Please include:

  • Your first name & last initial (e.g. Martha B.)
  • Your location (e.g. Phoenix, AZ)
  • Event date(s)
  • A 2-3 sentence event description
  • The event type (e.g. online, telephone, in-person)
  • A link to the event where applicable (i.e. your personal website or blog, meetup, a Facebook group, or Eventbrite)
  •  Your contact information (email only). 

We do moderate comments, so please allow at least 24 hours for your comment/event to appear. If your information doesn’t meet the guidelines above, it won’t be included.

Have fun!

~The Martha Beck Team

0509
2012

On Martha’s Bookshelf: The Great Animal Orchestra

One of the books I’m reading right now is The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places. Acoustics expert Bernie Krause was a sound man for the movies when he first began going into nature to collect sounds for his customers. He traipsed through forests and deserts, seashores and mountains using delicate machinery to amplify the ambient noise in each place. Reading his book, you can almost hear what he heard and to quote what he says of wild places, “the visual spectacle is impressive, but the sound is absolutely glorious.”

If you read my latest books you already know why I’m so crazy about The Great Animal Orchestra. Way back, when I was living in the middle of a very busy city I felt literally starved for the sounds of nature. This book helped me understand why, gave me a verbal approximation of many gorgeous sounds, and filled me with new enthusiasm for approaching nature with my ears, as well as my eyes, wide open. I can’t imagine anyone reading this book and not wanting to go on a listening expedition. Buy it, read it, and listen up. I can’t wait to hear what you discover.

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