Moonrise

EDITED BY NINA SIMONS, with Anneke Campbell.

Many today find themselves being called toward greater leadership on behalf of the Earth, toward leadership sourced from their inner authority and inspired by what they love and are dedicated to protect, transform, and strengthen. Those successfully heeding this call have embraced the qualities previously relegated to the "feminine"--inner awareness, collaboration, relational intelligence, respect for the sacred and generosity--and married them to the best of their "masculine" attributes to create a new form of leadership more inspiring, inviting, and effective for transforming how we live on Earth and with each other.
 
Through a tapestry of over 30 voices and stories, Moonrise illuminates how women and many men are redefining the leadership landscape across a diversity of perspectives, generations and ethnicities. 

Their narratives explore how they cultivated their leadership impulses and their “feminine” strengths, reinventing leadership to prioritize community, collaboration, the environment, and the common good. Illuminating a path to progressive environmental and social change, their passionate stories of joyful, creative, collaborative, and sacred leadership ignite within each reader the power to help co-create a healthy, peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

 Contributors include:

• Alice Walker
• Rachel Naomi Remen
• Eve Ensler
• with a foreword by Terry Tempest Williams

If you enjoyed Moonrise, please consider joining Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker and other by letting the world know.  You can add your own review to the book's page at Barnes & Noble, Amazon or Borders Books, or at your favorite online bookseller.

PRAISE FOR "MOONRISE":

“Nina Simons’ Moonrise brings together thirty wise essays on transforming the old ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ division into a human style of leadership. These are writers and activists who know how to link rather than rank, and so can help each of us to learn as well as to lead.”
-- Gloria Steinem - pioneering feminist, author, and founder of Ms. Magazine

"Reading Moonrise--or even scanning the names of contributors and titles--will make the reader very aware that there are many important conversations, thoughts, and feelings articulated here. It is affirming to find in the words of others, our own heart-felt knowledge expressed, or echoed. Within these pages, there is feminine wisdom and collaborative ways of solving problems that the planet sorely needs now."
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., author of Urgent Message From Mother, Aug 2010

“May this book filled with the words of women still connected to their heart, in fact, still driven by the passion of its thought, be a guide to others for believing we can think and feel intensely at the same time, finding our way to balance with all that exists.”
-- Alice Walker, author and poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award

Each and every essay contained in Moonrise is inspiring, touching, and revitalizing to the reader. Not all of the authors are women, but each and every one of them celebrates the unique gifts that women bring to the world in the form of their vision and perspective as caring, compassionate individuals who have found ways to rise above feelings of powerlessness and living in the minority to honor their communities, societies, and, indeed, the entire planet.
-- Kari O’Driscoll – Feminist Review

“Moonrise is like a warm blanket on a cold night. Its nurturing stories touch the heart. And it is like a dip in the pool on a hot day, enlivening the mind. You’ll keep this book by your bed always, ready when you need to read or reread the essays for leadership inspiration and aspiration.”
-- Gloria Feldt - author of No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power

Read short excerpts from Moonrise: