Books published by Triarchy Press

"This book is a treasure for everyone who is looking for a guide to more sustainable living and a roadmap for re-designing our societies, regenerating our communities, cities and societies in harmony with natural systems and our home planet." Hazel Henderson

Proposes regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make and manage our buildings, infrastructure and communities

"This is an important first collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer"--Publisher's Web site.

A practical framework for thinking about the future - and an exploration of 'future consciousness' and how to develop it. Three Horizons is a simple and intuitive framework for thinking about the future. The framework explains how people often manage to disagree so violently about their visions of the future and how to achieve them - and it offers a practical way to begin constructive conversations about the future at home, in organisations and in society at large. The three horizons are about much, much more than simply stretching our thinking to embrace the short, medium and long term. They offer a co-ordinated way of managing innovation, a way of creating transformational change that has a chance of succeeding, a way of dealing with uncertainty and a way of seeing the future in the present. In this beautifully illustrated book, Bill Sharpe introduces the Three Horizons framework as a prompt for developing a 'future consciousness' - a rich and multi-faceted awareness of the future potential of the present moment - and explores how to put that awareness to work to create the futures we aspire to.

Garrett and Davies combine their experience of leading international academic/research institutions with the wisdom of 50 senior colleagues worldwide. They deal with leadership themes like making tough strategic choices, leading change, dealing with bureaucracy, allocating resources, managing budgets and ensuring effective implementation.

Herding Professional Cats offers advice and insights to leaders in the professions about tackling the classic 'cats' dilemma: how to manage intelligent, opinionated, independent and frequently difficult people without losing the competitive edge a professionalised workforce can bring.

Sooner or later, most of us get stuck. Feel stuck. Our creativity in crisis... lost, blocked, overwhelmed by work, family, illness. How to find or recover that creative edge? How to get unstuck?For the authors, it began with cancer and stretched into the pandemic. One primarily a writer and the other a painter, they decide to walk together, to talk, write, feed back, reflect and repeat, again and again. They explore trust, openness, motherhood, their willingness to take risks and be exposed, and the particular insights they bring as women. Along the way, they walk and map their way back to creative life.This is their story, but more than that - it's a map for anyone who is feeling stuck. Whether or not you have had a creative practice before (writing/painting/making/crafting), this book will help you find your way into creative expression. The authors offer creative tasks and suggestions in each chapter, and ideas and structures to get you going. But most important, they offer warmth, friendship and inspiration from their own shared vulnerability, struggle, setbacks and muddy walking.

Rock Songs starts as a walk of a few miles between the valley of the river Tywi/Towy and the heights of Y Mynydd Du/Black Mountain in Wales. It takes millions of years, meeting along the way the rocks and water that have formed the land, together with the trees, red kites, and otters who pass through. Humans crowd in as well--saints, drovers, Romans, bikers, and tourists. The great zen monk, Dogen, is also walking and learns that mountains themselves walk, if you know how to look. Rock Songs began as a one-man movement performance of a river by Nick Sales and has become a book of poetry, reflection, ecology, and zen reflection. It's illustrated with extensive photography by Steve Hopkins and beautifully designed by Christopher Binding.

Examines everyday technologies found in places and circumstances unforeseen by their designers and manufacturers. Provokes unusual perspectives on how technologies might be developed, used and reappropriated in support of people's personal, local and regional lifeworlds and lifestyles.

A collection of 21 essays introducing Skinner Releasing Technique and its application in dance and many other fields of practice.

Javanese movement artist Suprapto Suryodarmo (Prapto) died in 2019. He developed, embodied and taught Amerta Movement. This book, covering the early years (1986-1997), is a record of that period of his work in English. It draws on the author's unrivalled knowledge of the culture, language, art, religion and traditions of Java.

A compact handbook of nature practices for personal development and coaches, therapists and outdoor educators. Exercises cover the Ecological Self, Embodiment, Personal Journey, Mindfulness and Inviting Mystery.

In response to three converging afflictions:* our fixation with screentime* our sedentary lives* the invasion of our privacy in the digital age...'Covert' compiles 30 'movement meditations' that encourage readers to put down their phones and reclaim an active, contemplative lifestyle that is integrated with and inspired by our surroundings.

20 contemporary approaches to the study and experience of embodied awareness.

Psychotherapist and business psychologist Nelisha Wickremasinghe shows hoe our brains and bodies are frequently 'in threat'; how hard it is to build healthy relationships in that condition; and what we can do about it.

Our money system is a toxic left-over from a time when theft on a grand scale - war and empire-building - was glorified. In 'Bank Robbery' Ivo Mosley offers a clear and comprehensive examination of a system that supports unaccountable and destructive power. He also describes the simple reforms that can create a fairer, more resilient society.

A curated collection of papers, provocations and actions from the 'Walking's New Movements' conference held at the University of Plymouth in November 2019.

'Sustaining innovation' temporarily fixes failing structures. 'Disruptive innovation' shakes things up. 'Transformative innovation' can deliver a fundamental shift. This is a stand-alone practical guide to realising transformative potential at scale for the public, social, cultural & civic sectors..

This book suggests the challenge for all of us in a climate emergency is to dissolve our artistic or habitual/life practice, to "sink into the dark forest beneath our feet", to embed ourselves in the grander patterns, systems and flows of our wet planet, to "feel our way, but also to allow what we feel to feel us, and direct us by its flows".

In his 1980 essay, The World of Tomorrow and the Person of Tomorrow, the psychologist Carl Rogers contemplated the future. He described those who would usher in this new era as people with the capacity to understand, bring about and absorb a paradigm shift.He added: "e;I have an uneasy feeling about this chapter... It is a beginning, an outline, a suggestion... I believe that what I am saying here will some day be fleshed out much more fully, either by me or someone else."e;Maureen O'Hara and Graham Leicester are uniquely qualified to flesh out Carl Rogers's vision (Maureen worked closely with Rogers for many years). Here they explore the competencies - the ways of being, doing, knowing and organising - that can help us navigate in complex and powerful times. They argue that these competencies are innate and within reach of all of us - given the right setting, plenty of practice and some gentle guidance. But they are seldom seen because they are routinely undervalued in today's culture. That must change, the authors insist, and this book is intended to begin that change.The book is based on the authors' extensive research and their practical experience observing the qualities demonstrated by some of today's most successful cultural, political and business leaders.

Barry Oshry explains how genocides occur when cultures meet and demagogues sell us messages of superiority or purity. The two conventional solutions to encountering the "other", Purity and Tolerance, both exact a terrible cost. Instead we must change our patterns of interaction so the possibility of Power and Love, working together, can emerge.

A handbook for anyone who wants to make their own 'mis-guided' tour or walk. Written by 'Crab Man' and 'Signpost' (Phil Smith and Simon Persighetti of Exeter-based Wrights & Sites group), the book is based on the mis-guided 'Tour of Sardine Street' that they created for Queen Street, Exeter in 2011.

Follow mythogeographer Phil Smith, photographer John Schott and ornithorgrapher Tony Whitehead, in words and pictures, on an imagined pilgrimage through a real but extraordinary landscape. Over the course of the 19-day Armchair Pilgrimage, we experience the world around us just as they did as they walked - finding our own destination.

Stone Talks brings together poems and four essays by Alyson Hallett on the subject of stones, somatics and our relationship with our environment. It invites us to listen again to the world around us, reawakens a childlike curiosity, makes connections we had forgotten, and gives us permission to experience the world in an embodied, vibrant way.