Participants in Ted Bowman’s provocative “Resilient coping” workshop requested suggestions for books to help address the changes and challenges we’re all facing, from retirement to social upheaval. 

Here are a few recommendations from Bowman and members of UMRA:

The Second Half of Life by Angeles Arrien. Boulder: Sound True, Inc. 2005

On the Brink of Everything by Parker Palmer. Oakland: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2018

The Way of Transition by William Bridges. Cambridge: Perseus Publishing. 2001

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 2011.

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibrahim X. Kendi. New York: Random House. 2019.

A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota, edited by Sun Yung Shin. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press. 2016. Recommended by URMA Workshop Committee Chair Ron Matross, this collection of essays was chosen to be featured this summer for the statewide One Book | One Minnesota book club.  

Free download offer from University of Minnesota Press
The University of Minnesota Press is offering a collection of antiracist books for free download through August 31: Reading for Racial Justice.