Adam Kahane Book Launch - "Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change"

Best-selling Canadian author and leading international social change facilitator, Adam Kahane, is visiting Australia in March to coincide with the launch of his acclaimed new book, Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change.

Presented by Social Leadership Australia at The Benevolent Society, Adam’s Australian launch will feature a talk by the author; Adam Kahane ‘In Conversation’ with Robbie Macpherson, Head of Social Leadership Australia, and a Q&A session. 

Cocktail food and drinks will be served.

Tickets for the event are just $20 which includes a copy of the book (RRP $26.95).

Bookings essential. Link to Social Leadership Australia at www.bensoc.org.au. 

The two methods most frequently employed to address our most complex social challenges—either relying on violence and aggression, or submitting to endless negotiation and compromise—are fundamentally fl awed. This is because the seemingly contradictory drives behind these approaches—power, the desire to achieve one’s purpose, and love, the urge to unite with others— are actually complementary. As Dr Martin Luther King, Jr put it, “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.” But how do you combine them?

For the last twenty years Adam Kahane has worked around the world on many tough and vital challenges: food security, health care, economic development, judicial reform, peace making, climate change. In this extraordinary book he draws on this experience to delve deeply in the dual natures of both power and love, exploring their subtle and intricate interplay. With disarming honesty Kahane relates how, through trial and error, he has learned to balance them, and offers practical guidance for how others can learn that balance as well.