In a world on fire with overwhelmingly large crises,
what if the power of small could change it all?
To transform our lives and world, we start with ourselves and unleashing the power of community. It’s about how small daily acts of courage and conviction, small groups of unstoppable world-changers and even small regenerative gardens can transform your life, community and beyond.
Full of beauty, inspiration, and practical ideas, Take Heart, Take Action is an ode to the reverent, resilient, and irrepressible spirit in each of us. Every day there is a better world being born, and a world that is rapidly unraveling. Which do your actions feed? Are you ready to rise up and reclaim your joy and greatest contribution?
This book is for grassroots activists, community leaders, and everyday people who seek a new path to personal and community transformation. When you start changing yourself, and transform your hurt into positive action, the world around you starts to change; though individual efforts alone won’t do it. We need collective action to rapidly spread climate solutions, models, and policies that are just and regenerative.
As you read through these pages, you’ll learn a simple formula to do it all , a time-tested set of values and operating principles that form the structure and flow of this book:
Reverence + Ripples + Relationships = Resilience
- Reverence is about waking up and following our hearts.
- Ripples are the actions we take to find our vision, voice, and power.
- Relationships is about creating and nurturing community because that’s how our planet works.
- Resilience is what we live and build when waking and taking action in right relation, day after day.
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Other Ways to Get the Book
If you are a Sonoma County local, you can pick up a copy of the book at one of these 3 Petaluma locations:
Copperfield’s Books
140 Kentucky St,
Petaluma, CA 94952
Jupiter Foods
100 Petaluma Blvd N,
Petaluma, CA 94952
Lunchette
25 4th St,
Petaluma, CA 94952
What Community & Government Leaders Are Saying
“As timely, relevant, and accessible a book as you’ll find to renew your vision, nourish your heart, and catalyze you into action.”
“This book is an open-hearted invitation to be inspired and informed. Trathen’s empowering worldview—where each of us can express our unique agency every day to act on behalf of the whole—supports us in moving beyond our individuality to being greater than the sum of ourselves.”
“The work of Daily Acts is among the most important models in the world today. It needs to not only expand locally but to spread nationally and globally. This remarkable book tells this inspiring story and provides a field guide for how seemingly small acts can add up to transformative impacts.”
“A roadmap for a life of camaraderie, meaning, and kick-ass regenerative actions.”
“Daily Acts is leading the way to a more sustainable, climate-resilient future here at home and across the nation.”
“Trathen is the right messenger at the right time. If you need a dose of inspiration, here it is.”
“Trathen’s leadership and the work of Daily Acts are shining examples of the power of community.”
“If you are reading these words, this book was written for you. If you care about Earth, trees, critters, your family, other people, or just yourself, this book was written for you. You have been raised, shaped, trained, and continuously fed by the family and community of life on Earth to be a sensing, conscious participant. We need you. This book contains simple recipes for making what appear to be miracles.”
About the Author
Trathen Heckman is an award-winning nonprofit leader with over twenty years of experience cultivating grassroots groups and community networks. He is the Founder and Director of Daily Acts Organization, which specializes in unleashing the power of community to address the climate crisis. Before this, his passion for the mountains led to frequently flying through trees and off cliffs and jumps as a sponsored snowboarder.
Trathen’s life and leadership are deeply informed by time in the garden and wild places and with inspiring people. He utilizes his skills and resources to empower communities toward reclaiming the power of their actions to regenerate self, nature, and community. He lives in the Petaluma River Watershed where he grows food, medicine, and wonder, while working to compost apathy and lack.