Gender Equity & Reconciliation

Gender equity is woefully overdue—we cannot wait any longer. Yet gender equity will wait, just

as it has for thousands of years, until women and men and people of all genders co-create

it together. One-sided solutions are not enough, and shame and blame will get us nowhere. The

new pathway to healing and creating right relations between the genders can only be forged by

courageously confronting gender injustice from all sides, and moving through the ensuing

‘collective alchemy’ to transform gender injustice from the inside out.



Inspired by the principles of Truth and Reconciliation developed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

in South Africa, the Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) process has been

implemented over three decades for thousands of people on six continents. Guided by the twin

powers of truth and love, and supported by skillful facilitation, the GERI process—as

demonstrated in this book—creates safe forums to empower the unraveling of gender and sexual

conditioning with alchemical depth and acumen, and initiate a whole new culture of gender

relations and beloved community.



With contributions from dozens of GERI participants, twelve distinguished world leaders in

related fields, and special inserts from such notable persons as Stanislav Grof, M.D., Jetsunma

Tenzin Palmo, and Peter Rutter, M.D., this book is an invaluable resource for laypersons and

professionals, politicians and psychotherapists, educators and religious leaders, who are eager to

discover new proven pathways to transform gender-based conflicts and address the needs of

young and old in their homes, therapy practices, organizations, and congregations across the

globe.



Gender Equity is the one certain step to heal humanity. … This book and the GERI program

illuminates a path to do just that.

—Justin Baldoni, author of Man Enough



Inspiring and intersectional approach, … underscores the transformative power of gender justice

movements.

—Latanya Mapp Frett, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women



Magnificent heartfelt healing work, … gifts us a map of deep positive transformation.

—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart



A groundbreaking guide for all who want fulfilling relationships, and a more caring and

equitable world.

—Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade and Nurturing Our Humanity