Description
What is a crisis worth if it has not transformed you!
Midnight Journey of a Seed brings to light the deeper story of human resilience in the face of a pandemic. By integrating poetry, anecdotes, art and contemplative practices, the book takes readers on a healing journey and offers pathways to co-create a resilient future.
Manish Srivastava is a poet, life coach and facilitator of societal transformation. He is currently Co-Director of Social Presencing Theatre with the Presencing Institute, USA.
Manish works across business, government, UN and civil society. He integrates poetry, contemplative art and systems thinking to help leaders collectively sense, own and transform the societal divides.
Manish believes that poetry and art can uncover humanity’s deepest longings, heal collective wounds, and offer pathways to new possibilities. His work on transforming gender conflicts, human trafficking, pandemic and the migrant crisis has featured at the Presencing Institute Global Forum and Conflict Transformation Summit in 2020.
His recent book, Midnight Journey of a Seed, brings to light the deeper story of human resilience in the face of a pandemic. The book takes readers on a healing journey and offers pathways to co-create a resilient future.
His first book, Trading Armour for a Flower, provides a poetic pathway to heal gender trauma. Poems from this book have been translated into Hebrew and Spanish for reading in over 20 poetry dialogue circles worldwide. The title poem was featured in a short film that premiered in Venice 2020.
Manish lives in Pune, India, with his wife and son.
