What people are saying about Michael H. Crosby’s Choosing Compassion...

• As a psychologist and marriage counselor, I recommend Choosing Compassion to everyone. It gives a profound insight of how to move from control to compassion in a violent world. Michael Crosby shows that power can be used negatively as a force of control and manipulation which leads to fear, destructiveness and eventually war and then indifference, or it can used positively as a force for caring which leads to trust and freedom which leads to healing, helping and collaboration and a peaceful world.
  Fred Cavaiani
  Counsellors Corner
  Troy, Michigan

• Choosing Compassion has made a lasting impression on me. The most dramatic impact it had in terms of my everyday life, was with my kids, who are all teenagers.

  Your insights and experience have been unbelievably helpful to me in my relationship with my kids. I know that I had never really understood the negative effects of control or the true power of forgiveness until now. When I recognized where I was falling short, I was able to work on making it right and in turn it has completely changed the dynamic that had been established between my children and myself.
  Mother of Teenagers
  Kingston, RI

• This provides wonderful, helpful, needed material for today’s world. It clearly has been drawn from a lifetime of experience.

  The context is rich, yet focused clearly in a step-by-step approach that all teachers should appreciate. Clear definitions of violence and abuse and the repeated emphasis on the primacy of care and the surrender of control lead so logically to the conclusion that trust and mutuality are vital to one working for growth and even survival.

  An appropriate audience would be adults, young adults, and perhaps college age students. The material could be then communicated to younger people through its influence on older people. Parents and teachers might want to adapt it in their own ways.

  I think this offers all of us a marvelous gift. Our congregation would like to use it in our different regions. Thanks so much.
  Mona Castelazo, CSJ
  Book Reviewer, CNS
• People of faith seem to sometimes be afraid of the word "power," as if power denotes only the power to control, manipulate or harm. Michael Crosby's video series Choosing Compassion awakens people of faith to the realization that we do have power--not just in our personal relationships but within our organizations, communities of worship and the world at-large--and that we can exercise that power in the service of justice and peace. Choosing Compassion helps to show us how.
  Johnny Zokovitch
  National Organizer
  Pax Christi USA

More acclaim for Choosing Compassion...

• "This is remarkable. It clearly puts the pieces of a puzzle together for me by integrating so concisely and clearly how we can grow into compassion."
• "It was a blinding revelation, so thoroughly grounded in the gospel, of reality. The material on conflict resolution was personally challenging; it made me reflect on how I have related to others."
• "This hit me right where I needed it."
• "It was so spiritual yet so down-to-earth with practical help."
• "The journey from violence to compassion that was outlined is profound. I now know that this way of coming to compassion is well worth the struggle and challenge it poses. It offers a step-by-step approach."
• "A powerful course; life-changing interiorly. I felt compelled by the Spirit to listen with my whole heart; transformative."
• "I wanted to let you know that this has made a lasting impression on me. The most dramatic impact it had in terms of my everyday life, was with my kids, who are all teenagers."
• "The issue of control is huge with parents and teenagers. I want you to know that what you shared, your insight and experience has to be so unbelievably helpful to me in my relationship with my kids. I know that I had never really understood the negative effects of control or the true power of forgiveness until you shared with us what you have learned...When I recognized in myself, where I was falling short, I was able to work on making it right and in turn it has completely changed the dynamic that had been established."
• "Very practical and helpful..."
• "Choosing Compassion provides a concrete 'examen' on how we are moving into deeper life."
• "Transformational!"
• "Choosing Compassion offers a new approach to the spiritual journey...It’s very spirit filled."