From Before Conception Through Early Childhood
"...Tibetans possess valuable traditions surrounding the wonderful experience of childbirth to share with the community. In an era when people around the globe are exchanging ideas and benefiting from the knowledge of others, I feel that this title is timely and that it will be extremely helpful to many parents."-from the foreword by Rinchen Khando Choegyal, Minister of education, Tibetan Government-in-Exile.
"The Tibetan Art of Parenting brings to those of us in the West a finely crafted distillation of centuries of Tibetan experience of reproduction and parenting from a circle-of-life perspective, including the spiritual dimension, and what it means to be invested in life."-Robert A. Anderson, M.D., President, American Board of Holistic Medicine.
"This book is an important ethnographic contribution to the cross-cultural understanding of childbirth and parenting as well as a fascinating exploration of how spiritual beliefs of birth and rebirth underlie particular choices about bearing and raising children."-Ann Armbrecht Forbes, anthropologist.
"This book is a valuable contribution towards preserving our culture and will definitely benefit the western world in providing a better understanding of our social life."-Jamyang Sakya.

The Tibetan Art of Parenting, Anne Hubbell and Edie Farwell, Wisdom Publications, 163 pages, $16.95

Anne Hubbell Maiden, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist and social psychologist currently living in Berkeley, California. Edie Farwell, M.A., is a social and cultural anthropologist currently residing in San Francisco. Anne Maiden Brown, PhD, is a psychotherapist and social pyschologist currently living in Berkeley, California.

Edie Farwell is Executive Director of the Sustainability Leaders Network. She strives to accelerate the shift to economic, social and environmental sustainability by increasing the effectiveness of well-positioned sustainability leaders from the business, non-profit, government and philanthropy sectors. Her network represents a diversity of fields, including indigenous rights,Tibetan wisdom, renewable energy, climate, water, forestry, sustainable agriculture and land management, poverty eradication, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, media for social change, youth, gender equity and marine ecology. From 2002 to 2010, Farwell served as the founding director of the Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program of the Sustainability Institute where she co-designed transformative leadership skills for sustainability professionals through a focus on systems thinking, reflective conversation, the discipline of vision, creative expression and coaching. With the Sustainability Leaders Network she deepens the learning and practice of graduated Fellows and key partners to further increase their impact as strategic sustainability thought leaders, instigators, and actors. Edie earned a M.A. in cultural and social anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (1990); and a B.A. in anthropology and environmental studies from Dartmouth College (1983). She lives in the Cobb Hill eco-village experiment in sustainable living that Donella Meadows co-founded in Hartland, Vermont.