A book in progress from ADI
The Third Way
A different quality of seeing
This book exists because ADI believes there is another way to understand and respond to human experience. It is a way that helps us see more clearly, learn more wisely, recover choice, recognise what is true about ourselves, and move with greater freedom and purpose.
We call this the Third Way.
Free to reserve. Read the Introduction today.
By Pam Rowe and Marcia Daigo
Much of the way we are taught to understand people and situations is binary. Something is good or bad, right or wrong, successful or failing.
The Third Way asks us to look beyond the binary without abandoning truth, responsibility or standards. It is not the middle point between two extremes.
It is a different quality of seeing.
Inside the book
The Introduction sets out the thinking. The chapters that follow show the Third Way in practice.
Experience as information
“The fact that something has been learned does not automatically make it true or useful for the life we are trying to live now.”
The crossing
“There is often a period when the old way of being no longer fits and the new way is not yet secure.”
Learning that becomes useful
“Experience can become learning. Learning can become usable knowledge. Usable knowledge can become contribution.”
Why ADI begins with Black people
“Those experiences matter and must be named. They are also not the whole story.”
From freedom to impact
“Achievement is what a person brings into being. Impact is what that achievement changes beyond them.”
A question that runs through the work
Is that really the whole truth about you?
That question is not an instruction to think positively. It is an invitation to look at the evidence.
Reserve your copy
The book is still being written. Reserve a copy now and you become one of our founding readers.
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The Introduction, today
Read it the moment you reserve. It sets out the Third Way and the thinking behind the whole book.
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Six questions to carry
The questions at the heart of the book on a card you can print, to use on your own experience.
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A founding readers' session
A live online session with Pam and Marcia on putting the Third Way into practice, before the book is published.
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Chapters as they are written
Early chapters sent to you as each one is ready.
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First access when pre-orders open
You hear before anyone else, with the price and the publication date.
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About the authors
Pam Rowe and Marcia Daigo are the co-founders of the African Development Institute. The Third Way grows out of their work with people, groups and organisations, and it is the philosophy behind ADI.