Monday, September 08, 2003
Clifton Taulbert will present "Building Community with the Eight Habits of the Heart"
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An internationally-acclaimed author, lecturer, and leader in the critical issue of building community will speak at University of Southern Indiana Tuesday, September 16. Clifton Taulbert, founder and president of the Building Community Institute, will present “Building Community with the Eight Habits of the Heart” at 7 p.m. on the USI campus in the University Center’s Carter Hall. His lecture is free and open to the public. Advocating timeless and universal ideals he encountered growing up in the Mississippi Delta, Taulbert will share a framework for building, maintaining, and sustaining the set of emotionally satisfying relationships he defines as community. By establishing a foundation in the Eight Habits of the Heart: nurturing attitude, responsibility, dependability, friendship, brotherhood, high expectations, courage, and hope, Taulbert believes environments can be built or rebuilt to foster justice, compassion, productivity, and vision. Taulbert’s book, Eight Habits of the Heart, was chosen in 1998 by USA Today as its year-end choice of a book to enrich minds and lives. He also is the author of the award-winning Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored, the Pulitzer-nominated The Last Train North, Watching Our Crops Come in, and two award-winning picture books for children, Little Cliff and the Porch People and Little Cliff’s First Day of School. He has shared his message of building community with the U.S. Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, Harvard University, and corporate clients including Lockheed Martin, Williams, and the Ford-Mazda Auto Alliance. In 1996 he was honored by the NAACP with an Image Award for outstanding contribution to literature. He also has received the Arthritis Foundation Volunteer of the Year Award and the National Jewish Medical and Research Humanitarian Award. Taulbert and his wife Barbara live in Tulsa, Okla., where the Building Community Institute is based. Additional information about Taulbert is available on the Web: www.cliftontaulbert.com/index2.h |
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