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Healing the Heart of Humanity
The Outer and Inner Alchemy of Reconciliation between Masculine and Feminine
Coming September 15, 2026
ADVANCE PRAISE
A golden beacon that offers us hope for healing our wounded world.
Rev. Mpho Tutu van Furth · from the Foreword
GERI has shown very good results on this whole question of gender reconciliation.
A groundbreaking guide for all who want fulfilling relationships, and a more equitable world.
Supports our essential journey of transformation; affirms our reality as one human family.
I have been looking for a long time to find a way to bring healing and reconciliation between women and men. This work is the answer. We need much more of this work.
"The bible" on the topic of gender and healing. Absolutely remarkable book.
Magnificent heartfelt healing work that gifts us a map of deep positive transformation.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Creating beloved community worldwide for over 30 years
Gender is one of the deepest fault lines in the human family, a place where our collective wounds of inequality and violence are most painfully visible. Yet it is also a ley line—a core spiritual and relational axis—running through every individual life and through the collective human heart, a profound doorway to transformation.
Healing the Heart of Humanity documents the work of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI). Since 1992, GERI has convened more than 375 workshops and trainings in 22 countries, reaching over 30,000 people on six continents, and has certified some 330 facilitators worldwide.
In 2013 the work was endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who launched a partnership between GERI, the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, and Stellenbosch University. The foreword is written by Rev. Mpho Tutu van Furth.
Woven throughout are the voices of dozens of leaders and participants from diverse cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds — inspiring stories of how deep truth-telling and collective alchemy dissolve the roots of gender conflict.
2026 EDITION
Updated and expanded edition
This updated edition presents the GERI methodology in terms of two key dimensions: the “outer” alchemy of reconciliation, which transforms and rebalances masculine/feminine dynamics in groups and communities, and the “inner” alchemy, which reconciles the masculine and feminine within each person — a transformative path found in all major spiritual traditions.
The new edition also includes results from two new peer-reviewed academic studies of GERI conducted at the University of the District of Columbia, which concluded that GERI is “a proven catalyst for social change,” alongside earlier longitudinal research at Stellenbosch University and the University of the Free State in South Africa.
Updated chapters also report on GERI programs in Europe, Latin America, Africa, India, and beyond, including the first GERI programs at universities in Colombia, Kenya, and Italy.
THE AUTHORS
A global circle of voices
Written by William Keepin and Cynthia Brix with a team of twenty co-authors from ten countries, together carrying nearly a thousand years of lived experience.
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Healing the Heart of Humanity
Updated edition • Coming September 15, 2026
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