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anet Levine is an author, educator, and presenter. She has published four books and has over thirty years classroom experience. Since 1986 she has taught in the English department at Milton Academy in Massachusetts.

Janet has decades of published writing experience both as a book author and a freelance journalist.

Fiction—Leela’s Gift

Learn more about the book at www.leelasgift.com.

Janet’s latest book, a novel, “Leela’s Gift” (2009)  is available at www.amazon.com and other online and brick bookstores. It describes a luminous inner journey that uncovers archetypal and highly relevant spiritual teachings including some of the secret teachings of Buddhism and the Enneagram.  Among these are meditation and yoga practices, practical paths to freedom from the often dispiriting quality of our contemporary lives.  ”Leela’s Gift” intertwines modern philosophy and primal wisdom in telling a story as old as the human heart. You can read more about the novel and Janet’s work at www.leelasgift.com.

What is Janet Writing? (Work in Progress)  A Love Story in the Shadow of Apartheid

Set in the tumultuous events of South Africa in 1960, the compelling thrust of this historical novel is powered by colliding forces—the grasping fist of the secret police tightening its grip on the throat of the South African people and the dangerous and unstoppable love affair of Liv and Rosie—while the primeval land preens its beauty amid the turbulence of human passion and calls forth its true sons and daughters to sing of its soul.  (Read more…)

Political Memoir–Inside Apartheid

Inside Apartheid (1988) bears witness to the horrors of living within the apartheid system from the perspective of a white activist. Levine, a crusading freelance journalist, was an elected public official, and she held office in many anti-apartheid organizations. She shares her love for the country as she fights against the tyranny of racism that tears at the lives of all South Africans. Inside Apartheid was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, et al.

Non-Fiction—Enneagram

Her book, Know Your Parenting Personality: How To Use the Enneagram To Become The Best Parent You Can Be (2003) is available from John Wiley & Sons. It is filled with practical advice taken from interviews with scores of parents and uses the e-model as a tool to improve family dynamics. You can read more about the book at www.parentingpersonality.com. Since its publication, The Enneagram Intelligences: Understanding Personality for Effective Teaching and Learning (1999) from Greenwood Publishing Group has helped thousands of educators to understand their motivations for how they teach and how their students learn. In 2000 it was nominated for the 2001 Grawemeyer Education Award. Translated into several languages it is now regarded as a “classic” work in Enneagram studies. Both these books are available in e-book formats.

 Learn more about Janet’s work with the Enneagram.

Would you like to know your Enneagram personality profile? Based on a major study of over a thousand participants Janet has designed and refined specialized Triads Personality Indicators (TPI) one each for Educators, Students, and Parents. Once you complete the questionnaire you will be directed to your place on the E-model and then to your E-type. If you are at all curious please check out the relevant TPI now. Founder of Transforming Teaching Workshops, an educational enterprise dedicated to spreading knowledge of personality studies on education and related fields, in the 1990s she directed the National Educators Institute at Milton Academy. She has presented this work at conferences and workshops for many years, predominantly to educators at all levels and internationally.

 Commitment to human rights

Janet has a life long commitment to human rights. She is a teacher—in the broadest sense of the word—in all she undertakes. She continues to enjoy her time in the classroom with her students and her work supporting activist causes. The third part of her life’s passion is writing. Currently she is contemplating two new book projects. She loves writing her blog (see right hand column on this page) and connecting with hundreds (most days over a thousand) people whom daily comment on the blog.

What is Janet reading?

Been reading through a lot of books this winter. So far, the best of the bunch is State of Wonder by Ann Patchett. Set mainly on a tributary in the Amazon basin it is a compelling tale of (not so scrupulous) medical research, commercialization of all market opportunities, intricate plot lines and easy to like (and dislike) characters. Patchett vividly portrays the jungle milieu and creatures, human and non-human, therein. So effective is she that much as I enjoyed the book I have been warned by this cautionary tale and have removed the Amazon from my travel wish list.

This fall I highly recommend Michael Holroyd’s recently released (in USA) biography A Book of Secrets. Elegantly constructed, heartfelt, and imaginative.

This summer I’ve devotedly been reading the wonderfully talented, British story-teller, Sarah Waters www.sarahwaters.com
Helen Dunmore www.helendunmore.com is another wonderful writer. Her book The Siege is historical fiction at its best.
Adam Nicolson’s Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History is  one of the most evocative books I’ve come across on a sense of place.

 

Janet would love to hear from you too.

You can e-mail her or contact her at:

P.O. Box 505

Milton, MA 02186

JLevinegrp@aol.com

 

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