QUESTION: Help finding research on personal and social transformation

question / pregunta: 

a) where can I find research, articles etc that support the usefulness of using meditation, personal awareness and healing methods, embodied practices etc to empower sustainable social change and/or anti-oppression work?

Another way of putting this, research etc that validates that personal and social transformation are more powerful/effective when combined.

b) Are there any orgs who support this kind of thing, financially or otherwise?

Answers

Using Worldcat, which should be available through your local public library, the following search string retrieves 69 results:
su= "democracy" OR (su= "public spaces") OR (su= "human evolution.") OR (su= "organizational change") OR (su= "civil society") OR (su= "social participation.") OR (su= "interpersonal relations.") OR (su= "collective behavior.") OR (su= "human behavior.") and (su= "social change")

One of the titles listed is Common fire: leading lives of commitment in a complex world by Laurent A. Daloz. You can preview the book on google books.

Bill Moyers has an excellent program on Faith and Reason. I would recommend the interview with Pema Chödrön. There are links to articles and discussions through the website.

This article in Yoga Journal discusses finding a spiritual approach to work and mentions New Dimensions radio broadcast, which describes itself as fostering the process of living a more healthy life of mind, body and spirit while deepening our connections to self, family, community, planet and the natural world. There are also many articles and discussion lists available through their website.

There is an article through the Action Change website that discusses organizations that mix social change with the personal.

Three other websites you may want to look at are: The American Ethical Union, The International Humanist and Ethical Union, and The New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Please let me know if you would like any further information.