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The Book

The Pivot Point Effect

Leveraging Compassion in a Resource-Driven Life

In The Pivot Point Effect, Bill Heaner takes you on a thought-provoking journey to uncover how simple acts of compassion and conscious choice can create profound and lasting change. Drawing on decades of research and personal insight, the book introduces the Pivot Point Process — a practical, four-step framework — alongside Human Transactionalism, Bill's framework for understanding how resources, needs, and compassion connect us to the people around us.

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Purchase links are coming soon. In the meantime, you can start your Pivot Point Process directly on this site, free.

A practical, four-step framework

The book walks through the Pivot Point Process in order — your Primary Pivot Point, Three Reasons, Gifts and Talents, and Living Life List — before widening out into relationships, groups, daily life, and work. You can read the full framework in the book, or work through it directly on this site as you go.

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"Bill Heaner's insights into leveraging compassion for personal and societal transformation are both timely and timeless."
— Henry M. Vyner, M.D., Academic Editor