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About Realistic Living
Realistic Living is a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of Texas, USA in 1984. Joyce and Gene Marshall are its founders and staff.
Joyce and Gene Marshall were already accomplished teachers of religion and ethics when they married in Chicago in 1977. They lived in Los Angeles four years doing intensive psychological training and then founded Realistic Living in Dallas in 1984.
Since that time they have written fourteen books, 37 Realistic Living Journals, numerous newsletters, and a loose-leaf notebook on small group nurture. The Marshalls are also social activists: organizers of the bioregional movement; playwright/directors of a local community method called Ecotheater; leaders in Reevaluation Counseling; trainers in local community leadership methods; and written essays on feminism, ecology, economics, education, interreligious dialogue, and other causes.
Gene brings to this team an education in mathematics, physics, and theology. Joyce brings her teaching experience and university training in music and education with a deep passion for literature and feminine values. Both have done advanced studies in Christian theology, non-Christian religions, history, the philosophy of social change, psychology, male/female relations, ecology, and economics. They have extensively researched and developed facility with male-female team methods for small group religious nurture. They are now developing a focus on training in leadership skills for local cells of Christian resurgence. The Marshalls live in the woods on the Red River Flats of North Texas in a straw-bale house which they designed and participated in building. This home is both their residence and a meeting place for the activities of Realistic Living. See photo gallery of the straw-bale house.