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My work is informed by a wide range of sources, disciplines and world-views.
Freedom from the Known - Jiddu Krishnamurti
No Boundary - Ken Wilber
The Soul's Code - James Hillman
Leadership Embodiment: How the Way We Sit and Stand Can Change the Way We Think and Speak - Wendy Palmer
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization - Peter M. Senge
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem
The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation - Chögyam Trungpa
Eastern Body/Western Mind - Anodea Judith
A General Theory of Love - Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon
Non-Violent Communication: A Language of Compassion - Marshall B. Rosenberg
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle - Mark Wolynn
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Articles I Like
James Ladd
1900 words - 12 minutes
The Acorn Theory
Each person bears a uniqueness that asks to be lived and that is already present before it can be lived.
Nick Petrie
12 pages - 60 minutes
Vertical Leadership Development – Part 1: Developing Leaders for a Complex World
Determine how to take “Future Trends” and build them into a leadership program – focusing specifically on “vertical development” and why it matters in a complex world.
Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Andy Fleming, Matthew Miller, and Inna Markus
The Deliberately Developmental Organization
Most leading organizations invest in growing some of their people, via supports outside the flow of the normal workday—e.g., executive coaching, high-potential programs, mentoring, and leadership development. A new breed of company, however, is committed to development for all, creating immersive cultures for continuous individual growth as the necessary means of achieving superior business results.