 Becoming
a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute
for Life Coach Training
by Dr. Patrick Williams & Diane S. Menendez
With his bestselling Therapist
as Life Coach, Pat
Williams introduced the
therapeutic community
to the career of life
coaching. Now, Williams,
founder of the Institute
for Life Coach Training
(ILCT), and Menendez,
senior trainer at ILCT—both
master certified coaches
extraordinaire—reveal
all the basic principles
and crucial strategies
that they have taught
to thousands of coaches
over the years. Beginning
with a brief history of
the foundations of coaching
and its future trajectory, Becoming
a Professional Life Coach takes
readers step-by-step through
the coaching process,
covering all the crucial
ideas and strategies for
being an effective, successful
life coach, including:
- Listening to, versus
listening for, versus
listening with;
- Establishing a client’s
focus;
- Giving honest feedback
and observation;
- Formulating first coaching
conversations;
- Asking powerful, eliciting
questions;
- Understanding human
developmental issues;
- Reframing a client’s
perspective;
- Enacting change within
clients;
- Helping clients to
identify and fulfill core
values, and much, much
more.
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 Law
and Ethics in Coaching : how to solve and
avoid difficult problems in your practice
by Dr. Patrick Williams & Sharon Anderson
Law and Ethics in Coaching
co-edited by Patrick Williams and Sharon Anderson.
With contributions from a dozen academic, legal,
and coaching professionals, this book is a must
for anyone in the field of coaching or whose
organization uses coaching as a service.
"Filled with a dynamic
blend of case studies, discussion questions,
illuminating quotes, and other examples, Law
and Ethics in Coaching is both a trailblazing
professional reference and an unparalleled textbook
for coaching programs."
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 Total
Life Coaching: 50+Life Lessons, Skills, and
Techniques to Enhance Your Practice.....and
Your Life
by Dr. Patrick Williams MCC, Dr. Lloyd J. Thomas
Life coaching is more than
a collection of techniques and skills. It is
more than something you do. Life coaching reflects
who you are-it is your authentic being in action.
Readers of Pat Williams's and Deborah Davis's
book, Therapist as Life Coach, know Pat
to be a gifted life coach and passionate teacher.
Here Pat and psychologist/colleague and writer
of more than 1600 newspaper columns, Lloyd J.
Thomas, build on this earlier book and share
a unique insight into the coaching process,
which shows you precisely how to enhance your
professional practices through practical and
effective life coaching. It also empowers you
to change your own lives through use of the
practical information and philosophy presented
here.
Total
Life Coaching is organized into
a series of 52 life lessons, and is designed
to be either read cover-to-cover or dipped
into, as needed, for assistance when conducting
a coaching session. Keeping life's processes
on the "message and lesson" level
makes living and life coaching much easier
and more enjoyable. Total Life Coaching
guides you step-by-step through the complex
process of learning and coaching these fifty
important lessons. The lessons are organized
into 8 sections: Creating a Personal Identity;
Coaching Spirituality and Life Purpose;
Coaching Communication Skills; Living Life
with Integrity; Success: Clients Achieving
their Potential; Coaching Cognitive Skills;
Creating High-Quality Relationships; Understanding
Your Past to Create a Desired Future.
Total
Life Coaching by Pat and Lloyd
is more than just a book. It is an interactive
experience in which you will find recipes
for living your life more authentically,
as well as master time-honored lessons that
you can bring to your coaching clients [or
can incorporate in your own life]. Regardless
of the personal coaching techniques or skills
you may have learned, you may still not
be the most effective coach you can become.
This book will help you move closer to that
goal.
Pat Williams, Ed.D., is
president and founder of the Institute for Life
Coach Training, an ICF Accredited Coach Training
Program. He is a licensed psychologist, a Master
Certified Coach, as well as the co-author of
the highly acclaimed Therapist As Life Coach:
Transforming Your Practice.
Lloyd J. Thomas, Ph.D., has
been an adjunct faculty member of the University
of Southern California and Albany Medical College,
and is currently on the faculty of the Institute
for Life Coach Training and the International
University of Professional Studies. He is a
certified life coach and licensed psychologist,
and for more than 23 years has written a weekly
newspaper column, "Practical Psychology.
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Therapist as Life Coach: An Introduction
for Counselors and Other Helping Professionals,
Revised and Expanded Edition
by Dr. Patrick Williams MCC, Deborah C. Davis
A book for mental health professionals
considering a transition into the new and dynamic
field of life coaching! Therapist as Life Coach
explores life coaching as a profession, examines
the relationship between life coaching and therapy,
and details the variety of options for professionals
considering either a transition into coaching
or expanding their practices to include coaching.
This book is one-stop-shopping
for the therapist wishing to explore the coaching
field. Every chapter in this second edition
has been revised, reflecting the growth of the
coaching field and its increasing appeal to
therapists and all helping professionals. New
material includes an overview of recent coaching
developments, updated liability concerns, new
business opportunities, and a new section on
the research about coaching.
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 The
Philosophy and Practice of Coaching by David
B. Drake (Editor), Diane Brennan (Editor), Kim
Gørtz
(Editor) - featuring Dr. Patrick Williams
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 Coaching
for Performance, 3rd Edition (People Skills for
Professionals)
by John Whitmore
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| The Philosophy and Practice
of Coaching will help
to advance the global conversation about the future
of coaching.
The book is organized into three key sections:
Foundations for Coaching, Applications of Coaching,
and Organizations and Coaching, and the focus
is on enabling the reader to astutely link theory
and practice. |
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"A new edition of the
book that took the art of coaching to new heights,
this is the definitive guide to mastering the
skills needed to help people unlock their potential
and maximize their performance. Whitmore explores
the dynamics of team development, positioning
coaching as the essential team leadership skill,
and provides extensive examples of effective questions
that can help ensure full participation in the
performance improvement process."
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 Co-Active
Coaching
by Laura Whitworth, Henry House, Phil Sandahl, Henry Kimsey-House
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 Wellness
Coaching for Lasting Lifestyle Change by
Michael Arloski, PhD, PCC
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For professional coaches who want to increase
their proficiency as well as those interested
in integrating coaching skills into their consulting
practice.
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Guided by his long experience as a wellness
coach, Dr. Arloski blends the wisdom of the wellness
field and the proven processes of the coaching
profession to bring us an easy-to-use training
tool perfect for Wellness professionals at all
level, and a textbook for wellness coach training
and one-on-one work through EAPS, counseling,
and therapy. |
 Masterful
Coaching:
Extraordinary Results
by Robert Hargrove
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 Take
Time for Your Life : A Personal Coach's Seven
Step Program for Creating the Life You Want
by Cheryl Richardson
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Written as an interactive
dialogue with the reader, Masterful Coaching emphasizes
core coaching skills--sponsoring, counseling,
acknowledging, teaching and confronting. Provides
examples of coaching for breakthrough results
from leading companies.
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Personal coach Cheryl Richardson
helps people create the lives they want. In Take
Time for Your Life, she shows you how to switch
from being stressed, unfulfilled, and overworked,
to "living a life you love" by using
a seven-step process.
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 The
Mindful Coach: Seven Roles for Helping People
Grow
by Douglas K Silsbee
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 Masterful
Coaching Fieldbook
by Robert Hargrove
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| "Nearly everyone
coaches at one time or another. As parents, teachers,
managers, consultants, executives, therapists, or
clergy, we foster the learning and growth of others
as a seminal aspect of our relationships with them.
Emphasizing a potent combination of self-awareness,
partnering, and the skillful deployment of coaching
roles, The Mindful Coach provides an essential roadmap
for anyone responsible for supporting the development
of people." |
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Are you a masterful
coach? You can be! Picking up where his bestselling Masterful
Coaching left off, author Robert Hargrove gives
you the tools you need to compliment and augment
your existing coaching skills and make you a masterful
coach. |
Other
Resources |
 Awakening
the Leader Within: A Story of Transformation by Kevin Cashman with Jack Forem
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 The
Little Book of Ethics for Coaches: Ethics, Risk
Management and Professional Issues by Karen
Colby Weiner
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Far from the typical
leadership book that explores only theories and
concepts, this interactive coaching experience takes
you on a personal journey to awaken a new way of
leading and a new way of living. Blending the power
of an inspiring story with the power of reflective
questions, this transformative book gives you deep,
enduring ways to create value in all parts of your
life. Based on the premise that you need to grow
as a person to grow as a leader, the story centers
on Bensen Quinn, a CEO facing a deluge of personal
and professional challenges. As Quinn faces the
defining moments of his life, you will learn valuable
lessons about authentic and purposeful leadership,
applicable at home and in the boardroom.
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Karen Colby Weiner,
J.D., Ph.D., brings her expertise in ethics to coaching.
Protect yourself and your clients by knowing
how to differentiate the ethical from the unethical.
Prevent risks - know how to handle tough situations.
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 Change
Your Questions, Change Your Life: 7 Powerful Tools
for Life and Work
by Marilee G. Adams, Ph.D.
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 Lean
Forward Into Your Life: Begin Each Day As
If It Were on Purpose
by Mary Anne Radmacher
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| "Questioning" is
a skill rarely taught in school, but doing it well
- that is, asking the right questions of the right
people - can radically transform attitudes, actions,
and results. This book explains how to "be
your own coach," outlines the author's QuestionThinking
Model, and lists the top 12 questions for change.
Real-world examples provide practical models for
applying the principles in a variety of situations. |
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Founder and owner of the Word Garden,
Mary Anne Radmacher makes her art her life and
her life an art. And in Lean Forward into Your
Life she invites us to do the same. Or as
she says, Lean Forward into Your Life is
a commonplace book for leading an uncommon life.
An uncommon life need not include fame and fortune.
An uncommon life means living with intention,
paying attention, celebrating, taking care of
yourself, risking love. To live an uncommon life
is to live large from the heart.
Beautifully written and full of "coaching
wisdom." Pat Williams
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 Speaking
of Success - World Class Experts Share Their
Secrets
featuring Patrick Williams, Stephen R. Covey,
Ken Blanchard & Jack Canfield
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 Creating
a Life: Finding Your Individual Path
by James Hollis
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Those who choose
to travel the road of success must also travel
the road of continuing education. Success is about
being prepared. Every time you read a book that
contains the experiences of successful people,
you are advancing on your own personal road to
success whatever that work means to you.
The authors in this book will help you expand
your horizons and gain a whole new perspective
on how to achieve success!
The book also features best-selling authors
Stephen R. Covey (Seven
Habits of Highly Effective People),
Ken Blanchard (One
Minute Manager) and Jack Canfield (Co – creator
of Chicken
Soup for the Soul). Patrick Williams,
Blanchard, Covey and Canfield, are joined by
other well known authors and speakers, each
offering time-tested strategies for success
in frank and intimate interviews.
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Creating
a Life is
a powerful commentary on the importance of the
examined life, illustrating how we may arrive
at an understanding of our life choices and relationships
by exploring our core complexes and personal history.
With insight and compassion grounded in the humanist
side of analytical psychology, Hollis elucidates
the circuitous way of individuation. The text
is deeply enriched by the inclusion of poems and
excerpts from the works of many modern writers.
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 A
New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by
Eckhart Tolle
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 Why
Good People Do Bad Things: How to Stop Being
Your Own Worst Enemy by Debbie Ford
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With his bestselling
spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart
Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover
the freedom and joy of a life lived "in the
now." In A New Earth, Tolle expands
on these powerful ideas to show how transcending
our ego-based state of consciousness is not only
essential to personal happiness, but also the
key to ending conflict and suffering throughout
the world. Tolle describes how our attachment
to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads
to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows
readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness
and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.
A New Earth has been written as a traditional
narrative, offering anecdotes and philosophies
in a way that is accessible to all. Illuminating,
enlightening, and uplifting, A New Earth is
a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better
way of life—and for building a better world.
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Why Good People
Do Bad Things exposes the pervasive and
often hidden impulses that influence our everyday
decisions. The headlines are full of stories
of good people gone astray. They show up on
the evening news and are splashed across the
weekly tabloids. In many ways, these sad stories
have become a national obsession. Yet countless
other acts of self-destruction and sabotage
take place in our families, in our communities,
in our circle of friends. Despite good intentions,
"good people" do very bad things—often
without understanding why.
New York Times bestselling author Debbie Ford
guides us into the heart of the duality that unknowingly
operates within each one of us: the force that
compels us to live by our values, give and receive
love, and be a contributing member of the community;
and the force that holds us back, sabotages our
efforts, and repeatedly steers us toward bad choices.
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 Peace
is the Way: Bringing War and Violence to an
End
by
Deepak Chopra
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 Speak
Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next
Will Change Your Worldby Marshall B. Rosenberg
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"There is no
way to peace, peace is the way."
Deepak Chopra expands on Mahatma Gandhi's famous
quote, teaching us how to expand awareness, stop
reacting out of fear, and reject war—one
person at a time.
As Dr. Chopra says, "Violence may be innate
in human nature, but so is its opposite: love.
The next stage of humanity, the leap we are poised
to take, will be guided by the force of that love."
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In every interaction,
every conversation and in every thought, you have
a choice – to promote peace or perpetuate
violence. International peacemaker, mediator and
healer, Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg shows you how
the language you use is the key to enriching life.
Speak Peace is filled with inspiring stories,
lessons and ideas drawn from over 40 years of
mediating conflicts and healing relationships
in some of the most war torn, impoverished, and
violent corners of the world. Speak
Peace offers
insight, practical skills, and powerful tools
that will profoundly change your relationships
and the course of your life for the better.
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 The
Power of Purpose by Richard J. Leider
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 The
Power of Inner Choice: 12 Weeks to Living a Life
YOU Love
by Mary E. Allen
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The Power of Purpose:
Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work,
by respected life/work planning specialist Richard
Leider, is a lofty yet down-to-earth guide for
people struggling to find their true professional
callings. Developed through the author's considerable
personal experience and extensive interviews
conducted over the past 20 years, it's designed
to serve as a jumping-off point for those who'd
truly like to combine their "own unique
gifts" with "the needs of the world" to
carve out a vocational niche that's both individualized
and highly rewarding. A helpful guide to using
the material in a reading group is included.
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From the cover: "The
Power of Inner Choice explores the 12 fundamental
choices and guides you to new levels of self-awareness
and possibilities. Build the skills for integrating
new momentum into your daily life. Transform powerful
theoretical principles into commonsense applications
by engaging in the exercises. Each lesson has
immediate relevancy to anyone's life. Their cumulative
result: a higher quality of life, peace of mind,
and a life that flows more easily."
This is a very readable and practical guide
and one that lends itself very easily to your
work with clients, and especially would be
good for group coaching. Dr. Patrick Williams
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 Essential
Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken
Heart and Mind by Roger Walsh
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|
 Presence by
Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski,
Betty Sue Flowers
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"Based on over
twenty years of research and spiritual practice,
this is a groundbreaking and life-changing book.
In his decades of study, Dr. Roger Walsh has discovered
that each of the great spiritual traditions has
both a common goal and seven common practices
to reach that goal: recognizing the sacred and
divine that exist both within and around us. Filled
with stories, exercises, meditations, myths, prayers,
and practical advice, Essential Spirituality shows
how you can integrate these seven principles into
one truly rewarding way of life in which kindness,
love, joy, peace, vision, wisdom, and generosity
become an ever-growing part of everything you
do."
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"Presence is
an intimate look at the development of a new theory
about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations
held over a year and a half, organizational learning
pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph
Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature
of transformational change—how it arises,
and the fresh possibilities it offers a world
dangerously out of balance. The book introduces
the idea of "presence"—a concept
borrowed from the natural world that the whole
is entirely present in any of its parts—to
the worlds of business, education, government,
and leadership. Too often, the authors found,
we remain stuck in old patterns of seeing and
acting. By encouraging deeper levels of learning,
we create an awareness of the larger whole, leading
to actions that can help to shape its evolution
and our future."
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 SQ:
Connecting With Our Spiritual Intelligence
by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall
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 The
Inner Game Of Work
by W. Timothy Gallwey
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"As a measure
of intelligence, IQ is well known and established.
In 1996 Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence;
so now there is EQ, emotional quotient. Zohar,
an Oxford teacher and author, and Marshall, a
psychiatrist and author, now bring us SQ, spiritual
quotient. The authors contend that while computers
have IQ and animals can have EQ, it is SQ that
sets humans apart. SQ isn't necessarily connected
to religion, although it can be. It is about wholeness,
flexibility, self-awareness, compassion, creativity,
the ability to ask why."
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Do you think it's
possible to truly enjoy your job? No matter what
it is or where you are? Timothy Gallwey does,
and in this groundbreaking book he tells you how
to overcome the inner obstacles that sabotage
your efforts to be your best on the job. |
 The
Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness,
Success, Peace, and Emotional Well-being by
Hale Dwoskin
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 Repacking
Your Bags by Richard J. Leider
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Filled with practical
techniques and enlightening true stories, Hale
clearly and generously explains everything we
need to know to master the releasing process and
to continue using the Method day by day, moment
by moment in real life situations, such as having
more fulfilling and harmonious relationships,
building financial security, developing satisfying
careers, breaking nasty habits, losing weight,
and enjoying good health. He reveals the Sedona
Method’s powerful secret for manifesting
what you want in your life, while showing you
how to be at ease and comfortable with what you
already have. The Method also enables you how
to have greater ease, enjoyment and peace of mind
with all that you experience on a daily basis.
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Repacking Your
Bags helps people develop their own unique
vision of the good life and take practical steps
at home and at work to make that vision a reality. Repacking is
a travel guide for success with fulfillment
and a more authentically meaningful life. It
provides a simple yet elegant process to help
people ask the right questions -- and get the
right answers -- along the way. It describes
a "trip plan" to provides for the
elements of the good life: work, love, place,
and purpose. As a result of repacking, readers
will be able to reach for and achieve their
vision of the good life.
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Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture
by Christina Baldwin
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 Ishmael:
An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
by Daniel Quinn
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"This newly
revised edition brings Christina Baldwin's groundbreaking
work to an even broader audience, ranging from
women's spirituality groups to corporate development
teams. 50,000 years ago, women and men gathered
around campfires to decide the key issues in their
lives. Today, groups everywhere are discovering
a new form of this ancient ritual for communication,
mutual support, teamwork, and social change."
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"The narrator
of this extraordinary tale is a man in search
for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper
from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only
to find himself alone in an abandoned office with
a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately
on a slender branch. "You are the teacher?" he
asks incredulously. "I am the teacher," the
gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense
wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no
other human being has ever heard. Like all great
teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the lesson easy;
he demands the final illumination to come from
within ourselves. Is it man's destiny to rule
the world? Or is it a higher destiny possible
for him -- one more wonderful than he has ever
imagined?"
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Falling Awake
by David B. Ellis
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Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the
Second Half of Your Life on Purpose
by Richard Leider, David Shapiro
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The
author of Falling Awake, Dave Ellis has
developed concepts and practical strategies that
have the power to shape the lives of individuals,
couples and communities. Falling Awake is
perfect for you if you really want to make the
most of your life and are open to a potentially
life-changing experience.
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"This new edition
has been revised and expanded to help readers
of all ages—from new college graduates to
recent retirees—develop a practical strategy
for achieving their own vision of the good life,
elegantly defined by the authors as "living
in the place I belong, with the people I love,
doing the right work, on purpose." Leider
and Shapiro use stories, personal examples, and
innovative exercises to help readers evaluate
the burdens they carry and decide which help them
live well and which merely weigh them down."
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 The
Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create
a World That Works for All
by Tom Atlee, Rosa Zubizarreta
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Leading With Soul: An Uncommon Journey of
Spirit
by Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal
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"The Tao
of Democracy describes a new vision of politics
and governance that can simultaneously address
our unprecedented social problems and build
a society that works for all. It demonstrates
how very different people can now find creative
common ground and shared wisdom together. And
it tells us how to use that fact to bring our
dusty old politics up to speed, and find the
wisdom we need to safely navigate the 21st century."
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"This contemporary
parable chronicles the journey of a dispirited
leader in search of something more satisfying
than the bottom line. The authors draw upon spiritual
traditions, poetry and philosophy, teachings on
leadership and organizations, and their own extensive
consulting experience to offer inspiration for
today's embattled leaders."
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 Social
Intelligence: The New Science of Success
by Karl Albrecht
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 Leadership
and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box
by The Arbinger Institute
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| "Social Intelligence provides
a highly accessible and comprehensive model for
describing, assessing, and developing social intelligence
at a personal level. This book is filled with intriguing
concepts, enlightening examples, stories, cases,
situational strategies, and a self-assessment tool – all
designed to help you learn to navigate social situations
more successfully." |
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In
this fictional tale an executive learns the great
secret of leadership effectiveness: to get out of
the self-deceptive box of narcissism and start connecting
in empathic and respectful ways with others. We're
in the box when we treat others as objects or focus
on what's wrong with them instead of what we can
do to help. Without discounting the value of strong
managerial direction, the story reasserts something
we know but don't practice--that people are more
likely to be enthusiastic and effective when they
know we care about them." |
 The
Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
by The Arbinger Institute
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 Human Being: A Manual for
Happiness, Health, Love and Wealth by Dave
Ellis and Stan Lankowitz
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"Through an
intriguing story of parents struggling with their
troubled children and with their own personal
problems, The Anatomy of Peace shows how
to get past the preconceived ideas and self-justifying
reactions that keep us from seeing the world clearly
and dealing with it effectively. Yusuf al-Falah,
an Arab, and Avi Rozen, a Jew, each lost his father
at the hands of the other's ethnic cousins. As
the story unfolds, we discover how they came together,
how they help warring parents and children to
come together, and how we too can find our way
out of the struggles that weigh us down. The choice
between peace and war lies within us."
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"Human Being" is
no longer in print but is distributed in an Adobe
Acrobat PDF format. |
Recommended Marketing
and Business Development Books |
Get Clients Now!
by C. J. Hayden, Joe Vitale
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 The
Portable Coach: 28 Surefire Strategies for Business
and Personal Success
by Thomas J. Leonard, Byron Laursen
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A 28-Day Marketing Program
for Professionals and Consultants. Contained within
the covers of this deceptively simple paperback
book is a complete marketing and sales system
for professionals, consultants, and anyone who
needs to market a service business. It is packed
with tremendous client-attracting tools that will
help readers inject their marketing efforts with
energy and enthusiasm, design an effective plan
of action, and dramatically increase their client
base in just 28 days.
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Want to be more successful, happier, wealthier?
In his lively The Portable Coach, Thomas J. Leonard
presents 28 principles to help you shape your
life, career, and relationships so that they are
satisfying and profitable, with 10 ways to accomplish
each principle, and additional tips and self-tests.
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