Recommended Reading

Over the years and decades, I have read many books that have contributed significantly to my learning and understanding of people. I am frequently asked by workshop participants for book recommendations. Here are a few that I hope you will find valuable.

Personal Development

• Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
• Happiness: A Guide To Developing Life’s Most Important Skill by Matthieu Ricard
• Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
• The Exquisite Risk: Daring To Live An Authentic Life by Mark Nepo
• The Five Things We Cannot Change and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them by David Richo
• The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Relationships

• How To Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It by Patricia Love and Steven Stosny
• I Need Your Love, Is That True? How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead by Byron Katie
• Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love & Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships by David Schnarch
• Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart by John Welwood
• The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully by Jean Liedloff
• Undefended Love by Jett Psaris and Marlena S. Lyons

Organization & Management

• Clear Leadership: How Outstanding Leaders Make Themselves Understood, Clear Through the Mush and Help Everyone Get Real at Work by Gervaise Bushe
• Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer
• Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski
• The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
• The Art of Waking People Up: Cultivating Awareness and Authenticity at Work by Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
• The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader by Richard Strozzi-Heckler