Books by Daniel Goleman

• Working With Emotional Intelligence
• Social Intelligence
• Primal Leadership

Web resource: www.eiconsortium.org

Free EQ test: tinyurl.com/dbsd8

Changing Minds: The Art And Science of Changing Our Own And Other People's Minds (Leadership for the Common Good) by Howard Gardner

Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, and Ron McMillan (also a variety of free resources at www.influencerbook.com)

A Whole New Mind:  Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
Particularly the chapter on Empathy

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg (Valuable to learn more about empathy, requests vs. demands, identifying underlying needs and recognizing emotions based on whether those needs are being met and the value of a question vs. statement)

What You Can Change . . . and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement by Martin E. Seligman

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. Seligman

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

Gandhi An Autobiography – The Story of My Experiments with the Truth
Mahatma Gandhi

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

The Science of Influence: How to Get Anyone to Say "Yes" in 8 Minutes or Less!
by Kevin Hogan

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

The Micro Expression Training Tool (MITT) teaches you to spot the seemingly undetectable expressions that occur when someone is just beginning to feel an emotion.  The tutorials include pretests to measure your current ability – and a final test to see how much you’ve improved.
www.mettonline.com

Emotions Revealed:  Recognizing Faces and Feeling to Improve Communication and Emotional Life by Paul Ekman

Spot the Fake Smile – Take the BBC’s ten-minute, twenty-question test, based on Paul Ekman’s research, to see how good you are at detecting the difference between a fake smile and a real one.
Tinyurl.com/2u7sh

Minds in the Eyes Test – This test measures your ability to identify a facial expression from only a person’s eyes
Tinyurl.com/ckrj3

Dictionary of Nonverbal Gestures, Signs and Body Language Cues
http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers (available on DVD, CD and in book format)

The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

The Story Factor: Secrets of Influence from the Art of Storytelling by Annette Simmons

The Power of Personal Storytelling by Jack Maguire

The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture  by Robert Fulford

Pete Seeger’s Storytelling Book
National Storytelling Network (NSN) non-profit organization 
Storytelling Magazine is published bimonthly by National Storytelling Network

Global Volunteers
www.globalvolunteers.org

Cross Cultural Solutions
www.crossculturalsolutions.org

Sustainable Harvest
www.sustainableharvest.org

Ambassadors for Children
www.ambassadorsforchildren.org

The Busy Family's Guide to Volunteering: Do Good, Have Fun, Make a Difference As a Family by Jenny Lynn Friedman

Make a Difference: America's Guide to Volunteering and Community Service by Arthur I. Blaustein

World Volunteers (3rd Edition): The World Guide to Humanitarian and Development Volunteering by Fabio Ausenda, Erin Mccloskey

Volunteer Vacations: Short-Term Adventures That Will Benefit You and Others
by Bill McMillon , Doug Cutchins, Anne Geissinger

The Kid's Guide to Service Projects: Over 500 Service Ideas for Young People Who Want to Make a Difference (Self-Help for Kids Series) by Barbara A. Lewis

A Kid’s Guide to Giving by Freddi Zeiler

The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action by Cathryn Berger Kaye

Books by Martin Seligman (from the Positive Psychology field)
– some are also available on CD – recommended in this order:

• Authentic Happiness
• Learned Optimism
• What You Can Change and What You Can’t

Books by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
• Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
• Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series)
• The Evolving Self
• Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
• Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet by Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and William Damon

Five Steps to Forgiveness: The Art and Science of Forgiving by Everett Worthington

A Primer in Positive Psychology by Christopher Peterson

The Positive Psychology of Buddhism and Yoga : Paths to a Mature Happiness by Marvin Levine

Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry by Sue Anis Hammond

Books by Marcus Buckingham (strengths-based leadership specialist)

• First, Break All The Rules: What The World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Books by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

• Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton

Gives you access to Gallup’s Strengthsfinder ® profile

• The One Thing You Need to Know: About Leading, Managing, and Sustained Individual Success
• Go Put Your Strengths to Work  (his latest)

All of the above are available in audio form, highly recommended. Buckingham is a highly engaging speaker.

He also has a six-chapter DVD set entitled Trombone Player Wanted that gives an excellent synopsis of strengths-based material.

www.marcusbuckingham.com
www.simplystrengths.com

Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience by Fred B. Bryant and Joseph Veroff

Clock Of The Long Now: Time And Responsibility: The Ideas Behind The World's Slowest Computer by Stewart Brand

The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes by William Ury

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick

The works of Pema Chodron – an American-born Tibetan Buddhist, are the most practical, universally applicable material we’ve found – they strike a wonderful balance between needed depth and being easy to understand and work with. Recommended for anyone faced with the groundlessness of life, change, conflict or any situation that is in any way challenging.

When Things Fall Apart - Heart Advice for Difficult Times

The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors – among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. This book is a treasury of wisdom for going on living when things fall apart – when we are overcome by pain and difficulties.

In this book she discusses:

• Using painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion, and courage
• Communicating so as to encourage others to open up rather than shut down
• Practices for reversing habitual patterns
• Methods for working with chaotic situations
• Ways for creating effective social action

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

In The Places That Scare You, Pema Chödrön continues the teachings of When Things Fall Apart, showing how at the core of the most painful experiences lie the seeds of spiritual awakening. Here she presents key teachings on recognizing and cultivating the soft spot that is the gateway to compassion and open-heartedness.

In this book she discusses:

• The four great catalysts of awakening, and how to integrate them into our lives
• Why the soft spot is necessary for spiritual awakening
• The basic goodness that is inherently ours
• How the three noble principles can enrich everything we do
• The maitri meditation that multiplies love
• Why an attitude of don't know can be wiser than the world's greatest spiritual teachings
• How to keep the heart open with equal fearlessness to both heartache and delight

Comfortable with Uncertainty – 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

Drawn from Chödrön's previously published books, this anthology leads the reader through essential concepts, themes, and practices on the Buddhist path, such as loving-kindness, meditation, mindfulness, and letting go. Comfortable with Uncertainty does not assume prior knowledge of Buddhist thought or practice, making it a perfect introduction to Chödrön's teaching. Through the course of this book, readers will learn practical methods for heightening awareness and overcoming habitual patterns that block compassion.

Start Where You Are – A Guide to Compassionate Living

With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents down-to-earth teachings on how we can overcome our own suffering as well as the suffering of others. This is only possible, the author says, if we start where we are, embracing rather than pushing away the painful aspects of our lives.

Practicing Peace in Times of War

In Practicing Peace in Times of War, Pema Chödrön draws on Buddhist teachings to explore the origins of aggression and war, explaining that they lie no where but within our own hearts and minds. She goes on to explain that, remarkably, the way in which we as individuals respond to challenges in our everyday lives can mean the difference between perpetuating a culture of violence or creating a new culture of compassion. Pema insists that our world will begin to change when each of us, one by one, begins to work for peace at the level of our own behavior, our own habits of thought and action. It's never too late, she tells us, to look within and discover a new way of living.

The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness

This book is about saying yes to life, about making friends with ourselves and our world, about accepting the delightful and painful situation of no-exit. It exhorts us to wake up wholeheartedly and to use the abundant richly textured fabric of everyday life as our primary spiritual teacher and guide.

Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation - $14.95
How can human suffering become good medicine? Through tonglen: the ancient Tibetan meditation that transforms pain into compassion on the medium of your own breath. Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation reveal the revolutionary power of tonglen through a dialogue between two hearts and minds forged in very different cultures.

Good Medicine  - CD or DVD
On Good Medicine, Pema Chodron reveals the time-tested Buddhist antidote to suffering – and shows how to apply it in your own life. The simple and elegant meditation practice known as tonglen, she teaches, is the perfect medicine for ordinary people like ourselves. Through tonglen, we can use life's difficulties as a way to befriend ourselves, accept the past we have rejected.

True Happiness
Happiness is your birthright—and it is readily available at any given moment, Pema Chodron teaches. So why do we live in such suffering? The potential for happiness is not based on outer things – they come and go, causing us misery. We're always chasing after something, trying to avoid the difficult places. But there are a lot of small sweetnesses that we ignore.

From Fear to Fearlessness
Where will we look when we are afraid? How do we find strength? In what can we place our trust? According to Tibetan Buddhism, there are four noble aspirations known as The Four Great Catalysts of Awakening to cultivate strength and openness in any situation.

Getting Unstuck
"Pema Chodron demonstrates how effective the Buddhist point of view can be in bringing order into disordered lives."
Publishers Weekly.
Have you ever had an itch and not scratched it? In the Buddhist tradition, this points to a vast paradox: that by refraining from our urge to scratch, great peace and happiness is available.

Awakening Compassion
For more than 800 years, Tibetan Buddhists have used the practice of lojong, ormind training, to transform difficulties into insights. Lojong training is grounded in a special meditation technique and complemented by 59 written maxims - a treasury of practical wisdom that inspires everyday awareness.

The Noble Heart
You can't get away from suffering. That's the good news, teaches Pema Chodron. For at the core of your most painful experiences, perhaps more than anywhere else, you will find the seeds of your awakening. On The Noble Heart, this beloved American-born Buddhist nun shows you how vulnerability is your greatest spiritual resource on the path through life's difficulties.

Interviews with Pema Chodron

http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/200802/omag_200802_ocut.jhtml
http://www.shambhala.com/html/learn/features/pema/interview/index.cfm
http://soundstruestore.stores.yahoo.net/article-w886d.html
http://soundstruestore.stores.yahoo.net/interview-chodron.html

Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa
There is a basic human wisdom that can help solve the world’s problems. It doesn’t belong to any one culture or region or religious tradition – though it can be found in many of them throughout history. It’s what Chögyam Trungpa called the sacred path of the warrior. The sacred warrior conquers the world not through violence or aggression, but through gentleness, courage, and self-knowledge. The warrior discovers the basic goodness of human life and radiates that goodness out into the world for the peace and sanity of others. That’s what the Shambhala teachings are all about, and this is the book that has been presenting them to a wide and appreciative audience for more than twenty years.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

Everyday Zen: Love and Work by Charlotte J. Beck
Make all the ordinary experiences of your life a part of your path to enlightenment. Whether balancing a checkbook, working in an office or factory, raising a family, Everyday Zen  shows you how to integrate the events of modern living into a quest for spiritual fulfillment.

Chop Wood, Carry Water by Rick Fields
Based on the classic, inspirational bestseller, this unique program offers advice, insight, information, humor, and encouragement from the spiritual masters of the past and the most innovative thinkers of today – from Lao Tze to Mother Teresa, from Socrates to Margaret Mead,

How to Meditate with Pema Chodron
When it comes to meditation, Pema Chodron is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost teachers. Yet she's never offered an introductory course on audio – until now. In How to Meditate with Pema Chodron, the American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun and bestselling author presents her first complete spoken-word course for those new to meditation.

Pure Meditation          
For 1300 years, Tibetans have been practicing shamatha/vipashyana (peaceful dwelling/insight): a profound form of meditation that illuminates and purifies the obstacles to spiritual realization. Tibetan Buddhists today regard shamatha/vipashyana as both the fundamental and the most advanced spiritual practice of all. On Pure Meditation, Pema Chodron takes you step by step ...

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Paperback)by Jon Kabat-zinn

The Power Of Mindful Learning by Ellen J. Langer

Yoga Classes

We are often asked about yoga and what kind of class to check out. There are literally thousands of iterations of what people call ‘yoga’ out there and some will be for you and some won’t. Here are two classic branches of yoga that we recommend:

Iyengar Yoga – Recommended if you’re starting your yoga path. The focus on proper form and technique will give you a solid grounding that will serve you for the rest of your life. It’s also recommended if you’re interested in going beyond just the physical benefits to explore the breath and balance in your life. Rob has moved through many interests in yoga but always returns to Iyengar-based yoga.

Ashtanga Yoga – Recommended if you’re extremely active already and want a challenging ‘yoga workout’. This set series of postures will especially help you to become leaner, stronger, and more flexible.

Email us the name/description of a class you’re thinking of taking if you’d like our perspective – info@quixoteconsulting.com

Yoga Multi-media

We recommend developing a yoga home practice to fully experience the benefits of yoga. If you have an iPod, the best tool by far for developing your practice is Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman’s Yoga Club (www.gaiamyogaclub.com).

With this self-paced 12-week program, you receive a combination of nine online yoga videos and 63 podcast classes covering over 75 poses. At the beginning of each week, Rodney and Colleen introduce you to a category of yoga poses (forward bends, backbends, twists, inversions and more) with modifications for different levels, and sequencing principles for personalizing your own yoga program.

Yoga DVDs

We recommend Rodney Yee DVDs. Look through this list and pick one or two that strike your fancy. They’re available at Amazon.com or his website www.yeeyoga.com. We especially like Energy Balance Yoga, Intermediate Yoga, Yoga Burn, and the Hip-opening segment on the Advanced Yoga DVD.

• Yoga Burn DVD
• AM/PM Yoga DVD
• Back Care Yoga for Beginners DVD
• Intermediate Yoga DVD
• Power Yoga Strength and Flexibility
• Power Yoga Total body Workout DVD
• Power Yoga: Flexibility
• Yoga Conditioning for Athletes DVD
• Abs Yoga for Beginners DVD
• Strength Building Yoga DVD
• Power Yoga: Strength DVD
• Power Yoga: Stamina
• Back Care Yoga DVD
• Energy Balance Yoga DVD
• Family yoga DVD
• Advanced Yoga With Rodney Yee two-disc DVD set
• Sports Conditioning Mini Yoga Workouts DVD

Yoga Books

Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga With Rodney Yee by Rodney Yee with Nin Zolotow
Ashtanga Yoga – The Practice Manual by David Swenson
Yoga the Iyengar Way by Silva, Mira and Shyam Mehta
Awakening the Spine by Vonda Scaravelli
Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff
Light on Yoga by BKS Iyengar

Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Harpo Marx
C.G. Jung
Ray Charles