Michael Herman   



Reading List

Angeles Arrien
-The Fourfold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer and Visionary

Christopher Alexander
-A Pattern Language
-Nature of Order

Richard Bach
-Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Genevieve Behrend
-Your Invisible Power: The Mental Science of Thomas Troward

Geoffrey Bellman
-The Consultant's Calling: Bringing Who You Are to What You Do

Juanita Brown and David Isaacs
-The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations that Matter

Julia Cameron
-The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Joseph Campbell
-Transformations of Myth Through Time;
-The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Deepak Chopra
-The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to Fulfilling Your Dreams

Stephen Covey
-The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Mihalyi Czikzentmiyhali
-FLOW: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Anthony DeMello?
-Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

T.S. Eliot
-Four Quartets

Merrelyn Emery, Fred Emery and Eric Trist
-Participative Design for Participative Democracy

Peter Frost
-Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict

Buckminster Fuller
-Critical Path

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

James Gleick
-Chaos: Making a New Science

S.N. Goenka
-The Discourse Summaries, from a ten-day course in Vipassana Meditation

Natalie Goldberg
-Writing Down the Bones

Thomas Hanna
-Somatics: Reawakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health

Vaclav Havel
-Living in Truth

John Heider
-The Tao of Leadership

Julie Henderson
-Embodying Well-Being: How to Feel as Good as You Can in Spite of Everything
-The Hum Book
-The Lover Within
-Bedtime Stories for Waking Up
-I Ching: Revealing Story, Training Mind

Benjamin Hoff
-The Tao of Pooh

B.K.S. Iyengar
-Light on Yoga

Crockett Johnson
-Harold and the Purple Crayon

Byron Katie
-Loving What Is: Four Questions that Can Change Your Life

Stuart Kauffman
-At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization & Complexity

Alfie Kohn
-Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

James Kouzes and Barry Posner
-The Leadership Challenge: How to Get Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations

J. Krishnamurti
-Education and the Significance of Life
-Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti

Gregg Levoy
-Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life

Lynne McTaggart
-The Field: The Quest for the Secrect Force of the Universe

Gareth Morgan
-Images of Organization

Caroline Myss
-The Anatomy of Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

Thict Naht Hahn
-The Heart of Understanding
-Transformation and Healing

Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche
-Fresh Present Wakefulness

Harrison Owen
-Open Space Technology: A User's Guide
-The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform
-Spirit: Transformation and Development in Organizations (out of print)
-Expanding Our Now
-Tales from Open Space
-The Practice of Peace

Elisabet Sahtouris
-GAIA: The Human Journey from Chaos to Cosmos

Jonathan Schell
-The Unconquerable World: Power, Non-Violence and the Will of the People

Peter Schwartz
-The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World

Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
-Naked Conversations: how blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers

Peter Senge
-The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization

Sogyal Rinpoche
-The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Marshall Rosenberg
-Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion

M. Mitchell Waldrop
-Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

Marvin Weisbord
-Productive Workplaces: Organizing & Managing for Dignity, Meaning & Community

Margaret Wheatley
-Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe

David Whyte
-The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

Ken Wilber
-A Brief History of Everything
-The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion