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Resources

or What’s on my bedside reading table this year?

Leadership & Change

Another Country, Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders, Mary Piper, Riverhead Books, 1999

Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcom Gladwell, Little Brown, 2005

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,  Jared Diamond, Dec 27, 2005

Presence, Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society, Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2004

The Second Half of Life, Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom, Angeles Arrien, Sounds True, 2005

A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. Pink, The Berkeley Publishing Group, 2005

Communication Skills

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time, Susan Scott, Berkely Publishing Group, 2002

Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, University of Chicago Press, 1980

Negotiation

Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as You Negotiate
Roger Fisher, Daniel Shapiro, The Penguin Group, 2006

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, Roger Fisher, Penguin USA (Paper), 2000

Old Favorites

Enhancing Leadership Effectiveness, Roger Pearman, CAPT, 1999

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Peter Senge, Doubleday, 1994

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Harper Perennial, 1990

Gifts Differing, Isabel Briggs Myers, Consulting Psychology Press, 1980

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, Avon Books, 1982

Leadership & Learning, Personal Change in a Professional Setting, Barry Jentz & Joan Wofford, McGraw Hill, 1979

People Skills, Robert Bolton, Simon & Schuster, 1979

People Types & Tiger Stripes, Gordon Lawrence, Center for Applications of Psychological Type, 1982

The Right to Speak, Patsy Rodenburg, Routledge, 1992

On-Line Information

Negotiation Websites:

The Harvard Program on Negotiation

The Public Conversations Project

Birkman Method Assessment

The Birkman Method Home page

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Temperment Websites:

Consulting Psychology Press

Temperament Research Institute, Dr. Linda V. Berens

Center for Application of Psychological Type

Boston Area Chapter of The Association for Psychological Type (BACAPT)

Source material notes

The communication skills material I use in coaching and teaching is adapted primarily from Perry Carrison, Angeles Arrien, Roger Pearman, Robert Bolton, and Faber/Mazlish. See above publications. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator material is adapted from Otto Kroeger Associates, Joan Wofford, Jean Kummerow, Earl Page and others.

"Sophie is a talented mediator and facilitator of unimpeachable integrity."

~ Pricilla Ellis, Ph.D.
Clinical Supervisor, Roxbury District Court



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