Resources

Current Workshops & Classes

• A Mindful Course   Spring Class, April 7- June 2, 2008     www.amindfulcourse.com                                              
• Making Things Happen with Greater Ease & Speed: An Innovative Learning Workshop for Leaders  May 30, 2008            

Articles by Dr. Chris Johnson

• How Full is Your Cup? Opening to Change
• Garbage, Composting: Lessons in Living
• Life: The Card Game of Choice
• Mindfulness: Increasing Performance in the Workplace

• Traa dy Liooar: Time Enough

• Time Passing

• What's Your Quality of Life?

• Quality of Life, Sustainable Goals and Practice
• "Tacking" in Pursuit of Quality of Life

Articles for CEO Leadership Group

   Getting Started   

   On Leadership

   On Teams

   On Sustainability

   On Contribution

Book Reviews by Dr. Chris Johnson

• Coached to Lead: How to Achieve Extraordinary Results with an Executive Coach by Susan Battley

Connections

• Center for Creative Leadership
• Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, HealthCare and Society
• Contacts Count
• Family Firm Institute
• The Global Consulting Partnership
• Grotto Communications
• Harvard Business Review
• New Ventures West
• Strozzi Institute
• West Suburban Women Entrepreneurs

Reflections & Practices

• The Vacation    Anthony deMello

Assessments

• Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking
• Thomas Killman Conflict Management Indicator
• FIRO-B
• Hogan Personality Inventory: Leadership Forecas
• 16 PF Leadership Coaching Report
• 16 PF HR Development Report
• Leadership Effectiveness Analysis (LEA), a 360
• High Performance Skills Survey (HPSS), 360
• Behavioral Style Profile
• Stress Direction Inventory (SDI)

Book Recommendations

    Coaching & Consulting

• Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, James Flaherty, 1999.
• Coaching for Leadership,Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence Lyons, and Alyssa Freas, Eds., 2000.

• How the Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work, Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, 2001.

• Fierce Conversations, Susan Scott, 2002.

• Presence, Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers, 2004.

• Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work, Deborah Tannen, 2001.
• Make Your Contacts Count: Networking Know-How for Business and Career Success, Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon, 2007.

     Creativity

• Creating a Life Worth Living, Carol Lloyd, 1997.
• Living Big: Embrace Your Passion and LEAP Into an Extraordinary Life, Pam Grout, 2001.
• The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life, Twyla Tharp, 2003.

     Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman,
• Emotional Intelligence at Work, Hendrie Weisinger, 1998.

    Family Business

• Consulting to Family Business, JaneHilburt-Davis, Gibb Dyer, Jr. 2003.

    Leadership     

• Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee, 2002.  
• Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time, Margaret Wheatley, 2005.
 
• Resonant Leadership, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, 2005.
• The Leadership Dojo:Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader , Richard Strozzi Heckler, 2007.

     Mindfulness

• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficulty Times, Pema Chodron, 2000.

• The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times,  Pema Chodron, 2002.

• Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama, Daniel Goleman, 2004.

• Mindfulness in Plain English,  Venerable Henepola Guanaratana, 2002. 

• Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinnm 2005.
• Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat Zinn, 1994. (Amazon.com reader reviews).

    Optimism

• Authentic Happiness, Martin Seligman, 2002.
• Learned Optimism, Martin Seligman, 1990.
• The Science of Optimism  & Hope, Jane Gillham, Ed., 2000.

     Somatics

• Being Human At Work: Bringing Somatic Intelliegence Into Your Professional Life, Richard Strozzi Heckler, 2003.
• Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move Through Life's Transitions,

        Richard Strozzi Heckler, 1997.

• Holding the Center: Sanctuary in a Time of Confusion, Richard Strozzi Hecker, 1997.

     Stress

• Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Your Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness, Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1990. (Amazon.com reader reviews)
• Resilience:Discovering a New Strength at Times of Stress, Frederic Flash, 2004.
• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky, 1998.

    Sustainability

• Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, Paul Hawken, 2007.

     Women                                                                 

• Becoming Your Own Great and Powerful: A Woman’s Guide to Leading Your Real,  Big Life, by Barbara Bellissimo and the Secret Order of the Tiara, 2005. (Amazon.com)

• Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind, Mary Belenky, 1986.

• Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership, Linda Coughlin, Ellen Wingard, & Keith Hollihan, Eds., 2005.

• Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes,1992.

• Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work, Joyce Fletcher, 2001.

• The Eleven Commandments of Wildly Successful Women, Pamela Boucher Gilberd, 1996.

• In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development, Carol Gilligan,1993.

• Women's Growth in Connection: Writings from the Stone Center, Judith Jordan, Alexandra Kaplan, Jean Baker Miller, Irene Stiver, Janet Surrey, 1991.

• The Shadow Negotiation, Deborah Kolb, 2000.