Publications: Books

The reader is immersed in the awareness, concepts, and skills to respond to the following truths:

• Communicating is not about doing it right the first time. It is about learning from each other especially when communications go wrong.
• The information we need to learn is always present, all the time, always here and now.

The book starts with a series of short thinking lessons which help the reader locate the source of the communication problem not within the other person, but inside oneself. With the appropriate responsibility assigned inside the individual, the reader is then shown how to learn from within oneself, with the other person, and from the larger system.

Learning in Relationship provides the theoretical foundation to prepare participants in all Learning In Action Technologies programs.

This pocket-sized booklet shows us how to learn from others, with quick and easy reference to the skills needed to learn in relationships. "The impact someone has on us (the feelings and thoughts we have inside) is our responsibility. To understand impact, we need to look at ourselves -- not judge others."

This handbook includes more than 150 simple, yet powerful EQ practices that can be done anywhere and at any time to increase an individual's Emotional Intelligence. It offers multiple practices for each dimension measured in the EQ In Action Profile. Core measurements include various dimensions of the capacity for Self-Reflection, Self-Regulation, and Empathy. When these practices are integrated into a disciplined daily routine, they can make a profound difference.

Coaches across North America are using this handbook with their clients as part of the assessment tool and as a stand alone handbook for use with their clients. A couple coaches commented with "I love your handbook, it is perfect for use with my clients" and "I received the handbook last week and am enjoying reading the different practices. They are really congruent with a lot of what I ask my coaching clients to do, at various points in the coaching. I would like to offer up the handbook as a resource to my clients."

This journal is a tool to use in your daily journey in becoming more fully in charge of your life and your relationships.

"Stories" is used because as human beings, we need to interpret life as it happens to us. We observe, react, infer, and provide meaning to our experience. Our interpretation or meaning then becomes our Story; one that we write, edit and direct inside our heads.

Stories offer the gift of identity and belonging and the curse of repeating the past again and again, rather than making conscious choices today.

Without discovering the Stories we create and making space to create new ones NOW, we are destined to repeat the past. The exploration of Stories is a route to becoming fully present in the moment.

You are guided by a 5 step journaling process, starting with writing your story about the other, then yourself in relationship to the other, then about yourself with reflection on your past Stories and how they may be impacting you at this moment. It then guides you to state what you want NOW and then a conscious action you plan to take.

This 58 page book approaches leadership from a systems perspective, providing a solid theoretical basis for the need for openness and learning. "No one leads... unless others follow" and therefore "in critical ways, the designated leader is dependent."

The book confronts the dilemma of the dependent leader by placing responsibility for experience, and the skills needed to learn from the experience, in the hands of the individual learner. Learn why openness, and learning from others, are critical to the team's productivity. This book is ideal in building the foundation for team building.