Recommended Reading - coaching insights to a better life

Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change. You were intended out of love; you must be love in order to intend. The new way of seeing will enable people in your presence to feel comforted and peaceful, and to indirectly be loving accomplices to your connection to intention. This book offers real coaching insights to a better life for coach and client. 

This is not a sad book despite the title. This remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sample interviews and conversations, she gives the reader a better understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve that patient, and the patient's family, bringing hope to all who are involved.

Developing self awareness takes time and practice. This book supports coaches to gain greater insight and understanding of self and others. 

Don't be fooled by the weight of this book. Within its pages are nuggets of weighty gold. An easy-to-read introduction to shadow work with three sections: The Shadow (what the shadow is), Romantic Love as Shadow (how we project our shadow onto others) and The Mandorla (finding the balance between our shadow and our light).

Shadow works is key to gaining coaching insights to a better life. Peter Pan spent time trying to get his shadow back. He knew it was an intrinsic part of who he was. Like Peter Pan we all need access to our shadow side and to embrace it. 

Probably my personal favourite all time book The Little Prince reflects the people we encounter through life and asks us to consider what lessons we might glean from his encounters. Don't be fooled into thinking this is a book for children. People tend to become less creative and imaginative as they grow into adulthood. What do you see in the image on the opening pages? As we grow into adulthood we are often preoccupied with things of little real value. 

This little book has helped me develop a deeper sense of who I am, develop my self awareness and offers coaching insights to a better life. 

This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they’ll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than ever they dreamed.

Rich with coaching insights to a better life and increasing self awareness. This is my most travelled book with clients. And always comes back to me. 

You don't need an interest in rugby to appreciate this beautifully crafted book. In their pursuit of consistently outstanding performance, the All-Blacks and their coaches have come up with an approach that demands the highest of standards, that roots the people on the team in a clear continuum of history, culture, space and time, yet which values and supports each of the people that make the grade as people as much as players. Nobody else cleans up after the All Blacks.

For anyone wishing to improve their practice of dialogue this book takes the reader on a journey. It gradually leads into a deeper understanding of the four dialogue practices - listening, respecting, suspending and voicing that create the conditions to allow all voices to be heard.The practices are good and will set the reader for lifelong learning. 

Synchronicity is an inspirational guide to developing the most essential leadership capacity for our time: how we can collectively shape our future. Through the telling of his life story, Jaworski posits that a real leader sets the stage on which ""predictable miracles,"" seemingly synchronistic in nature, can - and do - occur. 

In his powerful new book, bestselling author and world-renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith examines the environmental and psychological triggers that can derail us at work and in life.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.

Each essay reveals deep insights into the impulses of the human heart and mind. The Chicago Post said of The Prophet: “Cadenced and vibrant with feeling, the words of Kahlil Gibran bring to one’s ears the majestic rhythm of Ecclesiastes . . . If there is a man or woman who can read this book without a quiet acceptance of a great man’s philosophy and a singing in the heart as of music born within, that man or woman is indeed dead to life and truth.”

Read Rumi at certain intervals in your life, and you will find that the poems that impacted you in one way, will change into something meaningful in your current life. Continue to read Rumi and you will be inspired."