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READING REFERENCE

Readings specific to NVC

 

  • Eckert, Holly; Graduating From Guilt

  • Hart, Sura and Kindle Hodson, Victoria; The No-Fault Classroom

  • Hart, Sura and Kindle Hodson, Victoria; Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids

  • Haskvitz, Sylvia; Eat By Choice, Not By Habit

  • Kashtan, Inbal; Parenting from Your Heart

  • Killian, Dian and Connor, Jane; Connecting Across Differences, 2nd Ed.

  • Lasater, Ike; Words That Work in Business

  • Larsson, Liv; Anger, shame and guilt, reclaiming power and choice

  • Larsson, Liv; A helping hand, mediation with nonviolent communication

  • Leu, Lucy; Nonviolent Communication Workbook for Individual and Group Practice

  • Mackenzie, Mary; Peaceful Living

  • Miyashiro, Marie; The Empathy Factor

  • Rosenberg, Marshall; Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

  • Rosenberg, Marshall; Practical Spirituality

  • Sears, Mel; Humanizing Health Care

Related readings

 

  • Anderson, Carolyn and Roske, Katharine; The Co-Creator’s Handbook

  • Ardagh, Arjuna; The Translucent Revolution

  • Becker, Ernest; The Revolution In Psychiatry: The New Understanding Of Man;

  • Benedict, Ruth; “Synergy-Patterns Of The Good Culture;” Psychology Today  

  • Bowles, Samuel & Gintis, Herbert; Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life;

  • Buber, Martin; I and Thou.  

  • Burgess, James; Practical guide to the 7 Words system

  • Cornell, Ann Weiser; The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing;

  • Craig, James & Marguerite; Synergic Power; Berkeley, California: Proactive Press, 1979.  

  • Dass, Ram & Bush, Mirabai; Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service

  • Dass, Ram & Gorman, Paul; How Can I Help?: Stories And Reflections On Service

  • De Mello, Anthony; Awareness

  • Eisenstein, Charles; Sacred economics

  • Eisler, Riane; The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future;

  • Eisler, Riane; Sacred Pleasures: Sex, Myth and the Politics of the Body

  • Eisler, Riane; Tomorrow’s Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education for the 21st Century

  • Ellis, Albert; A Guide to Rational Living.  

  • Freire, Paulo; Pedagogy of The Oppressed

  • Fromm, Erich; Escape From Freedom

  • Fromm, Erich; The Art of Loving

  • Gatto, John Taylor; A Different kind of Teacher—Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

  • Glenn, Michael & Kunnes, Richard; Repression or Revolution

  • Glickstein, Lee; Be Heard Now!: Tap into Your Inner....  

  • Greenburg, Dan & Jacobs, Marcia; How to Make Yourself Miserable;

  • Gurdjieff, G. I.; Meetings with remarkable men

  • Hall, Mitch; Peacequest

  • Hall, Mitch; The Plague of Violence A Preventable Epidemic

  • Harvey, O.J.; Conceptual Systems And Personality Organization

  • Holt, John; How Children Fail

  • Johnson, Wendell; Living With Change

  • Katie, Byron; Loving what is

  • Katie, Byron; I need your love, is that true

  • Katie, Byron; A thousand names for joy

  • Katz, Michael; Class, Bureaucracy and Schools

  • Katz, Michael; School Reform: Past and Present

  • Kaufmann, Walter; Without Guilt and Justice  

  • Kelly, George A.; The Psychology of Personal Constructs

  • Kohn, Alfie; Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community

  • Kohn, Alfie; No Contest: The Case Against Competition

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

  • Kohn, Alfie; What to Look for in a Classroom

  • Kornfield, Jack; A Path With Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

  • Kurtz, Ernest & Ketcham, Katherine; The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Journey to Wholeness

  • Laloux, Frederic; Reinventing Organizations

  • Lerner, Michael; Spirit Matters

  • Lyons, Gracie; Constructive Criticism

  • Maslow, Abraham; Toward a Psychology of Being

  • McLaughlin, Corinne & Davidson, Gordon; Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out

  • Milgram, Stanley; Obedience to Authority

  • Miller, Alice; For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence; translated by Hunter Hannum & Hildegarde Hannum

  • Muller, Wayne; Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest

  • Muller, Wayne; How, Then, Shall We Live?

  • Nagler, Michael N.; Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future

  • Palmer, Helen; The Enneagram

  • Parsons, Tony; Nothing being everything

  • Parsons, Tony; All there is

  • Parsons, Tony; The open secret

  • Postman, Neil & Weingartner, Charles; The Soft Revolution: a Student Handbook for Turning Schools Around

  • Postman, Neil & Weingartner, Charles; Teaching As A Subversive Activity.  

  • Powell, John; The Secret of Staying in Love

  • Powell, John; Why am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?

  • Remen, Rachel Naomi; My Grandfather’s Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging

  • Riso, Don, Hudson, Russ, The wisdom of the Enneagram

  • Rogers, Carl, with E.T. Gendlin, D.J. Kiesler, & C.B. Truax (Eds.); The Therapeutic Relationship and Its Impact: a Study of Psychotherapy with Schizophrenics

  • Rogers, Carl; Freedom to Learn

  • Rogers, Carl; On Personal Power

  • Ross, Rupert; Returning to the Teachings, Exploring Aboriginal Justice

  • Ryan, William; Blaming the Victim

  • Scharmer, Otto; Theory U

  • Scheff, Thomas; Labeling Madness

  • Schmookler, Andrew Bard; Out Of Weakness: Healing The Wounds That Drive Us To War

  • Sharp, Gene; Social Power and Political Freedom

  • Tolle, Eckhart; The Power of Now

  • Tolle, Eckhart; A New Earth

  • Wheatley, Margaret; Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, 2006.

  • Whyte, David; Crossing the Unknown Seat: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity

  • Wink, Walter; Engaging The Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination (The Powers, Vol 3)

  • Wink, Walter; The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium

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