Coaching resources are drawn from many disciplines and are too numerous to list. This short bibliography contains foundational books critical to an understanding of coaching practice and philosophy.

Caldwell, Christine. Getting Our Bodies Back. Boston: Shambala Publications, 1996
Incredible models and crystalline clarity focused on the body as the path to freedom from painful, recurring behavioral patterns.

Covey, Stephen R. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989
A presentation of seven practices that lead to private and public victories. Each chapter has recommendations for moving into action.

DeBono, Edward. Serious Creativity. New York: HarperCollins, 1992
A prolific writer on this subject, in this book, deBono provides an easily accessible model (the hats) with immediate application.

Flaherty, James J. Coaching:Evoking Excellence in Others. Newton, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005
An introductory text that provides an intellectual foundation and methodology for coaching. Includes examples, models and the role of the body.

Fromm, Erich. To Have or To Be? New York: Harper & Row, 1976
The way we respond to the title determines if our lives will be dedicated to greed or to the fulfillment of our natures

Gallagher, Winifred. The Power of Place. New York: Posiedon Press, 1993
A well research and easy to read reference on the ways our surroundings shape our thoughts, emotions and behavior,

Johnson, Mark and George Lakoff. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: the University of Chicago press, 1980
Change the metaphor and change forever the world view, e.g. what if time weren’t really money?

Judith, Anodea. Eastern Body, Western Mind. Berkeley: celestial Arts, 1996
A clear and practical exploration of the chakra system through western psychology. Replete with practices.

Kegan, Robert and Lisa Laskow Lahey. How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001
This book not only deals with the “how” of transformation but the most central reasons why people and organizations are committed to NOT changing.

Lewis Thomas, M.D and Fari Amini, M.D, Richard Lannon, M.D. A General Theory of Love. U New York: Random House, 2000
A poetically written discourse on the psychobiology of love that provides extraordinary insight into the roles of our nervous system, early caretakers and whom we chose to love.

Palmer, Wendy. The Intuitive Body. Berkeley: north Atlantic Books 1999
A methodology, based on Aikido, yet not only for martial artisits, for cultivating awareness, attention and self-acceptance written with brilliant clarity and simplicity.

Seagal, Sandra and David Horne. Human Dynamics. Cambridge: Pegasus Communications, Inc. 1997
A beautifully written, well grounded (20 yeas of research, 40,000participants) theory on different types of humans and the best ways to build teams incorporating them.

Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline. London: Random House, 1990
An easy to follow description of the technologies of ‘the learning organizations’ which includes systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, building shared vision and team learning.

Stone, Douglas and Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen. Difficult Conversations. New York: Penguin Books, 2000
Based on 15 years of research by the Harvard Negotiation Project, this book provides a roadmap through tough talks on anxiety producing subjects. Written clearly and providing many examples, it is based on a broad array of disciplines.

Tannen Deborah, Ph.D. You Just Don’t Understand. New York:Ballentine Books, 1990
Thoughtfully researched explanation of the differing styles of communication between women and men and how these affect their world view,

Trungpa, Chogyam. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1973
A death blow to using spiritual values or powers to get ahead in life. A razor for separating the egotistical from the compassionate by Tibetan Buddhist master who founded the Naropa Institue.

Wilber, Ken. A Brief Hisory of Everything. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1996
Wilber uses a question-answer format to cover vast domains of knowledge from philosophy to biology, spirituality to economics. He fits all this into a vast, complex model, robust enough to hold up to intense scrutiny. It proves useful in applications across disciplines. This is a classic introduction to the work of the world’s greatest polymath.

Yalom, Irvin D. Existential Pyschotherapy. New York: HarperCollins,1980
Cogent and clear in its discussion of the ultimately unavoidable human issues – death, loneliness, meaninglessness-and the huge suffering that occurs when we try to avoid them.