Recommended Books

Art & Creativity

The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images
by Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS)

Evening in the Palace of Reason
by James R. Gaines

Leonardo Da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson

New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy
Edited by Ellen and Stephen Levine

The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
by John Daido Loori

A Book Of Luminous Things
by Czesław Miłosz

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
by William Zinsser

Business

Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions
by Insoo Kim Berg, Peter Szabo

Consulting Essentials: The Art and Science of People, Facts, and Frameworks
by Jeff Kavanaugh

Book Yourself Solid Illustrated
by Michael Port

The Human Workplace
by Andy Swann

F**k Work Let’s Play
by John Williams

Design

The Elements of Typographic Style
by Robert Bringhurst

Engaged
by Amy Bucher

Ruined by Design
by Mike Monteiro

Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity
by Chris Risdon and Patrick Quattlebaum

Embodiment

Trauma and the Unbound Body
by Judith Blackstone

Your Body is Your Brain
by Amanda Blake

Becoming Yourself
by Avi Grinberg

In an Unspoken Voice
by Peter A. Levine

My Grandmother's Hands
by Resmaa Menakem

Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
by Philip Shepherd

Sharing Breath: Embodied Learning and Decolonization
edited by Sheila Batacharya and Yuk-Lin Renita Wong

Gender & Sexuality

Iron John: A Book About Men
by Robert Bly

I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)
by Brené Brown

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
by Angela Chen

Homosexuality and Civilization
by Louis Crompton

The Highly Sensitive Man
by Tom Falkenstein

Amateur: A Reckoning with Gender, Identity, and Masculinity
by Thomas Page McBee

Human Relations

Talk2MorePeople: Change Your Life by Meeting People
by Tony Esteves

Global Dexterity
by Andy Molinsky

Coaching A to Z
by Haesun Moon

So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
by Nedra Glover Tawwab

Learning & Development

Make It Stick
by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, et al.

Design for How People Learn
by Julie Dirksen

The Overweight Brain
by Lois Holzman

The Courage to Teach
by Parker J. Palmer

How People Learn
by Nick Shackleton-Jones and Dr. Roger Schank

Meaning & Purpose

The Purpose Factor
by Brian Bosché & Gabrielle Bosché

Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl

At Home in the World
by John Hill

Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey
by James Hollis

Mindfulness & Meditation

The Fullness of the Ground
by Judith Blackstone

The Power of Focusing
by Ann Weiser Cornell

Shift into Freedom
by Loch Kelly

Silent Illumination
by Guo Gu

Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
by David A. Treleaven

Awakening The Luminous Mind
by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Nature

The Spell of the Sensuous
by David Abram

Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
by Naomi Klein

The Hidden Life of Trees
by Peter Wohlleben

Neuroscience

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Brain That Changes Itself
by Norman Doidge

The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
by Iain McGilchrist

The Embodied Mind 
by Thomas R. Verny

Philosophy

To Have or To Be?
by Erich Fromm

Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu

The Wisdom of Insecurity
by Alan Watts

Psychology

The Highly Sensitive Person
by Elaine N. Aron

Power in the Helping Professions
by Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig

It’s Not Always Depression
by Hilary Jacobs Hendel

Man and His Symbols
by C.G. Jung, et al.

Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman

Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
by Jenny T. Wang

History & Society

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
by Daniel J. Boorstin

This Place: 150 Years Retold
by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Chelsea Vowel, Katherena Vermette , et al.

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande

21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
by Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté

A Short History of Progress
by Ronald Wright

Spirituality

The Unfolding Now
by A.H. Almaas

Belonging Here
by Judith Blackstone

Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir
by Robert A. Johnson

The Recognition Sūtras
by Rājānaka Kṣemarāja and Christopher Wallis

Pilgrims to Openness
by Shambhavi Sarasvati

The Marriage of Spirit 
by Leslie Temple-Thurston

Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations
by Richard Wagamese

Wellbeing

A Simpler Life
by The School of Life, Ryan Bartaby

The Sedona Method
by Hale Dwoskin

Tiny Habits
by BJ Fogg

Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing
by Eric Langshur, Nate Klemp

Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life
by Michael Mosley

Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements
by Tom Rath and Jim Harter