Book Study Group

Deepen your connections and your understanding.

Book Study Group
Book Study Group

Session 1 , 01/28/2025

Session 2 , 02/25/2025

Session 3 , 04/01/2025

Book Study Group

Session 1 , 04/29/2025

Session 2 , 05/27/2025

Session 3 , 06/24/2025

Book Study Group

Session 1 , 07/29/2025

Session 2 , 08/26/2025

Session 3 , 09/30/2025

Book Study Group

Session 1 , 10/28/2025

Session 2 , 11/25/2025

Session 3 , 12/30/2025

Expand your knowledge base

Engage in a three-months long study

This warm, open and inviting group reads books together on topics germane to coaching, spirituality, development, trauma, etc. Each month the group engages in a discussion with each and the author.

How it works:

We’ll send some provocative study questions; all you do is read and connect to Zoom for the calls. The group reconstitutes itself each quarter and is composed of new participants and several returning members, some of whom have been in this Study Group together for many years.

Past authors include Michael Meade, Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey, Ann Weiser-Cornell, David Whyte, Marshall Rosenberg, A.H. Almaas, Malcolm Gladwell, Bill Torbert, Wendy Palmer, Meg Wheatley, Juanita Brown, Otto Scharmer, Loch Kelly, and many more.

Winter Quarter 2025

All calls take place in Pacific Time. Convert to local time here.

Ann Weiser Cornell, author of Untangling: How You Can Transform What’s Impossibly Stuck

January 28, 2025, 5-7pm PT

What if the problems in your life that seem impossible to solve are actually the key to your greatest growth? Untangling®, a method created by two experts in inner awareness, reveals that being “stuck” isn’t an endpoint, but a clue to where transformation can occur. These problems, called Tangles, are full of conflicting inner Parts waiting to heal and release their energy. Through Untangling, you can learn how to resolve these conflicts and shift from stuckness to flow. Are you ready to turn your most persistent struggles into opportunities for growth?

Richard Strozzi-Heckler, author of Embodying the Mystery: Somatic Wisdom for Emotional, Energetic, and Spiritual Awakening

February 25, 2025, 5-7pm PT

Richard Strozzi-Heckler, a founding elder of the Somatics movement, shares profound stories spanning seven decades, exploring embodiment, meditation, aikido, and leadership. From an early encounter with death revealing impermanence to apprenticeships with masterful teachers, out-of-body journeys, meditation retreats in Asia, martial arts training in Japan, and confronting his father’s trauma, his experiences illuminate a transformative path.

Each story includes reflections and inquiries, inviting readers to engage with his quest for self-realization. Through successes, failures, and struggles, Strozzi-Heckler reveals the wisdom gained from teachers, practices, and community, offering deep insights into the embodied spiritual journey toward growth and awakening.

Roxanne Cameron, author of THE COACH ON MY SHOULDER: Twelve Executive Coaching Practices to Optimize Leadership Intelligence (LI)

April 1, 2025, 5-7pm PT

The Coach on My Shoulder redefines executive coaching by equipping coaches with tools for transformational change. Roxanne Cameron blends theory and practice, presenting 12 proven executive coaching practices to address common leadership challenges. Drawing on over 20 years of international coaching experience, the book provides actionable insights, practical tools, and client stories to enhance coaching effectiveness.

These coaching practices can be adapted to most coaching methodologies, organizational cultures, leadership styles, and roles. Key features include the Three Levels of Coaching, which provide a coherent framework for diverse coaching activities, and the Four Qualities of Presence, essential for leadership intelligence.

The book also explores strategies for developing leadership presence, offering practical guidance on cultivating resilience, reframing limiting beliefs, inspiring others, and empowering adaptive problem-solving. This comprehensive resource enables coaches to foster transformational change and help leaders achieve impactful business outcomes.

Fall Quarter 2024

All calls take place in Pacific Time. Convert to local time here.

Glenn Wallis, author of Nietzsche Now!: The Great Immoralist on the Vital Issues of Our Time

October 29, 2024, 5-7pm PT

For readers both acquainted with and new to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche NOW! frames and explains Nietzsche’s thinking on topics of immediate contemporary concern and relevance. Wallis unpacks Nietzsche’s complex philosophy with a deft, empathetic, and brilliantly subtle analysis of the views of the Great Immoralist on democracy, identity, civilization, consciousness, religion, and other momentous topics. Throughout, Wallis includes ample extracts from Nietzsche himself.

Rather than skirting what is controversial or editing for easy consumption, Wallis invites readers to exercise a courageous curiosity that yields a rich, nuanced understanding of Nietzsche. In Nietzsche NOW! he takes readers on a sometimes counterintuitive, always revelatory journey to grasp the relevance of Nietzsche for our contentious times.

Ulrich Baer, editor and translator of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Nietzsche on Love

November 26, 2024, 5-7pm PT

Friedrich Nietzsche presented many of his greatest insights in pithy, well-turned short phrases that do not follow any philosophical dogma. Instead, his chastening but ultimately life-affirming philosophy puts forth true love and friendship as our best hope in dark times. Here are Nietzsche’s key sayings about love from the vast body of his philosophical writings, which have influenced politics, philosophy, art and culture like few other works of world literature.

As the first edition of its kind, this collection presents Nietzsche’s thoughts on love not as academic philosophy but as a guide to life. At turns delightful and astute—and always wise—Nietzsche on Love offers an original and startling glimpse into what one of the world’s foremost thinkers says about the fundamental experience of our lives.

Charles Spinosa, one of the authors of Leadership as Masterpiece Creation: What Business Leaders Can Learn from the Humanities about Moral Risk-Taking

December 30, 2024, 5-7pm PT

How leaders can take the moral risks necessary to create “masterpieces”—admirable, distinctive, and high-achieving businesses that create meaningful lives for customers, employees, and themselves.

In Leadership as Masterpiece Creation, Charles Spinosa, Matthew Hancocks, and Haridimos Tsoukas show how the humanities can help leaders create profitable, masterpiece organizations. Such organizations, they assert, are ones that possess the emotional and moral sensibilities of an artist, the wisdom of a statesperson, and the technical know-how of commerce. The authors draw on the works of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bernard Williams, Shakespeare, and Machiavelli to conceptualize moral risk-taking, and then on the actions of Churchill, Madam C. J. Walker, Anita Roddick, Jeff Bezos, and others to show how the humanities can help create admirable businesses today.

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