RESOURCES
In this world of endless resources, how do we select what to list here?
We curate resources that align with Inner Wealth values, and add wisdom, meaning, depth to the world.
We trust in serendipity, what naturally enters our path and what we and our friends have benefitted from for our own nourishment, growth and wellbeing.
If this feels like alot of resources, we invite you to use your heart to guide you: What calls your heart?
This list will grow with us.
MOVIES, PICTURE BOOKS
Please see our Pinterest boards on movies, music and picture books.
Often mistaken as for only children, some picture books offer profound life-lessons for adults, told in a few minutes in visually evocative ways.
We think the following would be fantastic picture books for business and leadership schools:
- “Hope for the Flowers” by Trina Paulus is about not stepping on others to get ahead and to nurture your own inner transformation and service.
- “The General” by Michael Foreman is about a leader who doesn’t care about his people and falls off his horse and has an epiphany.
- And of course, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is the timeless tale for leaders on the importance of having people around them who can speak truth to their power.
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Leadership and Culture
(what we believe is important to be taught in leadership, business, public policy schools)
The Case for Servant Leadership by Kent Keith
The Servant as Leader by Robert Greenleaf
Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership by James W Sipe and Don M Frick
Coaching for Servant Leadership by Deborah Welch and Ann Mcgee Cooper
The Engaged Enterprise: A Field Guide for the Servant Leader by Joseph M. Patrnchak
The Essentials of Servant Leadership
Synchronicity: The Inner Path Of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski
Dignity in Leadership by Donna Hicks
Awakening Compassion at Work by Monia Worline and Jane Dutton
Positively Energizing Leadership, Positive Leadership and Practicing Positive Leadership by Kim Cameron
How to be a Positive Leader edited by Jane Dutton and Gretchen Spreitzer
Developing a Positive Culture where People and Performance Thrive by Marcella Bremer
The Future of the Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 50 Years, Vincent Stanley and Yvon Chouinard
Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey and Raj Sisodia
The Healing Organization by Raj Sisodia and Michael Gelb
The Fearless Organization by Amy Edmondson
Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for your People Like Family by Bob Chapman and Raj Sisodia
Care to Dare: Unleashing Astonishing Potential by Secure Base Leadership by Dr George Kohlrieser, Susan Goldsworthy and Duncan Coombe
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives our Success by Adam Grant
The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace by Gary Chapman and Paul White
Let the Story do the Work: The Art of Storytelling for Business Success by Esther K.Choy
Many articles and resources here at website of Center for Positive Organizations
Meaning in Work
Work Reimagined by Richard Leider and David Shapiro
True Work: The Sacred Dimension of Earning a Living
Callings by Dave Ishay
Calling Cards: Uncover Your Calling by Richard Leider
Education
The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
Transformation
Living deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life by Marilyn Schlitz, Cassandra Vieten, Tina Amorok
Making Change/Collective Wellbeing
The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively by Todd Kashdan
#heartivism: Gently Shaking the World by Nipun Mehta
Benefit Mindset builds on growth mindset by honouring collective wellbeing.
Relationships
Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
Nonviolent communication by Dr Marshal Rosenberg
Perfect Love, Imperfect relationships by Dr John Welwood
Dignity by Dr Donna Hicks
Love 2.0 by Dr Barbara Fredrickson
Facilitating groups
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters by Priya Parker
Facilitating Transformation: 12 Strategies for Creating Extraordinary Breakthroughs with Groups by Douglas O’Loughlin
Ego
The Journey from Ego to Soul by Dr Karen Wyatt
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
Living Well with meaning, wisdom, resilience
Mind Magic by Dr James Doty
Beyond Happiness by Anthony Seldon
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
What Doesn’t Kill Us by Stephen Joseph
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy and by Sheryl Sandbery and Adam Grant
The Courage Quotient by Robert-Biswas Diener
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
giving, in various forms
The Wisdom of Death/Grief
Life Lessons by Dr Elisabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler
A Year to Live by Stephen Levine
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
Heartwood by Barbara Becker
Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson
Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet by Dr Gary Kowalski
The Life of Death – short animation
travel
The Art of Pilgrimage by Phil Cousineau
The Way of the Traveler by Joseph Dispenza
Inspirational
Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather’s Blessings by Rachel Naomi Remen
Beauty and the Soul by Piero Ferrucci
Blessings by Julia Cameron
To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donahue
The Prayer Tree and A Common Prayer by Michael Leunig
QUESTIONS
Good questions connect us to ourselves and each other in powerful ways.
Storycorp questions for conversations with loved ones
Letters for Life questions for writing letters to loved ones (born out of grief over death and friendship between two of our team-members)
You can download the Fetzer Institute’s love, compassion and forgiveness conversation cards.
A day in the park is a comic on the beauty of collecting questions.
ORGANISATIONS
These are organisations whose service to the world inspires us deeply. Their listing here does not suggest affiliation.
Their projects include:
- Awakin.ai which is built on 25 years of their content centred around compassion and wisdom
- Awakin Calls on the inner journeys of change-makers
- ServiceSpace pods are powerful, online peer learning experiences
- Karuna News is a news source on compassion.
University of Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre
Center for Positive Organizations puts out science on thriving organisations.
The Greater Good Science Center studies psychology, sociology and the neuroscience of wellbeing, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient and compassionate society.
The Wellbeing Project catalyses a culture of inner wellbeing for changemakers.
The Charter for Compassion supports “the emerging global movement of compassion to co-create transformation at all levels, by connecting, cultivating, and encouraging networks of compassionate action.” We are a partner of the Charter.
Institute of Noetic Sciences reveals the interconnected nature of reality through scientific exploration and personal discovery.
The John Templeton Foundation funds research and catalyzes conversations that inspire people with awe and wonder.
The Pollination Project supports grassroots changemakers. Learn from them on their approach and heartivism.
The mission of the team behind the Anxious Generation is to “motivate and empower teens, parents, educators, policymakers, and tech industry leaders to act collectively to free children and adolescents from a childhood spent largely alone on screens, and instead promote independence, free play, and responsibility in the real world.”
Center for Humane Technology works towards technology that supports our collective wellbeing.
Mindful Business Charter rehumanises the workplace by identifying and removing unnecessary sources of stress. We are a signatory to this Charter.
MARKET-PLACE
These are some of the many organisations whose products and services add good to the world in various ways.