Being Human at Work
Bringing Somatic Intelligence Into Your Professional Life
1st Edition
Published on 14. June 2011
280 pages
978-1-58394-410-3 (ISBN)
Description
This anthology of interdisciplinary writings looks at the integration of mind, body, and spirit as it plays out in the workplace—whether in birth coaching, teaching parents, assisting the terminally ill, or working in the military, the classroom, or the corporation. These essays reveal what gets in the way of our humanity in the work world and how to rediscover that humanity. Written by leading professionals in business, education, medicine, technology, finance, psychology, and the military, this collection of essays explores how reconnecting with one's humanity can result in true leadership in any field.
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Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Being Human at Work
Bringing Somatic Intelligence Into Your Professional Life
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Richard Strozzi-Heckler is President of the Strozzi Institute, The Center for Leadership and Mastery. He has a sixth-degree black belt in aikido and a doctorate in psychology. Dr. Strozzi-Heckler has taught the principles of embodied leadership and mastery to businesses, the government, the military, non-profit organizations, health care professionals, and educators for the last thirty years. He is the author of The Anatomy of Change and In Search of the Warrior Spirit as well as the editor of Aikido and the New Warrior and Holding the Center.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Career as Calling
- Chapter 1: For the Sake of What? ~ Richard Leider
- Part Two: Leading the Way
- Chapter 2: The Leadership Dojo: Leadership as a Path of Awakening ~ Richard Strozzi-Heckler
- Chapter 3: Embodied Leaders Changing Low-Income Communities ~ Judith Rosenberg
- Chapter 4: Leading by Listening ~ Ariana Strozzi
- Part Three: Taking It to the Organization
- Chapter 5: The Body of Management ~ Robert Dunham
- Chapter 6: The Fundamentals of Practice ~ Woody Allen
- Chapter 7: Wringing out an Old Sponge: Where Personal Dysfunction Meets the Pretense of Corporate Caring ~ Tom Lutes
- Chapter 8: Leadership Development and Increased Productivity at Work ~ Peter Luzmore
- Chapter 9: Listening to Bodies Long-Distance: The Power and Possibility of Telephone Coaching ~ Suzanne Zeman
- Part Four: Taking It to Education
- Chapter 10: When the Classroom Door Swings Inward ~ Peter Reilly
- Chapter 11: The Embodied Writer: The Flesh into Word ~ Mary Michael Wagner
- Chapter 12: The Somatic Engineer ~ Peter Denning, Ph.D.
- Chapter 13: Somatics and Parenting ~ Karen Short
- Part Five: The Healing Path
- Chapter 14: Building a Better Deathbed ~ Patrick Clary, M.D.
- Chapter 15: Coming Home to the Body: A Journey for Adolescents ~ Denise Benson
- Chapter 16: Fighting for Dignity: A Somatic Approach to Addiction Medicine ~ Rich Poccia
- Chapter 17: From Deadly Dance to Dance of Delight ~ Paula Love
- Chapter 18: From Surviving to Thriving ~ Jennifer Cohen
- Chapter 19: The Power of Somatics in Sobriety ~ J. Clare Bowen-Davies
- Chapter 20: Conquering Chronic Headaches: Somatic Self-Care for Transforming Pain ~ Jan Mundo
- Chapter 21: Something Happened . ~ Michael Moran
- Part Six: The Military
- Chapter 22: A Model for Decision Making for the Military Leader: Lt. Colonel Fred Krawchuk
- Chapter 23: A Lesson in Fear ~ Capt. John Duvall, USMC
- Contributors
