Books

The Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics A Guide and Resource for Professional Relationships by Cedar Barstow -  "Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics is a dynamic, inspiring, and relational approach to ethical awareness. In a time of great misuse of power, it offers sound guidance for an emerging ethic that brings compassion to power. Original and engaging, the approach highlights four dimensions of personal and professional power: Be Informed, Be Compassionate, Be Connected, Be Skillful. This book provides the skills to use power with heart."

Indigenous Healing Psychology by Richard Katz - A look at finding balance in the field of psychology that acknowledges relationality as a way of being.

The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm -  "Most of us are unable to develop our capacities for love on the only level that really counts: a love that is accompanied by maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. Learning to love, like other arts, demands practice and concentration. Even more than any other art it demands genuine insight and understanding." 

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec - " Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land, to one another, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity? Braiding together historical, scientific, and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the vivid threads of communal memory, Krawec crafts a stunning, forceful call to "unforget" our history."

More to come...

Virtues Project - 'Cultivating Character Around The World'

Right Use of Power - Being in 'Right Relationship' with power

Intergifted  'What is Giftedness?'

More to come... 

'The Art of Heart' is a blog about living with heart in everything we do, understanding ourselves and others with compassion and grace while still holding ourselves and others accountable to our global virtues and values that support rather than destroy. 

Understanding the Window of Tolerance - A video by Sussex Partnership Foundation and Trust that explains the window of tolerance, what happens when it shrinks and how to help expand the window for increased capacity to tolerate emotions.

Anxiety Candada - Fight, Flight, Freeze - This is a short video (aimed at teens, but great for adults too!) to help understand the nervous system response that creates what we know as 'anxiety'.