
WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldmann Barrett
As I’ve been putting the finishing touches on our new Managing Emotions in Conflict online course, this book has become my essential reference source. The book explains complex concepts in simple language, with many practical (and often entertaining) examples. The book will challenge many things

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
The Nagoski sisters wrote this book for any woman who has felt overwhelmed and exhausted by everything she had to do, and yet still worried she was not doing “enough”. Sound familiar? With backgrounds as a sex educator and a choral conductor, they might seem

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: The Book of Human Emotions by Tiffany Watt Smith
This book is a cross between a dictionary of emotion-related words and a book of poetry. Arranged in alphabetical order, it presents a sometimes whimsical description and historical overview of 156 emotion concepts, some well-known (like Anger) and others less common and no longer in

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: The Body in Coaching and Training by Mark Walsh
This book is a terrific introduction to integrating the body into the work we do. It is well written, provides easy to understand information about research on somatic…and includes many very practical activities to do yourself and to use with individuals and groups in coaching

Invent your own emotion
While I was preparing our Working with Emotions in Conflict online course, I came across a great exercise and I’m going to challenge you all to participate! It’s from Lisa Feldman Barrett‘s book How Emotions are Made (an essential book in this field). As you may

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: When Stories Clash by Gerald Monk and John Winslade
When Stories Clash: Addressing Conflict with Narrative Mediation by Gerald Monk and John Winslade In this short book, Monk and Winslade provide an overview of how they use narrative mediation to help people in conflict separate themselves from their conflict stories and to develop a
