Preferred Books, Magazines and Websites
We recommend the following resources.
Books
Parenting:
Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child,
Katie Allison Granju
Breakthrough Parenting for Children with Special Needs, Judith Winter
Expecting Adam, A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic, Martha Beck
Homemaking as a Social Art, Veronika van Duin
Parenting for a Peaceful World, Robin Grille
Raising A Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman,
Jeanne Elium & Don Elium
The Continuum Concept, Jean Liedloff
The First Three Years of the Child, Karl Konig
The Paradox of Natural Mothering, Chris Bobel
The Parent’s Tao Te Ching, William Martin
You Are Your Child’s First Teacher, Rahima Baldwin Dancy
Emotional Intelligence:
Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method, Ron Kurtz
Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most, Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen
The Heart of Social Change, Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
In Need of Special Understanding, Karl Konig
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life – by psychologist Marshall Rosenberg. He has been an international conflict resolution mediator for 40 years throughout 35 countries. He founded a worldwide network of trainers who use his four-step model for expressing and listening.
- Facts (vs. evaluation or exaggeration)
- Feelings (emotion vs. I feel like you…)
- Needs/desires (clarify the larger issue)
- Request (measurable and provides an opportunity for success)
- Let go, detach from the outcome. It’s not a demand.
The Subject Tonight Is Love, Hafiz
We Can Work It Out, by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Peter A. Levine / Ann Frederick
Neurology and the Brain:
Movement Based Learning for Children of All Abilities, Cecilia Koester, M.Ed.
The Churkendoose Anthology, Judith Bluestone and Lisa Brenner
The Fabric of Autism: Weaving the Threads Into a Cogent Theory, Judith Bluestone
The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine, M.D.
The Well Balanced Child, Sally Goddard Blythe
20/20 is Not Enough: The New World of Vision, Dr. Arthur S. Seiderman and
Dr. Steven E. Marcus
Education & Play:
How Children Learn,John Holt
The Dominance Factor: How Knowing Your Dominant Eye, Ear, Brain, Hand & Foot Can Improve Your Learning, Carla Hannaford, Ph.D.
The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.
The Power of Play, David Elkind, Ph.D.
The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity, Rudolf Steiner
The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom, Mary Griffith
The Tao of Bow Wow: Understanding & Training Your Dog the Taoist Way,
Deborah Wood
The Well Balanced Child: Movement and Early Learning, Sally Goddard Blythe
The Extra Lesson; Sleep: An Unobserved Element, Audrey McAllen
The Well Balanced Child and Reflexes, Learning, and Behavior: A Teacher’s Window into the Child’s Mind, and What Babies and Children Really Need, Sally Goddard-Blythe
Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head, Carla Hannaford.
What’s Going On In There? How the Brain Develops in The First Four years of Life, L. Eliot
Awakening:
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Eckhart Tolle
A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson
A Thousand Names for Joy, Byron Katie
Each Moment is the Universe, Dainin Katagiri
Emptiness Dancing, Adyashanti
I Am That, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Loving What Is, Byron Katie
One Dharma, Joseph Goldstein
The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma, Life and Teachings of a 20th Century Indian Saint, Biography by Alexander Lipski
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography, Sidney Poitier
The Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chodron
The Wonder of Presence and the Way of Meditative Inquiry,Toni Packer
Tuesdays with Morie, Mitch Albom
When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron
A Psychology of Body, Soul, and Spirit, Rudolf Steiner
Magazines
Kindred: One Family, One World (Australia)
kindredmagazine.com.au
011-61-02-6684-4353
Mothering: Natural Family Living
mothering.com
Subscription Orders: 800-984-8116
Mother Jones – Smart, Fearless Journalism
motherjones.com
800-438-6656
Shambhala Sun: Buddhism, Culture, Meditation, Life
shambhalasun.com
Subscription Orders: 877-786-1950
Websites
Adyashanti: adyashanti.org
Beaver Run Special School: beaverrun.org/homepage/home.php
Bikram Yoga: bikramyogagvnc.com/
Camp Augusta: campaugusta.org/
The Center for Nonviolent Communication: cnvc.org/
Marlies Cocheret: marliescocheret.com/
Conductive Learning Center: aquinas.edu/clc/
A New Way of Thinking: disabilityisnatural.com
Family Hope Center: familyhopecenter.org
First Class Reaches Beyond Labels to Enhance Human Functioning: firstclassdlr.com
H.A.N.D.L.E. Institute: handle.org/
Hakomi Institute: hakomiinstitute.com/
Maya Hill, Artist: windstoneeditions.com/
Dr. Susan Johnson: youandyourchildshealth.org/
Monique Martineau, Feminine Leadership and Coaching: moniquemartineau.com/
Move to Learn: movetolearn.com.au/
Jackie Mason: designedformovement.com
New Dimensions Media: newdimensions.org/
New horizons for Learning: newhorizons.org/
Rudolph Steiner College: steinercollege.org/index.html
Julie Salisbury: inspireabook.com/
Susan Kurtz Graphics: susankurtzgraphics.com/
Upledger Institute: upledger.com/
It Happens All The Time In Heaven
It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day
It will begin to happen
Again on earth –
That men and women who are married,
And men and men who are
Lovers,
And women and women
Who give each other
Light,
Often will get down on their knees
And while so tenderly
Holding their lover’s hand,
With tears in their eyes,
Will sincerely speak, saying,
“My dear,
How can I be more loving to you;
How can I be more
Kind?”
- Hafiz, The Subject Tonight is Love