Integral Coaching Bookshelf

Books from New Ventures West’s Integral Coaching Certification program.

• A Brief History of Everything, by Ken Wilber
• Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life, by Thomas Moore
• The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, by Daniel Goleman
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, by Peter M. Senge
• Getting Our Bodies Back: Recovery, Healing & Transformation through Body-Centered Psychotherapy, by Christine Caldwell
• How to Read Heidegger, by Mark Wrathall
• The Life We Are Given, by George Leonard
• A Path With Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life, by Jack Kornfield

• Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind, by Roger Walsh, MD
• I Asked for Wonder, by Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Invitation to Love: The Way of Christian Contemplation, by Thomas Keating
• No Boundary, by Ken Wilber
• Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, by Chögyam Trungpa
• The Soul’s Code, by James Hillman

• 30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers, by Judith Lasater and David Martinez
• The Anatomy of Change, by Richard Strozzi Heckler
• Being a Brain-Wise Therapist, by Bonnie Badenoch
• Beyond Power Yoga, by Beryl Bender Birch
• The Breathing Book, by Donna Farhi
• Eastern Body/Western Mind, by Anodea Judith
• Emotional Anatomy, by Stanley Keleman
• The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, by Tony Schwartz
• Focusing in Clinical Practice, by Anne Weiser Cornell
• Leadership Embodiment: How the Way We Sit and Stand Can Change the Way We Think and Speak, by Wendy Palmer.

• Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most, by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen
• A General Theory of Love, by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon
• The Tree of Knowledge, by Humberto R. Maturana & Francisco Varela
• Non-Violent Communication: A Language of Compassion, by Marshall B. Rosenberg
• You Are What You Say, by Matthew Budd, M.D. & Larry Rothstein, Ed.D.

• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
• The Real Wealth of Nations, by Riane Eisler
• The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types, by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson. 📚 Read Review

And even more foundational Integral Coaching books:

• The World is Made of Stories, by David Loy
• A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last, by Stephen Levine
• Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger’s Being and Time, by Hubert L. Dreyfus
• Understanding Computers and Cognition, by T.Winograd, F.Flores
• On the Way to Language, by Martin Heidegger
• Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, by John R. Searle
• Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, by Daniel Goleman
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
• How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, by Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett Ph.D