Other Resources

I frequently suggest the following as additional resources:
(listed alphabetically; highly recommended if indicated **)

Books:

Anger

  • Facing The Fire (John Lee) **
  • The Dance Of Anger (Harriet Lerner)
  • The Dance Of Intimacy (Harriet Lerner)
  • The Anger Work-Out Book (Weisinger)

Grief

  • How To Survive The Loss Of A Love (Colgrove et al)

Stress

  • Full Catastrophic Living (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

Relationships

  • Getting The Love You Want---Couples (Harville Hendrix) **
  • Keeping The Love You Find---Singles (Harville Hendrix)
  • Making Peace With Your Parents (Harold Bloomfield)**
  • Passage To Intimacy (Lori Gordon)
  • Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work (John Gottman) **
  • Relationship Rescue (Phil McGraw)

Gender Issues

  • Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (Warren Farrell) **

Parenting

  • 1-2-3 Magic (Videotape and Booklet, Thomas Phelan) **
  • Surviving Your Adolescents (Thomas Phelan) **
  • Winning At Parenting (Videotape and Book, Barbara Coloroso) **

NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming)

  • Principles of NLP (O'Connor & McDermott) **
  • Successful Selling With NLP (O'Connor & Prior)

Human Growth

  • On Becoming A Person (Carl Rogers)
  • The Road Less Traveled (M. Scott Peck) **
  • A Brief History Of Everything (Ken Wilbur) **

ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)

  • Attention Deficit Disorder In Adults (Lynn Weiss)
  • You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! (Kelly and Ramundo)

Business/Career

  • How To Get Control Of Your Time and Your Life (Alan Lakein)
  • Leaders (Bennis and Nanus)
  • What Color Is Your Parachute (Richard Bolles) - updated yearly.

Workshops (mainly for the greater Toronto area):

Couples Workshops

Jim and Jean Brown, Guelph ON
(Couple Therapy)
519-837-0570

Marriage Encounter

Queen Of Apostles Renewal Centre, Mississauga ON
905-278-5229

Journal Writing (Progoff Journal workshops) **

Guelph Centre of Spirituality, Loyola House, Guelph ON
519-824-1250x266

Meditation Retreats

Vipassana Meditation Society of Ontario
www.torana.dhamma.org/

Vipassana Support Institute, Burlington ON
866-666-0874, http://www.shinzen.org

Anxiety/Addiction

Recovery, Alcoholics Anonymous and others (local chapters most areas)

Growth Intensives

Shalom Mountain Study and Retreat Center, Livingston Manor NY **
845-482-5421 (www.shalommountain.com)