Break the Contract Podacst resources
Episode One
Kaminoff, L. 2010 [Audio CD] Freeing the Breath: Health, Relaxation and Clarity through Better Breathing. Sounds True: Boulder, CO.
Race and Resilience. Michelle Johnson and Kerri Kelly
Episode Two
TED Talks
Brene Brown: Shame and Vulnerabilty (two separate TED talks)
Susan David: The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage
Valerie Kaur: 3 Lessons of Revolutionary Love in a Time of Rage
Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language may Shape who You are
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We Should all be feminists
Elizabeth Nyamayaro: an invitation to men who want a better world for women
Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the treatment of women is the number one human rights abuse
Anne Marie Slaughter: Can we have it all
Marti Spiegelman: Exploring Global Consciousness
Scilla Elworthy: How to deal with a bully without becoming a thug?
Jamilla Reqib: The Secret to Effective Non-violent Resistance
Emiliano Salinas: A civil response to violence
Mellody Hobson: Color Blind or Color Brave
Verna Myers: How to overcome our Biases? Walk bravely toward them.
Naoko Ishii: An economic case for saving the planet
Triona McGrath: How pollution is changing the oceans chemistry
Sylvia Earle: Wish to save the ocean
Elizabeth Lindsey: Curating Humanities Heritage
Jackson Katz on Violence against Women
Michelle C. Johnson on Race and Activism: There is No Neutral
Poetry
My Revolution Lives in my Body by Eve Ensler read by Rosario Dawson
Start Close In by David Whyte
Articles
Mindsight at Work by Dr. Daniel Siegel and Debra Pierce McCall
Nature is Risky in NY Times Opinion by Heather E. Heying
Executive Unlearning by Mark Bonchek in Harvard Business Review
The Art of Unlearning by Bruce Dixon
Unlearning: a critical Element in the Learning Process by Virginia S. Lee
Native Knowledge: What Ecologists are learning from Indigenous People by Jim Robbins
Why Rewilding Matters by Chris Searles
Videos
Resources
Below are books, TED talks, poetry and articles that will support you in becoming a deeply resourced leader.
Books
Anatomy of Change by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Mindset by Carol Dweck
The Leadership Dojo by Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Extraordinary Relationships by Roberta Gilbert
Somatics by Thomas Hanna
Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
Community by Peter Block
Tapestries of Life by Bettina Apthecker
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
Liberating Structures by Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz
Loving What Is by Byron Katie
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
Daring Greatly and Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux
Start Where You Are and the Places that Scare you by Pema Chodron
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine
Moon over Water by Jessica Macbeth
Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Choice Theory by William Glasser
Widening Circles by Joanna Macy
Pioneering the Possible by Scilla Elworthy
The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible by Charles Eisenstein
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Crossing the Unknown Sea and the Three Marriages by David Whyte
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
Don't Just Do, Something Stand There by Marv Wiesbord
The Transforming Power of Affect by Diana Fosha
Surviving the Future by David Fleming
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Shambala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp
The Lover Within by Julie Henderson
The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
Love and Rage by Lama Rob Owens
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi adapted for young people by Jason Reynolds
Your Body is Your Brain by Amanda Blake
A Branch from the Lightning Tree by Martin Shaw
Leaving My Father’s House by Marion Woodman
Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
My Body My Earth by Ruby Gibson
Untamed by Glennon Doyle