Reading List: Advanced


Required Reading Before Attending the Advanced Mentor Training

We want our Mentors to read, or re-read, the following books (or certain pages and chapters in them) before attending the Advanced Retreat, so the material is fresh in their mind.

Awakening the Heroes Within, by Carol Pearson
Read: Chapters 1-10. Please take the test to determine your own archetype "score."

Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions, by Insoo Kim Berg and Peter Szabo. (2005)
(This is a new listing on the Level One Reading List, replacing Interviewing for Solutions by Insoo Kim Berg…because this is a much easier read and less expensive, too. Try to get it used.)

Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth, by Wolkstein, Diane and Samuel Noah Kramer.  
Read: Inanna's Descent and related notes, pp. 52-89. pp. 127-135; 155-163; 189-193.

Read the story online.

The Four Agreements, by Miguel Ruiz

Birthing  From  Within
Read Section VII:  Gestating Parenthood, pp. 256-279.

Our Keepsake Journal
Read Section Eight: A Gentle & Mindful Transition to Parenthood, pp. 176-222; and Section Nine: Preserving Memories of Your Pregnancy & Birth, pp. 228-267.

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 Advanced Mentor HomeStudy Reading List

 A more detailed list of books and reading assignments is provided to Mentors upon enrollment.

Interviewing for Solutions, by Insoo Kim Berg and Peter DeJong. 

Doing What Works in Brief Therapy, by Ellen Quick

Life, Paint and Passion or Point Zero  Creativity Without Limits, by Michele Cassou

Questions to Awaken Your Creative Power to the Fullest, by Michele Cassou  

Awakening the Heroes Within, by Carol Pearson

The Craft of the Warrior, by Robert L. Spencer (second edition, 2006)

Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth, by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer    

  ANY TWO BOOKS ABOUT PREGNANCY & BIRTH

 

  ANY TWO BOOKS ABOUT POSTPARTUM & PARENTING

  ONE BOOK ON NEWBORNS AND BABIES

  ONE BOOK OR ARTICLE ON NUTRITION DURING PREGNANCY & LACTATION

 

Choose one of the following:

  NLP: The New Technology, by Steve Andreas and Charles Falkner

Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, MD. Volume I, by Richard Bandler and John Grinder

Training Trances, by John Overdurf and Julie Silverthorn

Optional:

BOOKS ON RITUAL AND CEREMONY