What it is: A brilliant book distinguishing relating with others consciously and unconsciously.
Description: This book helps the reader learn how to create structures for conscious relating. These ideas assist in dealing with breakdowns by helping people understanding how to honor each individual as well as the relationship as a whole.
Anecdote: Before being introduced to the ideas in this book, I somehow didn’t realize that we each have our own way of “expecting” other’s to be in the world. I’ve found so much freedom through the implementation of these ideas in my life — what a brilliant gift!
What it is: Originally made in the 1970s, during the renaissance of the women’s spirituality movement, this tarot deck is unusual in that the cards are round and the images are women, and goddess-based. Symbols are taken from women-centered rituals and based in non-western (and some western) global cultures.
What it is: This book provides an easy-to-use template for thinking through what kind of a person is your “perfect customer” and even more importantly, how you might attract that “perfect customer” into your life. And even though they use the word “customer,” it’s really about attracting whatever you want into your life: the perfect partner, job, friend…whatever!
Location: SOMA/Mission district of San Francisco, CA What it is: The Authentic Man Program (AMP) presents an opportunity for you, or any man, to get really curious about who he is. This course gave me the tools to feel and understand that the way other people experience me is different, sometimes drastically, from the way I might expect or hope for them to experience me.
At the risk of being slightly dramatic, the best way I can describe it is this: take the movie “The Matrix,” and imagine that you were in the matrix a few days before the events of the movie occur. Even if you ran into Neo and started telling him everything that was about to happen to him — about how the world is actually a computer simulation, that he’s actually asleep in some field somewhere, all of it — there’s no words you could speak such that he would actually understand on a deep level what’s about to happen to him. You just have to do it to get it.
Location: New York, New York What it is: Momentum Education is a New York-based company whose focus is on adult transformational education. Momentum Education is comprised of a collection of workshops: The Basic, The Advanced, and Leadership. The workshops encourage breakthrough learning experiences which support participants in realizing their full potential. The work is presented in an interactive and comfortable environment.
What it is: The Secret is based on a concept called, “the law of attraction” and teaches its principles through interviews with various authors and experts in the fields of psychology, metaphysics, finance, and personal development. The Secret’s basic tenet is that by changing the way you think and focusing on what you really want, you can have anything. Thoughts become things.
What it is: The full title of the book, “A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire” is a pretty damn good description. A ‘How To’ guide of sorts for men about the big 3 in life, told with an in-your-face honesty. Not for the weak of heart.