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“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” Socrates

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10.14.2021

1. Multisensory Perception and Bodily Self-Consciousness: From Out-of-Body to Inside-Body ExperienceBigna Lenggenhager, The Neural Bases of Multisensory Processes, 2012 

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2. Self and Identity across the Life Span, Dan P. McAdams & Keith S. Cox, The Handbook of Life-Span Development, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010

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3. How Many Senses Do We Have? Lisa Faldman-Barret, 2021 https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/how-many-senses-do-we-have/amp/  

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09.16.2021

1. Developing the Sense of Agency Rating Scale (SOARS): An empirical measure of agency disruption in hypnosisVince Polito, Consciousness and Cognition, 2013,

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2. The Five Elements of Trust, https://michael-sloyer.medium.com/the-five-elements-of-trust-5baec51441e6

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08.16.2021

1. The Mechanisms of Psychedelic Visionary Experiences: Hypotheses from Evolutionary Psychology, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Michael J. Winkleman, Sept, 2017

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2. Eight Weeks of Meditation https://neurosciencenews.com/meditation-consciousness-quickness-19112/

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08.01.2021

1. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan, 2018 (Reread)

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07.04.2021

1. Develomental Coaching to Support the Transition to Self-Authorship, Carolyn Coughlin, New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, WIley, 2015

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06.22.2021

1. Deconstruction and Therapy, Michael White, Dulwich Center Newsletter, 1991

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05.15.2021

1. Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime, Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 2013

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04.25.2021

1. The Psychological Self as Actor, Agent, and Author, Dan P. McAdams, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Sage Pubs, 2013

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03.15.2021

1. Finite and Infinite Games, A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility, James Carse, 1986. a reread (3x)

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02.21.2121

1. This Chair Rocks, A Manifesto Against Ageism, Ashton Applewhite

2016

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11.16.2020

1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Elizabeth Wilkerson, 2020

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2. Mapping the self in the brain's default mode network https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811916001294

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3. Seven sins in the study of emotion: correctives from affective neuroscience, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12812811/ 

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4. Brain and Society Program, USC: https://dornsife.usc.edu/bci/brain-and-society/

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10.30.20

1. Panarchy: https://www.resalliance.org/panarchy 

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2. Politics & Perceptionhttps://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_political_polarization_looks_like_in_the_brain

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3. Mindfulness and Personality: More natural for some than others and how it matters: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-72353-001

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4. Consciousness as evolution-based attention and prediction: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-purpose/202010/is-consciousness-illusion

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5. Is Spirituality a Component of Wisdom?  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022395620309997?via%3Dihub

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09.28.20 

1. What My Sled Dogs Taught Me About Planning for the Unknown https://nyti.ms/33Rpc2H

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2. Leaders are not Deciders, they are Decision Architects  https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanderark/2020/09/27/leaders-are-not-the-chief-decider-they-are-decision-architects/  

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Publications

Chapter 7: Developing High-Potential Leaders, by Kevin O'Gorman, pp. 173-190, in the Center for Creative Leadership Handbook for Coaching in Organizations, 2015

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Chapter 7: pp. 173-190 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Center_for_Creative_Leadership_Handb/5Q1sBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover:

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Book: https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Leadership-Handbook-Coaching-Organizations/dp/1118841484 

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