Influences

A Partial List of Reading that Influenced
the What's Your Tree Curriculum

Purpose and Spirituality

• A General Theory Of Love, Thomas Lewis MD., Fari Amini MD. - Richard Lannon MD.
• A Little Book On the Human Shadow - Robert Bly
• A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
• A Path With Heart - Jack Kornfield
• Calling the Circle - Christina Baldwin
  
• Chalice & the Blade – Riane Eisler
• Coming Back to Life - Joanna Macy
  
• Diamond Heart - A.H.Almaas
• Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell
• Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• Mind Games: The Guide to Inner Space – Robert Masters & Jean Houston
• No Boundary - Ken Wilber
• On Fear - Krishnamurti
• Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren
• Start Where You Are - Pema Chodron
• Taming Your Gremlin - Rick Carson
• The Denial Of Death - Ernest Becker
• The Essential Enneagram - David Daniels MD., Virginia Price PHD.
• The Fear Book - Cheri Huber
• The Fifth Sacred Thing – Starhawk
• The Four Agreements, A practical guide to personal freedom - Don Miguel Ruiz
• The Miracle of Mindfulness - Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Places that Scare You - Pema Chodron
• The Power of Foucusing - Ann Weiser Cornell PHD
• The Power of Place, How our surroundings shape our thoughts, emotions and actions - Winifred Gallagher
• The Wisdom Of Insecurity - Alan Watts
• There is Nothing Wrong With You - Cheri Huber
• To Be Human - J. Krishnamurti
• Traveling Mercies- Anne Lamott
• What Should I Do With My Life? (the true story of people who answered the ultimate question) - Po Bronson
• When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron
• Year To Live, how to live this year as if it were your last - Stephen Levine
• You are What You Say - Matthew Budd, Larry Rothstein

Social Networks

• A Simpler Way - Margaret Wheatley
• Blessed Unrest- Paul Hawken
• Leadership and the New Science - Margaret Wheatley
• Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language – Robin Dunbar
• Open Business Models – Henry Chesborough
• Purpose Driven Church – Rick Warren
• PyroMarketing – Greg Stielstra
• Starfish and the Spider – Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom
• The Irresistible Revolution - Shane Claiborne
• The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

Creativity

• Bird by Bird-Anne Lamott
• Simple Abundance- Sarah Ban Breathnach
• The Artists Way- Julia Cameron
• The Right to Write- Julia Cameron
• Vein of Gold- Julia Cameron
• Writing Down the Bones, Freeing the Writer Within- Natalie Goldberg

Poetry

• Letters To A Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Ten Poems To Change Your Life - an anthology edited by Roger Housden
• The Heart Aroused- David Whyte
• The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
• The Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - Translated by Stephen Mitchell
• The Way To Love, the last meditations of Jesuit priest - Anthony de Mello

Leadership

• Good To Great - Jim Collins
• Leading without Power- Max De Pree

Environment

• Legacy of Luna – Julia Butterfly Hill
• One Makes the Difference – Julia Butterfly Hill
• Walden – Henry David Thoreau