Shambhala The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa. This book was the first one I read from coaches’ bookshelf and now, when I open it to flip through the pages I feel drawn to read it again as it appears in a different way than I can remember. It is a really rich source that originates from an ancient path of the warriors that is not bound by any single tradition. What is meant by warriorship is the tradition of human bravery. To be brave essentially means not to be afraid of one-self. Examples of traditions that have embodied such bravery can be found in north and south American Indians, Japanese samurais, king Arthur, king David and others. The Shambhala vision is opposite to selfishness and aims to establish an enlightened society. Something that I feel goes hand in hand with what coaching is doing and what is my personal intentions. The premise is that in order to develop such society each of us need to discover what inherently we have to offer the world bringing what is of value to help ourselves and others to uplift their experience.
Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change by Ann Weiser Cornell. This book was a great deeper dive in focusing after having read the Gene Gendlin’s book “Focusing”. This was illustrative and provided much detail to the process and the application. The central concept of focusing and as described in the book “the essence of change” is the felt sense. It is a fresh, immediate here and now experience that is characterized by the organism forming the next step. The felt sense is the experience of that formation process. It is something bodily experienced in the present moment that will appear hard to describe as words might seem insufficient. It will often require metaphorical language for expression. In the research by Gendlin and Hendricks it was found that the clients that attended directly to this process of experiencing were to be significantly more successful in therapy than those that did not.