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Courage

• The Science Of Conquering Your Fears -- And Living A More Courageous Life

  By Carolyn Gregoire, HuffPost, Updated December 6, 2017

• The Science of Courage: Over-Romanticized, Overlooked, and Scientifically Ignored
  By Fearless Leaders Group, Publication Date Unknown

• This is What it Takes to Stand Up: The Essence of Courage
  By vanessa Baird, The Internationalist, Published March 1, 2017

• The Six Attributes of Courage: Quotes and exercises to help you be your best and bravest self

  By Melanie Greenberg Ph.D., Psychology Today, Published Aug 23, 2012 

• Snakes in the MRI Machine: A Study of Courage - What courage looks like in the brain--in real time
  By Daniela Schiller, Scientific American, Published July 20, 2010

• Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (Paperback Book)
  By Susan Jeffers, Published 2006

• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Paperback Book)
  By Brené Brown, Published 2015

live and Relate from Your Center

• Personalized Mentoring for Life Guidance

• FREE eCourse

  • Ignite Your Power to Transform

• Books by Marion Moss Hubbard, Ph.D.

  • The Heroic Path to Self-Forgiveness: Change Your Story, Change Your Life
    Make Peace with Your Past

  • Removing Your Mask: No More Hiding from Your Truth
    End Your Gullibility and Victimization

• Blog Posts including:

  • The Hero’s Journey: The Power of Myth in Action

  • What is True Heroism

  • Activate Your Heroism Within

  • Journey into the Wilderness of Yourself

  • Let Your Healthy Self Emerge

  • Wake Up and Follow Your Bliss

  • True Wisdom: Balancing Intuition and Reasoning

  • Sustaining Peak Moments

  • Unleash Your Passion

  • Ditching the Struggle

  • Strengthen Your Patience

  • Grow Into Your Courage
    

Work from Your Center

• Work as a Heroic Journey: Use the Workplace to Evolve Your Character and Consciousness by Marion Moss Hubbard, Ph.D.

  • Paperback Book

  • FREE Online Course (on our affiliate educational website, Heroic Transformation

• Messengers of Wisdom: Ten Ways the People You Work with Can Help Evolve Your Heroic Character by Marion Moss Hubbard, Ph.D.

  • Paperback Booklet

  • FREE Online Course (on our affiliate educational website, Heroic Transformation

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Lead From Your Center

• Personalized Mentoring for Leadership Development

• General Leadership Books

  • Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
    By The Arbinger Institute, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2018.

  • The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves
    By The Arbinger Institute, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2016.

  • Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within
    By Robert E. Quinn, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996.

  • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
    By Fredric Laloux, Nelson Parker, 2014.

  • Rewiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations
    By Danah Zohar, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 1997.

  • Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
    By Joseph Jaworski, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1996.

  • Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation

    By Gretchen Ki Steidle, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017
    

• General Leadership Articles

  • The Characteristics Of A True Leader
    By Amy Rees Anderson, Forbes, March 1, 2015

  • Seven Things That Make Great Bosses Unforgettable
    By Travis Bradberry, LinkedIn, February 12, 2019

  • 10 Commandments for Ethical Leadership
    By Ty Howard

  • Everyone Leads (PDF) – by Philip Humbert

• Leadership Organizations

  • Conscious Capitalism
    Conscious businesses focus on their purpose beyond profit and inspire, engage and energize their stakeholders.

  • Leading From Within
    Investing in leaders who serve the public good

  • Center for Courage & Renewal

    Creating a more just, compassionate and healthy world by nurturing personal and professional integrity and the courage to act on it.

  • Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership

  • Servant Leadership Resources

    • Blogs

      • Blog - A Novice’s Journey: The Servant-Leader is Human (Greenleaf Center Blog)

      • Blog - A Novice’s Journey: Risk or Adventuresome Spirit (Greenleaf Center Blog)

      • The Call To Be of Service (Caroline Myss Blog)

    • Servant Leadership Books

      • The Power of Servant Leadership
        By Robert Greenleaf

      • On Becoming a Servant Leader
        By Robert Greenleaf

      • Insights on Leadership
        Larry Spears

      • The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance
        By James A. Autry

      • Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results
        By Ken Blanchard

    • Servant Leadership Articles

      • Servant Leadership: How To Put Your People Before Yourself
        By Forbes.com, July 19, 2017

      • Character and Servant Leadership: Ten Characteristics of Effective, Caring Leaders
        By Larry Spears, The Spears Center, The Journal of Virtues and Leadership

      • A Systematic Literature Review of Servant Leadership Theory in Organizational Contexts
        Journal of Business Ethics, March 2013, Volume 113, Issue 3, pp 377–393.

• Leadership Videos

  • We Cannot Lead Others Without First Leading From Within (Video 12:41)
    What makes a great leader? Leadership and management expert Lolly Daskal takes the stereotype of the single, superior figure wielding power over the masses and turns it inside out—literally.
    By Lolly Daskal,TEDxLincolnSquare, May 7, 2018

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Heroic Transformation oNLINE lEARNING

Joseph Campbell

• About Mythologist Joseph Campbell

• Groundbreaking Work: Hero with a Thousand Faces 

• Joseph Campbell Collection - Opus Archive and Research Center - Pacifica Graduate Institute

Heroism 

• The Heroic Imagination Project
  Empowering ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

• The Banality of Heroism by Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo
  Circumstances can force almost anyone to be a bystander to evil, but they can also bring out our own inner hero. Zeno Franco and Philip Zimbardo show how we’re all capable of everyday heroism.

• What’s Holding You Back from Becoming a Hero? by Scott T Allison Ph.D.
  Heroes find a way to better themselves, and they aren’t afraid to get help.

• The Science of Being a Hero by Annabel Stafford
  In a world where an increasing numbers of people are willing to give up personal responsibility, the world needs heroes.

• What Makes Whistleblowers Speak Out While Others Stay Silent About Wrongdoing
  Washington Post, July 13, 2017 by Elizabeth Svoboda
  Whistleblowers are “social heroes,” who typically make some kind of personal sacrifice on behalf of the greater good.

• Carnegie Heroes and the Neuroscience Behind Acts of Heroism (Video 13:36) 60 Minutes, November 7, 2021.
  Scott Pelley meets with Carnegie Hero Fund awardees and reports on a possible difference in brain make-up for those who commit heroic acts.

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Storytelling Resources

• Six Kinds of Stories – What stories can help you do, discover the six kinds of stories, what stories are being told in your organization and more.

• Story Factor – Book by Annette Simmons that explores hundreds of examples that show when, where, how, and why story transforms relationships.

• Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins – Workbook by Annette Simmons that solves what she calls the “why business people suck at storytelling” problem.

• Just Story It.com – Master the power of business storytelling by Karen Dietz

• Ultimate Guide to Storytelling – Whether you’re interested in finding out more about the storytelling world or you’re already immersed in it and want to connect with others who share your passion, you’ll find an array of helpful resources here. 

Mythological Stories from Around the World

• Encyclopedia Mythica – Myths from Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania

• Greek Mythology – Information on all subjects of Greek Mythology, including details on Greek Gods and Greek Goddesses, Greek Myths and Greek Heroes 

• Bullfinch’s Mythology – Stories of gods and heroes

• Online Mythology Resources

• Mesoweb – An exploration of Mesoamerican Cultures

• Mythweb - Devoted to the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology

• Norse Mythology – Pre-Christian religion of the Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and Danish peoples

• Celtic Mythology – Irish literature, mythology, folklore, and drama

• Legends of Celtic Mythology – Learn more about Celtic mythology, its cycles, characters, and origins

• Mythology Windows to the Universe – Gods and goddesses of different cultures around the world, and the works of art people have created to give them expression

• Mythology Literature: Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Mythology – The mythos and legends around each pantheon that shed light on a largely hidden, mysterious world

• All About Dragons - A brief history of dragons, dragons across cultures, dragon types, what does a dragon look like, dragon legends, famous dragons and other dragon resources

Educational Resources

• Transpersonal Psychology: A Bibliography
  The most complete bibliography regarding transpersonal psychology, compiled by Andre Lefebvre

• Humanistic Psychology (Association for Humanistic Psychology - AHP)

  • Historic Review of Humanistic Psychology

  • Early Innovators

  • Research Portal

  • AHP’s Suggested Library

• Humanistic and Clinical Psychology - Saybrook University

• Sophia University (Formerly Institute of Transpersonal Psychology)

• International University of Professional Studies (IUPS)

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Professional Associations

• Association for Transpersonal Psychology (ATP)

• Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP)

Inspiring Quotes

Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded."
—Rollo May

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." 
—Joseph Campbell

"When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." 
—Joseph Campbell

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us. It's in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others."
—Marianne Williamson

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
—Mahatma Gandhi

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
—Albert Einstein

"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway."
—Mother Theresa

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