We know why we want to flourish. Contemporary research transcends disciplines to shine light on how.
Here are a few of the many contemporary books that guide our intentions and actions towards the flourishing of which we have shown ourselves capable.
- Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think, by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
- Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy, by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
- Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change, by Michael Vandenbergh and Jonathan Gilligan
- Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do and Become, by Barbara L. Fredrickson
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, by Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Project Drawdown, by Paul Hawken
- SuperCooperators: Beyond The Survival of the Fittest, Why Cooperation, not Competion is the Key to Life, by Martin A. Nowak
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathan Haidt
- The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking, by Roger Martin
- The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life, by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella Meadows
- Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation, by Edward L. Deci