Resources & Influences
Matt’s work with The Other Consulting is influenced by a variety of writers, teachers and scholars (below) who have explored The Other in unique and exciting ways.
Books
I And Thou - the foundational 1923 book by German philosopher Martin Buber
Theory U - Otto Scharmer
Connected: How Your Friends’ Friends’ Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think and Do - James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis
If I Understood What You Were Saying Would I Have this Look on my Face? - Alan Alda
Presence - Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers
Organizations
Riane Eisler’s Center for Partnership Systems
The embodiment and somatic work of Richard Strozzi-Heckler and the Strozzi Institute of Embodied Leadership
Braver Angels and its foundational workshop “Depolarizing Within”
People
The “Difficult Conversations” process created Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt
Brian Johnson and his work with Heroic and Arete
Brene Brown’s work on vulnerability, courage & connection
Sally Jewell Coxe, founder of the Bonobo Conservation Initiative, and her work with the fourth great ape.
Phil Stutz, psychiatrist, featured in the documentary “Stutz”
Sharon Blackie, Celtic Mythologist
Internal Family Systems therapy created by Richard Schwartz
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and the “Utah Way” of collaboration
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