For years, people have been asking … so here you are!
Books I recommend in my Goosing Your Muse creativity seminars:
Aha! Ten Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit & Find Great Ideas
Jordan Ayan, Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1997
Art & Fear Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Art Making
David Bayles & Ted Orland
1993 Capra Press, Santa Barbara CA
Art Can Heal Your Life
Sean McNiff , art therapist
(2 audio cassette set)
www.soundstrue.com
Art Is a Way of Knowing A Guide to Self Knowledge & Spiritual Fulfillment Through Creativity
Pat. B. Allen, Shambhala Books
The Artist’s Way (A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self)
Julia Cameron
1992, Tarcher/Perigee
Brainstyles
Marlane Miller
Simon & Schuster, 1997
The Corporate Mystic A Guidebook for Visionaries with Their Feet on the Ground
Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., Kate Ludeman, Ph.D.
Bantam Books, 1996
The Courage to Be Brilliant
Marta Monahan
2002, Vittorio Press, LA
The Courage to Write How Writers Transcend Fear
Ralph Keyes, Henry Holt Books, 1995
The Craft and Business of Songwriting (3nd Edition)
(A Practical Guide to Creating and Marketing Artistically and Commercially Successful Songs)
John Braheny
2007 Writer’s Digest Books
The Craft of Lyric Writing
Sheila Davis, Writer’s Digest Books
Creating
Robert Fritz
1991, Fawcett Columbine Books
Creating a Life Worth Living
Carol Lloyd
A practical course in career design for artists, innovators, and others aspiring to a creative life.
Harper Collins Books – 1997
Creating from the Spirit Living Each Day As A Creative Act
Dan Wakefield, Ballantine Books
Creating Internet Entertainment
Jeannine Novak & Pete Markiewicz
Wiley Computer Publishing, 1997
Creating with the Angels
Terry Lynn Taylor
1993, H.J. Kramer Inc.
The Creative Journal (The Art of Finding Yourself)
Lucia Capacchione
1979, Swallow Press Books, Athens, Ohio
Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy
Joseph Zinker
1978, Vintage Books
Creativity: How to Catch Lightning in a Bottle
George Gamez – 1996
Peak Publications, PO Box 451067
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery & Invention
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Harper Collins, 1996
Creativity in Business
Michael Ray & Rochelle Myers, 1996
Creators on Creating (several authors)
Awakening & Cultivating the Imaginative Mind, Tarcher Putnam Books
Do What You Are – Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger
Discover the Perfect Career for You
Through the Secrets of Personality Type
Little, Brown & Co. – 1995
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards – J.P. Tarcher Books
Drawing on the Artist Within
Betty Edwards – Simon & Schuster
Embracing Your Inner Critic
and
Embracing Our Selves (The Voice Dialogue Manual)
Hal Stone, Ph.D. &
Sidra Winkleman, Ph.D.
1989, New World Library
Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
Bantam Books, 1995
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.
1987, Fawcett Columbine / Ballantine
Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity through Poem-Making
John Fox, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995
Five Star Mind – Tom Wujec
Games & Puzzles to Stimulate Your
Creativity & Imagination
1995, Doubleday Books
Flow – The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
(pronounce: Mee-high Sent-mee-high)
Harper & Row
Frogs into Princes (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
Bandler & Grider – Real People Press
Get Out of Your Own Way Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
Mark Goulston, MD., Philip Goldberg, Perigree, 1996
The Grace of Great Things Creativity and Innovation
Robert Grudin
1990, Ticknor & Fields
Growing Up Creative
Teresa Amabile
Crown Publishing
The Heart Aroused Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
David Whyte
Currency/Doubleday Books
Higher Creativity Liberating the Unconscious for Breakthrough Insights
Harman & Rheingold, Tarcher Books
How to Think Like Leonardo de Vinci Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
Michael J. Gelb
Delacorte Press – 1998
Idea Catcher – various authors
An Inspiring Journal for Writers
1995, Story Press, Cincinnati, Ohio
Idea Power Techniques & Resources to Unleash the Creativity in Your Organization
Arthur B. VanGundy
American Mgmt. Assn.
If You Want to Write – A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
Brenda Ueland
1987, Graywolf Press
Joy’s Way
W. Brugh Joy, M.D.
Jeremy P. Tarcher Press
Jump Start Your Brain – Doug Hall
A Proven Method for Increasing Creativity up to 500%
Warner Books – 1995
Just Open A Vein (Writers on Writing)
Edited by William Brohaugh
Writer’s Digest Books
Keep Your Brain Alive 83 Neurobic Exercises
Lawrence C. Katz, Ph.D.
& Manning Rubin
Workman Pub. 1999
Networking in the Music Business
Dan Kimpel (He has newer books too)
1993, Writer’s Digest Books
No Contest: The Case Against Competition
Alfie Kohn, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986, 1992
No More Secondhand Art:
Awakening the Artist Within
Peter London, Shambhala Books, 1989
Orbiting the Giant Hairball
Gordon MacKenzie
A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace (Worked at Hallmark Cards for 30 years, where he inspired his colleagues to slip the bonds of Corporate Normalcy … shares lessons on awakening and fostering creative genius.) Viking Books – 1998
The Path of Least Resistance (Principles for Creating What You Want to Create)
Robert Fritz. 1984
Stillpoint Publishing Co., Salem, MA
Please Understand Me – Character and Temperament Types
David Keirsey & Marilyn Bates
Prometheus Nemesis Book Company
The Power of Play
New Visions of Creativity
Carol Lawson, A Chrysalis Reader
The Possible Human (A course in Enhancing Your Physical, Mental and Creative Abilities)
Dr. Jean Houston
1982, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam Books
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell (with Bill Moyers)
1987, Doubleday
The Power of Your Other Hand
Lucia Capacchione
Simon & Schuster
Practical Intuition – Laura Day
How to Harness the Power of Your Instinct and Make It Work for You
Villard New York – 1996
The Psychic Pathway A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul
Sonia Choquette
1995, Crown Trade, Random House
The Right-Brain Experience An Intimate Program to Free the Powers of Your Imagination
Marilee Zdenek, Two Roads Publishing, 1983, 1996
The Self-Esteem Companion
Simple exercises to help you challenge your inner critic and celebrate your personal strengths
Matthew McKay, PhD, Patrick Fanning, Carole Honeychurch & Catharine Sutker
New Harbinger Publications – 1999
Serious Creativity
Edward DeBono
Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas
Harper Business Books
Singing at the Top of Our Lungs Women, Love and Creativity
Claudia Bepko & Jo-Ann Krestan
Harper Perennial Books
Solved By Sunset: The Right Brain Way to Resolve Whatever’s Bothering You in One Day or Less
Carol Orsborn, Harmony Books, 1995
Songwriters Playground (Innovative Exercises in Creative Songwriting)
Barbara L. Jordan
(call 1-800 CMM SONG) to order
Source Imagery
(Releasing the Power of Your Creativity)
Sandra G. Shuman, Ph.D.
1989, Doubleday
Spinning Inward – Maureen Murdock
Using Guided Imagery with Children for Learning, Creativity & Relaxation
Shambhala Publications – 1987
The Thinker’s Way 8 Steps to a Richer Life, Think Critically, Live Creatively, Choose Freely
John Chaffee, PhD
Little, Brown & Co. – 1998
Tune Your Brain – Elizabeth Miles
Using Music to Manage Your Mind, Body and Mood
Berkley Books – 1987
Type Talk at Work Understanding the Workplace and Thriving in It
Otto Kroeger with Janet M. Thuesen
1992, Delacorte Press
A Walk Between Heaven & Earth A Personal Journal on Writing & The Creative Process – Burghild Nina Holzer, Bell Tower Books, 1994
A Whack on the Side of the Head
Roger Von Oech
Published by Creative Think
When You Can You Will
Lynne Bernfield
1993, Lowell House
Who Are You? 101 Ways of Seeing Yourself
Malcolm Godwin
2000, Penguin Books
Who Do You Think You Are? Explore Your Many-Sided Self with The Berkeley Personality Profile
Keith Harary, Ph.D. &
Eileen Donahue, Ph.D.
Harper/San Francisco
Wild Mind (Living the Writer’s Life)
Natalie Goldberg
Bantam New Age Books
The Woman’s Book of Creativity
C. Diane Ealy, Ph.D.
1995, Beyond Words Publishing Inc.
Write From The Heart Unleashing the Power of Your Creativity, Hal Zina Bennett, 1995,
Nataraj Publishing, PO Box 2430,
Mill Valley, CA 94942
Writing Down the Bones
Natalie Goldberg
1986, Shambhala Publications
The Writing Life
Anne Dillard
1999 Harper & Row
Writing from the Heart Inspiration & Exercises for Women Who Want to Write
Lesl©a Newman, The Crossing Press, 1993
Writing from Within
Bernard Selling
1990, Hunter House Books
Zen in the Art of Writing
Ray Bradbury – 1994
Joshua Odell Editions, PO Box 2158,
Santa Barbara, CA 93120
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