Just a few notes from the session on Family Stories & Narrative Today.

• If we know our story we can listen to other’s stories.
• If you can’t express/extend/tell what you value, you can’t be an effective leader.

Suggested Reading: Dr. Baumgartner made a wishlist on Amazon.com for us with these books.

• True North– authentic leadership & leading with integrity, leading from your inner core
• Telling Secrets – reflection, leadership is a fundamentally reflective activity –
• Leadership and Self Deception
• Making of a Leader – Robert Clinton (he researched people who had served overseas as missionaries)
• A Hidden Wholeness – by Parker Palmer and Let Your Life Speak – listening to the voice of vocation
• The Call of Stories – by Robert Coles – the book that started mom on her path of stories
• A Leaders’ Guide to Reflective Practice
• Turning to One Another – by Margaret Wheatley
• The Black Swan – by Taleb