This Resources Section includes writings by Institute staff and colleagues since the 1960s of books, university theses, memoirs and periodicals.

Below are an estimated two hundred books written by Institute colleagues: non-fiction, fiction, spirituality, history, and methods. As your cursor hovers over the title, it will turn blue. Clicking on the title either goes to where the book can be purchased or to a PDF copy of the entire book you can read online. These writers have given permission for their books to be scanned, making their writing available for anyone in the world to read.

If you have a book you are willing to have posted online, email a PDF copy to globalarchives@ica-usa.org.

Addington, James

• Tragic Investment: How race sabotages communities and jeopardizes America’s future – and what we can do about it (2019)

Baggett, John F.

• Primary Source: A white pastor’s journey through the Civil Rights Era (2018)

• Desperate Amends – a novel (2015)

• Finding the Good in Grief (2013)

• Times of Tragedy and Moments of Grace (2009)

• Seeing through the Eyes of Jesus: His Revolutionary View of Reality and His Transcendent Significance for Faith (2008)

Bergdall, Terry

• Earthrise Sampler: Personal Reflections about Spirit (2007)

• MAP (Methods For Active Participation): Facilitators Handbook for Promoting Rural Participation (1994)

• Methods for Active Participation: Experiences in Rural Development from East and Central Africa (1994)

• The MAP Manual for Training Facilitators (1992)

Broersma, Patricia

• Riding into Your Mythic Life: Transformational Adventures (2007)

Burbidge, John

• More Than Halfway to Somewhere (2020)

• The Boatman: An Indian Love Story (2015)

• Dare Me! The Life and Work of Gerald Glaskin (2014)

• Please Forward: The Life of Liza Tod (1999) (Garnet Banks interviews Liza Tod: https://youtu.be/d0LK-nikS6o)

• Beyond Prince and Merchant: Citizen Participation and the Rise of Civil Society (1997)

• Approaches That Work in Rural Development: I.E.R.D. Series 3 (1988)

• Calling All Gifts to Build the Future, The Lavender League (1984)

Chagnon, Lucille Tessier

• You, Yes You, Can Teach Someone to Read: A Step by Step How-To Book (2005)

• Voice Hidden, Voice Heard: A Reading and Writing Anthology (1998)

Cock, John

• Daily Spirit Journal (Volume VI): Quotes and Reflections for 365 Days (2010)

• Daily Spirit Journal (Volume V): Quotes and Reflections for 365 Days (2009)

• Daily Spirit Journal: Quotes and Reflections for 365 Days (Volume IV) (2008)

• Daily Spirit Journal: Quotes and Reflections for 365 Days (Volume III) (2007)

• Daily Spirit Journal: Quotes and Reflections for 365 Days (Volume II) (2006)

• Daily Spirit Journal: Quotes and Reflections for 365 Days (2005)

• By Cosmic Design: Spirit Poems 1971-2006 (2006)

• Journer (2005)

• At One with the Heart of Creation, with Lynda Cock (2004)

• Our Universal Spirit Journey: Reflection and Verse for Creation’s Sake (2002)

• The Transparent Event: Post-Modern Christ Images (2001)

• Motivation for the Great Work: Forty Meaty Meditations for the Secular-Religious (2000)

• Called to Be: A spirit odyssey (2000)

• Jesus Christ for the 21st Century:  Post-modern Christ Images (1999)

Dove, Janelle

Dowsett, Phillip

Druckenmiller, Douglas

Dunn, David

Dyson, Elizabeth and Burt

Eggerling, Glenda Long

• The Comer: From grief to romance and remarriage at age 60 – a widow’s plunge into bewilderment, promise and pleasure (2014)

Eggert, Nancy

•  Contemplative Leadership for Entrepreneurial Organizations: Paradigms, metaphors and wicked problems (1998)

Elliott, Richard

•  Falling in Love With Mystery: We Don’t Have to Pretend Anymore (1998)

Engleman, Vance

• In Search of Profound Humanness: A Collection of Writings to Stir the Senses (2003)

Ennis, Carl

• An Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: A Memoir (2018)

Enright, Beverly

•  Lucky Icons (2012) and Ask the Butterflies

Epps, John

• Meanderings II (2019)

• Meanderings I: Reflections on People and Places (2018)

• Theology of Surprise:Exploring Life’s Mysteries, (2013)

• Bending History: Selected Talks of Joseph Wesley Mathews, Volume II General Editor (2011)

• Bending History: Selected Talks of Joseph Wesley Mathews, Volume I General Editor(2005)

• The Concept of the Church in the Theology of H. Richard Niebuhr:  Doctoral dissertation, December 7, 1971

Feldmanis, Ed

• After the Wedding Cake: The Couple’s Book for Newlyweds and Those Preparing for Marriage (2016)

Fishel, Judy

• Even Alzheimer’s Won’t Stop Me – and it shouldn’t stop you! with Dr. Karen L. Gilbert, (2024)

• How Tony Learned to Read: Growing up dyslexic (2021)

• Straight A’s are NOT Enough: Breakthroughs in learning for college students (2015)

Gadway, Kaze

• Stamp It Holy: Stories and Wisdom of Native Youth (2017)

• Everyday Wonder: from Kansas to Kenya from Ecuador to Ethiopia (2014)

Gibson, John

• Explore Sustainable Indiana: Hoosier solutions to our climate crisis, 2016

Gilbraith, Martin

• The Power of Facilitation (2021)

Greene, Herman

• Center for Ecozoic Studies website.  Copies of the Ecozoic Journal.

Gregory, Susan

• Hey, White Girl! (1970)

Griffith, Beret

• Chronological History of the EI and the ICA 1952- 1988 

Griffith, Brian

•  The Garden of Their Dreams, Desertification and Culture in World History (2001)

Hanson, Bob (Ko Shin)

• Warrior Poets: A Path and Task that Does Not End, June 12, 2021

• Duende, A Momentary Burst of Inspiration, June 23, 2019

• The Inner Passage, May 29, 2012

• Chasing Windmills. Why Not, March 30, 2008

Hanson, Mirja

• Clues to Achieving Consensus: A Leader’s Guide to Navigating Collaborative Problem Solving

Heckman, Shirley

• Covenant People (1993)

• Visions of Peace (1984)

• On the Wings of a Butterfly (1981)

Hinkelman, Don

•  Blending Technologies in the Second Language Classroom (2011)

Howie, Ellen

• Signs of Tolerance: More Poems in Collaboration with Life and One Another (1995)

• Signs of Life: Poems in Collaboration with Life and One Another (1994)

Jenkins, Maureen and Jon

• The Nine Disciplines of a Facilitator: Leading groups by transforming yourself (2006)

• The Social Process Triangles (1997)

• International Facilitator’s Companion (1996)

• The Other World…in the Midst of Our World (1985)

• The International Facilitator’s Companion

Jinks, Joy

• Dynamic Aging: I Intend to Live Forever, So Far So Good (2015)

• Spiritual, Not Religious (2002)

Johnson, Don

• Another Zone:  God and Golf (a metaphor for life)

Kroeger, Amelia

• Get the Point: Life and Times of Dick Kroeger (2011)

Kroeger, Brooke

• The Suffragents:  How women used men to get the vote (2017)

Lachman, Wesley

• The Shortest Way Home: A Contemplative Path to God (2008)

Lanphear, Fred

• Songaia, an Unfolding Dream: The Story of a Community’s Journey into Being(2013)

• Plants in the Landscape

• A Salt Water Yankee’s Journey to the Center

Lazear, David

• Higher Order Thinking: the Multiple Intelligences Way (2004)

• Pathways of Learning: Teaching Students and Parents About Multiple Intelligences (2001)

• The Intelligent Curriculum: Using Multiple Intelligences to Develop Your Students’ Full Potential (2000)

• Eight Ways of Knowing: Teaching for Multiple Intelligences (1999)

• Eight Ways of Teaching: The Artistry of Teaching For Multiple Intelligences (1999)

• Multiple Intelligence Approaches to Assessment: Solving the Assessment Conundrum (1999)

• Seven Pathways of Learning: Teaching Students and Parents About Multiple Intelligences (1994)

• Seven Ways of Knowing: Teaching for Multiple Intelligences (1991)

• Seven Ways of Teaching: The Artistry of  Teaching with Multiple Intelligences (1991)

• Teaching for Multiple Intelligences: 2nd Edition (1991)

Lewellen, James

•  Leading for Success: Fourteen Lessons to Great Leadership (2013)

Lindblad, Judy

• Signs of Tolerance: More Poems in Collaboration with Life and One Another (1995)

• Signs of Life: Poems in Collaboration with Life and One Another (1994)

Lingo, Kaira Jewel

• We Were Made for These Times: Ten lessons for moving through change, loss and disruption (October 2021)

Mann, Clancy

• Borderless Business: Managing the Far-Flung Enterprise (2006)

Marshall, David

• Iron Boy (2025)

• The Book of Us (2019)

• The Book of You: For My Child With Love (2017)

• What I Love about You, Mom (2014)

• My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future 2012)

• Picture of Me (2009); What I Love about You (2007)

• The Book of Myself: A Do-It-Yourself Autobiography in 201 Questions (2007)

• The Book of My Pet  (2000)

Marshall, Gene

• So Be Free: Pastoral discourses on freedom 

• The Thinking Christian: Twenty-three Pathways of Awareness (2020)

• The Creator of Christianity: A commentary on the Gospel of Mark (2019)

• Radical Gifts: Living the full Christian life in troubled times (2018)

• The Enigma of Consciousness: A Philosophy of Profound Humanness and Religion (2015)

• The Love of History and The Future of Christianity: Toward a Manifesto for a Next Christianity (2014)

• The Road from Empire to Eco-democracy (2011)

• Jacob’s Dream: A Christian Inquiry into Spirit Realization (2009)

• Great Paragraphs of Protestant Theology: A Commentary on the 20th Century Theological Revolution and its Implications for 21st Century (2005)

• The Call of the Awe: Rediscovering Christian Profundity in an Inter-religious Era (2003)

• The Resurrection of Paul: A Fictitious Dialogue With the New Testament Letter Writer (2000)

• Fresh Wineskins for the Christian Breakthrough: Fragments of Visionary Brooding on the Sociological Future of Christianity (1999)

• The Infinite Silence Speaks: Poetic Discourses on the Book of Genesis (1998)

• Speaking Back to the Infinite Silence: Some Poetic Discourses on the Psalms (1998

• Good Christian Religion as a Social Project (1996)

• Great Thinks, Great Feels, and Great Resolves: Some Reflections on the Essence of Religious Experience (1996)

•  The Infinite Silence Walks Among Us: Some Poetic Discourses on the Gospel of John (1996)

• To Be or Not to Be a Christian: Meditations and Essays on Authentic Christian Community (1994)

• The Reign of Reality A Fresh Start for the Earth (1987)

• A Primer on Radical Christianity (1985)

• The Future of Religion (1983)

Mathews, James

• Brother Joe: A 20th Century Apostle (2006)
• Eternal Values in a World of Change (1959, 2009)
  

McCleskey, David and Patricia Webb

• The Soul of the Tribe (2010)

• The Other World…in the Midst of Our World: A Journey Book for Spiritual Travelers (2005)

• The River of Consciousness: Spirit Exercises for the New Millennium (2001)

McGuire, Jann

• McGuire, Jann, Illness as Initiation: An Unlikely Heroine’s Journey (2010)

Mead, Christine

• Disaster Work, Journey of Discovery: Creative Learning from Disasters (1990)

Mitchell, Alanna

• Malignant Metaphor: Confronting Cancer Myths (2016)

Moriarty, Patrick

• Evening Prayers Morning Promises: Understanding 12 Step Spirituality (1989)

• Blog Post since 2015: https://justathoughtbypat.com/

Nelson, Jo and Wayne

• Getting to the Bottom of ToP : Foundations of ToP Methods (2017)

• The Art of Focused Conversation for Schools: Over 100 Ways to Guide Clear Thinking and Promote Learning – 3rd Edition (2013)

Packard, Elise

• Play to Learn, Learn to Play: Activities for Parents with Children from Birth Through 3 Years Old (1998)

• Jugar para Aprender, Aprender a Jugar: Actividades para Padres con Hijos de 0 a 3 Anos (1998)

Pesek, Betty

•  The Circle of Life: Extraordinary Spirit Capacities in a Life of Service (2000)

Poole, Carol

• Grits, Green Beans and the Holy Ghost: Memoirs of a Girl Monk (2015)

Reemstma, Connie

• Joyous Participation: A journey toward wholeness (2022)

  Unspeakable Joy (2013)

Ripple, Rod

• The Yellow Tulip & Other Poems (2019)

• Absolution for the Kitchen Sink: Poems & Fragments (2017)

• Miles from Moberly: A Man’s Journey to the 21stCentury (2004)

• Journey to the East (2003)

• Now and Then, Early Poems (1987)

A Paraphrase of the Traditional Marriage Vows (1977)

St. John, Ann

• INgratitude (2015)

Salmon, William

• One Mission – Two Objectives: Bible Studies in the Gospel of Mark (2012)

• Decoding our Christian Words: From Head-Trip Analysis to Gut-Trip Analysis (2011)

• The Making of a Teacher: Bible Studies in the Gospel of Matthew (2011)

• A Post-Modern Resource of Materials Regarding the New Testament Gospels and Letters (2006)

Sands, Blaise and Rose Anne

• Trust and Manifest Your Bliss (2013)

• Nature’s Spirit Messages for Vision, Self-Mastery, and Spirituality (2011)

Sharp, Basil

• The Adventure of Being Human: A Guide to Living a Fuller Life (2000)

Shinn, Miriam

• Outback Odyssey (2004)

Singleton, Louise

• Catching a Glimpse: Poems by Louise Robertson Singleton (2019)

• At Home Between Earth and Sky (2015)

Slotta, OliveAnn

• Image Based Instruction, Foundations and Pedagogy (2009)

Smith, Lucy

• Embracing Our Final Days: A Journey of Care to the End (2018)

Spencer, Laura

• Winning Through Participation: Meeting the challenge of corporate change with the Technology of Participation (1989) and in Spanish.

Stanfield, Jeanette

•  The Courage to Lead Study Guide: Lesson Plans for Group Study (2016) 

• “Just Checkin’ on Ya:” My Journey of Being a Caregiver for a Loved One (2009)

Stanfield, Brian

• The Courage to Lead: Transform Self, Transform Society (2012)

• The Art of Focused Conversation (2009)

• The Workshop Book: From Individual Creativity to Group Action (2002)

• The Courage to Lead: Daily Journal (2000)

Staples, Bill

• Transformational Strategy: Facilitation of ToP Participatory Planning (2013)

Stover, Nelson

• Worldview Talks – Six Sermons (2022)

• n the Realm of the Gossamer Veil:  Prose and Poetry (2018)

• Deux Quatorze Cinquain – On ecosystems and the emerging universe (2018)

• Voices from a Walk through Time (2017)

• Foundational Understandings – Sermons (2006)

• Through Three Portals: Helping Tomorrow Unfold – A Systematic Approach to Theology in the 21st Century (2014)

• My 59th Lap (Around the Sun) – Prose and Poetry (2004)

• The Rocks Sang Om: Poems Giving Voice to Pebbles and Pilgrims (2000)

• Beauty, Awe and Wonder (1990); Living in the Foothills of Crystal Mountain (1990)

Strachan, Sandra Conant

• Balancing Act: Strategies for Successful Aging (2017)

Timsina, Tatwa

• Changing Lives, Changing Societies: ICA’s Experience in Nepal and in the World (2013)

Troxel, Jim

• Government Works: Profiles of People Making a Difference (1995)

• Participation Works: Business Cases from Around the World (1993)

True, Robert

• Prayers for Transition: In Memory of Sandra Anderson True (2011)

Wagner, LiDona

• Seed of Imagination: An Ancestral Creative Journey (2020)

• Pilgrimage: Wonder, Encounter, Witness (2011)

Walker, Sunny

• SFacilitation Guide for People in Prevention: Beginning the journey (2002)

Walters, George

• Transforming the Legacy: People of Spirit in the 21stCentury, Volume I: The Legacy and the Challenges (2010)

• Transforming the Legacy: People of Spirit in the 21stCentury, Volume II:The Response and Emerging Directions (2010)

Ward, Larry

• America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal (2020)

Webb, Patricia

• Morning Work: A memoir in poetry and prose (2021)

• The Other World In the Midst of This World (2005)

Webster, John

• My EI/ICA Encounters (2001)

Wegner, Timothy

• Image Lab (1992); Fractal Creations (1991)

West, Donnamarie

• What More Can We Ask For? (1986)

Wilson, Priscilla

• The Wonder of Memory (2021)

• Zero Meridian, Five Degrees North: a Man of Service (2016)

• Every Day Wonder: From Kansas to Kenya from Ecuador to Ethiopia (2014)

• A Pioneer Love Story: The Letters of Minnie Hobart (2008)

• The Facilitative Way: Leadership That Makes the Difference (2003)

Woodbury, Clair

• Looking for God

Work, Robertson

• Society, Spirit, Self: Essays on the one dance (2021)

• The Critical Decade 2020 – 2029: Calls for ecological compassionate leadership (2020)

• Earthling Love: Living poems (2020)

• Serving People and Planet:  In mystery, love and gratitude (2019)

• A Compassionate Civilization: The urgency of sustainable development and mindful activism – reflections and recommendations (2017)

• Wright, Terry C.

• Autumnal Medley: Poems and Stories (2005)

• Another Annual Booklet of Poems (2004);  Stories and Essays: A Tidbit Collection (2000)

• Poems: Season’s Signature (1999)

• Poems: Midwinter Musings (1998)

• Whole Cloth (1998)

• Poems: Winter Holidays (1996)

Wright, Terry

• Autumnal Medley: Poems and Stories (2005)

• Another Annual Booklet of Poems (2004);  Stories and Essays: A Tidbit Collection (2000)

• Poems: Season’s Signature(1999)

• Poems: Midwinter Musings(1998)

• Whole Cloth (1998)

• Poems: Winter Holidays (1996)

Ziegenhorn, Donna

• Hindu and the Cowboy: A One-Act Play (2005)