The Leader as Martial Artist: Techniques and Strategies for Revealing Conflict and Creating Community [Paperback]

Arnold Mindell PhD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2000

Deep democracy, the inherent importance of all parts of ourselves and all viewpoints in the world around us, is introduced as the concept that fascilitates conflicts in relationships, communities, and the world. Skills and attitudes needed in situations of chaos, attack, transformation and conflict are provided, and examples from all over the world illustrate the theory.

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About the Author

Arnold Mindell, Ph.D., is the founder of a new school of therapy called Process-Oriented Psychology, and is known throughout the world for his innovative synthesis of dreams, bodywork, Jungian therapy, group process, consciousness studies, shamanism, quantum physics, and small and large group conflict resolution.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Lao Tse Press; 2nd edition (May 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1887078657
• ISBN-13: 978-1887078658
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #657,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Inner Facilitator work, September 11, 2010

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San FrancineR (San Rafael CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Leader as Martial Artist: Techniques and Strategies for Revealing Conflict and Creating Community (Paperback)

I reread this book every few years, when I'm confused about leadership, followership, group process, mysteries of human organization (which is all the time, right?!) There are parts I quibble with, and remain confused by, and I don't think I would ever have enough trust in the process to take the risks Mindel explains from his own group work. But so much of what he says rings true from my own experiences in groups, and I read on, and always get a deeper learning for myself as a facilitator-- or perhaps a better metaphor, surfer!!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book for our time!, June 25, 2010

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Eugene N. Kovalenko (Los Alamos, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Leader as Martial Artist: Techniques and Strategies for Revealing Conflict and Creating Community (Paperback)

It is early morning on June 25, 2010 and I have just finished my first reading of my old friend Arnold Mindell's The Leader as Martial Artist, published in 1992. How could I have only now read this book published 18 years ago?

Well, it was like an answer to personal prayer as I read its final pages after awakening in a state of torpor, wondering again and again about the state of the world and my personal responsibility in and for it. I identified as one of the "elders" he speaks of so eloquently. Arny's words addressed my lament as did the I Ching almost 5 decades earlier.

Thus, Mindell's writing seems timeless! And I am again astonished by how far ahead of his time he continues to be.

I had ordered The Leader as Martial Artist along with ten or so of his other books last summer (2009) after having been out of touch with his writing and counseling career. One of these books, The Deep Democracy of Open Forums (pub 2002) caught my special attention earlier this year in conjunction with Garry Wills' current Bomb Power (pub 2010), and the combination of these two rigorous works sparked a vision for this legendary town I live in.

I thought Martial Artist was the perfect sequel to The Deep Democracy of Open Forums as I began to prepare to act on this new sense of purpose. Imagine my surprise to discover that it had been published a decade earlier! No matter, since books like these seem to come to one's attention in their own due time. And never mind that there has been only one other review before this present one, which was 8 years ago!

Where is everybody --including me?!! We cannot second guess these synchronicities. We can only hope to be true to ourselves and each other in our personal paths with faith that the divine hand that guides us all will use us in its own way in its own time.

Bless Arnold Mindell for being true to and writing about the time spirits he encounters, which in turn blesses the rest of us.

Eugene N. Kovalenko, Ph.D.
Los Alamos, NM

8 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Perspective, January 21, 2002

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Milarepa (CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Leader as Martial Artist: Techniques and Strategies for Revealing Conflict and Creating Community (Paperback)

Dr. Mindell has provided an interesting and inclusive model for leadership that takes into account many levels of individual and group psychology. This book goes far beyond, or should I say far deeper, than most of the "pop" nonsense on leadership.