by Ellery Ng | Mar 30, 2020 | Book reviews
The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga Virtually the entire book takes the form of a dialogue between two people, which made it easy to read. It also made the ideas easier to understand, as the two characters raise and clarify many of the...
by Ellery Ng | Mar 13, 2020 | Book reviews
Atomic Habits by James Clear This is an extremely lean book; it’s almost almost pound-for-pound substance. It gets straight to the point and maintains interest with a steady flow of interesting knowledge that’s easy to consume. I can see care was taken to make sure...
by Ellery Ng | Feb 28, 2020 | Book reviews
Gestalt Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques by Dave Mann It felt like an exhaustive index of Gestalt fundamentals, which will likely make this one of my professional ‘textbooks’ from now on. I came to this book after experiencing some essentials of Gestalt therapy...
by Ellery Ng | Jan 2, 2020 | Book reviews
A Gestalt Coaching Primer: The Path Toward Awareness IQ by Dr. Dorothy E. Siminovitch, MCC I was motivated to read this book mainly because I had the good fortune to learn, in person, from its author, Dr. Dorothy Siminovitch, MCC. It took me four long months to finish...
by Ellery Ng | Jan 1, 2020 | Book reviews
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block I read this book because of my growing fascination and sense of relevance towards organizational development. A big part of my appreciation for this book goes to the content that speaks to interpersonal level work...
by Ellery Ng | Jul 14, 2019 | Book reviews
Your Body is Your Brain: Leverage Your Somatic Intelligence to Find Purpose, Build Resilience, Deepen Relationships and Lead More Powerfully by Amanda Blake This is a very good primer on somatics and how tapping into embodied intelligence can unlock and unblock...
