BOOKS

Listed here are books and other printed materials we offer for sale. If you're seeking free materials about The Ojai Foundation, please contact us via email or phone (805.646.8343).


The Way of Council
by Jack Zimmerman & Virginia Coyle
Printed 1996
308 pages
Price: $16.95

This is a revolutionary and inspiring book, a must for professionals and non-professionals alike! It provides us with a method, for training individuals in basic communication skills, that is equally applicable to communities, schools, business environments, therapeutic groups or to family systems. Council is a practice of open, heartfelt expression and attentive, empathic listening. It is a great ally in introducing meaningful change in our institutions and family relationships.

Council (booklet)
by Jack Zimmerman & Virginia Coyle
Printed 1999
32 pages
Price: $4.00

This is a short booklet introducing the practice of Council - a version of which was first published as an article in the March 1991 issue of Utne Reader.

Council Program Activities Guide (6th Grade): For Use in the Middle School Classroom
by Joan Apter
Price: $15.00
Council Facilitator's Guidebook for Eight Grade
by Monica Chinlund & Lise Ransdell
Price: $15.00
Flesh and Spirit
The Mystery of Intimate Relationship
by Jack Zimmerman, PhD & Jaquelyn McCandless, MD
Printed 1996
241 pages
Price: $16.95

WARNING! Flesh and Spirit is dangerous to the health of your old ideas and expectations about intimate relationship. Reading this revolutionary book dissolves the age-old dispute between sexuality and spirituality and will forever transform the way you and your partner relate. The authors invite you on a journey that embraces everything from ecstatic erotic communion to slogging it out in the trenches of daily life. The journey is at times illuminating, humorous, sexy, informative- and, ultimately, profoundly inspiring.

Children with Starving Brains
by Jaquelyn McCandless, MD
Printed 2002
262 pages
Price: $24.95

Children with Starving Brains is a message of hope in the midst of a worldwide epidemic of autism, ADD, and ADHD. This is the first book written by an experienced clinician that gives a step-by-step treatment guide for parents and doctors based on the understanding that ASD is a complex biomedical illness resulting in significant brain malnutrition.