DOING BETTER
Activate Your Power and Potential In Daily Life
About the Book
The book is for readers seeking a personal development learning course that will guide them in a life of doing better. Using science, psychology, and the story of a shamanic journey this book leads the reader to develop 21st century literacy—to learn, unlearn, and relearn. The reader learns how to identify their values, manage polarities and have robust learning conversations. The reader adopts a new mindset and heartset, one that faces complexity, embraces empathy, and is open to mystery.
“With authenticity and courage, John issues an invitation to us all, at any age, to begin, or begin again, a journey of doing better.”
Mary Kay Chess, PhD
Leadership and Personal Development Faculty, Bainbridge Graduate Institute
“Koriath’s journey lifts us up and offers us a path for doing—and being—better.”
“Koriath ‘sings’ in three languages of his own deep experience: the scientist, the psychologist, and the shaman.”
“Koriath was able to capture the essential principles of our transformative Leadership and Personal Development program.”
“This book is an extraordinary story, told in real events, of the power of coming from yes rather than no.”
“Doing Better features the reader-friendly interweaving of academic instruction with personal experiences.”
Michael D. Yapko, PhD
Clinical psychologist, author of Mindfulness and Hypnosis and Breaking the Patterns of DepressionJohn has written a remarkable book that invites the reader on an active and challenging journey of self-discovery. Much more than a personal development guide, John shares remarkably sensitive self-disclosures about his own life, the personal and professional explorations into uncharted territories made with courage and vision. Blending science, psychology, and an appreciation for deeper human experiences that can’t be measured or easily explained, John’s journey lifts us up and offers us a path for doing—and being—better.
Mary Holscher, PhD
Psychologist and Bainbridge Graduate Institute Leadership and Personal Development teamWe sang amazing grace in three languages.’ This sentence, near the end of this wise book, is a succinct, poetic description of the book as a whole. John ‘sings’ in the three languages of his own deep experience: the scientist, the psychologist, and the shaman. He offers jargon-free resources for learning, unlearning, and relearning in each language. His voice is unadorned and authentic as he writes about what he has learned over his rich life and offers useful—and, yes, grace-filled—information to each of us as we proceed on our own twenty-first-century personal development journey.
Simon Goland
Bainbridge Graduate Institute Leadership and Personal Development teamYou are holding a gem in your hands. In this book, John was able to take the reader on a rich and comprehensive journey of human development, weaving beautiful and engaging stories, indigenous wisdom, principles from the evolving field of neurobiology, key concepts in personal and leadership development modalities, and intimate and authentic sharing of experiences of his own life’s journey. I had the privilege and the opportunity to co-teach with John at Bainbridge Graduate Institute, and deeply appreciate the way he was able to capture the essential principles of our transformative Leadership and Personal Development program.
Gifford Pinchot III
Cofounder, Bainbridge Graduate InstituteThis book is an extraordinary story, told in real events, of the power of coming from yes rather than no. What a mantra John offers: ‘release your mind, see what you find, and bring it on home to your people.’ A beautiful new formula for the hero’s journey amply illustrated by John’s courageous life. Doing Better is a good guide to a courageous and impactful life. It shows how you can thrive in a challenging time that can impact our mental health, our ability to function, and even our moral and spiritual foundation. Read it, find your way, help others, and grow and thrive into the future.
Jeff Novotny
PhilosopherJohn is a successful pioneer in the study of human health, disease, and well-being from scientific, psychological, and philosophical perspectives. Doing Better is his engaging and accessible book developed with the purpose of sharing ideas on ‘learning, unlearning, and relearning’ lessons old and new that can guide a refreshed world economically, politically, and socially. He has worked effectively for several decades with other noted specialists in the fields of psychology, archeology, philosophy, and spiritual healing. John convincingly makes the case that ‘we desperately need to go somewhere new’ with our various moral cultures globally. Doing Better features the reader-friendly interweaving of academic instruction with rather confidential accounts of personal experiences that have been difficult, rewarding, and adventurous. John is congratulated for avoiding the mistake of other solution thinkers who overemploy unnecessary new terms, and presenting concepts and acronyms for the first time that complement existing accepted terminology, e.g., ‘heartset’ and ‘psychoneuroimmunology.’
Doing Better is a read interweaving the vision of a rescue blueprint with a warm humanistic story that inspires an urgent call to action. This book will be a boon to help older generations who have unwittingly been a party to what ails us, and the younger generations who can take advantage of what has been learned in our mutual journeys thus far.