The 2-in-1 Animal Workshop: Ambiguity. If you’re interested in learning more about how we handle ambiguity and uncertainty, check these out:

  • 7.5 Lessons About the Brain, by Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • An Ecology of Meaning: An Integrative Framework for Understanding Human Motivations, by Steven J. Heine et al.

  • The Five “A”s of Meaning Maintenance: Finding Meaning in the Theories of Sense-Making, by Travis Proulx and Michael Inzlicht, in Psychological Inquiry, 23:317-335, 2012.

  • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on It, by Ian Leslie

  • Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing, by Jamie Holmes

The Feeling When….Workshop: Emotion. If you want to learn more, there’s a lot of research on emotions, and we relied on the following:

  • How Emotions Are Made, by Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Permission to Feel, by Marc Brackets

  • The War for Kindness: Building Empathy a Fractured World, by Jamil Zaki

  • The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust, by Tiffany Watt Smith, the source for “torschlusspanik”

 

If I Had a Million Dollars Workshop: Values. you’re interested in learning more about values, well, there’s a lot of research and thought out there, because values can include moral guides—the “shoulds” and the “oughts”—and also the evaluative—”that’s a good cup of coffee.” Here’s what we found helpful in designing our workshops:

  • An Overview of the Schwartz Theory of Basic Values, Shalom H. Schwartz

  • The Sociological Study of Values, Robert Wuthnow

  • The Idea of a Theory of Values and the Metaphor of Value-Landscapes, Matthias Kaiser

  • From values to emotions:Cognitive appraisal mediates the impact of core values on emotional experience, Beatrice Conte et al

  • Value landscapes and their impact on public water policy preferences, Christopher Schulz et al

What’s Next? Workshop: Careers & Beyond. Check it out:

  • Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius, “Possible Selves”

  • David Gauntlett, Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and audiences

  • Herminia Ibarra, Act like a leader, think like a leader

  • Herminia Ibarra, Working Identity

  • Julia Yates, The Career Coaching Handbook

  • Benjamin Todd, 80,000 Hours: Find a Fulfilling Career That Does Good