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NEW TITLES - DECEMBER 2023

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9781786787460
224 pp
PB 216 x 135 mm
Mono
£14.99/$19.95
Self-Help/Meditation
World rights available

How to Train a Happy Mind

A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

Scott Snibbe

Adapted from the ancient Buddhist path to enlightenment, this 9-step course of analytical meditation is stripped of anything beyond what modern science and psychology tells us about reality. By establishing life-enhancing mental habits, analytical meditation works in the same way as modern cognitive behavioural therapy.

It uses structured stories that fill your mind with ideas and empotions in a particular sequence,  training your mind to react in a certain way to events in everyday life. In doing so, it brings the science of Buddhist meditation to a rational, modern audience hungry for happy, meaningful lives.  

SCOTT SNIBBE is a twenty-year student of Tibetan Buddhism whose teachers include Lama Zopa Rinpoche and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is the Executive Director of A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment, the world’s first organization dedicated to teaching secular forms of Tibetan Buddhist analytical meditation.

9781786787460
224 pp
PB 216 x 135 mm
Mono
£14.99/$19.95
Self-Help/Meditation
World rights available

Watch Your Language

Why Conversations Go Wrong and How to Fix Them

Rob Kendall

Watch Your Language makes good communication easy, offering a huge range of case studies, easy-to-absorb concepts such as the Bad Place and the Tangle and a unique "talking heads" page design that dissects examples of problematic conversations. It explains exactly why our daily conversations go wrong, how to respond when they do and provides tips on how to stop them from deteriorating in the first place. 

Short digestible chapters look at a wide variety of conversational scenarios, showing how to have rewarding and effective interactions with everyone in your life – from your partner, parents and children to your colleagues, boss and neighbours.

ROB KENDALL has worked with over 70 international organizations, teaching conversation skills to business leaders, sports professionals, teenagers and many others. Find out more
at www.conversationexpert.com