Emotional Topography

The Weather of the Mind, the first book of the Urbanmonks Wisdom Curriculum, includes a workbook portion where the reader can chart their emotions three times a day for six weeks in order to make the weather of their own minds visual.

Making our emotions visual allows us to see what we might have been unaware of in the past.  I developed this technique while teaching high school and many of the students embraced the charts and learned a bit about how their minds work.     

This book will help you assess your own emotional health and help further the process of coming to peace with yourself and others.  I guarantee it.  I want this book in your hands.  If the money is an issue, let me know and we can work something out. 

Check out one week of my chart below.  When I review a week like this, I ask myself, what happened where I went way up on Monday?  What happened on Thursday when I slid?

The chart and scale are fully explained in the book.  Readers are also encouraged to design their own style of charts.  I will post some other models on the website in the coming months. 

Living and learning, 

Doug 

The Weather of the Mind is Available for Order

A few people have been asking me what happened to the Urbanmonks emails?  Well, the Urbanmonks Thinktank is young and still finding our rhythm and it seems like our general year schedule is shaping up to look something like this:

January through July - research books, write books, edit books (the reclusive monk portion)
August through December - hit the streets with the cart, sell books, write post on the website (the social portion) (the outreach portion)

We have a whole slew of new items available at the street cart (and on this website).  I will introduce them over the next few weeks.  Today I will start by introducing The Weather of the Mind.  This is the first book in the Urbanmonks Wisdom Curriculum.  In this book I explain my methods for studying wisdom over the past dozen years and I explain why wisdom ought to be a subject in our schools, universities, workplaces, and families.

Keep in mind the main mission of the Urbanmonks Thinktank is to coordinate a proactive and system-based approach to emotional health.  The goal is to sell The Weather of the Mind to schools, colleges, book clubs, and individuals who want to have techniques for understanding their emotions.

We ran an initial printing of the book but we will be run a large run next week.  Please pre-order a few(!) copies for you and your friends and read them together.  It includes a six-week emotional education course where you chart your emotions three times a day.  

We think this book will reach many people, but it will spread grassroots-style in the beginning, which means we rely on you to help spread the word and to buy some books.  But trust me, this book is damn good. I guarantee it.  

Here is a sample of the first section of the book:  Weather Sampler. Order a copy of the book here:  the store. 

Doug and the Urbanmonks Crew