READING LIST RECOMMENDED BY NIAMH SHIELLS
Personal Development
Instant Confidence: Paul McKenna
This is a short and easy to read programme for building confidence using Nero Linguistic Programming. It works!
How To Be Brilliant: Michael Heppell
If being good isn’t really good enough and you want to achieve the very best and be the very best, this books brilliant!
Overcoming Low Self Esteem: Melanie Fennell
A really useful self help book using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to improve self esteem.
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway: Susan Jeffers
Simple approaches to transforming anxiety and fear into confidence and action.
Taming Your Gremlin: Rick Carson
This book has some great ideas on tackling that self defeating inner critic
The Four Agreements: Practical Guide to Personal Freedom: Don Miguel Ruiz
A simple approach to life about personal freedom and happiness.
The Alchemist: Paulo Coelho
A fable about exploring and following your dreams.
Coaching
Coaching with NLP: Joseph O’Connor & Andrea Lages
Combines theory and logic with practical applications for life and executive coaching. Some useful tools for coaching.
Excellence in Coaching, Diversity in Coaching, Psychometrics in Coaching: Association for Coaching Jonathan Passmore. Great series of books produced by the Association for coaching an essential addition to your coaching library.
Co-active coaching: Whitworth, Kimsey- House & Sandahl: Coaching model, tools and techniques, practical and easy to adapt for your own use.
The EQ Edge: Steven Stein& Howard E Book: The dynamic of emotional intelligence and understanding how to use its insights in coaching and the workplace.
Time to Think: Nancy Kline: Listening at a whole new level, this will change your coaching. For the better!
Do it Tomorrow: Mark Forster
Fantastic tips on time management and dealing with procrastination.





