The Elegant Self + Audio

Introduction Narrated by Author Rob McNamara

Ch: 1 The Danger of the Adult Plateau
Narration (19 minutes)

Ch: 2 Mental Development
Narration Part 1: Progress and the Architecture of Development (26 minutes)
Narration Part 2: Kegan's Stages of Development (34 minutes)
The Elegant Self + Content: Going Beyond Socialized Sex, Transcending Comfort Sex

Ch: 3 Growth Beyond Autonomy
Narration (1hour 6 minutes)
The Elegant Self + Content: Navigating Conscious Community & Piercing Aloneness

Ch: 4 The Origin of Inadequacy
Narration (30 minutes)
The Elegant Self + Content: A Deeper Dive: Inadequacy's Biographical and Ontological Impact on Therapy and Professional Development

Ch: 5 The Trap of Completeness
Narration (32 minutes)
The Elegant Self + Content: The Embodied Completion Project

Ch: 6 The Centrality of Incompleteness
Narration (46 minutes)
The Elegant Self + Content:
Part 1: The Limitation of Rehearsal, The Power of Relationship, and Accessing Professional Support
Part 2: The 3 Strategies of Calculated Risk Taking & Novel Capacities of Human Elegance

Ch: 7 The Paradox of Completeness
Narration (51 minutes)
The Elegant Self + Content: Post-Representational Experience and The Refinement of Elegance

Ch: 8 Dialectical Elegance
The Elegant Self + Content: Dialectics, Conflict and Growth Beyond Autonomy

Ch: 9 The Problem of Habituation
The Elegant Self + Content: The Deconstruction of Inner Work

Ch: 10 The Necessity of Habituation
The Elegant Self + Content: The Pervading Presence of Happiness

Ch: 11 The Courage of Elegance
Narration: The Courage of Elegance Narrated by Author Rob McNamara (31 minutes)