In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets

In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets

In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets

In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets

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Overview

Is it possible to be a mindful, moral fighter at a time when impersonal, technology based warfare reigns?

In Search of the Warrior Spirit confronts this thorny issue with Richard Strozzi-Heckler’s trademark personal, sympathetic style.

In a top-secret U.S. military experiment, the author was asked to teach Eastern awareness disciplines ranging from aikido to meditation to a group of twenty-five Green Berets. This account chronicles his experiences in the training program and his attempts to revive traditional warriorship in a technological society.

In Search of the Warrior Spirit explores the nature of war, the meaning of masculinity, and the need for moral values in the military. The book includes Heckler’s response to 9/11, his experiences with the Pentagon and U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, and his poignant reflections on the movie Black Hawk Down, which depicts the deaths of two of his trainees. 

In this revised edition, the author talks movingly of his visits to Afghanistan with NATO and about the Trojan Warrior Project and Marine Warrior Project, relating the tragic events in a war zone and revelatory conversations with both ordinary soldiers and such leaders as the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781583942024
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 11/13/2007
Edition description: REV
Pages: 448
Product dimensions: 6.04(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD, is President of Strozzi Institute, The Center for Leadership and Mastery. He has a seventh-degree black belt in aikido and a doctorate in psychology. Dr. Strozzi-Heckler has taught the principles of embodied leadership and mastery to business, government, military, non-profits, health care, and education for the last thirty years. He is the author of The Anatomy of Change and The Leadership Dojo; and the editor of Aikido and the New Warrior, Being Human at Work: Bringing Somatic Intelligence into Your Professional Life, and Holding the Center.

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Editionix
Introductionxi
The Invitation1
Preparations9
In the Belly43
War73
The Encampment85
The Original Warrior119
Bodymind143
Camaraderie171
The Western187
Maritime Operations213
Integrity235
In Search of the Warrior Spirit257
Shadow and Light295
Epilogue307
Five Years Later315
Fifteen Years Later343
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