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At Work

Capability you exercise in a professional context — the job, the team, the craft you are paid for.

Careers & Professions

What a profession actually takes.

The Bicycle Guide toCounseling Theories and ModalitiesI need to choose and apply an approach: case formulation, integrative technique, attachment and mentalizing, existential and person-centred work, and how change shows up in sessions.For Counseling Practitioner
Topic guide13 sections · 9 books
The Bicycle Guide toCounselor Self-Care and ResilienceI want to last in this work: preventing burnout, using supervision and consultation, handling countertransference, and staying competent.For Counseling Practitioner
Topic guide5 sections · 4 books
The Bicycle Guide toGrief and Loss CounselingI am helping someone through loss: the tasks of mourning, complicated outcomes, rebuilding identity and meaning, and what shapes how a person grieves.For Counseling Practitioner
Topic guide8 sections · 8 books
The Bicycle Guide toPractice Counseling and Psychotherapy WellSymptom reduction and treatment efficacy — from 11 books.For Counseling Practitioner
Topic guide36 sections · 11 books
The Bicycle Guide toThe Therapeutic Relationship and EthicsI want to build a strong working relationship with clients and handle the ethical side well: alliance, empathy, countertransference, ruptures, feedback, competence and client safety.For Counseling Practitioner
Topic guide12 sections · 7 books

In Life

Capability you exercise on your own life — family, money, health, becoming who you want to be.

Wellbeing & Character

Flourishing, character strengths, and the practice of a good life.

The Bicycle Guide toCultivate Wellbeing and Character StrengthsFlourishing and well-being — from 37 books.For Executive Performance Leader
Topic guide43 sections · 37 books

Book guides

27 book guides

Lead Teams & Organizations

The craft of leading people — and leading a team in any function.

The Bicycle Guide toAttachment in PsychotherapyPsychotherapy transforms clients by creating a new, secure attachment relationship that integrates dissociated nonverbal experience and cultivates a reflective, mindful stance toward the self.
Book guide10 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toAuthentic HappinessAchieve lasting fulfillment by discovering and applying your unique character strengths to create a life rich with positive emotion, deep engagement, and profound meaning.
Book guide8 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toCareer CounselingA constructionist approach to career counseling that helps individuals design their lives and construct meaningful careers by authoring their own stories in a rapidly changing world of work.
Book guide8 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toCharacter Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and ClassificationThis handbook provides a systematic classification and measurement of 24 widely-valued character strengths, organized under six core virtues, creating a 'manual of the sanities' to counterbalance psychology's traditional focus on disorder.
Book guide26 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toCharacter Strengths Interventions: A Field Guide for PractitionersA comprehensive field guide for practitioners on how to use the VIA classification of 24 character strengths to help clients, students, and employees build well-being and flourish.
Book guide12 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toEthics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide, Fourth EditionA practical guide for psychotherapists and counselors on navigating the complex ethical dilemmas of their profession by fostering a continuous process of critical thinking, self-awareness, and personal responsibility over rote adherence to codes.
Book guide13 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toExistential PsychotherapyExistential psychotherapy is a dynamic approach that frames human psychological conflict, anxiety, and psychopathology as the result of the individual's struggle with the four ultimate concerns or "givens" of existence: death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness.
Book guide10 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toFlourishPsychologist Martin Seligman introduces his "Well-Being Theory," arguing that true flourishing comes from cultivating Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA), and presents a vision for applying these principles to transform education, the military, health, and public policy.
Book guide10 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toFlow: The Psychology of Optimal ExperienceThis book explains how to achieve happiness by controlling consciousness and finding "flow," a state of complete absorption in challenging activities that makes life intrinsically rewarding and leads to personal growth.
Book guide7 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toGive and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to SuccessContrary to the belief that nice guys finish last, this book reveals that the most successful people are often givers who create value for others, which in turn builds reputations, relationships, and ripple effects that lead to their own surprising and sustainable success.
Book guide9 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toGrief Counselling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health PractitionerA foundational handbook for mental health practitioners that presents a task-based model for understanding and facilitating the mourning process, distinguishing between counseling for normal grief and therapy for complicated grief.
Book guide8 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toGrit: The Power of Passion and PerseveranceLong-term success is the result of 'grit,' a learnable combination of passion and perseverance, which matters more than innate talent.
Book guide11 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toInto the Impossible Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner Lessons from Laureates to Stoke Curiosity, Spur Collaboration, and Ignite…Through candid interviews with nine Nobel Prize–winning physicists, an accomplished cosmologist distills the human habits, mindsets, and soft skills—above all curiosity—that produce world-changing achievement and dissolve the imposter syndrome.
Book guide12 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toMans search for meaningA Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist argues that the deepest human drive is the search for meaning, which can be fulfilled under any conditions—even the most agonizing—through how we choose to respond to life.
Book guide9 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toMindset: The New Psychology of SuccessThe beliefs people hold about whether their basic qualities are fixed or developable shape how they approach challenges, effort, failure, and relationships across every domain of life.
Book guide10 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toPerson-Centred Counselling in ActionA foundational guide to person-centred counselling, explaining how a therapeutic relationship built on empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence enables clients to access their own inner resources for growth and healing.
Book guide9 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toPositivityGroundbreaking research reveals that heartfelt positive emotions—when they outnumber negative ones above a roughly 3-to-1 tipping point—broaden the mind, build lasting resources, fuel resilience, and enable people to flourish.
Book guide8 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toPsychotherapy Relationships That Work, Volume 1: Evidence-Based Therapist ContributionsA comprehensive, evidence-based guide compiling meta-analytic research to identify the specific therapist relational behaviors that demonstrably contribute to successful psychotherapy outcomes.
Book guide15 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toThe Anxious LawyerA practical 8-week guide for lawyers to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and find greater satisfaction in their careers and lives through the practice of mindfulness and meditation.
Book guide8 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toThe Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their PatientsAn eminent existential psychotherapist offers a new generation of therapists and their patients eighty-five heartfelt and hard-won insights into the art of therapy, arguing that the authentic, here-and-now relationship between therapist and patient is the primary agent of change.
Book guide11 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toThe Happy Lawyer Making a Good Life in the LawAn evidence-based guide for lawyers, law students, and legal organizations on how to combat professional dissatisfaction by applying principles from positive psychology and neuroscience to build a happier, more fulfilling career in law.
Book guide14 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toThe How of HappinessA research psychologist reveals that 40% of our happiness is within our control and presents a dozen evidence-based activities to achieve and sustain lasting well-being.
Book guide8 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toThe Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health ProfessionalsA guide for counselors, therapists, teachers, and other helping professionals on how to prevent burnout and sustain a vital, fulfilling career by mastering the balance between caring for others and caring for oneself.
Book guide10 sections · 1 book
The Bicycle Guide toTheory and Practice of Group CounselingA comprehensive textbook that teaches aspiring and practicing group counselors the fundamental principles of group process, ethical considerations, and the application of ten major theoretical approaches to leading effective therapeutic groups.
Book guide10 sections · 1 book

Lead in Your Field

Running the work where the work actually happens.

The Bicycle Guide toForce for Good How to ThriveA practical guide for purpose-driven leaders on how to thrive—not just survive—by mastering the UP, IN and OUT dimensions of leadership in a post-modern, post-pandemic, future-fragile world.
Book guide10 sections · 1 book

People Analytics & Measurement

Study people and organizations with rigor.

The Bicycle Guide toAssessing Change in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents (Psychology, Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy)An edited European collection that demonstrates how empirical research methods can be rigorously applied to evaluate process and outcome in psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children and adolescents without betraying the clinical complexity of the work.
Book guide12 sections · 1 book

Careers & Professions

What a profession actually takes.

The Bicycle Guide toHandbook of Psychotherapy Integration (3rd Edition)A comprehensive handbook detailing the history, conceptual foundations, primary models, and clinical applications of psychotherapy integration, advocating for a move beyond single-school approaches to enhance therapeutic effectiveness.
Book guide10 sections · 1 book

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