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2016 Nautilus Book Awards: Gold Winner, Women’s Category
2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Finalist, Women’s Issues
2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Finalist, Self-Help
2016 USA Best Book Awards: Women’s Issues, Finalist
“In The Way of the Mysterial Woman, Suzanne Anderson and Susan Cannon present their brave, pioneering, richly-informed proposals for the advance of womankind. This is a big and unique set of proposals, which is bound to enlarge our thinking about both the thwarting and liberation of our greater potentials.”
―Michael Murphy, co-founder of the Esalen Institute and author of The Future of the Body
“The ‘Mysterial Woman’ offers a new source code for our culture. Beyond equality and empowerment lies the evolving woman, a new archetype I have named the Feminine Co-Creator. It is a new map for women. She’s in the midst of an evolutionary move, between mystery and manifestation at the edge of a new world. With great compassion and wisdom we are guided through dynamic steps toward a new level of wholeness. Highly recommended.”
―Barbara Marx Hubbard, The Foundation for Conscious Evolution and author of Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential
“In their excellent book, The Way of the Mysterial Woman, Susan Cannon and Suzanne Anderson describe sophisticated yet user-friendly leadership models and techniques that are empowering for women and men alike. The Way of the Mysterial Woman reveals the full complexity of the mature Feminine essence, providing a new source code―a fundamental set of inner instructions for personal and professional growth.”
―Steve McIntosh, author of The Presence of the Infinite, and president of the Institute for Cultural Evolution
“In their new book, Suzanne Anderson and Dr. Susan Cannon engage a recognition that could not be more timely and significant: current images of realization for women, those that in recent decades have provided more equal roles and essential new freedoms, while important, are not in themselves enough. The book’s sensitive inquiry into what more must lie ahead is richly pertinent not just to the lives of women, but also to broader questions of what will be needed if humanity as a whole is to progress in ultimately rewarding ways.”
―Charles Johnson, M.D., author of Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future, and founder of the Institute for Cultural Maturity
“The Way of the Mysterial Woman is a powerful, resonant, and original offer to the world. I loved every chapter―especially when I followed the “Mysterial Sequence” and found myself in all the archetypes and their fascinating shadows. Think of this as a transformational guidebook―as life changing as The Artist’s Way, anchored in a conversation as groundbreaking as Women Who Run With the Wolves. This is our time and this is our book.”
―Gail Hudson, writer, life coach and co-author with Jane Goodall of Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued From the Brink and Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder From the World of Plants
“The Way of the Mysterial Woman at once heralds, activates, and incarnates a worldview shift of inconceivable proportions. If that sounds exaggerated, we would do well to submit ourselves to Suzanne Anderson and Susan Cannon’s tutelage here, which transmits the Mysterial disposition and capacity they describe and gives such superbly realized, informed, and tested guidance for achieving it. Though it fiercely celebrates and serves women, this book has much insight for both the Feminine and the Masculine in men too. If anyone wants a viable path beyond chronic Hypermasculinity, take off your spurs and your helmet, press your palms together before your heart, enter in, and go all the way through this book, doing the work you find here that really calls to and challenges you. The journey may change you more than you can presently imagine.”
―Saniel Bonder, author of Waking Down: Beyond Hypermasculine Dharmas, co-founder, Human Sun Institute
“What a rich book! Like the wise women they are, Anderson and Cannon take us by the hand and guide us confidently through the transformation that is already underway for thousands of women―and men―who have felt the tug of the Mysterial potential within. In delineating five clear stages and multiple practices to support the maturation of integral capacities at each stage, the authors have created an elegant map for a brave new emerging model of leadership. Brava!”
―Belinda Gore, PhD, senior faculty at The Deep Coaching Institute, author of Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook and The Ecstatic Experience: Healing Postures for Spirit Journeys
“This book provides a compelling, overarching theory of human, and particularly women’s, development. It weaves multiple psychological, sociological, futurist, and philosophical systems into a stunning arc of individual and societal development. But the book goes beyond theory. This is a working manual. You can feel the traction given this work by the ten years of on-the-ground training, coaching, and consulting that were the cauldron from which the vision and methods emerged…. If there is one thing to take from this book, it is the confident and well-etched vision of feminine capacity fully realized and its potential influence on our world’s future.”
―Gregory Kramer, co-creator of Insight Dialogue, founder of the Metta Foundation, and author of Insight Dialogue: The Interpersonal Path to Freedom and Dharma Contemplation: Meditating Together with Wisdom Texts
“Anderson and Cannon had me when they used the expression ‘the long emergency.’ They were talking about the world situation, but I felt they were looking at my life. And so it continued, page after page. They were by my side on a journey through the book―my companions as I saw through a new lens, analyzed from a new perspective, and made choices using a new way of knowing. Perhaps you, yourself, are experiencing ‘the long emergency.’ Perhaps you are at one of life’s critical intersections and unsure which way to go. Perhaps you are feeling stuck without even knowing why. The Way of the Mysterial Woman will help you answer the question: What next? It can help you to decide mindfully and spiritually, and then to move forward with confidence, courage, and hope.”
―Ruth Middleton House, EdD, president of Middleton-House & Company and author of It’s Time to Change the Way You Change
“The Way of the Mysterial Woman offers a ground-breaking look at women’s leadership that is beautifully written and deeply thought provoking. Susan and Suzanne draw from the worlds of mythology, leadership theory and proven practice to create a path for women to EVOLVE. This book inspires the reader to think bigger and make the changes required to revolutionize the way we lead. If we do this, it will have a profoundly positive impact on society.”
―Maureen Metcalf, author of the award-winning Innovative Leadership book series
“The Way of the Mysterial Woman offers women leaders a pathway to inner discovery through multi-dimensional self-evaluation, understanding of mythological prototypes, and common sense. The well-researched, beautifully written book gives its readers an approach that is both intelligent and compassionate. It allows them to embrace their inner strengths as women and unique human beings.”
―Julie Benezet, founder of The Journey of Not Knowing® and Academic Advisor, Harvard Graduate School of Design Executive Education, Challenges of Leadership
“The Way of the Mysterial Woman is an elegant, deep, and personal call for women to arise at this moment in history and activate their power to lead humanities’ story forward. This is more than a book―it’s a repository of wisdom that evokes a new way of being, and offers a detailed path forward called the mysterial sequence to open the doorway. If you are a woman who wants to love herself, or a man wants to bring the full life of your woman into the world, this is your guidebook.”
―Ross Hostetter, author of Keepers of the Field, and lead teacher of the Fieldwork School
