The Stress Free Leader – 52 Ways to Self-Leadership, Personal Growth and Wise Living (2022, 3rd edition)
The Stress Free Leader is the book that made me a best-selling author. It is an easy to read guide for anyone leading anything: one’s own life, business or family.
The book is divided into 52 chapters, ranging from big questions to small ones. It explores topics like: How can meditation save your marriage? How to wake up early – and why? How would you start living if you knew you were dying? What would your life look like in one year, were you to live like this?
The Stress Free Leader is currently in its third printing.
Seeing the Big Picture – Introduction to Integral Thinking (2021, 2nd edition)
Together with my colleague, Dr. Matti Kamppinen, we decided to offer the first popular exposition of Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory in Finnish.
It quickly become a popular source for both academics and non-academics alike. The book explores easy ways to talk about difficult topics. It applies integral theory to problems in leadership, personal growth and organizational development.
Seeing the Big Picture is currently in its second printing, but sold out.
“Concise, enthralling, comprehensive. This book shines!” (Dr. Esa Saarinen, Professor emeritus of philosophy and systems thinking, Aalto University)
“This is the book for our time.” (Markku Wilenius, Professor, UNESCO Chair)
The Stress Free Coach – 52 Ways to Develop Your Skills in Coaching and Consulting (2021)
This book explores how to make it as a coach, consultant or a trainer.
For many, the coaching profession is a dream come true – turned a nightmare. Practices of marketing and selling do not come easily. Having learned them by necessity, in order to survive, I advise coaches of all stripes how to understand and implement the two most important things in business.
First, sell stuff people want to buy.
Then, speak about what you are doing.
That’s succeeding as a coach and as a consultant in a nutshell.
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Ken Wilber as a Spiritual Innovator – Studies in Integral Theory (2020, PhD Thesis)
My dissertation studies the American philosopher Ken Wilber (1949–) through the lens of spiritual innovatorship. Wilber’s innovatorship has two dimensions, a conceptual and a practical dimension. The conceptual dimension impacts the realm of worldviews and belief systems, and the practical dimension effects the ways in which we can act on the basis of these conceptual innovations. The aim of my dissertation is to offer an interpretative analysis of the relationship between these two dimensions in order to understand Wilber as a spiritual innovator.
Ken Wilber has been influenced by many traditions, both spiritual and secular, and offers a holistic conceptual system, or a metatheoretical framework, which operates in the emerging field of philosophia perennis, theoretical psychology and systems theory. This system is called Integral Theory, the main purpose of which is to integrate various traditions of understanding reality into a coherent epistemological framework.
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The Handbook of Flourishing Leadership (2020, 2nd edition)
Written together with my colleague Keijo Halinen, The Handbook of Flourishing Leadership explores three different aspects of flourishing as a leader: Robert Kegan’s Immunity to Change model; the Integral theory of Ken Wilber; and Radical Collaboration framework for conflict resolution in the workplace.
The Handbook of Flourishing Leadership is currently in its second edition.
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The Stress Free Entrepreneur – 7 Steps for Effortless Time Management (2019, 2nd edition)
The most important tool an entrepreneur has is their own free time.
This simple fact is lost on most entrepreneurs. They end up working more hours than someone working for a paycheck, with diminishing rewards, as their most precious resource – life energy – is slowly drained away.
Stress Free Entrepreneur starts from the fact that real wealth is measured is discretionary time. This is achieved by dividing the work day into three parts: before, during and after, each of which has their own set of simple yet effective principles.
The Stress Free Entrepreneur is currently in its second printing.
At Home in the Kosmos (2013)
I read Ken Wilber’s Boomeritis and decided to write my own version.
The story is a loosely autobiographical tale of a young student in the beginning of his college years.
As he encounters a theory that is even more comprehensive than his current, scientific worldview, he falls in love – both with the theory and to a girl he meets at a seminar of “Integrative Theory”.
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SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
The Fallacy of Consensus Reality – Multi Story Building as an Analogy for Systemic Change
(In The Age of Uncertainty – How to Understand Systemic Change, Petri Uusikylä ja Harri Jalonen, eds., Helsinki: Into Kustannus, 2023)
Integral Approach to Spirituality
(Co-authored with Matti Kamppinen, In New Spiritualites, Tiina Mahlamäki ja Minna Opas, eds, Helsinki: SKS, 2023, 2. edition)
Sustainable Spiritual Growth – Perspectives on the Inner Dimensions of Future
(In Futura 1/2022, Osmo Kuusi, ed.)
Carrying Fire – A Way Forward for Integral Foresight
(In Futures – The Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies, Vol 132, September 2021)
One of Richard Slaughter’s central innovations has been to bring the other half of reality to the field of Futures Studies. Slaughter has argued for the inner dimension of ideas, developmental levels, and mentation to be as central – if not more so – than the technical, systemic and concrete reality the field was founded upon. In this article I will present an overview of Slaughter’s central innovations that have carried the field towards a more Integral age. I will also propose a way forward for Integral Futures that is dependent on a simple heuristic model that can help simplify the complexity of Integral Theory.
Integral Framework as a Systemic Foundation for Coaching
(In Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal Vol. 3, No. 2, November 2018, 27-43.)
Here is an article my colleague and I wrote for an academic journal Philosophy of Coaching. It presents a view of how the Integral framework can be useful in coaching.
Many coaching approaches tend to be one-sided. The Integral framework sees the systemic connections of a coaching client from many perspectives.
Integral coaching also uses a rigorous theory, method and process to help the client to (a) see their “Current Way of Being” and (b) to grow into a “New Way of Being” that often feels very natural, expressive and unforced.
Seeing the Big Picture – The Integral Theory of Ken Wilber
(Co-authored with Matti Kamppinen, in Development of Adult Thinking. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cognitive Development and Adult Learning, Eeva Kallio, ed. Jyväskylä: Suomen kasvatustieteellinen seura, 2016)
There are many strengths in adulthood that are not always recognized. The life experience related to the course of life serves as a storehouse for those new forms of knowledge and understanding that have been observed to emerge in early adulthood, working age and later adulthood. Certain common features can be found in these qualitative changes – stages, levels and transformations.
The articles in the book Development of thinking in adulthood form the first Finnish work that deals with the development of thinking in adulthood. The work discusses thinking and knowledge from both a developmental and a learning perspective. The phenomenon is also examined from critical philosophical perspectives, without forgetting the connections of thinking to other research areas. The work is suitable as a textbook for universities and universities of applied sciences, for researchers and experts in the area, and for all those interested in the psychology of adulthood and learning research.
Also published in English with modified content (Routledge, 2020).
Systems Thinking, Spirituality and Wisdom: Perspectives on Ken Wilber (Approaching Religion, Vol 5, No. 2, 2015)
This special issue stems from a seminar on Ken Wilber held at the Department of Comparative Religion of the University of Turku in the autumn of 2014. The seminar involved Matti Kamppinen and JP Jakonen as facilitators, and 11 students, mostly from the Faculty of Humanities. The students had read Wilber’s A Brief History of Everything (Basam Books 2009, translated into Finnish by JP Jakonen) before the seminar, so that the viewpoints of and presentations by the facilitators could be readily and livelily discussed. And indeed, we had fruitful discussions on the concepts of flatland, systems thinking and spirituality, which crystallized into being the central themes of our Wilber seminar.
Wilber provides material for various fields of research and development. For comparative religion, Wilber is a challenge: on one hand, his writings based on idealistic ontology and Buddhism provide an object of study for comparative religion. On the other hand, his views on religion, spirituality and cultural evolution belong in any integral discussion on human nature. In addition, Wilber’s integral thinking has been applied in developmental psychology, wisdom research and business consultancy. With this special issue we hope to open some of these themes by using the concepts of systems thinking, spirituality and wisdom as tools.
Beyond Postmodern Spirituality: Ken Wilber and the Integral Approach (Approaching Religion, Vol 21, 92–109, 2009)
The American philosopher Ken Wilber has taken on a sizeable challenge by trying to unsnarl the modern world-knot and its secular worldview. In the course of his almost forty years of predominantly solitary study (he has worked outside academia for the best part of his career) and writing, Wilber has produced a body of work that spans from consciousness studies to sociology and anthropology, to mysticism and to different fields of philosophy, psychology and comparative religion.
The main theme running through his writings is the concept of Kosmos, the universe of matter, life, mind and spirit, that he seeks to restore and bring back both to our vocabulary and to our everyday experience of reality. This article examines Ken Wilber’s Integral theory.
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Ken Wilber: No Boundary (2021, 2nd edition)
A simple yet comprehensive guide to the types of psychologies and therapies available from Eastern and Western sources. Each chapter includes a specific exercise designed to help the reader understand the nature and practice of the specific therapies. Wilber presents an easy-to-use map of human consciousness against which the various therapies are introduced and explained.
This edition includes a Finnish preface by the translator, Dr. JP Jakonen.
Ken Wilber: Trump and a Post-Truth World (2018)
The world is in turmoil. As populist waves roil the Brexit-bound UK, along with Europe, Turkey, Russia, Asia—and most visibly, the US with the election of Donald Trump—nationalist and extremist political forces threaten the progress made over many decades. How did we get here? And how, with so much antagonism, cynicism, and discord, can we mend the ruptures in our societies?
In this provocative work, philosopher Ken Wilber explains why there is cause for hope.
This edition includes a Finnish preface by the translator, Dr. JP Jakonen.
Ken Wilber: A Brief History of Everything (2009)
Join one of the greatest contemporary philosophers on a breathtaking tour of time and the Kosmos—from the Big Bang right up to the eve of the twenty-first century. This accessible and entertaining summary of Ken Wilber’s great ideas has been expanding minds now for two decades, providing a kind of unified field theory of the universe and, along the way, treating a host of issues related to that universe, from gender roles, to multiculturalism, to environmentalism, and even the meaning of the Internet.
A Brief History of Everything may well be the best introduction to the thought of this man who has been called the “Einstein of Consciousness” (John White).
This edition includes a Finnish preface by religious studies scholar, Dr. Kaya Brandt.
Brian Johnson: A Philosopher’s Notes (2011)
Isn’t it a bit odd that we went from Science to Math to History but somehow missed the class on how to live? For some wacky reason “Optimal Living 101” didn’t make the schedule… But imagine if that class did exist and the teachers included everyone from the old school philosophers like Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Emerson, Nietzsche and Buddha to modern sages like Joseph Campbell, Paulo Coelho, Dan Millman, Deepak Chopra, Byron Katie, Eckhart Tolle and Wayne Dyer plus the world’s leading positive psychologists like Sonja Lyubomirsky, Tal Ben-Shahar and Martin Seligman who are *scientifically* establishing how we can live with more happiness, meaning and mojo.
Think of this book as a Philosopher’s notes on that awesome class. From “Spiritual Farts” and “110-Year Old You”s to “The Tolle Trap” and “Blissipline,” you’ll have fun getting your wisdom on in this inspiring, playful, wise and practical little book as Brian Johnson shares one hundred of his favorite Big Ideas on how to create a life brimming with a radiant enthusiasm only discovered when we align with the fundamentals of Optimal Living.