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The Nature of Mindset

A Field Guide and Psychology of Change, Transformation, and Healing

When Ash Buchanan began to study the mindset sciences, he encountered a surprising gap: the lack of a comprehensive theory that was based on all the evidence. This revelation sparked a decade-long learning journey to study and address this gap. In The Nature of Mindset, he presents his groundbreaking findings.

Part one offers a comprehensive field guide to the field of mindset, including an in-depth inquiry into its current communities, its origins and history, and also into a range of voices that speak to the emerging future for mindset psychology and practice.

Part two offers a comprehensive psychology of mindset that is also a psychology of how people and systems change, transform, and heal. This comprehensive psychology includes a theory of how mindset comes into being, the forms mindset can take in our lives and in the life of society, the functions mindset can serve, and the natural laws that underlie how mindset can change and transform into new forms and functions that serve better.

The Nature of Mindset is a must-read for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of mindset, and support the possibility of new ways of seeing, being, and acting in themselves and society as a whole.

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Mindset Aware

A Practical Guide to Know, Love, Grow, and Free Your Mindset

In this breakthrough book, renowned researcher Ash Buchanan reveals how you can live a mindset-aware life—an essential 21st century skill that enables you to work with your mindset in the present. Packed with evidence-based insights and practical strategies, Mindset Aware will help you come to know your mindset directly, and make small shifts that can create big changes in what is possible in your life and the world.

What makes Mindset Aware unique is its new science approach. After discovering a surprising gap in the mindset sciences—the absence of a theory grounded in all the evidence—Buchanan embarked on one of the most extensive studies ever undertaken in the field. What emerged was a collection of 16 new science principles that are helping to support a paradigm shift in how we understand and work with mindset. These principles also integrate cutting-edge insights from neuroscience, mindfulness, embodiment practice, regenerative development, systems change, transformative learning, trauma-informed care, power-literacy, and more. You may not find a more comprehensive guide to the new science of mindset, and you may never see mindset in the same way again.

Whether you’re navigating a major life transition, seeking greater flexibility in how you face life’s challenges, wanting to unlock more of your innate potential, or feeling called to transform how you participate in society, Mindset Aware is a must-read that will help you actualise new ways of seeing, being, and acting in yourself and the communities and organisations you belong to.

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Handbook of Mindset Research

History, definitions, theories, typologies, and more

This handbook was created to help the field of mindset see and know itself from multiple perspectives, and to help readers gain a sense of the collective wisdom that exists across the mindset field as a whole. It includes a series of research papers that review the history of mindset, and that review mindsets many different definitions, theories, typologies, and education opportunities.

This series of papers include:

– A “field map” of the field of mindset

– A short history of mindset

– What is a mindset? 100 definitions from the field

– A systematic review of mindset theory

– Mindset types: A systematic review and meta-analysis

– Mindset education: A review of existing learning opportunities

– Dominant paradigms in the field of mindset

– Is it time for a “mindset shift” and a “paradigm shift” in the way we understand and approach mindset?

You are invited to deepen your understanding of mindset from multiple perspectives, and consider how you can be the change and be the transformation as an engaged participant in the mindset field.

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Foundations of Mindset Psychology

A new series of 20 research papers

The word “mindset” seems to be everywhere these days. From self-help books to school classrooms, workplace boardrooms to the United Nations, there is a growing movement of people who are curious about how they can use the science of mindset to be the change and be the transformation in their life and the world. But how well are we truly grappling with the true depth and complexity of mindset? Could our current approaches to mindset be limiting rather than expanding what is possible in our lives and the world?

It is in this context that a new series of 20 research papers called Foundations of Mindset Psychology emerges. This series serves two purposes. First, it is a call to action to everyone in the mindset field to help co-shape a new paradigm of mindset psychology that is both comprehensive and practical for navigating the complexities of the 21st century. Second, it shares a concrete example of what such a more comprehensive and practical approach might look like, drawing on the findings of a decade-long research project.

Authored by researcher Ash Buchanan, this series invites readers to go on a journey of exploration, to critically examine conventional wisdom and develop a more holistic and nuanced understanding of the ways mindset can shape our lives and the life of society.

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