Why I Wrote Mystic Cool

The Author of Mystic Cool & Founder of ProAttitude

Why I wrote this book

I wrote Mystic Cool to bring neuroscience, psychology and a practical spirituality together in a proven approach to realizing the creative brilliance and joy of excelling that our brain is intended to generate. We are capable of this.

The chief factor blocking the brain's capacity to generate brilliance is stress. A dynamically peaceful attitude lights up neural networks that generate a fearless self-confidence, making us immune to stress. The result is the capacity for creative action in which we not only excel, but excel in ways that make work and life intrinsically rewarding.

Who doesn't want a brain like that? It's achievable and in a relatively short period of time.

About Don Joseph Goewey

Don Joseph Goewey’s career in human potential spans three decades and includes significant collaborations with Carl Rogers, Ph.D., the founder of humanistic psychology, Gerald Jampolsky, M.D., founder of a school of psychology based on attitude, and Charles Devonshire, Ph.D., founder of the Center for Cross-Cultural Communication.

During his career, Don Goewey has served in senior executive positions at Stanford Medical School and the San Mateo County Mental Health Department. He directed a comprehensive AIDS organization at the height of the HIV epidemic in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was also part of the leadership which implemented the famous Municipal Health Services Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

From 1992 to 2005, Don directed the International Center for Attitudinal Healing, which pioneered a peer support driven community mental health model that helped people respond to catastrophic life events. The Center cared for adults and children dealing with life threatening illness, parents who have lost children, communities responding to crisis, and refugees of war. The approach, delivery and model of care that the Center advanced have been replicated around the world.

During the Bosnian War, the U.S. State Department contracted with the Center to build peer support programs in refugee camps to deal with the overwhelming number of people suffering from post-traumatic stress. Goewey lead the project.

Under his leadership, the International Center for Attitudinal Healing was honored by the Fetzer Institute as one of the important community mental health advances in our time. The Center’s founder, Gerald Jampolsky, M.D. was awarded the prestigious Pride In The Profession Award from the American Medical Association. This award honors physicians and the programs they innovate that practice in areas of crisis and “serve as the voice of patients in the United States who otherwise might not be heard.”

In 2006, Don Goewey co-founded ProAttitude, a human performance firm with the mission of ending stress in the workplace. Since then he has worked to help people and companies to shift chronic stress and anxiety and reach a highest potential, which he defines as "the joy of excelling."

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