The Wise Path. Are you working your way toward greater wisdom? If so, this highly informative website deserves a visit. An ongoing project of Leland R. Beaumont, the site focuses on personal development in the emotional, cognitive, and action spheres as well as the endpoint convergence of these developmental paths: wisdom.

Flaws In Human Mentality A few thoughts on the subject by Copthorne Macdonald. (Augmented version, 22 August 2010)

Where's Wisdom is an insightful essay by Leland R. Beaumont that, with the aid of helpful graphics, explores both the personal growth process as one heads toward wisdom and the final destination: wisdom itself. (A PDF file)

Emotional Competency. Fundamental to psychological/spiritual growth and the development of wisdom is the understanding and management of our emotions — what Lee Beaumont calls Emotional Competency. His resource-rich website is home to many on-point, understandable essays that shed light on emotional and other personal growth issues.

Wising Up This short essay on Alan Nordstrom's blog describes the process: "to act wisely we must first comprehend (often through sad experiences) which alternatives will prove most gratifying, and then we must work to make them real or bring them into being."

Developing Personal Wisdom by Copthorne Macdonald. An overview of nine wisdom-fostering tools and activities.

How to Train the Aging Brain This NY Times article by Barbara Strauch has implications for, and presents insights into, the process of wisdom development. A thought-stirring article.

SOPPHIA — The 7 Dimensions of Wisdom Bernard Brookes's "SOPPHIA model organizes the plethora of competencies into 7 Dimensions of Wisdom, and provides a framework that facilitates coaching and self-development efforts."

What are the most effective ways to develop wisdom? What practices work? Which ones are a waste of time? What attitudes, ways of being, and ways of seeing are important to cultivate? And how do we go about doing that? Please share your experience with the rest of us.

Values, Wisdom, and Action is an article by Copthorne Macdonald in the World Wisdom Rising (Fall/Winter 2007) issue of the journal Kosmos: An integral Approach to Global Awakening. (Also available in PDF format.)

The 48 Ways to Wisdom. In these 48+ essays, Rabbi Noel Weinberg presents deeply insightful advice for those who are serious about developing wisdom.

Way #10, Honor the Wise Person. Rabbi Weinberg says, "An apprentice gains firsthand knowledge by watching how an expert works. So too with wisdom. Don't read about it in a book; find yourself an expert."

Review of Charles Halpern's book Making Waves and Riding the Currents. Subtitled Activism and the Practice of Wisdom, this remarkable book about a remarkable life is reviewed here by Copthorne Macdonald.

The Wisdom-Centered Life website. Richard Trowbridge's new website is a rich trove of wisdom resources. Check out the Cultivating Wisdom section.

Principles for the Wisdom-Centered Life by Richard Hawley Trowbridge. This helpful set of principles or maxims are one part of Richard's "Wisdom as Skill" course. (MS Word format.)

MAGIC Wisdom Guidelines is Tom Fox's tightly focused "crash course" in wisdom, presented in his 2007 Commencement Address at Saint Peter's College.

Personal and Societal Wisdom: Some thoughts on their nature and development   A text-with-slides transcript of Cop's 2006 talk at Orlando's University Unitarian Universalist Society.