“Michael Broder’s Stage Climbing is a thoughtful, manageable, and elegant approach to our important therapeutic work. It provides a brilliantly useful and succinct paradigm for understanding and promoting clients’ resources, development, and growth … Michael, you did it again!”
— Elaine R Axelrod, PhD., Psychologist and Shamanic Practitioner
“Stage Climbing provides me with an intelligent framework for organizing my thoughts and deciding the most efficient place to intervene when I’m working with a client.”
— Arlene Foreman, Licensed Professional Counselor, A Center for Marriage Counseling
“Stage Climbing offers a masterful integration of cognitive therapy tools across the developmental life span. It encourages self-acceptance and honest self-assessment. With amazing detail, Dr. Broder prescribes activities and tools to cognitively dispute limiting beliefs at each stage, leading the reader to pursue desired incremental behavioral changes towards living one’s fullest potential.”
— Barbara Lyn Grinnell, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist, Wynnewood, PA
“Dr. Broder has distilled a lifetime of professional service into a unique set of perspectives… and a set of highly effective strategies for transforming this clarity into meaningful change within our everyday lives. With practical guidelines for enhancing parenting, career selection, and love relationships; Stage Climbing is a “must read” for human service professionals, as well as anyone seeking a wonderful ‘road map’ for more successful living.”
— Bruce Coopersmith, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Philadelphia, PA
“Stage Climbing is a welcome landmark in the field of human development and personal growth. It is profound in its theoretical framework and practical in its self-help applicability. Its original seven stages of maturity are intellectually rigorous and its methods for advancing to higher stages are sound and specific enough to be life changing. It has been said that we come into this life with no manual to guide us. Well, Dr. Broder seems to have provided a highly credible, amazingly accessible and positively actionable manual for living life fully. Knowing his previous self-help books, Stage Climbing can be considered his magnum opus, a remarkable work of psychological innovation and for consciousness evolution. This book offers solid and creative ways to step up to the next highest stage of life potential and fulfillment.“
— Larry J. Rosenberg, Ph.D., Life Transformation Consultant, Sedona, AZ
“Stage Climbing is so illuminating. It has helped me understand not only when I developed certain behaviors but also why and what needs each one was originally intended to address, and this insight has increased my acceptance of myself and others and provided me with a path to greater purpose and meaning in my life.”
— Carol Noblitt, Director of Development for the Real World Foundation
“Dr. Broder ties in the old classical concepts of psychology with the new approaches to self-healing, personal growth and empowerment in a way that’s never been done before. The tools Stage Climbing provide are key. No book in this area has provided them so comprehensively and in a way that speaks directly to each reader. All of the ingredients for lasting change are there for any reader who wishes to make use of them.”
— Andrea Vlacho-Christos, author of Healing Our Animal Friends With EFT
“Stage Climbing could be a life-changing event for anyone who reads it and applies the strategies to their unique situation. It is also an excellent read.”
— Antoinette Champclos, French author of Méthode infaillible pour réussir vos études
“I fully recommended Stage Climbing, by Dr. Michael Broder. He has a special way of engaging the reader and his compassion shines through. If you follow his ideas you will ascend to good mental health.”
— Windy Dryden, Ph.D., Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies, Goldsmiths University of London
“With precision, clarity, wisdom and heart; Michael Broder takes the reader through the process of Stage Climbing towards the task of greater knowledge and awareness about one’s highest potential. This is an extremely well written and magical book.”
— Murray Needleman, Ph.D., Clinical and Media Psychologist