Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults

Dominic Longo

Book cover for Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults
Book cover for Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults
Book cover for Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults
Book cover for Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults

Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults

Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults

Dominic Longo

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Queer Flourishing is a field guide for personal growth that extends far beyond "coming out," offering a resource for readers who yearn to realize their full potential and truly flourish in every aspect of life. Traditional self-help resources often overlook queer lives, assuming a heteronormative perspective that fails to meet the needs of LGBTQ+ readers. This pioneering book delivers personalized guidance that empowers contemporary LGBTQ+ people to live more fully and lead with greater effectiveness.

The author brings queer perspectives to the research on adult development and its map of developmental stages. He highlights ten specific patterns common in queer lives, calling them "queer superpowers." These superpowers represent adaptive postures and capabilities developed in response to the adversities LGBTQ+ individuals face, such as bullying, shaming, and moral condemnation. Exploring these adaptive postures and patterns helps queer individuals understand their own path of development, gain insights about leading and living well, and avoid pitfalls along the way.

Queer Flourishing contends that to grow into highly effective leaders and to live lives of flourishing, queer adults must attend to the woundedness of the most tender and powerful parts of themselves. Therefore, the book emphasizes the importance of a trauma-informed approach to personal growth and leadership development for LGBTQ+ individuals in particular. The author includes for readers many powerful questions to prompt personal reflection and introspection. He also shares the story of his own developmental journey. This approach aims to foster holistic growth, helping readers revive neglected parts of themselves and discover new facets of their identities.

Queer Flourishing fills a void in personal development literature by offering a groundbreaking guide to growth and self-mastery specifically for LGBTQ+ adults.

Critical Reviews

"This insightful and hopeful book about queer flourishing should be required reading for all struggling to find meaning in their otherness and for those who grapple with how best to support LGBTQ+ people in their quest for wholeness, connection, and love and their capacity to powerfully contribute to society."

Dr. Susanne Cook-Greuter, Independent Scholar

"Queer Flourishing is a book that transcends cultural, ethnic, social, and economic barriers and talks to the queerness in every single one of us."

Ambassador Diego Gómez Pickering, Journalist and Diplomat

"Dominic is someone who brings a strong commitment to fostering queer community and a deep knowledge of adult development, marrying the two to create a unique message about how queer folks can grow and thrive. Queer Flourishing is a guide to making your queer way through an often confusing, sometimes hostile world."

Sasha Aickin, Software Engineer and Tech Founder, Former Chief Technology Officer, Redfin

"As a cisgender, straight developmentalist, I loved learning deeply from Longo's theories and experiences and putting some of them in practice in my own life. A book that will change your life!"

Dr. Jennifer Garvey Berger, CEO, Cultivating Leadership

"[Dominic Longo's] work brings communities together, through bonding over growing up feeling othered and sharing how that has shaped us as queer adults. It gave me the tools to recognize the obstacles I create for myself and find ways to begin breaking them down."

Jason Mitchell Kahn, Entrepreneur

"As I grow in my own leadership journey, I found Queer Flourishing to be a clear articulation of the transformations of leadership presented in a relatable, gay man's context. It is the first book I have seen that is focused on the queer journey from assimilation to independence and offers interesting personal examples of fitting in, finding one's tribe, and coming of age."

Dan Chen, Product Strategy, Google

Publishing Information

Publisher: Publish Your Purpose
Pub date: 2025-01-01
Length: 470 pages

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