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What Do You Stand For? For Teens: A Guide to Building Character

Young people need guidance from caring adults to build strong, positive character traits—but they can also build their own. This book by the best-selling author of The Kid’s Guide to Social Action invites children and teens to explore and practice honesty, kindness, empathy, integrity, tolerance, patience, respect, and more.

Quotations and background information set the stage. Dilemmas challenge readers to think about, discuss, and debate positive traits. Activities invite them to explore what they stand for at school, at home, and in their communities. True stories profile real kids who exemplify positive traits; resources point the way toward character-building books, organizations, programs, and Web sites.

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Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Capable Young People

No Parent or Educator Can Afford to Ignore This Groundbreaking Work!
Bestselling authors H. Stephen Glenn and Jane Nelsen have helped hundreds of thousands of parents raise capable, independent children with Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World. On its tenth anniversary, this parenting classic returns with fresh, up-to-date information to offer you inspiring and workable ideas for developing a trusting relationship with children, as well as the skills to implement the necessary discipline to help your child become a responsible adult.
Those who think in terms of leniency versus strictness will be surprised. This book goes beyond these issues to teach children to be responsible and self-reliant—not through outer-directed concerns, such as fear and intimidation, but through inner-directed behavior, such as feeling accountable for one’s commitments. Inside, you’ll discover how to instill character-building values and traits in your child that last a lifetime.
“During these turbulent days when families are in disarray and children are getting the short end of the stick, this book can be very helpful to parents who are struggling to bring up self-reliant children. Even after raising five of my own and becoming a grandfather for the seventh time, I got some new ideas out of it!”—Art Linkletter
“An inspiring, workable formula for developing closeness, trust, dignity, and respect . . . a real gem.”—Becky Ridgeway, School Social Worker

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Building Happiness, Resilience and Motivation in Adolescents: A Positive Psychology Curriculum for Well-Being

Positive psychology focuses on building strengths and developing creative and positive thinking in order to boost happiness, well-being and achievement. It helps people to be motivated, maintain positive mental health, and to flourish in all areas of their lives. This resource is a fully-formed positive psychology programme designed to promote happiness, resilience and motivation in young people aged 11-18. It introduces the theory and research behind positive psychology, and includes a guidance section for facilitators on how to deliver the programme. The programme itself is made up of 24 chapters which reflect each of the 24 ‘character strengths’ identified by Martin Seligman, the founder of positive psychology. These strengths include creative thinking, kindness, fairness, leadership, forgiveness, and teamwork. Activities teach students how to develop these strengths and skills in order to initiate positive change in their lives. This resource provides teachers, counsellors, psychologists, social workers and others working with young people with a complete programme to promote well-being in young people and help them flourish in their lives.

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Getting It: Building Motivation From Relapse

A workbook for those who never want to suffer the pain and humiliation of addictive relapse again. With counselor or sponsor and/or peers, we look systematically at relapse decisions, our own and others, in order to “get” the realizations already found among those who work successfully to maintain recovery.

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TRUST Inc.,: 52 Weeks of Activities and Inspirations for Building Workplace Trust (Volume 3)

Is long-term business success a goal? The fastest and most direct route is trust, and the strategy need not be complicated. This third book in the TRUST Inc. series offers 52 weeks of trust-building activities and inspirations from the world’s leading experts.

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Building Confidence: Get Motivated, Overcome Social Fear, Be Assertive, and Empower Your Life For Success

SKYROCKET CONFIDENCE: Learn the Evidence-Based Skills of Building Your Confidence

Want to feel completely at ease with yourself and your capacity for success in work and life? Right now, you might know exactly what you want for your life, the goals you want to achieve, the people you want to meet, the skills you want to learn. You have the intelligence and know-how to improve your life. But there’s one thing missing — confidence. Without confidence in yourself and your abilities, you remain stuck in fear and self-doubt, even as you long for change. But there is a solution. You don’t have a life sentence of low confidence. You CAN learn the proven skills of confidence and upgrade your entire life!

Determine + Deconstruct + Develop = A Confident New You

The first step toward confidence is to determine exactly where you’re missing it and the beliefs and behaviors holding you back. Next you need to deconstruct old ways of thinking and patterns that keep you bound to the status quo and prevent you from taking confident action. Finally, you need to develop new mindsets and skills to practice regularly in order to rebuild your confidence muscle and help you develop into the self-assured, pro-active, confident person you want to be. As you practice new thoughts and behaviors, you’re actually creating new neural pathways in your brain, supporting your real-world efforts.

Buff It Up: How Confidence Can Change Your Life

Whether you’re lacking confidence in general, or simply need support in a particular area, the techniques taught in Building Confidence can improve your entire life. Confidence is such an important factor that it’s been proven to increase one’s yearly salary by thousands of dollars, improve your relationships, and supercharge your career trajectory. By committing to a confidence buff up, you’re taking control of your destiny and positioning yourself for personal and professional success. Most of the limitations that keep us from confidence are illusions and limiting beliefs. Once you learn to shatter those illusions and break through limiting beliefs, you’ll be empower to accomplish anything you set your mind to.

ORDER: Building Confidence: Get Motivated, Overcome Social Fear, Be Assertive, and Empower Your Life For Success

Building Confidence is your blueprint for a better you. It’s your formula for change so you have the boldness to go for it — whatever it happens to be for you! Every chapter concludes with specific action steps you can implement and practice right away to facilitate change. You’ll learn: ** The Hidden Reasons You’ve Been Blocked from Confidence ** The “Self-Fulfilling Prophecy” that Traps You ** The “Addiction” Making It Impossible to Trust Yourself ** How to Define Your “POS” to Regain Control of Your Life ** How to Have Social Poise and Speak with Ease ** How to Set Yourself Up for Financial Success ** Why Your Relationships Might Be Suffering and How to Fix Them for Good **

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Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability

This Second Edition celebrates 21 years of the practice of empowerment evaluation, a term first coined by David Fetterman during his presidential address for the American Evaluation Association. Since that time, this approach has altered the landscape of evaluation and has spread to a wide range of settings in more than 16 countries. In this Second Edition of Empowerment Evaluation: Knowledge and Tools for Self-Assessment, Evaluation Capacity Building, and Accountability, an outstanding group of evaluators from academia, government, nonprofits, and foundations assess how empowerment evaluation has been used in practice since the publication of the landmark 1996 edition. The book includes 10 empowerment evaluation principles, a number of models and tools to help put empowerment evaluation into practice, reflections on the history and future of the approach, and illustrative case studies from a number of different projects in a variety of diverse settings. The Second Edition offers readers the most current insights into the practice of this stakeholder-involvement approach to evaluation.

 

“One of the greatest evaluation innovations of the past two decades has been the development of a professional and systematic approach to self-evaluation called empowerment evaluation. This book offers you the latest, cutting-edge understanding of this powerful innovation and evaluation approach. May you be inspired and empowered as you adventure through the chapters in this outstanding volume!”  —Stewart I. Donaldson, President-elect, American Evaluation Association, Claremont Graduate University

 

“This twenty year follow-up to the original provides even better and richer stories about the versatility and utility of empowerment work in most social contexts. It expands our understanding of how empowerment evaluation is foundational to any effort to improve and measure growth in any community/social environment.”  —Robert Schumer, University of Minnesota

 

“This text brings empowerment evaluation to life, and in doing so it offers all evaluators a large body of relevant concepts and tools for designing, implementing, and assessing evaluation efforts that engage, democratize, and strengthen stakeholder’s self-determination.” —Gary J. Skolits, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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Glass Bead Workshop: Building Skills, Exploring Techniques, Finding Inspiration

Glass beadmaking has exploded in popularity—and those artists who have successfully mastered the basics want more techniques to enhance their repertoire. Jeri Warhaftig, a respected and experienced teacher, offers intermediates her time-tested, workshop-based approach to expanding their beadmaking skills. In each superbly illustrated and illuminating chapter, she focuses on using current tools, new materials, and innovative methodology to produce a singular bead—with several variations for every one. The possibilities, from sandblasting to metal inclusions, are stupendous: Craft sculptural flower beads; create a lightweight, hollow seashell-shaped bead; and go for the “wow” factor with geode beads that enclose decorative elements within a layer of glass. Helpful tips are sprinkled throughout, and a gallery of additional work will inspire.

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