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Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being
Author: Linda Graham
Resilience is our innate capacity to face and handle life’s challenges. Bouncing Back integrates brain science, relational psychology and mindfulness to help you change and develop new ways to respond to pressures and tragedies quickly, adaptively, and effectively.
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Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success
Author: Michael Ungar
Dr. Ungar explores reals lives, across age and culture, and discovers that the answers lie in the people and the support systems around us.
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Brain Development Resource Library: Early brain development and its connection to adult mental health, including addiction.
Author: Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Resources from leading experts on the science of early brain development and its connection to adult mental health, including addiction.
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Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs: 20 Skills to Build Resilience
Author: Michael Ungar
Provides detailed descriptions of techniques, ample case studies, fascinating and easy to understand explanations of research, and rich stories of how social workers, psychologists, counselors, child and youth care workers, and other mental health professionals can help young people become more resilient.
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When the Black Dog Barks: Building a Research and Theoretical Agenda for Adult Learning In and On Clinical Depression
Author: Stephen Brookfield
The author uses his own experience of learning to understand and cope with depression as the starting point for an analysis of what might comprise a research agenda for anyone interested in exploring the adult learning dimensions of depression.
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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities
Author: Rick Ezekiel
My research seeks to understand disparities in mental health outcomes among students with marginalized sociodemographic identities in Canada, and the relationship between mental health and learning with marginalized communities.
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Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold
Author: Tara Brach
RAIN meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with difficult emotions and limiting beliefs, and discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Remember RAIN: Four steps to stop being so hard on ourselves.
Author: Tara Brach
Compassion fully blossoms when we actively offer care to ourselves. To help people address feelings of insecurity and unworthiness, I often introduce mindfulness and compassion through a meditation I call the RAIN of Self-Compassion. The acronym RAIN, first coined about 20 years ago by Michele McDonald, is an easy-to-remember tool for practicing mindfulness.
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Shift-and-Persist” Strategies: Why Low Socioeconomic Status Isn’t Always Bad for Health
Author: Edith Chen, Greg Miller
Some individuals, despite facing recurrent, severe adversities in life such as low socioeconomic status (SES), are nonetheless able to maintain good physical health. This article explores why these individuals deviate from the expected association of low SES and poor health and outlines a “shift-and-persist” model to explain the psychobiological mechanisms involved.
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6 August 2022
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations
Author: Brené Brown
Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.
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