Download or read book On Belonging written by Kim Samuel and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of social isolation, what does it mean to belong? Humanity is at an inflection point. Stress, disconnection, and increasing environmental degradation have people yearning for more than just material progress, personal freedom, or political stability. We are searching for deeper connection. We are longing to belong. On Belonging is an exploration of the crisis of social isolation and of the fundamental human need to belong. It considers belonging across four core dimensions: in our relationships with other people, in our rootedness in nature, in our ability to influence political and economic decision-making, and in our finding of meaning and purpose in our lives, with lessons on how to create communities centered on human connection. A trailblazing advocate and thought leader on questions of social connectedness, Kim Samuel introduces readers to leaders around the world who are doing the work to cultivate belonging. Whether through sports, medicine, music, business, culture, or advocacy, the people and programs in this book offer us meaningful lessons on building a world where we all feel at home.

Download or read book A Sense of Belonging at Work written by Lee Waller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sense of not belonging, that we are not accepted or valued at work can be enormously detrimental to our psychological well-being and sense of self, and can impact engagement, motivation and performance. Based on extensive research, this accessible and practical book helps leaders understand the implications of belonging on our well-being and performance and equips them with the insight and tools to ensure their employees have a sense of belonging at work, through: establishing connections and developing meaningful relationships, identifying and leveraging values and strengths, developing their awareness of diversity and unconscious bias, fostering a psychologically safe environment in which all can speak up, developing an inclusive leadership mindset and challenging negative thinking patterns. The strategies and tips provided will allow readers to ensure they too have a strong sense of belonging at work. This book is designed for leaders in organisations who are responsible for the performance and well-being of their teams and for anyone who has experienced a sense of not belonging and wants to understand how to develop a sense of belonging now and in the future. It will also be of value to HR professionals and coaches, who are seeking to develop positive, inclusive workplaces.

Download or read book Creating a Sense of Belonging written by Elijah C. and published by Xspurts.com. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Benefits You and Others ◦ Making a Difference: Harnessing the Power of Community ServiceIn times of increasing divisiveness and loneliness, "Creating a Sense of Belonging: Building Emotional Connections in a Divided World" serves as an enlightening guide for those seeking to foster a sense of belonging in their lives and the world around them.Discover the profound importance of belonging as the book deeply explores human psychology and how interlacing concepts of trust, respect, and mutual understanding tie into our sense of community. Let this illuminating guide help you unravel what stands between a divided society and a deeply connected one.Become familiar with the different components of belonging, such as emotional connection, shared experiences, mutual respect, and inclusivity. Learn how cultural values, societal influences, and even an individual's identity play a vital role in fostering a sense of belonging.Overcome fears, embrace growth and learn to harness empathy and transparency, as they play a vital role in building stronger and more meaningful relationships. The book also provides insights into cultivating connection in various aspects of life— at the workplace, educational institutions, and even within your neighborhood.Gain valuable clarity on how technology and social media influence our sense of connection and discover the nourishing satisfaction rooted in volunteering and community service.This insightful and inspiring book aims to ignite a spark in its readers to construct a world built on connection, empathy, and belonging. It is an essential read for educators, human resources practitioners, community builders, or anyone who is passionate about making a difference in a divided society. With "Creating a Sense of Belonging: Building Emotional Connections in a Divided World," bring about a personal and societal transformation and become a catalyst for change. Start building avenues towards unity and emotional connection today.

Download or read book The Organization Man written by William H. Whyte and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a blissful answer to postwar life with the marketing of new technologies—television, affordable cars, space travel, fast food—and lifestyles, such as carefully planned suburban communities centered around the nuclear family. William H. Whyte found this phenomenon alarming. As an editor for Fortune magazine, Whyte was well placed to observe corporate America; it became clear to him that the American belief in the perfectibility of society was shifting from one of individual initiative to one that could be achieved at the expense of the individual. With its clear analysis of contemporary working and living arrangements, The Organization Man rapidly achieved bestseller status. Since the time of the book's original publication, the American workplace has undergone massive changes. In the 1990s, the rule of large corporations seemed less relevant as small entrepreneurs made fortunes from new technologies, in the process bucking old corporate trends. In fact this "new economy" appeared to have doomed Whyte's original analysis as an artifact from a bygone day. But the recent collapse of so many startup businesses, gigantic mergers of international conglomerates, and the reality of economic globalization make The Organization Man all the more essential as background for understanding today's global market. This edition contains a new foreword by noted journalist and author Joseph Nocera. In an afterword Jenny Bell Whyte describes how The Organization Man was written.

Download or read book Give a F k written by Felicity Morse and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It really cuts through the honey glaze of self-help and hits you right where you need it." — Holly Bourne, author of How Do You Like Me Now? In a world that values autonomy, it's challenging to think that you could arrive at your destination with the help and companionship of other people. The root of this transformative concept is the essential human trait of caring — also known as giving a f**k. Journalist and life coach Felicity Morse shows how caring can transform lives on both small and large scales. In funny, wise prose, she discusses how to nail self-love, embrace the idea that we are all connected, and cultivate compassion for the wider world. So don't give up — give a f**k! "Morse's encouraging work will aid any reader looking to improve self-care in order to more effectively help others." — Publishers Weekly "Felicity Morse's writing made me feel more seen and more sane in what can often seem like an unsalvageably lunatic, lamentable and far-from-luminous modern world … revelatory. She offers insightful, practical, genuinely try-this-and-your-life-could-well-be-better approaches that work, and work hard. This book will make you feel brighter, in all ways. Get it, and get your neon on." — Alix Fox, The Guardian sex columnist "This is a hug in the form of a book. It's clear-thinking, down-to-earth, compassionate, and, above all, necessary." — Suzannah Lipscomb, historian and TV presenter "Felicity Morse leads the new generation of feisty, embodied troops into the soulful battles that could save us all." — Jamie Catto "Part philosophy, part psychology, and part self-help, Give a F**k is a genuinely insightful book that lays out, in the simplest and clearest terms, why and how we should all give a f**k . . . about ourselves, about other people, and about the universe we inhabit. If you didn't give a f**k before you read it, I challenge you not to give a f**k after you have." — Jim Piddock

Download or read book Why My Black Skin Matters written by Rochelle Ramathe MSW RSW and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something about this book has intrigued you to turn to the back cover. What was it? This author wrote this book with you in mind. This book takes you on a sensitive racial journey and ends at a destination that will change your life! Can exploring skin colour provide you with lessons that can impact your parenting, dating and marital relationships? The answer is YES. Journey with the author through the pages of this captivating book to find out how this book can assist you in your relationships. THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ FOR: Canadian Teachers Social Workers Parents and students of all races, as it touches on a subject matter that is rarely included within the educational curriculum. Dr. George Ashley University Professor

Download or read book Stories of Survival written by Amy Wong and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a collection of narratives about human survival. It tells the stories of individuals who have experienced suicide ideation and how they have managed to stay alive. Because this book is about endurance, it is also about courage and hope. These individuals have shown that they have the courage to hope for the promise of a new day. In sharing their experiences with me, they are communicating their particular vulnerabilities to suicide ideation and their specific resiliencies to suicide death. In this way, they are addressing the risk factors of suicide ideation while also expressing the protective factors that prevent suicide death. While this book focuses on Asian American college students, it is not just for Asian Americans or college students. It is for all of us who identify with stories of human vulnerability and resiliency"--

Download or read book Pathways to Belonging written by Kelly-Ann Allen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School belonging should be a priority across every facet of education. The research on school belonging for positive student outcomes has been widely accepted and findings demonstrating its role as a protective factor against mental ill health and youth suicide are too compelling to ignore. In an age where it has been argued that academic achievement is prioritised over wellbeing, the editors bring the importance of school belonging back to the fore in educational policy and planning. This book is the most comprehensive compendium of its kind on the topic of school belonging. A foreword by Professor John Hattie of The University of Melbourne sets the scene for an engaging look at how school belonging is quintessential in contemporary schooling. Contributors are: Kelly-Ann Allen, Christopher Boyle, Jonathan Cohen, Crystal Coker, Erin Dowdy, Clemence Due, Jonathan K. Ferguson, Sebastian Franke, Michael Furlong, Annie Gowing, Alun Jackson, Divya Jindal-Snape, Andrew Martinez, Daniel Mays, Vicki McKenzie, Susan Dvorak McMahon, Franka Metzner, Kathryn Moffa, Silke Pawils, Damien W. Riggs, Sue Roffey, Lisa Schneider, Bini Sebastian, Christopher D. Slaten, Jessica Smead, Amrit Thapa, Dianne Vella-Brodrick, Lea Waters, Michelle Wichmann, and Holger Zielemanns.

Download or read book Norms of Rhetorical Culture written by Thomas B. Farrell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric is widely regarded as a kind of antithesis to reason. Here, Farrell restores rhetoric as an art of practical reason and enlightened civic participation, grounding it in its classical tradition - particularly in the rhetoric of Aristotle.

Download or read book Bergson and Phenomenology written by M. Kelly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the revival of Bergsonism for phenomenology, leading scholars of both areas inaugurate a dialogue long overdue. By assessing phenomenology's readings of Bergson and Bergsonian challenges to phenomenological methods, the essays in this volume explore anew the issues of central concern in contemporary continental philosophy.

Download or read book Social Belongingness and Well Being International Perspectives written by Dario Paez and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Home Belonging and Memory in Migration written by Sadan Jha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores ideas of home, belonging and memory in migration through the social realities of leaving and living. It discusses themes and issues such as locating migrant subjectivities and belonging; sociability and wellbeing; the making of a village; bondage and seasonality; dislocation and domestic labour; women and work; gender and religion; Bhojpuri folksongs; folk music; experience; and the city to analyse the social and cultural dynamics of internal migration in India in historical perspectives. Departing from the dominant understanding of migration as an aberration impelled by economic factors, the book focuses on the centrality of migration in the making of society. Based on case studies from an array of geo-cultural regions from across India, the volume views migrants as active agents with their own determinations of selfhood and location. Part of the series Migrations in South Asia, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of migration studies, refugee studies, gender studies, development studies, social work, political economy, social history, political studies, social and cultural anthropology, exclusion studies, sociology, and South Asian Studies.

Download or read book The Impact of a Sense of Belonging in College written by Erin Bentrim and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sense of belonging refers to the extent a student feels included, accepted, valued, and supported on their campus. The developmental process of belonging is interwoven with the social identity development of diverse college students. Moreover, belonging is influenced by the campus environment, relationships, and involvement opportunities as well as a need to master the student role and achieve academic success. Although the construct of sense of belonging is complex and multilayered, a consistent theme across the chapters in this book is that the relationship between sense of belonging and intersectionality of identity cannot be ignored, and must be integrated into any approach to fostering belonging.Over the last 10 years, colleges and universities have started grappling with the notion that their approaches to maintaining and increasing student retention, persistence, and graduation rates were no longer working. As focus shifted to uncovering barriers to student success while concurrently recognizing student success as more than solely academic factors, the term “student sense of belonging” gained traction in both academic and co-curricular settings. The editors noticed the lack of a consistent definition, or an overarching theoretical approach, as well as a struggle to connect disparate research. A compendium of research, applications, and approaches to sense of belonging did not exist, so they brought this book into being to serve as a single point of reference in an emerging and promising field of study.

Download or read book Refugees Welcome written by Jan-Jonathan Bock and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debates about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most significant and contested social change since German reunification in 1990. It combines in-depth studies based on anthropological fieldwork with analyses of the longer trajectories of migration and social change. Its original conclusions have significance not only for Germany but also for the understanding of diversity and difference more widely.

Download or read book The Four Walls written by Prosper Njoku C. and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Four Walls is a book borne out of both inspiration and the need to proffer solution to the decaying purpose of the life of many people today. It is principally written, to bring light to the world of those who still think about how to succeed and when they can. Today, many people still cant find their feet, a lot of people are holding on to artificial success, while some are actually succeeding not knowing they are. All that has been written about the topics which this book covers have all been written with a vision of making your living worthy. This book will practically take you from wherever you can be found in the line of success to a place of glorification and meaningfulness. It will take you from I dont know what else to do, to I now know what to do. In this book, you will find yourself, your purpose, your useful people, and your host environment of success, as these are the keys you need to put in place, before attracting any other thing. The book will implore you by practical guide to understand that you were and you still are a success and that you can work towards your utmost without any guess work. The book also recognizes other laws of success as profound, but introduces to you The Ultimate and Infallible Law of Success that has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubts. The book is an exposition and it guarantees you a change if you read for the purpose of finding something valuable for yourself.

Download or read book Romans written by Michael F. Bird and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike. Each volume employs three main, easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God's story: LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible's grand story. EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting. LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and students. —Romans— Romans is a letter that has had monumental impact in the history of Christian thought. Delving into Romans helps us see more clearly the biblical story of how God reveals his salvation to both Israel and the nations and compels us to read the Old Testament with a hermeneutical lens which identifies Jesus as the centerpiece of Israel's redemptive history. Edited by Scot McKnight and Tremper Longman III, and written by a number of top-notch theologians, The Story of God Bible Commentary series will bring relevant, balanced, and clear-minded theological insight to any biblical education or ministry.

Download or read book Independent Thinking on Transition written by Dave Harris and published by Crown House Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Dave Harris, Independent Thinking on Transition: Fostering better collaboration between primary and secondary schools is an inspirational compendium of practical strategies to empower primary and secondary school leaders to work together to get transition right. Foreword by Ian Gilbert. When it comes to looking at the quality of our current schooling system, the biggest elephant in the room is transition. We do it the way we've always done it and, in so many ways and despite our best intentions, we often end up doing it badly. But, as ever, there is another way. Which is where Independent Thinking Associate Dave Harris comes in. With an impressive track record in leadership that includes establishing one of England's all-too-rare all-through 318 state schools, Dave knows first-hand how much can be achieved when all phases work together and keep the children, not the system, at the heart of all they do. In this book he tackles school transition head-on, sharing a wealth of practical approaches and vividly illustrating how primary and secondary schools can better collaborate to ensure their pupils enjoy a smooth and effective move between the two phases. Dave's passion for joined-up thinking between different phases shines through in his writing, as does his ingenuity when it comes to the design and delivery of programmes that work. He provides a clear explanation of the differences between transition and induction programmes, and also shares a comprehensive set of appendices in which he presents a range of materials to support the ideas put forward in the book. Suitable for all school leaders from heads of department and heads of year to head teachers and transition leads in primary and secondary schools. Independent Thinking on Transition is one of a number of books in the Independent Thinking On series from the award-winning Independent Thinking Press.