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How Optimism Helps You Achieve Goals With Less Stress

By Shanna B. Tiayon — 2021

A new study finds that optimistic students are more likely to succeed.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

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The Art of Mental Health Advocacy | Matilda (crazyheadcomics) | TEDxKI

How many people do you know who live with mental illness? With the ever increasing prevalence of mental illness come questions of what we can do to curb the growth of this global health crisis.

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Creating the World We Want to Live In: How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in.

Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Dóra Guðmundsdóttir, Felicia Huppert, Vanessa King, David Roffey, Sue Roffey, Marten de Vries

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Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism

In this timely book, Canadian activist Maude Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that she has learned from a lifetime of activism.

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Resilience in Environmental Activism | Sumaira Abdulali | TEDxSCAC

Sumaira Abdulali recounts her memories of how resilience helped her through thick and thin in both environmental activism and life.

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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present

The received idea of Native American history—as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee—has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S.

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You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience.

Tarana Burke (editor), Brené Brown (editor)

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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come.

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Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better)

Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.

Lindo Bacon, Ijeoma Oluo (foreword)

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Active Hope—Joanna Macy

Keynote presentation. 'Active Hope," is the title of a new book by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. In it, they eschew feel good denial, cynical disengagement and baseless optimism. In this talk, Macy summarized their message.

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Savage Grace: Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe

In the boldest and most daring book either author has ever written, Andrew Harvey and Carolyn Baker confront us with the life and death reality of the global crisis and the fact that four crucial strategies must be employed not only to survive the dark night, but to inhabit our bodies and our lives...

Andrew Harvey, Carolyn Baker, Matthew Fox (foreword)

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