Here will be some informational articles. Some links for children to learn a little more about Dr. King.
Human trafficking in conflict: context, causes and the military by 
Reflective goal setting: an applied approach to personal and leadership development by
This book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the Reflective Goal Setting model, its theoretical framework and origins, and its practical applications for personal development, improved coping and reduced stress, academic growth and performance and leadership. Divided into three parts, the author begins by examining the particular importance of personal development, and in particular soft and interpersonal skills development. It addresses the limitations of current personal development and leadership education and training for the transfer of learning, before outlining how Reflective Goal Setting fulfils this need. It presents a critical review of Goal Setting Theory and approaches to reflective practice that demonstrates how the Reflective Goal Setting model was developed from, and builds upon, these earlier approaches. Drawing on original research and illustrative case studies, the author details the cyclical five step process of the Reflective Goal Setting model across 5 chapters - forming Part 2 of the book. Part 3 examines the practical applications and impact of using Reflective Goal Setting, employing illustrative case studies from a variety of settings including higher education, professional development and executive education. This innovative work will provide a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in Organisational and Industrial Psychology, Education, and Business and Management and indeed anyone who wants to work on their own personal development. Cheryl J. Travers is Senior Lecturer in the Work and Organisation research group within the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests and publications include occupational stress, management of change, diary methods and the development of her Reflective Goal Setting model for personal development and the transfer of learning. She has extensive experience with corporate clients, as well as university students, and has designed and delivered management, leadership and team development programmes for the public and private sector, in addition to delivering numerous keynote lectures and two TEDx talks.
Pocket Therapy for Anxiety by
Quick, simple, and effective anxiety relief that fits right in your pocket--so you can manage your symptoms anytime, anywhere. If you suffer from anxiety, you may try to avoid the situations that cause you to feel uneasy. But avoidance isn't the answer--and letting your fears and worries constantly hold you back will ultimately keep you from living the life you truly want. So, how can you learn to cope with your anxiety in the moment? This little book can help you face your fears and take charge of your anxiety--wherever or whenever it shows up. From the author of The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook and Coping with Anxiety, Pocket Therapy for Anxiety offers immediate, user-friendly, and evidence-based strategies to help you manage anxiety, panic, and fear. The exercises in this book can be done in the moment, whenever you feel anxious, and will help you move past your fears and start living the life you were meant to live. You'll learn to: Relax your body and mind Stop expecting the worst Get regular exercise and eat right to stay calm Turn off worry and cope on the spot And much, much more... Don't let anxiety keep you one step behind. This little book will show you how to face your fears, overcome panic when it happens, and take charge of your anxiety for good!
The Self-Care Year by
The Self-Care Year reveals how to re-connect with your body and mind and engage with your surroundings, how to slow down, live in tune with the seasons, and pay attention to the present moment. Each season is different and special, bountiful and beautiful in its own unique way. The book is divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter and covers how you can harness the changing seasons and take inspiration from the natural world, with bite-sized self-care practices, projects and mind and body exercises for each chapter. Offering tips and rituals for better sleep, yoga positions, breathing and meditation exercises, as well as simple craft projects and seasonal affirmations, this book is for those who are seeking a slower pace and want to carve out quiet, mindful moments in their lives. Whether you're a lover of the first buds of spring, a summer sun worshipper, a fan of the autumn leaves as the year turns or a winter wonderland devotee, there is something for everyone.
The Neuroscience of Memory by
Unlock the power of neuroscience to optimize your memory so you can stay mentally sharp. Do you feel like your memory isn't as great as it used to be? Do you sometimes find yourself walking into a room and forgetting why? Do you misplace things more often than you used to? As we age, our memory naturally declines. But there are scientifically proven ways to enhance brain and memory function. This book, grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience, will help you get started. The Neuroscience of Memory offers a seven-step memory improvement program based on the latest research. You'll find powerful tools to optimize your brain and memory function, increase neural connections, and stay mentally sharp both now and in the long run. You'll learn how to "feed your brain" with good nutrition, and how exercise can help you maintain mental acuity. And finally, you'll discover how forming new memories is a key strategy for optimizing cognitive function, and how managing stress can help you not only think better in critical moments, but also help you keep the brain cells you have. When you understand how your memory actually works, you are better equipped to optimize it. Whether you're looking for ways to improve your memory while you are young, have noticed that your memory is declining as you age and want to improve it, or are looking for resources for dealing with Alzheimer's (either for yourself or a loved one), this book will help you hold on to those treasured memories for as long as you possibly can.
The Mindful College Student by
The perfect gift for the college-bound student! Based on the popular Mindfulness-Based College (MBC) program at Brown University, this book offers powerful skills to increase academic success and boost mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional health--now and for a lifetime. College is a time of transition. It's a time for learning and preparing to make your own way in the world. But if you're like many teens and young adults, the thought of leaving home and being on your own in a new place can also be intimidating--even overwhelming. That's why you need a solid foundation to help you manage stress, stay focused, and maintain healthy habits--in body, mind, and spirit. Grounded in evidence-based mindfulness, The Mindful College Student will help you cultivate the cognitive and emotional skills you need to increase well-being and reach your highest aspirations. You'll also learn positive coping strategies for dealing with stress, sadness, and anxiety--including diet, fitness, and sleep habits. Most importantly, you'll discover three core self-regulation skills to help steer you toward the life you want: self-awareness, attention control, and emotion regulation. Get ready to take on the world with this fun and informative guide, filled with everything you need to face all of the challenges of college life--and beyond!
Anxiety Happens by
Break free from anxiety--once and for all! From the authors of The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, this powerful yet portable guide offers fifty-two in-the-moment mindfulness strategies you can use anytime, anywhere to cultivate calm and radically transform your life. We live in an age of anxiety, and studies show that it's only getting worse. Anxiety forces itself into our awareness and can deplete our energy, resources, and resolve. It screams "pay attention to me--or else." We may confront it the moment we wake up in the morning, and it can even keep us from getting to sleep at night. In short, it can run our lives. But it doesn't have to be this way. Building on the success of The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, this quick reference guide offers fifty-two simple tools and strategies--one for each week of the year--based in proven-effective acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you break free from worry, fear, and panic. In addition to "in-the-moment" tools for staying calm, you'll learn about the underlying causes of your anxiety, why avoidance just doesn't work, how to move past your negative inner voice, and how focusing on your values can help you move past anxiety and live a rich, meaningful life. If--like many people--you're fed up with anxiety getting in the way of living your life, the powerful little exercises in this guide will show you how to break the cycle of anxiety for good. This book has been selected as an Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Book Recommendation--an honor bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.
The Self-Care Year by
The Self-Care Year reveals how to re-connect with your body and mind and engage with your surroundings, how to slow down, live in tune with the seasons, and pay attention to the present moment. Each season is different and special, bountiful and beautiful in its own unique way. The book is divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter and covers how you can harness the changing seasons and take inspiration from the natural world, with bite-sized self-care practices, projects and mind and body exercises for each chapter. Offering tips and rituals for better sleep, yoga positions, breathing and meditation exercises, as well as simple craft projects and seasonal affirmations, this book is for those who are seeking a slower pace and want to carve out quiet, mindful moments in their lives. Whether you're a lover of the first buds of spring, a summer sun worshipper, a fan of the autumn leaves as the year turns or a winter wonderland devotee, there is something for everyone.
The Christmas season winds down in the beginning of January. In the middle of January, we get the commemoration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Of course, January is also the New Year, so there are many resources about goal setting and resolutions. There are some other resources for plenty of the other commemorations occurring this month.
Month: Be Kind to Food Service Workers; Celebration of Life; Financial Wellness; International Wayfinding; International Child-Centered Divorce; National Braille Literacy; National Personal Trainer; National Polka Music; Retail Baker; Poverty in America; National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention; National Stalking; Teen Driving
Week: Celebration of Life; Universal Letter Writing; National School Choice; National Kiwanis; National Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists; National Catholic Schools Week; Tax Identity Theft
Month: Cervical Health; Children Impacted by a Parent's Cancer; Family Fit Lifestyle; Little Things Mental Health Campaign; March for Dimes; National Birth Defects Prevention; National Bath Safety; National Blood Donor/Volunteer Blood Donor; National CBD; National Eye Care; Thyroid; National Fiber Focus; National Glaucoma; National Radon Action; National Pre-Pregnancy; National Staying Healthy; National Train Your Dog/ Unchain a Dog/ Walk a Dog; Receding Gums
Week: The World Series of Beer Pong; National Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Month: Apple and Apricot; Artichoke and Asparagus (All of these not typically associated with the dead of winter.); Bread Machine Baking; California Dried Plum Digestive/ Prune Breakfast; Dry January; National Be-On-Purpose (wouldn't you be); International Change Your Stars; International Wealth Mentality; National Hot Tea; Learn to Ski and Snowboard; National Black Diamond; National Book Blitz; National Clean Up Your Computer; National Mail Order Gardening; National Sunday Supper; National Thank You; National Wheat Bread; National Meat; Rising Star; Self Love; Tubers and Dried Fruit; Veganuary; Ginuary
Week: National Silent Record (to be quiet?); Someday We'll Laugh About This (I hope); Show and Tell; National Mocktail; National Pizza; Meat; Hunt for Happiness; Kiss a Shark; National Fresh Squeezed Juice; Farmhouse Breakfast; No Name Calling
I May Not Get There with You by 
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by 
The Winners Manual by 
Carpe Diem by 
It Didn't Start with You by 
How to Eat by 
The Slave Next Door by 
Human Trafficking Around the World by 
The Civil Rights Movement by
Drawing on the most recent scholarship, The Civil Rights Movement provides a concise overview of the most important social movement of the 20th century and will expand readers' understanding of the fight for racial equality. Ideal for research, this one-stop reference provides a unique introduction to the Civil Rights Movement as it includes its development, issues, and leaders. Six essays capture the drama and conflict of the struggle, covering, among other topics, the origins of the movement, the role of women, the battle for racial equality in the North, and the lasting effects of the protests of the 1950s and 1960s. Ready-reference features include a chronology, a bibliography, photographs, and biographical profiles of 20 activists, from Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X to Ella Baker and Angela Davis. The book also contains a selection of primary sources, including presidential addresses, Supreme Court decisions, and FBI reports on Malcolm X and Stokeley Carmichael. Based on the latest scholarship in the field, this guide gives readers all of the analysis and reference sources they need to expand their understanding of the Civil Rights movement. Offers up to date information based on the latest scholarship in the field Combines analytical essays with historical documents and concise biographies Examines traditional as well as new themes, from the rise of Martin Luther King, Jr. to the battle against Jim Crow in the North Ties the historic struggles of the 1950s and 1960s to the movements today against mass incarceration and police abuse
Master Your Motivation by
If you want to accomplish what's important to you, discipline and willpower won't get you where you need to go. In this iconoclastic new book, Susan Fowler reveals compelling insights and actions to help you master and maintain your motivation. Motivation is at the heart of everything you do and everything you want to do but don't. Unfortunately, the ways we typically motivate ourselves don't work. Relying on sheer determination eventually becomes exhausting--it's not sustainable. And even setting goals can backfire--if you're not setting them for the right reasons. Susan Fowler says motivation is energy, and what matters is the quality, not the quantity. Traditional "motivators" such as fear, guilt, or the promise of a reward provide low-quality, short-term energy. Drawing on the latest empirical research, she proves that high-quality, optimal motivation is a skill that you can learn and apply. Science tells us that satisfying three basic needs--for choice, connection, and competence--is essential to optimal motivation. You need to feel like you've picked your path, not that you're being driven down it. Your goal should be linked to people or a purpose meaningful to you. And you want to continually learn and grow. Through practical exercises and eye-opening stories, Fowler shows you how to identify and shift the quality of your motivation. The skill to master your motivation is important--it may be your greatest opportunity to evolve, grow in wisdom, and be the light the world so desperately needs. Reading group discussion guide available.
