NOTE: Some of the links below may have changed.
End Human Trafficking
Street Grace is a faith-based organization mobilizing faith, business and community leaders to end the sexual trafficking of children throughout the U.S. through awareness, education and action.
IJM is the largest anti-slavery organization in the world. We know where slaves are. Your help is needed to rescue them.
A21 is a nonprofit organization fueled by radical hope that human beings everywhere will be rescued from bondage and completely restored. We are the abolitionists of the 21st century. We work with you to free slaves and disrupt the demand.
End It Movement was born out of the belief that even one person trapped in slavery is too many. #ENDITMOVEMENT is a coalition of the leading organizations in the world in the fight for freedom. Each of our amazing coalition partners are doing the work, on the ground, everyday, to bring awareness prevention, rescue, and restoration. Joined by students and Senators, Nonprofits and Fortune 500s, END IT is each of us standing for what's right until the number of men, women, and children suffering in silence moves from 40 million, to ZERO.
The Exodus Road:
Mental, Physical, Emotional Health
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD)
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD)
Understanding & Treating Chronic Shame: A Relational/Neurobiological Approach (Patricia A. DeYoung, MSW, PhD)
The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships, Revised Edition (Patrick Carnes)
Rethinking Narcissism: The Secret to Recognizing and Coping with Narcissists (Craig Malkin, PhD)
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Bessel van der Kolk, MD)
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ Ch 2: Anatomy of an Emotional Hijacking; Ch 13: Trauma and Emotional Relearning (Daniel Goleman, PhD)
Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology: An Integrative Handbook to the Mind Ch 39: Making Sense of Trauma and its Resolution (Daniel J. Siegel, MD)
The Developing Mind, Second Edition: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are (Daniel J. Siegel, MD) Note: There is now a 3rd edition.
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-term Effects of Childhood Adversity (Nadine Burke Harris, MD) NOTE: Harris is also the founder of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco. Her book & the Center addresses an important study on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) by Vincent J. Felitti, MD. See also Harvard Univ. Center on the Developing Child: What are ACE’s? And How Do They Relate to Toxic Stress?
On Being podcast interview about epigenetics w/ Dr. Rachel Yehuda, Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents, Second Edition: How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (Margaret E. Blaustein, PhD & Kristine M. Kinniburgh)
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Resource guide on complex trauma
Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center advises Sesame Street on trauma-related video content
Sesame Street in Communities “Traumatic Experiences”
Article in The Atlantic: ‘For-Now Parents’ and ‘Big Feelings’: How Sesame Street Talks About Trauma
The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
That Sounds Fun Podcast with Annie F. Downs Podcast (Episode 196): Annie’s guest is Aundi Kolber. “Aundi is a Licensed Professional Counselor (MA LPC), writer, and speaker in Castle Rock, Colorado. She specializes in trauma and body-centered therapies and is passionate about the integration of faith and psychology.” Her new book is Try Softer.
Online courses from On Site Workshops on grief, shame, narcissism, etc.
On Being with Krista Tippett: A Neuroscientist [Richard Davidson] on Love and Learning
Susan David: Psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School; co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital; author of best-selling book Emotional Agility. See also Emotional Agility Quiz and Ted Talk
The Difference Between Fixing & Healing (On Being with Krista Tippett podcast transcript of an interview with Rachel Naomi Remen)
Podcast interviews with Miles Adcox of On Site Workshops w/ Donald Miller of Storybrand (3), Ian Cron of Typology (1) & Brad Lomenick - Catalyst (1)
ContemplatiVE
Lectio Divina: The Art of Divine Reading by Audrey Hines (Candler School of Theology “News & Events”)
Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Practice of Contemplation by Martin S. Laird
The Selfless Way of Christ: Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life by Henri Nouwen
Crafting a Rule of Life: An Invitation to the Well-ordered Way by Stephen A. Macchio
Open Mind, Open Heart by Thomas Keating
Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose by Rebekah Lyons
BOOKs w/ Chapters on Prayer
Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith by Henri Nouwen (Ch 5, What Is Prayer?,” pp 55-70)
The Journey: Living by Faith in a Uncertain World by Billy Graham (Ch 12, “Keeping In Contact,” pp 114-123)
An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor (Ch 11, “The Practice of Being Present to God: Prayer,” pp 175-192)
Sacred Fire: A Vision for a Deeper Human and Christian Maturity by Ronald Rohlheiser (Ch 6, “Drawing Strength from Prayer,” pp 168-210)
Sacred Pathways: Nine Ways to Connect with God by Gary Thomas (Ch 2, “Where Is Your Gethsemane?,” pp 31-39)
Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation by Ruth Haley Barton (Ch 4, “Prayer: Deepening Our Intimacy With God,” pp 62-77)
How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice by Pat Schneider (Ch 2, “Prayer,” pp 19-30)
Faith
The Prophetic Imagination (On Being with Krista Tippett podcast transcript of an interview with Walter Brueggemann)
Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks by Walter Brueggemann
Christianity Rediscovered by Vincent J. Donovan
Stages of Faith by James Fowler
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
The Cost of Control by Sharon Hodde Miller
PEACEMAKING, CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute
Necessary Endings by Henry Cloud
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Religion and Politics by Jonathan Haidt
Nonviolent Communications: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Education, Agency, & Achievement
Wendy Leopold (Northwestern Univ.), Feb 14, 2014 Discussion of social class improves grades of first-generation college students Narrowing Academic Achievement Gap
The Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University http://agi.harvard.edu/
The Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University REPORT: Teaching & Agency
Research by Steven Hitlin (Univ. of Iowa) & Glen H. Elder, Jr. (UNC at Chapel Hill) that was a central component of Harvard Achievement Gap Report Time, Self, and the Curiously Abstract Concept of Agency
Article on agency and flow by Matti Vuorre, Janet Metcalfe (Columbia University) The relationship between the sense of agency and the experience of flow
Columbia University Center for Teaching & Learning programming theme for 2018-2019 Metacognition
Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching Asst. Dir. Nancy Chick’s article “Thinking about One’s Thinking” on Metacognition
Harvard EdCast (4 recommended podcasts):
Malcolm Gladwell, Revisionist History Podcast; Season 1, Episode 4: Carlos Doesn’t Remember
Life, Leadership, & Self
Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen from the Harvard Business Review July-Aug 2010 Issue; $8.95 to buy copies (Excerpt from Editor’s Note: In the spring, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply them to their personal lives.)
How Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? On Being with Krista Tippett podcast features guests Abraham Verghese (Professor of Medicine at Stanford University) & Denise Pope (Stanford Graduate School of Education)
The Art of Decision-Making by Joshua Rothman of The New Yorker (Your life choices aren’t just about what you want to do; they’re about who you want to be.)
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard, PhD
The Odyssey Years and How Adulthood Happens are two related articles written several years apart by David Brooks of the NY Times (The Odyssey Years: There used to be four common life phases: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Now, there are at least six: childhood, adolescence, odyssey, adulthood, active retirement and old age. How Adulthood Happens: Every society has its rites of passage, marking the transition from youth to adulthood. Most of these rites of passage are ritualized and structured, with adult supervision and celebration. But the major rite of passage in our society is unritualized, unstructured and unnamed. Most of the people in the middle of it don’t even know it is going on. It happens between ages 22 and 30. )
Designing Your Life with William Burnette and David J Evans (How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life)
You on Purpose: Discover Your Calling and Create the Life You Were Meant to Live by Stephanie Shackelford & Bill Denzel
The Power of Leaders Who Focus on Solving Problems by Deborah Ancona & Hal Gregersen (April 16, 2018, Updated April 20, 2018 — Havard Business Review)
The Authenticity Paradox by Herminia Ibarra (Jan-Feb 2015 issue — Harvard Business Review)
The Closing of the Modern Mind (Video: Veritas Forum w/ Pastor Tim Keller, NYC Redeemer Presbyterian Church & NYU Prof. Jonathan Haidt)
Reflections on cultural humilty A short article by PhD candidates, Amanda Waters and Lisa Asbill
Originals by Adam Grant
