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Taking Action: Creating Social Change through Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability

If you're inspired to enact powerful and meaningful social change but don't know where to start, Taking Action: Creating Social Change through Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability is the strategic, interactive guide for you!

Drawing on their collective experience in career counseling, multicultural counseling, psychology, and social justice, authors Rebecca Toporek and Muninder Ahluwalia guide you through an exciting, four-principle approach that will jumpstart your personal and professional activism.

The dynamic workbook helps you identify your personal strengths and resources, connect with others, and develop effective strategies to enact change, all the while encouraging self-care and care of those you love. Throughout, you'll have extensive opportunities to build knowledge, reflect on your experiences, assess your abilities, and construct a plan that effects change. Step-by-step, this energizing guide helps you transform from a passive witness to an active participant and advocate for social change. Regardless of your personal background or experience, Taking Action will help you build a highly personalized approach to activism that leverages your strengths and focuses on the social issues you care about the most.

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Taking Action: Creating Social Change through Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability

If you're inspired to enact powerful and meaningful social change but don't know where to start, Taking Action: Creating Social Change through Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability is the strategic, interactive guide for you!

Drawing on their collective experience in career counseling, multicultural counseling, psychology, and social justice, authors Rebecca Toporek and Muninder Ahluwalia guide you through an exciting, four-principle approach that will jumpstart your personal and professional activism.

The dynamic workbook helps you identify your personal strengths and resources, connect with others, and develop effective strategies to enact change, all the while encouraging self-care and care of those you love. Throughout, you'll have extensive opportunities to build knowledge, reflect on your experiences, assess your abilities, and construct a plan that effects change. Step-by-step, this energizing guide helps you transform from a passive witness to an active participant and advocate for social change. Regardless of your personal background or experience, Taking Action will help you build a highly personalized approach to activism that leverages your strengths and focuses on the social issues you care about the most.

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Taking Action: Creating Social Change through Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability

Taking Action: Creating Social Change through Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability

Taking Action: Creating Social Change through Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability

Taking Action: Creating Social Change through Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability

Overview

If you're inspired to enact powerful and meaningful social change but don't know where to start, Taking Action: Creating Social Change through Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability is the strategic, interactive guide for you!

Drawing on their collective experience in career counseling, multicultural counseling, psychology, and social justice, authors Rebecca Toporek and Muninder Ahluwalia guide you through an exciting, four-principle approach that will jumpstart your personal and professional activism.

The dynamic workbook helps you identify your personal strengths and resources, connect with others, and develop effective strategies to enact change, all the while encouraging self-care and care of those you love. Throughout, you'll have extensive opportunities to build knowledge, reflect on your experiences, assess your abilities, and construct a plan that effects change. Step-by-step, this energizing guide helps you transform from a passive witness to an active participant and advocate for social change. Regardless of your personal background or experience, Taking Action will help you build a highly personalized approach to activism that leverages your strengths and focuses on the social issues you care about the most.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781516591213
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Publication date: 03/10/2020
Edition description: Trade ed.
Pages: 202
Sales rank: 976,245
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Muninder Kaur Ahluwalia is an associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Leadership at Montclair State University. Rebecca Toporek is a professor and department chair in the Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Section 1 Opening and Centering 1

Chapter 1 Getting Started 3

Who Are We? 4

Why Engage in Social Action? 6

Chapter 2 Gaining Focus: What Do You Care About? 11

Getting Over Barriers That May Keep You From Action 18

Clarity and Creating Your Message 20

Section 2 Taking Action 23

Chapter 3 Introduction to the S4 (S-Quad): Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability 25

Chapter 4 Strengths, Assets, and Resources: What You Have Right Now in Your Toolbox 27

Skills 28

Personal Qualities 32

Knowledge 33

Resources 35

Strength and Positionality: Who I Am, Where I Am in Relation to Others, and What I Look Like Makes a Difference 39

What We Have Learned Throughout Our Life 44

Areas for Growth 47

Chapter 5 Solidarity 49

Honoring Relationships and Sustaining Community 50

Respecting, Supporting, and Understanding Others 50

Strength in Numbers: Your Communities and Your Social Mosaic 53

Finding Support and Camaraderie to Sustain You 57

Solidarity as Social Action 59

Chapter 6 Strategy and Rea! Action: Big Picture, Play book, and Everyday Action 61

The Big Picture: A Vision for a Positive Future 62

The Playbook: Starting with the Basics 64

Approach to Strategy 71

Communicating and Working with Legisiators, Government, and Policy Makers 74

Working with Groups 85

Communicating With and Through Media 93

Communicating With the Public 101

Implementing Change in Your Workplace or Your Profession 111

Everyday Actions 113

Talking with People We Don't Necessarily Agree With 125

Your Power as a Consumer: Boycotting and/or Divesting 130

Your Economic Power: Giving and Investing 134

Social Media and Effective Action 138

Evaluating and Deciding Which Strategies Are Best for the Situation 141

Chapter 7 Sustainability: Healthy Mind, Heart, Body, and Spirit 149

Challenges of Sustaining Ourselves 150

Focusing on Our Health and Wellness 158

The Head: Our Mental Well-Being 160

The Heart: Our Emotional and Relational Well-Being 163

The Body: Our Physical Well-Being 168

The Spirit: Our Essence, or Our Connection to Something Greater than Ourselves 173

Your Big Picture of Sustainability 176

Section 3 Bringing It All Together 179

Chapter 8 Moving Forward from Here: Closing 181

Strengths, Assets, and Resources 182

Solidarity 182

Strategy 182

Sustainability 183

Moving Forward 183

References 185

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