Articles

ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and Soft Skills

Aces Too High News: Parenting’s troubled history: Why changing family patterns is our most important work
Washington Post: One in eight American adults is an alcoholic, study says
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Improving Social Emotional Skills in Childhood Enhances Long-Term Well-Being and Economic Outcomes
NPR: Social And Emotional Skills: Everybody Loves Them, But Still Can't Define Them
NPR: What Every School Can Learn From Preschools
The New York Times: A Gun to His Head as a Child. In Prison as an Adult

Commitments and Resolutions

Huffington Post: These Are The Best Resolutions You Can Make, According To Therapists

Empathy

The Guardian, 13 May 2015: Lost for words? How reading can teach children empathy by Miranda McKearney and Sarah Mears
New York Times: In Middle Schools, Empathy Becomes a Weapon Against Bullying
New York Times: The Brain’s Empathy Gap
Boston Review: Against Empathy
Guernica: The Trouble With Empathy: Allyson Kirkpatrick interviews Paul Bloom
The Observer: Barack Obama and the 'empathy deficit'
New York Times: The Limits of Empathy
New York Times: Understanding How Children Develop Empathy

Interacting with Others

INC: An 81-Year Harvard Study Says Staying Happy and Mentally Sharp Boils Down to 1 Thing
New York Times: Let Go of Your Grudges. They’re Doing You No Good.
How to Win An Argument Every Time
New York Times: Effects of Bullying Last Into Adulthood, Study Finds
New York Times: Compassion Made Easy
Aces Too High News: Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline — suspensions drop 85%
Oprah: How to Forgive Anyone—and Why Your Health Depends on It
Mark Manson: The Guide to Happiness
New York Times: Money Changes Everything
Washington Post: Peaceful protest is much more effective than violence for toppling dictators
Harvard Business Review: What Great Listeners Actually Do

Mindfulness, Meditation & Self-Care

New York Times: Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)
Lion's Roar: Choosing Peace by Pema Chödrön
New York Times: Achieving Mindfulness at work, No Meditation Cushion Required: An author explains how seeing problems from a different perspective may have a similar outcome as the Eastern approach of suspending thought
New York Times: How to Meditate
New York Times: Choose to Be Grateful. It Will Make You Happier
Men’s Journal: 12 Ways to Meditate During the Day
Huffington Post: The Secret To A Meaningful Life In Just 7 Words
New York Times: How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body
The Guardian: Forget mindfulness, stop trying to find yourself and start faking it
99U: The Stoic: 9 Principles to Help You Keep Calm in Chaos
BuddhaNet: Even the Best Meditators Have Old Wounds to Heal by Jack Kornfield
Spirituality and Health: Create a Safe Place for All Your Emotıons

Neuroscience & Psychology

Alternet.com: Why We Cry: The Fascinating Psychology of Emotional Release
Time Magazine: The Science of Bouncing Back http://time.com/3892044/the-science-of-bouncing-back/
Newsweek: Tired of Feeling Bad? The New Science of Feelings Can Help
Psychology Today: Why Saying Just One Word Can Calm Runaway Emotions
Discover Magazine: Grandma's Experiences Leave Epigenetic Mark on Your Genes
Mindpower News: The Happiness Switch Inside Your Brain By Janice Mawhinney
New York Times: Decoding the Brain’s Cacophony
Why Evolution is True: Yet another experiment showing that conscious “decisions” are made unconsciously, and in advance
New York Times: ‘Run, Hide, Fight’ Is Not How Our Brains Work
Psychology Today: The Neurobiology of Grace Under Pressure

Parenting & Families

New York Times: The Best Way To Fight with a Teenager: New research suggests that constructive conflict between parent and teenager hinges on the adolescent’s readiness to see beyond his or her own perspective
New York Times: One family’s trauma offers valuable lessons on how to comfort those in pain.
New York Times: Why Young Girls Don’t Think They Are Smart Enough

The Power of Connection

The Washington Post: A black blues musician has a unique hobby: Befriending white supremacists
Foundation Beyond Belief: Life in the witch camps of Ghana

Sex, Marriage, Relationships

Teaching Influences

Excerpt from On Becoming A Person, by Carl Rogers: Personal Thoughts on Teaching and Learning

Tips and Resources for Trainers

The Workplace

Forbes: 14 Leadership Books To Add To Your HR Reading List
The Washington Post: The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students by Valerie Strauss; December 20, 2017
New York Times: What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
Seattle Times: More ‘boomerang’ employees return to Microsoft as corporate culture shifts
Fast Company: The 7 Books Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says You Need To Lead Smarter
Inc: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: 'The Company Was Sick'
Fortune: The Man Who Is Transforming Microsoft
Business Insider: 12 Tasks That Great Employees Always Finish Before Noon
Fast Company: 3 Ways Companies Are Changing The Dreaded Performance Review
Harvard Business Review: “Fixing Performance Appraisal Is About More than Ditching Annual Reviews”
The Library Journal: “Rethinking the Much-Dreaded Employee Evaluation ”
Harvard Business Review: “GE’s RealTime Performance Development”
Quartz: Why GE had to kill its annual performance reviews after more than three decades
Harvard Business Review: “Reinventing Performance Management”
Fortune: “IBM Is Blowing Up Its Annual Performance Review”
Harvard Business Review: How to Get Senior Leaders to Change
Inc.: Is Your Leadership Showing?
Inc.: Make a Great First Impression: 7Smart Tricks
Business Insider: 5 Secrets Of Great Bosses
Strategic Leadership Studies: Transformational Leadership
Forbes: Millennials In The Workplace: They Don't Need Trophies But They Want Reinforcement
Harvard Business Review: The Research We’ve Ignored About Happiness at Work
Medium: Learning This Simple Skill Will Make You an Exceptional Leader, According to Science