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Let's get one thing straight: Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World is not a book of advice. You're not going to find a step-by-step guide to meditation here, or even reminders to drink lots of water and get enough sleep. Those things are all good for you, but that's not what Hana Shafi wants to talk about. Instead, Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty--built around art from Shafi's popular online affirmation series--focuses on our common and never-ending journey of self-discovery. It explores the ways in which the world can all too often wear us down, and reminds us to remember our worth, even when it's hard to do so. Drawing on her experience as a millennial woman of colour, and writing with humour and a healthy dose of irreverence, Shafi delves into body politics and pop culture, racism and feminism, friendship and allyship. Through it all, she remains positive without being saccharine, and hopeful without being naive. So no, this is not an advice book: it's a call to action, one that asks us to remember that we are valid as we are--flaws and all--and to not let the bastards grind us down.

Dans cet ouvrage, vous ne trouverez ni la recette du grand amour, ni des coeurs à toutes les pages, encore moins une définition de l'amour. Mais vous y trouverez des réponses, celles qui vous conviennent, et des déclarations d'amour, celles qui vous ressemblent. C'est quoi l'amour? L'amour, c'est...- les autres, tout autour de nous,- le respect de soi,- la nature,- l'art,- la justice sociale.Un roman graphique hybride avec de la poésie, des micro nouvelles, des fragments, des illustrations pleine page ou minimalistes. Une réflexion sur cette notion complexe, subjective et universelle qu'est l'amour.

Resilience is the ability to face and handle life’s challenges, whether everyday disappointments or extraordinary disasters. While resilience is innate in the brain, over time we learn unhelpful patterns, which then become fixed in our neural circuitry. But science is now revealing that what previously seemed hardwired can be rewired, and Bouncing Back shows us how. With powerful, time-tested exercises, Linda Graham guides us in rebuilding our core well-being and disaster-proofing our brains. [editor summary]

Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer—and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents’ expectations and win their ”love.” Alice Miller writes, ”When I used the word ’gifted’ in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb… Without this ’gift’ offered us by nature, we would not have survived.” But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth. [editor summary]

The Circo Verso seminar represented a step further in the complex process of social circus definition and acknowledgement developing at a global level. Within this broad scope, it brought to focus ethical dilemmas connected to the issues of violence, handicirque, and staging social circus. This handbook attempted to report as accurately as possible on the key questions raised during the seminar, and on the debates which followed. It includes a number of cases illustrating the problematic issues selected for discussion, as well as suggestions and reflections about strategies and methodologies to work with disadvantaged targets, roles and skills required within a team, and ways to assess and monitor social circus projects. Unfortunately, it is hard to account for the inspiring working atmosphere that an exchange between circus operators is always able to create. [editor summary]

This report presents the results of a national online survey of people involved in the community circus sector in Aotearoa New Zealand in the context of international approaches, and to support its development. It responses on the use of circus skills to achieve physical, emotional, mental, therapeutic, spiritual and social benefits for individuals, families and communities. In other words, community circus was perceived to perform community and social work via the medium of circus skills.

The Streetwise Disability Circus Project at Knockavoe was generally considered to be very successful. Feedback from participants, audience members, staff and tutors all highlighted several worthy benefits of the workshops and final showcase, with particular reference to;
• Increased self-confidence and self-esteem
• A sense of fun
• Trying something new
• Improvements in social skills and communication
• Improvements in physical well-being
• Learning new skills