Taking Action
Creating Social Change through Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability
©2021, 202 pages
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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.
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.
Rebecca L. Toporek is a professor and department chair in the Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University. She holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Muninder Kaur Ahluwalia is a professor and graduate program coordinator in the Department of Counseling at Montclair State University.
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"Taking Action: Creating Social Change through Strength, Solidarity, Strategy, and Sustainability by Rebecca L. Toporek and Muninder Kaur Ahluwalia is an interactive guide and workbook consisting of various principles, all designed to assist those who wish to make a difference or advocate for social change on existing injustices. Taking action requires a long-term commitment by everyone involved; it is not just a one-person job. There are many barriers and challenges to be overcome in addressing existing policies and practices. Through various activities, models and questionnaires, the authors encourage us to become active participants in the world around us, with a passion for positive change and action.
Authors Rebecca L. Toporek and Muninder Kaur Ahluwalia are open and honest about their past experiences and resulting beliefs in their book Taking Action. The reader can recognize their personal values and beliefs that spark passion and commitment, and the authors offer solutions to possible barriers. There is a section on personal skills, qualities, and knowledge required of a person who has a passion for activism which can assist in identifying future educational requirements. The section on resources helps us to understand that there are many financial requirements for taking action. I enjoyed the section titled 'What I Look Like Makes A Difference' and can apply these principles of 'Identities and Life Experience' in my own quest to help others like myself who have become ostracized and discriminated against, being held accountable for the sins of our forefathers. 'Becoming and Being Observant' and 'Your Economic Power' are other important sections. The book contains references and suggested reading material for further information. A detailed index is helpful for referring back to specific sections. A great book for activists and community workers."
Natalie Soine for Readers' Favorite
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Authors Rebecca L. Toporek and Muninder Kaur Ahluwalia are open and honest about their past experiences and resulting beliefs in their book Taking Action. The reader can recognize their personal values and beliefs that spark passion and commitment, and the authors offer solutions to possible barriers. There is a section on personal skills, qualities, and knowledge required of a person who has a passion for activism which can assist in identifying future educational requirements. The section on resources helps us to understand that there are many financial requirements for taking action. I enjoyed the section titled 'What I Look Like Makes A Difference' and can apply these principles of 'Identities and Life Experience' in my own quest to help others like myself who have become ostracized and discriminated against, being held accountable for the sins of our forefathers. 'Becoming and Being Observant' and 'Your Economic Power' are other important sections. The book contains references and suggested reading material for further information. A detailed index is helpful for referring back to specific sections. A great book for activists and community workers."
Natalie Soine for Readers' Favorite
Read the full five-star review on the Readers' Favorite website
