Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own: Paths to Social Justice and Global Human Rights

by Jeffrey A. Kottler, Mike Marriner

Overview

Imbued with both a fitting sense of urgency and a profound sense of hope, Changing People's Lives While Transforming Your Own tells the stories of faculty, students, and professionals from a variety of fields who reached out to others after witnessing an injustice, poverty, or need in the lives of the most neglected and marginalized in society-and in reaching out, were transformed through the process of helping others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470484951
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/08/2009
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Jeffrey A. Kottler is author of On Being a Therapist, and The Mummy at the Dining Room Table (both from Wiley), among many other books. He is Professor and Chair of the Counseling Department at California State University, Fullerton. He also established the Madhav Ghimire Foundation, which is devoted to helping the most neglected children of Nepal.

Mike Marriner is the cofounder of Roadtrip Nation and coauthor of Roadtrip Nation: A Guide to Discovering Your Path in Life. He has also coproduced the annual Roadtrip Nation television series that airs nationally on PBS, and has been featured on NBC's Today show, CNN, CBS News, BBC World News, and NPR.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Preface ix

Part I Birth of a Movement

Chapter 1 Paths to Social Justice 3

Chapter 2 The Dance of Hope 15

Chapter 3 Children Disappearing 31

Chapter 4 Stories of Despair and Resilience 49

Part II Stories of Impact

Chapter 5 Road Trip 61

Chapter 6 Being Lost 81

Chapter 7 Student Transformations 99

Chapter 8 Making Universal Connections 117

Chapter 9 Lessons and Major Themes 125

Part III Taking Action

Chapter 10 Relationship Skills for Promoting Constructive Action 141

Chapter 11 Travel That Can Change Your Life 153

Chapter 12 International Jetsetters 175

Chapter 13 Local Community Activists 193

Chapter 14 Thinking Globally, Acting Locally 203

Chapter 15 Going Small 215

References and Resources 235

About the Authors 241

About the DVD 243