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Caring Basics

Articles
What is Partnership? Riane Eisler's Partnership and Domination models
Power Struggle, The Invisible Addiction by Sharon Ellison

Tools for Developing Awareness
Feeleez tools for expressing feelings with kids, free coloring pages
Feelings Inventory
Center for Nonviolent Communication
International Taoist Tai Chi Society
The People's Yoga

Shambala Meditation Center of Portland

Videos on Mindfulness
Being Present in Relationships by Eckhart Tolle 8 minutes
On Non-Meditation and Natural Wakefulness by Pema Chodron 10 minutes
Jon Kabat Zinn on Mindfulness Lecture at Google 70 minutes

Books

  • Playing By Heart: The Vision and Practice of Belonging by O. Fred Donaldson, Ph.D.
  • The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that Will Change Your Life by Riane Eisler
  • The Intuitive Body: Discovering the Wisdom of Conscious Embodiment and Aikido by Wendy Palmer
Books
  • Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming parent-child relationships from reaction and struggle to freedom, power and joy by Naomi Aldort
  • Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership Education in the 21st Century by Riane Eisler
  • Taking the War Out of Our Words: Powerful Non-Defensive Communication by Sharon Ellison
  • Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn
    Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Caring Improvisational Play and Theater

Articles

Hearing the "Yes" in "No" by Inbal Kashtan
Yes Days by Ginger Carlson
Why Play Games When There's Work to Do? Fun, Games and Social Change by Adam Fletcher

Real Life Examples

Play After Play kind theater and play in action in Portland OR
Prison Creative Arts Project collaboration through creative expression, with the incarcerated!

Books

  • Playing Along: 37 learning activities borrowed from improvisational theater by Izzy Gesell
  • Tribes: a process for social development and cooperative learning by Jeanne Gibbs
  • Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? Twenty Years of the Prison Creative Arts Project by Will Alexander

Caring Games

Books
  • The Cooperative Games and Sports Book by Terry Orlick
  • Everyone Wins: Cooperative Games and Activities by Sambhava and Josette Luvmor
  • Tribes: a process for social development and cooperative learning by Jeanne Gibbs
  • Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn
  • Playing by Heart: The vision and practice of belonging by O. Fred Donadlson
  • 104 Activities that Build: Self Esteem, Teamwork, Communication, Anger Management, Self Discovery and Coping Skills by Alanna Jones
  • Playful parenting: a bold new way to nurture close connections, solve behavior problems, and encourage children's confidence by Lawrence J. Cohen.

Caring Media

Games and Activities for the Media-Literate, Non-Competitive, and Creative

Poisson Rouge
Game Goo
Orisinal
Don't Buy It
Room of Wonders

Books

  • Parenting Well in the Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Human by Gloria DeGaetano

Recursos en español

Comunicación Poderosa No Defensiva de Sharon Ellison
Center for Partnership Studies en español
Artículos en español de Alfie Kohn
Escuchando el Sí en el No de Inbal Kashtan
La comunicación no violenta (CNV Argentina)
La regla de oro de crianza de Jan Hunt
22 alternativas a los castigos de Jan Hunt

Apuntes

Modelo de Conexión Cariñosa
Juegos y Actividades Cooperativos
Teatro y Juego Improvisacional Cariñoso

Authors and Ideas

Real Life Examples

Brain Research