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Safeguarding Diversity and Inclusion: Unmasking Saboteurs

Discover the power of behavioral psychology to protect your diversity initiatives from sabotage! Are unseen saboteurs silently hindering your workplace's diversity and inclusion journey? Imagine the possibilities when a workplace becomes a fertile ground for diversity to flourish and talent to bloom. Together, we're on a mission to transform workplaces into vibrant ecosystems that celebrate differences and harness unique strengths. By embracing diversity, nurturing talent, and cultivating a Read more [...]

Behavioral Science for Bullying Prevention in the Classroom

Attention teachers! Do you want to learn how to stop bullying in your classroom using science-based strategies? This book provides a deep dive into the science of how children learn and unlearn, so you can better understand what’s happening in your classroom and manage it effectively.

Book: Applied Humanism: How to Create more Effective and Ethical Businesses

You can’t understand humanistic business management unless you understand what humanism is. This book provides a short introduction to the philosophy of humanism and discusses how and why it is being applied to business and why it is so effective when you do so. Humanism helps us prioritize human value as important. It supports positive interpersonal relationships and collaborative and respectful decision-making. Since all businesses are in the business of solving problems, good problem solving is essential to good business.

Book and Program: Humanistic Conflict Management

This is a compilation of 7 of Jennifer Hancock’s books dealing with the subject of conflict management from a humanistic perspective. These books are companions to online courses offered at Humanist Learning Systems and contain the transcripts of those programs for easy home reference.

Jen Hancock’s Handy Humanism Handbook

This book is for the average human, regardless of his, her or ze name, who wants to learn more about Humanism.

The Humanist Approach to Happiness – Book

This is a book that basically says – here are personal ethics, here is why they are important, and here is how you can apply them to your daily life and why doing so will help you live a happier more productive life. Great for parents to use to help talk to their kids about why ethics are important and how to integrate ethics into their decision making.

Book & Program: How to Prevent Passive Aggressive People from Wreaking Havoc in the Workplace

This discusses how passive-aggressive behavior is rewarded. Techniques to ensure passive- aggressive behavior doesn’t interfere with workflow, how to take responsibility for your part of the interaction, and how to make sure you aren’t part of the problem. This discussion will cover three reasons why people behave passive-aggressively and help you learn how to respond professionally and effectively to the problem so that these individuals don’t wreak havoc in your workplace.

Book & Video: How to Handle Cranky Customers Using Behavioral Science

Learn why people behave how they do and how you can respond so that you can be happier and more effectively help solve your customer’s problems without getting pulled into their drama, whatever that is.

Books: The Humanist Approach to Happiness: Translations

Jennifer Hancock’s book – The Humanist Approach to Happiness – has been translated into the following languages. Spanish, Italian and Swahili

Book & Video: Why Bullies Bully & How to Stop Them Using Science

This book will: – Fill in those gaps in your knowledge by teaching you what you didn’t know you needed to know – Explain the science of how exactly behaviors are stopped. – Explain how you can use this information to train bullies to stop – Provide real life examples of how exactly this works and more importantly why it works.

Book – The Power of Pause

The Power of Pause: How to be More Effective in a Demanding, 24/7 World The Power of Pause by Nance Guilmartin is an excellent book. It is basically about how to take a pause so you can think more rationally and strategically and thus give yourself a better chance of success. This ability to pause so you can think before you act is the first step to thinking critically. Nance provides excellent easy to implement exercises to help you master the technique. This practical method helps even the most Read more [...]

The Happiest Baby on the Block – book

The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer

It is not an understatement to say this book saved my husband and I's sanity during our son's first year. - Jennifer Hancock
In a innovative and thought-provoking reevaluation of early infancy, Dr. Karp blends modern science and ancient wisdom to prove that newborns are not fully ready for the world when they are born. Through his research and experience, he has developed four basic principles Read more [...]

Book – Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality

Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
It is amazing how much baggage people carry with them when they have sex. The Humanist approach to sex is that it is a foundational human urge. Similar to the need for food. It should be consensual and pleasurable, for everyone involved. We do not consider it sinful unless it is coerced or causes harm.
Dr. Darrel Ray has written a wonderful book for people who experienced religious indoctrination about sex who find now that the guilt they attach Read more [...]

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short—plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesn’t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that Read more [...]

Logically Fallicious – the Book

Logically Fallacious is one of the most comprehensive collections of logical fallacies with all original examples and easy to understand descriptions, perfect for educators, debaters, or anyone who wants to be improve his or her reasoning skills

Book: How to talk to your child’s school about bullying so they will actually listen and help

How to talk to your child’s school about bullying so they will actually listen and help
This is a short e-book designed to help you learn the basics of what you should be doing to help make sure your child’s school takes your reports of bullying seriously. This e-book is ~4,000 words long and should take less than ½ hour to read. The purpose of this book is to give you detailed information on how to approach the school, who in the school can help and how to get the school to actually help you Read more [...]

Humanism for Parents – Book

This is a great book. Even though it is geared towards non-religious parents, it still lays out the principles of Humanist parenting quite well and can provide you with helpful ideas on how to provide for the needs of your increasingly independant child.

Humanistic Marketing – Book

Humanistic Marketing recognizes the harm that comes with the unfettered desire for more of more. The authors ask how can marketing’s principles and practice be founded in humanistic values such as altruism, empathy, respect, trustworthiness, honesty, integrity, care, compassion, service, intelligence, beauty, justice, virtue?

Humanistic Ethics in the Age of Globality – Book

Another great book for the folks at the Humanistic Management Center. This book seeks to answer the question: Is there a humanistic consensus that can bridge cultural and ethnic divides and reconcile the diverse and contrary interests of stakeholders world-wide?