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Empowerment



Empowerment is a multi-layered social process that allows individuals and communities to act with autonomy, confidently representing themselves and their abilities with authority and determination. Empowerment can involve removing previous constraints or providing the tools and supports needed for previously powerless individuals or communities to act with self-determination. True empowerment requires that those assisting in the process retain no power, gain, or leverage against those they are helping.

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Holding Hands Together: From Helplessness to Empowerment

I believe the secret to turning despair into rewarding action is feeling aligned with others and working together for a common cause.

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James Baraz
2016
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FindCenterDo not be afraid of your difficulties. Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.

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Helena Blavatsky
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How to Create Radiant Self-Confidence

Confidence is really your ability to access empowerment in all areas of your life. It’s the opposite of victimhood, and that’s why it’s so liberating. Empowerment doesn’t come from others, it comes from within, and confidence is the same.

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Panache Desai
2017
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The Science of Self-Empowerment: Awakening the New Human Story

In this revelatory book, now available for the first time in paperback, five-time New York Times best-selling author and 2018 Templeton Award nominee Gregg Braden explains that we no longer need to ask these questions as "What if?" Recent discoveries ranging from human evolution and genetics to the...

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Gregg Braden
2019
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Empowering Indigenous Creators

Wapikoni Mobile is changing the lives of Indigenous youth one creator at a time. This stopover season, “Wapikoni from Coast to Coast: Building Bridges and Reconciliation through Media Arts” is empowering young Indigenous Canadians to be media creators.

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2017
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FindCenterI believe that you’re great, that there’s something magnificent about you.

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Michael Bernard Beckwith
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Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding

A timely and important compilation of first-person accounts by black men—including some famous like Russell Simmons, Rev.

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Ben Jealous (editor), Trabian Shorters (editor), Russell Simmons (foreword)
2024
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How to Set Boundaries with Impossible People including Narcissists with Terri Cole

Do you have people in your life who are so difficult, so demanding, that when it comes time for you to speak your mind or ask for what you want, it’s just not worth it? Does the amount of stress this causes make you want to just appease them or continue to ‘suck it up’?

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Terri Cole
2017
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The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups

A Transition Town group involved in preparations for peak oil and climate change; an intentional community, founded with the highest ideals; a nonprofit dedicated to social change. Millions of such voluntary groups exist around the world.

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Starhawk
2011
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FindCenterThings base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love’s mind of any judgment taste; wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

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William Shakespeare
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