This practical guide to mindfulness activities provides ready-to-use scripts that readers can use to deliver calming, soothing and grounding activities to young people of all ages, including adults.This book showcases evidence-based scripts for activities to develop relaxation, mindfulness, self-compassion, self-awareness and resilience in people of all ages. It aims to prompt the creative development of support activities that bring forward positive well-being responses. It provid...

Every time you blog or tweet you may be subject to the laws of more than 200 jurisdictions. As more than a few bloggers or tweeters have discovered, you can be sued in your own country, or arrested in a foreign airport as you're heading off on vacation - just for writing something that wouldn't raise an eyebrow if you said it in a bar or a cafe.In this handy guide, media law expert Mark Pearson explains how you can get your message across without landing yourself in legal trouble. ...

Welcome to Wrexham!Everyone in the world is talking about Wrexham AFC – the Red Dragons are on fire. In 2023, the team achieved their fairy-tale dream of promotion after 15 agonising years of languishing at the very bottom of the lowest league. They did it, in part, thanks to two Hollywood superstars, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, who purchased the club in 2020, and promptly took the team on a superhero-inspired adventure back to the top of the turf.Thi...

This book offers an introduction to the key legal and ethical topics confronting Australian journalists and strategic communicators both at home and internationally and offers a suite of reflective techniques for navigating them. It starts by positioning morals, ethics, and the law in their historical and philosophical frameworks by tracing the evolution of free expression and professional media ethics. Media law and ethics are then contextualized in their modern international human rights...

Diving into this beloved practice, Creative Writing explores how the written word can be used as a therapeutic tool in pursuit of improved mental health and wellbeing.Exploring a variety of settings, including group writing, writing alone, and even workshopping online, pracademic duo Mark Pearson and Helen Foster design and deliver a series of contemporary case studies related to mental health, menopause, mindfulness and psychosis.Imagining new, introspective outle...

This practical guide to Expressive Therapies tools – a multi-modal, emotion-focused application of creative arts therapies – explains how expressive, creative and collaborative counselling methods can be offered to young people who experience emotional, behavioural, cognitive or existential difficulties.The authors share insights, principles and practical activities that they have developed, applied clinically and subsequently researched and taught for over 35 years. Chapters detai...

Using Expressive Arts to Work with Mind, Body and Emotions combines theory, research and activities to produce practical suggestions for enhancing client participation in the therapy process. It surveys the literature on art therapy; somatic approaches; emotion-activating models; use of music, writing and dreamwork; and the implications of the new findings in neuroscience.The book includes step-by-step instructions for implementing expressive therapies techniques, and contains a wi...

Social media has many advantages for professional communication – but it also carries considerable risks, including legal pitfalls. This book equips students and communication professionals with the knowledge and skills to help minimise the risks that can arise when they post or host on social media.It offers them strategies for taking advantage of the opportunities of social media while also navigating the ethical, legal, and organisational risks that can lead to audience outrage,...

A brand's meaning—how it resonates in the public heart and mind—is a company's most valuable competitive advantage. Yet, few companies really know how brand meaning works, how to manage it, and how to use brand meaning strategically. Written by bestselling author Carol S. Pearson (The Hero Within) and branding guru Margaret Mark, this groundbreaking book provides the illusive and compelling answer. Using studies drawn from the experiences of Nike, Marlboro, Ivory, and other powerh...

Artificial Intelligence isn't a side project. It's the new playbook.Most AI initiatives stall in pilot purgatory, chasing cosmetic wins that don't move the needle. This book shows private equity leaders how to do it differently by building intelligent systems that scale, adapt, and create real enterprise value.Written by Mark Rogerson, a seasoned private equity Operating Partner and Portfolio Chair, and Gary Pearson, former CEO of a publicly listed tech company, startup fou...

A brand’s meaning—how it resonates in the public heart and mind—is a company’s most valuable competitive advantage. Yet, few companies really know how brand meaning works, how to manage it, and how to use brand meaning strategically. Written by best-selling author Carol S. Pearson (The Hero Within) and branding guru Margaret Mark, this groundbreaking book provides the illusive and compelling answer. Using studies drawn from the experiences of Nike, Marlboro, Ivory and other powerhouse bran...

Cille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age and Late Norse settlements discovered on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), off the west coast of Scotland. Its unusually well-preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine phases of occupation, including five longhouses and many smaller buildings, provides a remarkable insight into daily life on a Norse farmstead during two centuries of near-continuous occupation c. AD 1000 –1200. Although the excavation at Cille Phe...