Books & Publications
With decades of experience in inclusive workplace culture, leadership development, and workforce well-being, Dr. Samuels’ many books and publications offer guidance in all these areas.
In response to client requests, her most recent books focus specifically on wellbeing, self-care, and mindful leadership. Fast Relief from Anxiety: 25 Tools to Calm Your Nervous System offers 25 drug-free inner self-care tools and emotional regulation techniques to calm your nervous system so you can get back to living your life! This handbook also includes exploration and charting tools, and a Fast Relief from Anxiety Checklist.
The Mindfulness Effect: an unexpected path to healing, connection, and social justice, offers a roadmap to incorporate mindfulness into your life for health/wellness, empowerment, and inclusive leadership development. The accompanying guide, The Mindfulness Effect: Journal & Practice Planner provides an opportunity to reflect on the practices in the book, offers additional questions, and guides you as you create your own mindful life.
Now in its second printing, The Culturally Inclusive Educator: Preparing for a Multicultural World (Columbia University’s Teachers College Press) lays out a blueprint for creating an inclusive, equitable workplace culture for organizations, campuses, and corporations.
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Fast Relief from Anxiety: 25 Tools to Calm Your Nervous System
“...Short, smart and instantly applicable, Dr. Samuels knows what she’s talking about.
I was dealing with some issues and this book gave me some ideas that I tried immediately...and they really helped. The best part is that you don’t need every one of them to work, just find one or two that resonate with you. Thank you Dr. Samuels for writing a useful book for the rest of us.”
PETER K.
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Books on Wellbeing and Mindful Leadership
Fast Relief from Anxiety Handbook
This handbook offers 25 drug-free inner self-care tools and emotional regulation techniques to calm your nervous system so you can get back to living your life!
The Mindfulness Effect
This book provides a roadmap for incorporating mindfulness into your life for health/wellness, empowerment, and inclusive leadership development.
The Mindfulness Effect -
Practice Journal
This journal and practice planner provides the prompts from each of the practices and activities in the book, offers the space to reflect and respond to them, and asks further questions for consideration as you build your mindful life!
More Tools to Calm Your Nervous System
Zentangles & Mandalas Coloring Pages
Downloadable PDF booklets of 25 Calming Coloring Pages for adults. Each booklet includes empowering affirmations and mantras with each design.
Zentangles & Mandalas 2 Coloring Pages
Downloadable PDF booklets of 25 Calming Coloring Pages for adults. Each booklet includes empowering affirmations and mantras with each design.
Books on Cultural Inclusion
The Matrix Reader
This book promotes a commitment to an interdisciplinary approach to teaching race, class, gender, and sexuality.
The Matrix Reader - A Teaching Guide
This teaching guide was designed for educators who are using The Matrix Reader in their classes. It is included with the purchase of The Matrix Reader.
Culturally Inclusive Educator
The Culturally Inclusive Educator gives leaders a blueprint for creating an inclusive, equitable workplace culture for organizations, campuses, and corporations.
What People are Saying
“In this wonderful book, The Mindfulness Effect, Dr. Samuels shares her profound internal work in tandem with her fierce commitment to social justice. She offers a path toward connection; connected to the earth, to one another, and to ourselves.”
Shakti Butler, PhD
World Trust Educational Services, Inc., Filmmaker, Speaker and Social Justice Advocate
“Dr. Samuels’ understanding of the mindfulness/humanity/justice connection offers us a lesson in how to work smarter, not harder.”
Debby Irving, author
Waking Up White & Finding Myself in the Story of Race
“Dena Samuels takes us straight to the heart of what is perhaps the most urgent and perplexing question facing 21st-century educators: Are we prepared to work effectively with the rapidly increasing diversity of our student population? She challenges us to confront the misperceptions of our own readiness and to examine the biases that lie beneath even our best intentions. The journey she guides us into is both profoundly discomforting and absolutely necessary.”
Gary R. Howard
Equity and School Change Consulting
"At last — an empathetic and inspiring book that says the way to educate all students more successfully is to awaken teachers’ higher awareness. Dena Samuels suggests a paradigm shift in which teachers, having seen the practices of exclusion that have been programmed into them, develop more inclusive awareness and learn to respect, hear, and ally with the growth and development of all students, including themselves.”
Peggy McIntosh
Founder and senior associate, National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum
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