Tony Biglan, PhD, is a Retired Senior Research Scientist from Oregon Research Institute and President of Values to Action. https://www.valuestoaction.org/.

Join Gabe and Dawn as we learn from a leading figure in the development of prevention science, Tony Biglan. He has over thirty years of research to identify effective family, school, and community interventions to prevent the most common and costly problems of childhood and adolescence. He acknowledges the need to move social issues to social services and away from police interventions. As police agencies become more taxed with social problems Tony has scientifically proven approaches for schools and parents. Join us as we learn about Tony’s Values to Action

Tony is the author of Rebooting Capitalism: How We Can Forge a Society That Works for Everyone, and The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World.

Links to Tony’s Books:

https://www.amazon.com/Rebooting-Capitalism-Forge-Society-Everyone/dp/057869090X#:~:text=In%20REBOOTING%20CAPITALISM%20Anthony%20Biglan,all%20members%20of%20society%20thrive

https://www.amazon.com/Nurture-Effect-Science-Behavior-Improve/dp/168403180X/ref=pd_lpo_1?pd_rd_i=168403180X&psc=1

Nurture Effect YouTube

https://youtu.be/mhV5Ag4bCuI

Tony’s full list of published works:

http://www.ori.org/scientists/anthony_biglan

Tony’s refers to :

Positive Parenting Programs https://www.lanekids.org/triplep/

OPEC https://orparenting.org/

https://www.paxis.org/school-based-programming/

https://youtu.be/dLJiQIqL2Us Yamill Co, Oregon - PAX Good Behavior Game in Action

Dennis Embry https://www.paxis.org/dr-pax/ Tucson, AZ

https://www.facebook.com/paxisinstitute

Values to Action - Action Circle $1 gets you $64 needed to help communities that pinpoint their Yamill Co has a community Action Circle going.

Psychological flexibility: How love turns pain into purpose | Steven Hayes | TEDxUniversityofNevada

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Do79_gmO5ppg&ved=2ahUKEwju2qCz1735AhUhK0QIHaJaDcwQtwJ6BAgbEAI&usg=AOvVaw3BkdHT_2zjzpcI1_QDuhUL

https://nam.edu/ National Academy of Medicine, Nurturing Environments - minimize toxic social & biological impacts

Psychological flexibility - keeping distance from, how it feels in the body, YOU the observer self is different from defused, see the thoughts and notice them. Defuse is a skill, the focus of life is to not feeling anxious. If you don’t want it you got it.

ACT -Kelly Wilson https://youtu.be/VL0E7fBVTfg

Happiness Trap, Dr. Russ Harris - accepting feelings: http

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