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Women’s Club Football in Brazil and Colombia: A Critical Analysis of Players, Media and Institutions (Liverpool Latin American Studies #30)
by Mark BiramThe first women’s football book on Latin America centring the perspectives of players brings rare interview material that cuts through the clichés to uncover the lived reality of women footballers. It includes the first large-scale survey of South American women footballers’ views into dialogue with institutional and media perspectives. The early chapters consider the backdrop Latin American women footballers operate in, a media and institutional panorama that privileges a heteronormative athletic femininity whilst ensuring women’s football is never portrayed as anything other than an inferior version of the hegemonic (men’s) game. Following this, drawing on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork in which 33 semi-structured interviews were carried out with players and institutional figures, this pioneering book foregrounds the lived reality of women’s football in three strategic locations. Firstly, three months were spent in the Amazon region of Brazil where Esporte Clube Iranduba provides a fascinating alternative model for the growth of women’s football. This is contrasted with Santos FC, where women’s football tends to be constantly overshadowed by the presence of banal patriarchy, and finally with another fleeting glimpse of how another model is possible at Atlético Huila of Colombia, the surprise winner of the women’s Copa Libertadores in 2018.
Women’s Contribution to Science and Technology through ICWES Conferences (Women in Engineering and Science)
by Monique Frize Claire Deschênes Ruby HeapThis book discusses the legacy of the conference series The International Conferences of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES), which spans the second half of the Twentieth Century and the beginning of the twenty-first. The book first discusses how, at a time when there were few women engineers and scientists, a group of women organized a conference, in June 1964 in New York, which attracted 486 women. They presented their scientific achievements and discussed how to attract more women in STEM. This effort was carried out by volunteers, continuing the ICWES conferences over a period of 59 years. The authors discuss the organizers, the hosting societies, the scientific content, the changes in issues over time, and how the continuity has endured. The authors also discuss the importance of global involvement, shown through past conferences in locations such as USA, UK, Italy, Poland, France, India, Ivory Coast, Hungary, Japan, Canada, and Korea. The authors also outline how the efforts were aided by the development of a not for profit Canadian corporation, the International Conference of Women in Sciences and engineering (INWES), which ensures the continuation of the conference series. Claire Deschênes and Monique Frize ensured that the conference database was digitalized and is now available at the Canadian Archive of Women in STEM, University of Ottawa Library, with the hope that researchers will continue to explore this rich database. As an important part of the Women in Science and Engineering book series, the work hopes to inspire women and men, girls and boys to study and work in STEM fields. This book is important historically because it documents a unique adventure created by women in STEM through vision and leadership. Their efforts established modes of networking and sharing their contributions in science, technology, and on gender issues.
Women's Empowerment and Public Policy in the Arab Gulf States: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities (Gulf Studies #11)
by Rabia NaguibThis open access book explores the various dimensions of women’s empowerment in public policy in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, with a particular focus on Qatar, comparing the country to the other Gulf states. Through its rich compilation of empirical qualitative research, the text unpacks the various ways in which women’s empowerment materializes in the GCC context, providing insights into public policy perspectives in high-income rentier states more broadly. The Arab world has long been part of the global dialogue on women’s economic and political empowerment and the GCC has, over the past decade, situated women’s empowerment amongst their respective national priorities and long-term strategies. In turn, the Gulf has seen gradual implementation of policies aimed at women, specifically, in looking to attract and retain them in the labour market, and in the public sector more broadly. The collection surveys and evaluates the progress made in recent decades, paying close attention to the cultural and policy constraints still limiting women’s empowerment in the Gulf. With a key linkage to SDG5, this book is a timely text addressing the context and drivers behind policies centering on women in the Arab region, in its analysis of the interplay of international women’s empowerment discourse and regional public policy decisions. It is relevant to researchers and policy makers focused on women and gender issues in relation to social, cultural, economic, and political empowerment in the Gulf specifically, but also in the Arab world and beyond.
Women's Football, Culture, and Identity (Critical Research in Football)
by Kate ThemenThis book examines the experiences of amateur players in women’s football, challenging conventional discourses that centre male, masculine, and heterosexual identities and offering a new narrative that re-positions women’s voices.Based on original empirical research, including extended interviews with female players, the book outlines current debates in women’s football around gender, identity, and intersectionality. It explores football as a space of contestation, examining the creative ways in which women have negotiated opportunities to play football and the friendships and sociality that emerge from playing the game. The book examines resistance to historically bound cultural norms that privileges men’s participation, reflecting on mixed-sex football, femininity, embodiment, physical capital, and authenticity, and considers how this deeper understanding of football cultures might help in the future development of the women’s game.This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in football, women’s sport, the sociology of sport, or gender studies.
Women's Football, Culture, and Identity (Critical Research in Football)
by Kate ThemenThis book examines the experiences of amateur players in women’s football, challenging conventional discourses that centre male, masculine, and heterosexual identities and offering a new narrative that re-positions women’s voices.Based on original empirical research, including extended interviews with female players, the book outlines current debates in women’s football around gender, identity, and intersectionality. It explores football as a space of contestation, examining the creative ways in which women have negotiated opportunities to play football and the friendships and sociality that emerge from playing the game. The book examines resistance to historically bound cultural norms that privileges men’s participation, reflecting on mixed-sex football, femininity, embodiment, physical capital, and authenticity, and considers how this deeper understanding of football cultures might help in the future development of the women’s game.This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in football, women’s sport, the sociology of sport, or gender studies.
Work Beyond the Pandemic: Towards a Human-Centred Recovery
by Tindara Addabbo Edoardo Ales Ylenia Curzi Tommaso Fabbri Olga Rymkevich Iacopo SenatoriThis book addresses the impact of Covid-19 on employment relations and provides a reconstruction and a critical assessment of the measures enacted worldwide to tackle the economic and social crisis triggered by the global health emergency. The pandemic has been a booster of critical issues that for years have been silently shaping society and the labor market and so it can represent an opportunity to relaunch a critical analysis on the future of work.Beginning from this assumption, this book collects contributions from different disciplines, including law, economics and organization theory. It covers topics such as the measures enacted to protect workers’ health and cushion the labour, the new inequalities that emerged during the pandemic and the strategies to construct a sustainable and human-centred development in the post pandemic scenario. It is highly relevant to scholars and students of organisation studies, resilience, the labour market and labour law.
Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age
by Kate Bravery Ilya Bonic Kai AndersonAn insightful and practical new guide to how sustainable people management works in today’s global economy, with guidance on how to transform the way your organization recruits, hires, upskills, and retains its people In Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age, a team of business experts and workforce advisors give an incisive take on the staffing challenges facing leaders in the modern global economy. The book reveals how executives and decision makers can adapt their people agenda for shifts in labor models and employee sentiment. You’ll look ahead to what’s next and learn how to weave sustainability and resilience into your business priorities and make real progress on profits, people, and the planet. You’ll also discover: How generative AI and labor trends will converge to put a premium on agile organizations How to understand what people really want from the organizations they’re employed by: The Lifestyle Contract How you can build a culture that transcends structures and walls, and places skills at the heart of change How stakeholder capitalism and ESG are drawing a new roadmap for success An indispensable resource for executives, managers, board members, human resources professionals, and other business leaders, Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age is the no-nonsense, hands-on people management blueprint that you’ve been waiting for.
Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age
by Kate Bravery Ilya Bonic Kai AndersonAn insightful and practical new guide to how sustainable people management works in today’s global economy, with guidance on how to transform the way your organization recruits, hires, upskills, and retains its people In Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age, a team of business experts and workforce advisors give an incisive take on the staffing challenges facing leaders in the modern global economy. The book reveals how executives and decision makers can adapt their people agenda for shifts in labor models and employee sentiment. You’ll look ahead to what’s next and learn how to weave sustainability and resilience into your business priorities and make real progress on profits, people, and the planet. You’ll also discover: How generative AI and labor trends will converge to put a premium on agile organizations How to understand what people really want from the organizations they’re employed by: The Lifestyle Contract How you can build a culture that transcends structures and walls, and places skills at the heart of change How stakeholder capitalism and ESG are drawing a new roadmap for success An indispensable resource for executives, managers, board members, human resources professionals, and other business leaders, Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age is the no-nonsense, hands-on people management blueprint that you’ve been waiting for.
Workers, Power and Society: Power Resource Theory in Contemporary Capitalism (Routledge Research in Employment Relations)
by Jens Arnholtz Bjarke RefslundThe book addresses how power and power resources remain important analytically as well as empirically dimensions for analysing contemporary capitalism. It provides a theoretical framework for studying, understanding, and explaining changes in the world of work and how that leads to changes in contemporary capitalist societies. Changes in the world of work are closely related to increasing inequality, growing social unrest, and societal polarisation. Hence the book seeks to deepen our understanding of how developments in the sphere of work have implication far beyond the direct impact on workers. The book focuses on how workers and unions utilise their various power resources to off-set the power advantage of employers and capital in the sphere of labour politics, which have crucial linkages with both cultural life, politics, and the market. Although workers’ and unions’ power and influence have been declining almost universally across the world, the argument in the book is that they still hold power resources that can challenge and sometimes alter outcomes in another direction than what employers and capital wants. Hence the theory can help understand the possibilities that workers and unions still have and how these resources affect the outcomes of the labour-capital struggle. A core contribution of the book is that it develops theoretical propositions about power resource theory, provides clear definitions of the core concepts as well as apply the power resource theory to a range of new or emerging topic fields like global value chains, minimum wages, and migrant workers.
Workers, Power and Society: Power Resource Theory in Contemporary Capitalism (Routledge Research in Employment Relations)
The book addresses how power and power resources remain important analytically as well as empirically dimensions for analysing contemporary capitalism. It provides a theoretical framework for studying, understanding, and explaining changes in the world of work and how that leads to changes in contemporary capitalist societies. Changes in the world of work are closely related to increasing inequality, growing social unrest, and societal polarisation. Hence the book seeks to deepen our understanding of how developments in the sphere of work have implication far beyond the direct impact on workers. The book focuses on how workers and unions utilise their various power resources to off-set the power advantage of employers and capital in the sphere of labour politics, which have crucial linkages with both cultural life, politics, and the market. Although workers’ and unions’ power and influence have been declining almost universally across the world, the argument in the book is that they still hold power resources that can challenge and sometimes alter outcomes in another direction than what employers and capital wants. Hence the theory can help understand the possibilities that workers and unions still have and how these resources affect the outcomes of the labour-capital struggle. A core contribution of the book is that it develops theoretical propositions about power resource theory, provides clear definitions of the core concepts as well as apply the power resource theory to a range of new or emerging topic fields like global value chains, minimum wages, and migrant workers.
Working Together: Practicing the Science of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
by Mikki Hebl Eden KingThe racial and gender reckonings exemplified by the #BLM and #MeToo Movements shine light on biases that affect every part of life, including the workplace. An unspoken truth underlying the terrible events that fuel these movements-the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, acts of xenophobia against Asian people during the COVID-19 pandemic, the sexual violence perpetrated by Harvey Weinstein- is that people are being harassed, stereotyped, demeaned, and victimized in the context of work. Police officers and movie producers are perpetrators of terrible actions while they are working. What is happening in the American workplace to allow these events to unfold? And, of critical importance, what can leaders do to make lasting change? In this critical moment in our nation's history, organizational leaders have the opportunity and obligation to build strategy and practice in support of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This book will help all leaders rise to the challenge by describing state-of-the art science and practice. Expert scholars and professionals blend descriptions of case studies with large-scale robust evidence to help leaders recognize the imperative of diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations, identify their own personal barriers and those of their organizations, and specify strategies for achieving positive and persistent change by working together.
The World of the Japanese Mind: Conformity and Seken (SpringerBriefs in Sociology)
by Noriatsu MatsuiThis book investigates the source from which the pressure to conform arises in Japanese society. Even though the contemporary Japanese word for “society” (Shakai) has a history of 140 years, it does not include the concept of respecting the individual but refers mainly to social frameworks and institutional aspects. At the same time, the traditional Japanese terms for “society”, primarily Seken, that have been in use for 1,400 years have embraced human relationships of the members of the group.The hypothesis of this book is that there is no “society” as such in Japanese people’s minds. By proposing a new model (the Hand-Carved Tripod Model) of conformity in Japan, the book shows the structure of the pressure to conform. The tripod is composed of ambiguous words, the sense of belonging, and the “air”, or understanding, that represents the unwritten rules and regulations of Seken.Conformity in Japanese people’s minds takesdifferent forms, from small residential groups to corporations at work, and to nationwide associations, but always dictates that people follow everyone else in the organization.This book examines the sense of being blocked in Japan that has prevailed over 30 years, during the period of the so-called Three Lost Decades in Japan. Examining phenomena such as low worker engagement, karoshi (death by overwork), high middle-age male suicide rates, bullying in school and at work, sex discrimination, hereditary membership in the Diet, and failure to provide adequate protection for whistle-blowers, this book reveals a common structure in Japanese minds: lack of respect for individuality, and the traditional and narrow sense of the world, i.e., Seken.This book will be beneficial to scholars and graduate students as well as to businesspeople who are interested in understanding the behavior and minds of Japanese people from the psychological,cultural, and historical viewpoints. It provides an integrated view of Japan’s Seken as the platform that generates their conformity.
Yoga in the Black Community: Healing Practices and Principles
by Marilyn Peppers-Citizen Charlene Marie MuhammadAs the practice of yoga continues to flourish within Western Black and Brown communities, this transformative, Black culturally centered toolkit highlights the barriers that hinder access to yoga. It takes core aspects of yoga philosophy and contextualizes it within Black cultural norms, religious taboos, and historical healing practices, and teaches readers how to foster a safe haven for their clients and communities.Based on decades' worth of experience and expertise, this dynamic author duo discusses important topics such as health disparities, complementary healthcare, and the rich heritage and resilience of Black communities. This is an invaluable and practical resource that offers practices and actionable guidance and supports practitioners to explore a Black culturally centered approach to yoga whilst facilitating better health and wellbeing for Black people.
Young Black Changemakers and the Road to Racial Justice (Contemporary Social Issues Series)
by null Laura Wray-Lake null Elan C. Hope null Laura S. AbramsYoung Black Changemakers and the Road to Racial Justice tells the stories of how Black youth become changemakers and speaks to researchers, educators, community organizations, and the public. Through many kinds of action, Black youth are driven by a larger purpose to improve the world for Black people. Black families and Black-centered organizations support and sustain Black youth's civic engagement. Investing in community-based organizations benefits young Black changemakers, and Black identity and community can offer belonging and joy. Black youth's stories call us to root out anti-Blackness in schools, on social media, and in public discourse. Black youth bring society hope for the future and point the way forward on the road to racial justice.
Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society: Reclaiming the Future (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society)
by Päivi Honkatukia Tiina RättiläThis book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well- being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco- social system. It develops a theoretical framework for analysing youth participation holistically, embedded in its everyday context, and as a relational phenomenon, underpinned by universal human needs. It introduces innovative methodological approaches to study youth engagements in society. This book will appeal to scholars and students of youth studies, sociology, sustainable development, youth participation and education. It also offers new knowledge and theoretical readings for policy experts on youth and sustainable development, as well as for NGOs working with youth.
Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society: Reclaiming the Future (Youth, Young Adulthood and Society)
by Päivi Honkatukia Tiina RättiläThis book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well- being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco- social system. It develops a theoretical framework for analysing youth participation holistically, embedded in its everyday context, and as a relational phenomenon, underpinned by universal human needs. It introduces innovative methodological approaches to study youth engagements in society. This book will appeal to scholars and students of youth studies, sociology, sustainable development, youth participation and education. It also offers new knowledge and theoretical readings for policy experts on youth and sustainable development, as well as for NGOs working with youth.
Young People, Media and Politics in the Digital Age (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics)
by Vera Slavtcheva-PetkovaThe book explores the relationship among young people, politics and the media. It presents a novel multidimensional analytical framework – The Circle Line Media Model, which accounts for the importance of a range of processes, actors and social structures in the political socialisation process. By defining political socialisation as a lifelong interactive process that develops civic cultures, collective identities and citizenship, underpinned by social structures, nationality and generational order, the author draws attention to its manifestation in acts of political participation and interactions with authoritative actors such as school/teachers, family, the media and friends/peers. The volume’s longitudinal study on young people, Europe and the media spanning 13 years of research in two very different countries also makes recommendations for more effectively engaging young people with politics and political media based on Generation Z’s own views about current deficiencies in their relationship with news media. Shedding new light on the changing nature of young people’s engagement with politics, this book will be of interest to researchers, lecturers/professors and upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of media studies, communication and journalism studies as well as politics and sociology.
Young People, Media and Politics in the Digital Age (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics)
by Vera Slavtcheva-PetkovaThe book explores the relationship among young people, politics and the media. It presents a novel multidimensional analytical framework – The Circle Line Media Model, which accounts for the importance of a range of processes, actors and social structures in the political socialisation process. By defining political socialisation as a lifelong interactive process that develops civic cultures, collective identities and citizenship, underpinned by social structures, nationality and generational order, the author draws attention to its manifestation in acts of political participation and interactions with authoritative actors such as school/teachers, family, the media and friends/peers. The volume’s longitudinal study on young people, Europe and the media spanning 13 years of research in two very different countries also makes recommendations for more effectively engaging young people with politics and political media based on Generation Z’s own views about current deficiencies in their relationship with news media. Shedding new light on the changing nature of young people’s engagement with politics, this book will be of interest to researchers, lecturers/professors and upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of media studies, communication and journalism studies as well as politics and sociology.
You’re Not the Problem: The Impact of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse and How to Heal
by Katie McKenna Helen VilliersHelen & Katie's advice will change your life. It did mine. - Kay Allinson, co-founder of Pinch of NomThis book will show you what a narcissist looks like and how their emotional abuse impacts the lives and relationships of their families.Many emotionally abusive behaviours from parent to child have become socially acceptable; because they're so prolific, they're normalised. Furthermore, humans often repeat relational patterns, passing the baton of trauma from generation to generation, until someone decides to change things. You're Not the Problem shows you how to recognise these behaviours and realise the profound impact they have had, and still have, and to see the patterns they form in our relationships with parents, partners, friends and colleagues. Using stories and examples from their clinical experience and extensive research, psychotherapists Helen Villiers and Katie McKenna share: · What Narcissistic Personality Disorder is· How to recognise emotional abuse in family relationships· The immediate and long-term impact · Practical strategies for healing· How to avoid repeating these behaviours With a compassionate, sympathetic approach to looking at your familial patterns, Villiers and McKenna show you how to truly break free from these toxic relationships and reclaim your life.
Youth in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Sociological Perspective (ISSN)
by Acheampong Yaw Amoateng Elizabeth BineyThis book investigates the life experiences of youth in South Africa, considering whether contemporary youth have benefitted from the socioeconomic reconstruction of post-apartheid society.Student protests against apartheid drove transformative change in South Africa, and the subsequent new constitution promised positive change for the nation’s youth across a range of sectors. Adopting a sociological perspective, this book uses primary and secondary data sources to illustrate the myriad ways post-apartheid socioeconomic developments have impacted the life experiences of the country’s youth across areas including health, education, family life, economic activity, technology, substance use, and politics. The book considers the historical legacy of colonialism, racism and immigration in shaping the context in which youth experiences in the country have evolved. The book argues that in 1976 South Africa’s youth became the conscience of the nation when they brought the apartheid regime to its knees during the Soweto uprising. What happens to them now will continue to define the nation’s future.This book will be of interest to researchers across the social sciences, most especially in the fields of Sociology, Demography, Development Studies, and Psychology.
Youth in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Sociological Perspective (ISSN)
by Acheampong Yaw Amoateng Elizabeth BineyThis book investigates the life experiences of youth in South Africa, considering whether contemporary youth have benefitted from the socioeconomic reconstruction of post-apartheid society.Student protests against apartheid drove transformative change in South Africa, and the subsequent new constitution promised positive change for the nation’s youth across a range of sectors. Adopting a sociological perspective, this book uses primary and secondary data sources to illustrate the myriad ways post-apartheid socioeconomic developments have impacted the life experiences of the country’s youth across areas including health, education, family life, economic activity, technology, substance use, and politics. The book considers the historical legacy of colonialism, racism and immigration in shaping the context in which youth experiences in the country have evolved. The book argues that in 1976 South Africa’s youth became the conscience of the nation when they brought the apartheid regime to its knees during the Soweto uprising. What happens to them now will continue to define the nation’s future.This book will be of interest to researchers across the social sciences, most especially in the fields of Sociology, Demography, Development Studies, and Psychology.
Youth Justice: Towards a Contextualised Understanding of Policy-Making
by Stephen CasePolicy development and implementation has a pivotal role in the youth justice system, profoundly impacting professionals and the children they work with. This imaginative book challenges limited explanations of policy-making as linear and government-dominated through original research into the practices, identities and relationships of a wide range of stakeholders working in multiple policy- making contexts in England and Wales. The result is a detailed expert analysis of the contexts and mechanisms of youth justice policy-making. This book is key reading for researchers, professionals and students seeking effective understandings and responses to the long term social problem of youth offending.
Youth Justice: Towards a Contextualised Understanding of Policy-Making
by Stephen CasePolicy development and implementation has a pivotal role in the youth justice system, profoundly impacting professionals and the children they work with. This imaginative book challenges limited explanations of policy-making as linear and government-dominated through original research into the practices, identities and relationships of a wide range of stakeholders working in multiple policy- making contexts in England and Wales. The result is a detailed expert analysis of the contexts and mechanisms of youth justice policy-making. This book is key reading for researchers, professionals and students seeking effective understandings and responses to the long term social problem of youth offending.
Zertifizierte Politikberatung: Die Arbeit des Nationalen und des Deutschen Ethikrates in medizinethischer und zeitgeschichtlicher Perspektive
by Theresa FischerSeit den 1980er Jahren haben sich in zahlreichen Staaten innerhalb wie außerhalb Europas beratende Ethikgremien auf nationaler Ebene gebildet. In Deutschland geschah dies erstmals 2001 aufgrund der in dieser Zeit aufkommenden Debatte über embryonale Stammzellforschung, Stammzellimporte, Präimplantationsdiagnostik und Forschungsklonen. Durch die Gründung des Nationalen Ethikrates im Jahr 2001 erhielt Deutschland ein nationales Gremium zur ethischen Politikberatung. Dieses Gremium, wie auch sein Nachfolger, der Deutsche Ethikrat, übernahmen keine geringere Aufgabe, als die deutschen Staatsorgane bezüglich des Hinterfragens der normativen Grenzen des menschlichen Lebens durch wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt zu beraten. Die vorliegende Studie fragt: Was für eine Art Gremium ist dieser Ethikrat, der solche grundlegenden Themen untersucht? Weshalb wurde er gegründet, und warum wurde der Nationale Ethikrat im Jahre 2008 durch den Deutschen Ethikrat ersetzt? Welche Struktur, welche Arbeitsweise und Arbeitsergebnisse weist er auf? Wie definiert der Rat sein Selbstverständnis? Welche Rolle spielt er für die Politik – etwa die der zertifizierenden Politikberatung? Welche Bedeutung hat der Rat für die deutsche Gesellschaft, und in welchem Verhältnis steht er zu den in ihm vertretenen Wissenschaften?
Zufrieden in den Ruhestand: Manual für ein ressourcenorientiertes Gruppencoaching
by Alexandra Michel Nadine SeiferlingIn diesem Buch wird die breit angelegte und wissenschaftlich evaluierte ressourcenorientierte Gruppen-Intervention ‚Zufrieden in den Ruhestand‘ zur Vorbereitung auf den Ruhestand vorgestellt. Das Manual enthält eine detaillierte Anleitung zur Durchführung inklusive aller Trainingsmaterialien. Im Rahmen des Gruppencoachings werden verschiedene Aspekte und Themen der Verrentung, wie z.B. sich verändernde Rollen, soziale Netzwerke, aber auch die persönliche Ruhestandsvision und Übergangsrituale adressiert. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf der individuellen Gestaltung des Übergangs und der neuen Lebensphase sowie der Ressourcenstärkung. Im Verlauf des Coachings sollen die Teilnehmer:innen im Sinne der Ressourcenperspektive individuelle Ressourcen erkennen und aktivieren, um sich so auf die anstehenden Veränderungen und Anpassungserfordernisse vorzubereiten. Potenziellen negativen Folgen des Eintritts in den Ruhestand soll dadurch präventiv begegnet werden. Zudemist der Austausch mit Gleichgesinnten ein wesentlicher Bestandteil des Coachings, durch den zugleich soziale Ressourcen und die Bildung sozialer Netzwerke angeregt werden. Theoretische Hintergründe der Trainingsentwicklung und Evaluationsergebnisse zur Wirksamkeit des Trainings werden zusätzlich im Überblick dargestellt.