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One Book, One Theme, One Charity! There are two group-reading sessions with a fee for 10 weeks each in spring and fall every year. Each session, A.I.R. picks books from the categories ranging from parenting, family, intimate relationship, and personal growth. Every week, we host in-depth book discussion facilitated by volunteers, and for every book read we select one charity and donate funds to help vulnerable groups in accordance with the book theme picked.
2023 Spring
2022 Fall
2022 Spring
2023 Spring
Parent Effectiveness Training
Authors: Dr. Thomas Gordon
In the spring term of 2023, A.I.R. carefully selected the book “Parent Effectiveness Training” for its members. “Parent Effectiveness Training” (P.E.T.) is a simple and practical parenting training program created by American psychologist Dr. Thomas Gordon in 1962.
It introduces core concepts and basic skills to train parents. The concepts and skills enable them to develop their children’s conscious growth abilities through clear problem definition, active listening, complete expression, and conflict resolution methods that do not create winners or losers. Parents are also able to experience personal growth in the process, leading to harmonious family relationships…Continue Reading
2022 Fall
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Author: Carol S. Dweck
“Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” is a ground-breaking book written by psychologist Carol S. Dweck. In this book, Dweck identifies two primary mindsets that shape our lives: a “fixed mindset” and a “growth mindset”
People with a fixed mindset tend to believe that their intelligence and talents are static and unchangeable. …..Continue Reading
2022 Spring
A Lifetime of Learning
Author: J.Krishnamurti
A valuable education creates a strong foundation granting people the opportunity to experience life to the fullest. This gives one a chance to enjoy the process of life, while letting their skills and abilities fall into place. Proper education can further develop a mature mindset allowing them to set free and blossom in love and kindness….Continue Reading
2021 Autumn
Nonviolent Communication
Author: Marshall B. Rosenberg
A.I.R. – A co-learning magnetic field. The inception of co-learning is people, and the final realization of co-learning remains the same – people, the core answer of all.
We are a group of motivated individuals who are willing to let go of anxiety, in pursuit of happiness and learning. Driven with a desire for change and determination to continuously explore the path of development for fostering existing relationships around us.. Continue Reading
We are a group of motivated individuals who are willing to let go of anxiety, in pursuit of happiness and learning. Driven with a desire for change and determination to continuously explore the path of development for fostering existing relationships around us.. Continue Reading
2021 Spring
Lean In
Author: Sheryl Sandberg
Women, Work, and the Will to Learn is a best seller written by Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook. It reignites the world attention to gender issues. In the book, Sandberg put forward constructive suggestions to help women to achieve their goals, changing the conversation to what women can’t do to what they can.
In 2010, Sheryl Sandberg delivered a TEDTalk which went viral on the social media, describing the challenges confronted by women who intend to exert their leadership and how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their career path. In Lean In, she digs deeper into these issues. Through compelling data, personal stories and practical suggestions, Lean In illustrates a blueprint for women all over the world to develop their potentials.
Lean In has been translated into 34 languages, including Spanish, French and Chinese. Each translated version includes a preface written by renowned research institutes or world-famous women in that country.
At the moment when Ms. Sandberg published this book, she also founded LeanIn.org, a nonprofit organization, to carry out anti-gender bias activities and fight for more opportunities for women…..Continue Reading
2020 Fall
How Children Succeed
Author: Paul Tough
Paul Tough is an author, most recently known for The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us. His previous work includes How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, which was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback best-seller lists… Continue Reading
2020 Spring
Reading Club suspended due to the epidemic
2019 Fall
The Seven Principles For Making
Marriage Work
Author: John Gottman, Nan Silver
John Gottman, a leading research scientist on marriage and family, is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Washington, executive director of his laboratory the Relationship Research Institute, and cofounder of the Gottman Institute. He held an NIMH research scientist career award for twenty years… Continue Reading
2019 Spring
The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children
Author: Shefali Tsabary, Phd
Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D., was exposed to Eastern philosophy at an early age and integrates its teachings with Western psychology, having received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University in New York. This blend of East and West allow her to reach a global audience and establishes her as one of a kind in the field of mindfulness psychology for families… Continue Reading
2018 Fall
THE STRENGTH SWITCH: STRENGTH-BASED PARENTING CAN HELP YOUR CHILD AND YOUR TEEN TO FLOURISH
Author:Lea Waters
This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children’s strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. Most parents struggle with this shift because they suffer from a negativity bias, … Continue Reading
2021 Autumn
2021 Spring
2020 Fall
2020 Spring
2019 Fall
2019 Spring
2018 Fall
2021 Spring
Lean In
Author: Sheryl Sandberg
Women, Work, and the Will to Learn is a best seller written by Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook. It reignites the world attention to gender issues. In the book, Sandberg put forward constructive suggestions to help women to achieve their goals, changing the conversation to what women can’t do to what they can.
In 2010, Sheryl Sandberg delivered a TEDTalk which went viral on the social media, describing the challenges confronted by women who intend to exert their leadership and how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their career path. In Lean In, she digs deeper into these issues. Through compelling data, personal stories and practical suggestions, Lean In illustrates a blueprint for women all over the world to develop their potentials.
Lean In has been translated into 34 languages, including Spanish, French and Chinese. Each translated version includes a preface written by renowned research institutes or world-famous women in that country.
At the moment when Ms. Sandberg published this book, she also founded LeanIn.org, a nonprofit organization, to carry out anti-gender bias activities and fight for more opportunities for women…..Continue Reading
2020 Fall
How Children Succeed
Author: Paul Tough
Paul Tough is an author, most recently known for The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us. His previous work includes How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, which was translated into 27 languages and spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback best-seller lists… Continue Reading
2020 Spring
Reading Club suspended due
to the epidemic
2019 Fall
The Seven Principles For Making
Marriage Work
Author: John Gottman, Nan Silver
John Gottman, a leading research scientist on marriage and family, is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Washington, executive director of his laboratory the Relationship Research Institute, and cofounder of the Gottman Institute. He held an NIMH research scientist career award for twenty years… Continue Reading
2019 Spring
The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children
Author: Shefali Tsabary, Phd
Shefali Tsabary, Ph.D., was exposed to Eastern philosophy at an early age and integrates its teachings with Western psychology, having received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University in New York. This blend of East and West allow her to reach a global audience and establishes her as one of a kind in the field of mindfulness psychology for families… Continue Reading
2018 Fall
THE STRENGTH SWITCH: STRENGTH-BASED PARENTING CAN HELP YOUR CHILD AND YOUR TEEN TO FLOURISH
Author:Lea Waters
This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children’s strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. Most parents struggle with this shift because they suffer from a negativity bias, … Continue Reading