Dante in his Study – A fresco by Luca Signorelli in the Cathedral of Orvieto.

So I have succumbed to the self-publishing bug.  And it’s been quite interesting exploring the Amazon/Kindle ecosystem and learning about how this domain works.  And also wildly annoying in terms of how the two giants: Apple (iPads etc…) and Amazon (Kindle) are battling it out for supremacy in the e-book stakes with each promoting more or less proprietary formats and using contracts that lock you into a particular platform etc… ugh.  Nasty.

Anyway…

This humble little missive I’ve written is called ‘Psychology for Activists’ and is the result of a long summer of thinking and writing, and going back to revisit some of the key insights provided by my degree.  Specifically, during the course of my degree I kept on stumbling across things that I wished I had known ‘back in the day’ when I was more directly involved in activism and lying in front of bulldozers.  So this piece of writing is an attempt to get in one place a whole bunch of important findings from the Psych domain that may be of some use for activists.  A lot of this little book is focused on messaging and communications, but it also talks about attitude change, behaviour change (and the gulf between them), minority influence and a little on the ‘so-hot-right-now’ narrative models of attitude change.

It’s available from Amazon and I’ve locked myself into a promotional stint with them for the next three months – so that’s the only place you can get it for that period.  I’ve also been considering offering a presentation based on this – but with more detail, excercises, multi-media etc… Interested?  Hit me up.

In the meantime – have a read for a mere $2.95 and let me know what you think.  Either here or on Amazon.

Thanks.