Relate to Others with Confidence

<P>This guidebook is designed to increase readers’ social resilience and assertiveness in response to minority stress. It highlights the need for belonging and community building and a safe collaborative and peaceful coexistence with our diverse pluralistic cultures.</P><P>The LGBTQIA+ Peacemaking Book Project offers two guidebooks <I>Feel Secure in Yourself </I>and <I>Relate to Others with Confidence</I> and twelve e-resources self-published by each set of chapter coauthors. The chapter coauthors are scholars clinicians and/or community leaders with differing and sometimes politically opposing viewpoints. They collaborated to find common ground reduce prejudice and improve LGBTQIA+ health and self-development for a wide range of readers. </P><P>These self-help resources are written for the general public and can be used by academics clinicians researchers religious leaders parents and other providers who want to learn updated and integrated ideas and skills about sexuality gender race and ethnicity faith and purpose of life emotional health resilience and relationships. This book project is a social experiment of bridge-building and hope to empower readers with identity and skill development and to reduce the side-taking that impairs growth. </P>