This book describes the distinctive style of human service delivery known as the strengths approach and details the ideas, values, beliefs, tools and frameworks that help create respectful ways of working with people.
Pivotal to the strengths approach is the principle of genuine collaboration between people - "power with". This dynamic principle acknowledges that people are the experts on their own lives and they can, and should, drive their own change process. Also fundamental is the understanding that everyone has strengths and that mobilising these strengths is the key to finding creative and sustainable solutions.
Lighthouse Resources and Kyabra Community Association has played an important role in promoting this approach via delivering strengths based workshops, consultancy and supervision and highly recommend this wonderful resource.
Author Wayne McCashen will be facilitating The Strengths Approach Workshop, July 30 - August 1, 2012 at Lighthouse Resources.
*Life: A Guide*, a new book by psychologist and author Andrew Fuller, explores this question: Have you ever wondered why some people seem glide through life relatively trouble free while others repeat the same damn patterns over and over again? When people said to you "it's just a stage of life" they were right. Andrew Fuller has spent the last ten years having conversations with over 10,000 people about their lives. The times of delights and opportunity and the times of turmoil and struggle share many similarities. In fact... More info
Eat, Drink, and Be Mindful is a new tool for dealing with the age-old problem of mindless overeating. The author currently uses this workbook with clients in her Mindful Eating Support Groups. The book is a collection of more than seventy worksheets she has created. The workbook is organized around the seven skills of mindful-eater-awareness: observing, being in-the-moment, acceptance, letting go, non-judgment, and mindfulness of the environment. Each worksheet is one to two pages. This concise, easy-to-use guide is great for introducing people to mindful eating. More advanced mindful eaters... More info
The Aware Baby marks a major breakthrough in our understanding of babies needs from conception to 2½ years of age. Now translated into Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish, it has sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and contributed to a revolution in parenting around the world. This revised edition includes new research and insights from Aletha Solter's extensive experience as a consultant and international workshop leader. The author discusses the attachment needs of infants, which are best met by close physical contact, breast-feeding, and prompt responsiveness to crying.... More info
