This best-selling book is an easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and practices of narrative therapy with accessible language, a concise structure and a wide range of practical examples. This book covers a broad spectrum of narrative practices including externalisation, re-membering, therapeutic letter writing, the use of rituals, leagues, reflecting teams and much more. If you are a therapist, health worker or community worker who is trying to apply narrative ideas in your own work context, this book has been written with you in mind.
***SPECIAL OFFER*** Was $15.95, now only $12.95 A favourite at Lighthouse Resources! Ramon loves to draw - until his older brother Leon tells him that his drawing doesn't look right. Ramon is devastated, until his little sister Marisol reveals a secret gallery of his work. She loves the ishness of his drawings. Ramon is inspired to draw and write and live ishfully ever after. Peter Reynolds shines a bright beam of light on the need to kindle and tend our creative flames with care. More info
The changes we seek for our lives rarely happen 'out of the blue'. We ourselves have to 'do' the change we seek. With a few surprisingly simple strategies and suggestions, we can be proactive change-agents for ourselves and for others. Originally published under the title 'Healing the Whole Person', this classic text by Rob McNeilly, a pioneer in the field of solution-orientated therapy, is not only for therapists and counsellors, but also for educators, social workers, parents, couples, and anyone interested in bringing about change by doing things differently.... More info
Integrating strategic problem-solving, and emphasis on stories and the cultural context of meaning, this book introduces the theoretical stance of semiotic constructivism. Its main argument, illustrated in engaging cases, is that all experience is a construction of signs, and that symbolic forms such as language, myth, ritual and drama create and shape our realities, and provide useful tools for encouraging therapeutic change. More info
