Find Your Power by Johnstone Chris
Addressing personal and planetary issues, "Find Your Power" describes how to strengthen your ability to bring about positive change. Drawing on insights from addictions recovery, positive psychology, storytelling and holistic science, it includes proven strategies for improving mood, building strengths and increasing effectiveness.The first part of the book introduces motivational enhancement tools that help you become clearer about your direction and more inspired to move that way.The second part offers tools for getting through blocks by looking at creative problem solving strategies, ways of dealing with fear and methods for transforming crisis or failure into turning points.The third part explores how to keep yourself going in the marathon of longer term change by strengthening support around you, tapping into purposes bigger than yourself and making what you do more enjoyable.The tools described can be used for any kind of change, from tackling depression and improving your life through to addressing world issues like peak oil and climate change.
This brilliant and practical book is a call to liberation: it frees us to discover, use, and enjoy the powers life has given usJoanna Macy, Author, World As Lover World As Self
With a background in medicine, psychology and groupwork, Dr. Chris Johnstone is a specialist in the psychology of positive change. After working for many years as an addictions specialist in the UK health service, he now focuses on teaching, training and writing. Chris has been active in the Transition movement, contributing to a chapter on the psychology of change in The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins. He has pioneered the application of the positive psychology approach in health-care, within organisations and in adult education. He edits the online newsletter The Great Turning Times. For more information, see www.chrisjohnstone.info.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781856230506 |
| ISBN 10 | 1856230503 |
| Title | Find Your Power |
| Author | Johnstone Chris |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hyden House Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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