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      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2020

        Der Spendenkomplex

        Das kalte Geschäft mit heißen Gefühlen

        by Alexander Glück

        Sicher ist: Angesichts wachsender Hungersnöte in vielen Regionen der Welt wird das Spenden neben politischen, ökonomischen Veränderungen wichtiger denn je. Nicht nur der jüngste Skandal um das Kinderhilfswerk UNICEF lässt viele Spender aber am Sinn des organisierten Massenspendens zweifeln. Zuviel Geld geht für Organisation und Akquisition von Spenden verloren, zu viele Spenden erreichen nicht ihr Ziel oder zementieren eine kolonialistische Ausbeutung. Alexander Glück, der selber einem Hilfswerk für rumänische Kinderheime zugearbeitet hat, untersucht aber nicht nur die zweifelhafte Effektivität vieler Spendenorganisationen, sondern genauso kritisch und aufschlussreich die Motive der Spender selber. Es geht um Emotionen und Reflexe (die von den Organisationen oft manipuliert werden), es geht um gönnerhafte Gesten, mit denen ein schlechtes Gewissen erleichtert wird, es geht um selbsternannte Samariter, bei denen demonstriertes Mitleid allein der öffentlichen Imagepflege dient, und es geht um den Schaden, den selbstherrliches und falsch organisiertes Spenden bei den Adressaten, den Hilfsbedürftigen, anrichtet. Das bedeutet aber keineswegs eine grundsätzliche Ablehnung des Spendens. Die sehr differenzierte, scharf argumentierende und mit konkreten Beispielen illustrierte Kritik der gegenwärtigen Spendenpraxis mündet vielmehr in konkreten Vorschlägen: Was muss sich ändern, damit Spenden wieder Helfen bedeutet ... Aktuelle, brisante Fragen: Wofür spendet man? Was geschieht mit den Spenden, wie wirken sie? Wie funktionieren und wie animieren Spendenorganisationen? Welche Motive begleiten das Spenden?

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        THE POWER OF SIX

        A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge

        by Philip Harland

        What is Emergent Self Knowledge, what are the Powers of Six, and what role do they play in self-development and therapeutic change? In this book by a leading authority in the field, you will learn a great deal that is new about psychology and the step-by-step practicality of change. If you are a coach, consultant, counsellor, health professional, psychologist, psychotherapist, psychiatrist, teacher or trainer – a facilitator of others – you will learn how to progress your clients more easily and safely. They will work through their traumas without being retraumatized and at the end of the day they will own their own process. They will heal themselves. When conventional commonsense or intelligence fail us, the Power of Six is a means of tapping into the reservoirs of our own wisdom.   Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and leading authority on Emergent Knowledge and the Power of Six, having worked closely on its development with the originator of the process, the innovative therapist David Grove. They co-facilitated many clients and ran seminars together in Britain, France and New Zealand.Philip is also the author of a definitive book on Clean Language: ‘Trust Me, I’m The Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor and the New Psychology of Change’ and three short Clean Language–related books ‘Resolving Problem Patterns with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor’, ‘Possession and Desire: working with Addiction, Compulsion and Dependency’ and ‘How The Brain Feels: working with Emotion and Cognition’; all published by Wayfinder Press.  For more on these books go to Amazon or to www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        HOW THE BRAIN FEELS

        Working with Emotion and Cognition

        by Philip Harland

        “Let my heart be wise. It is the gods’ best gift.”  Euripides Models of facilitation (therapy, counselling, teaching, coaching, health management, etc.) have rarely dealt with the inter-dependency of emotion and cognition. In the 1980s, NLP researchers developed the concept of the structure of emotion. Work in the 1980s on ‘Meta-States’ addressed the modulating of primary emotional states with cognitively-led meta-levels of feeling. Here Clean Language psychotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner Philip Harland explores the neuro-linguistic basis of Emotional Intelligence, relating recent work on the structure and relationship of emotion and cognition to innovative therapist David Grove’s work in Clean Language and Therapeutic Metaphor. Philip worked for many years with the late David Grove. They co-facilitated many clients together and ran seminars in Britain, France and New Zealand. Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. He is also the author of ‘Trust Me, I’m The Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor and the New Psychology of Change’; ‘The Power of Six: A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge; and the two short Clean Language–related books ‘Resolving Problem Patterns with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor’ and ‘Possession and Desire: working with addiction, compulsion and dependency’; all published by Wayfinder Press. For more on these books go to Amazon or to www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        POSSESSION AND DESIRE

        Working with Addiction, Compulsion and Dependency

        by Philip Harland

        Understanding and working with addiction, compulsion and dependency; a 6-part guide for addicts, enablers and therapists“Choosing the temporary discomforts of desire over the permanent discomforts of possession” Part I  VIOLENT PLEASURES ARE RELIEFS OF PAIN  Each one of us is prone to addiction or dependency to a greater or lesser degree. Part I is about understanding why this is so. Part II  SOME ADDICTIONS FEEL PHYSICAL, BUT ALL ADDICTIONS ARE MENTAL  Addiction is a subject for study. Addicting is something we do. Part II follows the bodymind process of becoming addicted as a basis for deciding where we wish to go next. PART III  THE PHYSICIAN’S PROVIDER  How as therapists and facilitators do we position ourselves in relation to addictive clients? How does language affect our beliefs and practices? Part III discusses the difference between intervening and interfering, and between conscious and unconscious outcome forming. It suggests a way to align ourselves with the client’s outcome and to activate change without resorting to supposition, interpretation or suggestion. PART IV  THE LIMIT OF DESIRES  As addicts we give energy to a system that encourages us to play victim and persecutor in turn. Part IV examines the differences between ‘quitting’ and ‘controlling’. The continuum of progression from simple desire to complex need to total possession is explored. PART V  ADDICTIVE CONTRADICTIONS  Part V deconstructs typically addictive double-binds and dualities, including the familiar dilemma of being caught between aversion (‘I must give up X’) and attraction (‘I can’t give up X’). Eight approaches to resolving duality thinking are identified and explained PART VI  AUDITING FOR X  Unscrambles haphazard approaches to client assessment and offers a systematic audit for facilitators of all kinds, including self-helpers, to assess addictions, compulsions, and dependencies and to work successfully with them through language as an alternative to medical means. The audit is arranged in four frames: person, possession, pattern, and preference:  Person: how much of the client is involved, and where?   Possession: what is the nature of the client's attachment?   Pattern: how do the client's life patterns and internal patterns relate?   Preference: what choices does the client have? Most of us can learn to move from addictive state to non-addictive state. Those uncertain about the path to take will find the aids to navigation here useful both theoretically and practically. We may all – addicts and enablers, therapists and clients alike – learn to deal with the occasional discomforts of desire rather than the permanent discomforts of possession. Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and author of ‘Trust Me, I’m the Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor, and the New Psychology of Change’; ‘The Power of Six, A Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge’; ‘Resolving Problem Patterns with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor’; and ‘How The Brain Feels: working with Emotion and Cognition’. All published by Wayfinder Press. For more on these books go to Amazon or to www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Health & Personal Development
        2014

        RESOLVING PROBLEM PATTERNS

        with Clean Language and Autogenic Metaphor

        by Philip Harland

        How can problem patterns be discerned, decoded and the information within them released? This guide has five parts: ‘What is as Pattern?’ ‘How Can Patterns be Discerned?’ ‘How Can Problem Patterns be Decoded?’ ‘How Can the Information Within be Released?’ and ‘Then What Happens: the Nature of Change’. At a time when psychoactive drugs are being prescribed more widely than at any time in history, it is more important than ever to educate ourselves about the alternatives. The drug-free resolution of problem patterns of behavior, feeling or belief is as important for health professionals to be able to facilitate as it is for their clients and patients to achieve. This guide has a bias towards the talking therapies – and in particular the radical new art of Clean Language – but its precepts and procedures are applicable to any area of human enquiry. New, more productive, patterns of behaviour, feeling and belief emerge through CleanLanguage modelling as the client identifies component parts of their perceptions, develops these in form, space, or time; elucidates key relationships between them; discerns patterns across the relationships and translates these patterns to their everyday lives. As a result it is the client, not the facilitator, who determines the significance of their perceptions. And as the system learns about its own organization, a context for self-generated change is created and it is the client, not the facilitator, who determines what needs to happen for the system to evolve.  Philip Harland is a Clean Language psychotherapist and author of ‘Trust Me, I’m the Patient: Clean Language, Metaphor and the New Psychology of Change’; ‘The Power of Six: a Six Part Guide to Self Knowledge’; ‘Possession and Desire: understanding and working with addiction, compulsion and dependency’; and ‘How the Brain Feels: working with emotion and cognition’; all published by Wayfinder Press, London England. For more on these books see Amazon and www.wayfinderpress.co.uk

      • Adult literacy guides & handbooks
        June 2013

        DYSLEXIA DISMANTLED

        A practical breakdown of the myths and realities of dyslexia

        by Laughton King

        Finally, an insightful, clear and practical breakdown of the realities of dyslexia, from the author’s own life experience. This exposition of the thinking, learning and living style that characterise the dyslexic individual is written equally for the educator, the parent and the struggling dyslexic himself. Eighteen myths dispelled, 61 personal characteristics outlined, and a raft of indicators examined, this book will help a large section of the population understand their own normality, their own intact and integrated thinking style, and allow them to take positive charge of their learning processes and their functioning in society. There is nothing wrong with their brain wiring, they are not deficient, they do not need medication. As a diesel motor differs from a petrol engine, the so-called ‘dyslexic’ differs from the non-dyslexic in a simple and rudimentary way. The Western world has a modern education system based around language as the prime learning tool – teaching, learning and assessment are typically language-based. The ‘dyslexic’ person is disadvantaged in this system, not only because is he a pictorial thinker, but because of a lesser capacity to use 'internal dialogue', he is unable to process the language-based education system at a competitive level.

      • Counselling & advice services
        January 1997

        Assertiveness

        A Practical Approach

        by Clare Ward, Stephanie Holland

        This highly successful title offers an opportunity for professionals from all backgrounds to develop an understanding of assertiveness. which has been shown to be therapeutically advantageous for all kinds of client groups and can be useful in many contexts. It is a highly practical working manual from which you can apply the principles of assertiveness both to yourself and to your clients. Contents: Behaviour types Being assertive Our right to be assertive Owning our feelings Refusing and requesting Self respect Criticism & conflict Sexuality The assertive option Clinical application.

      • Counselling & advice services
        July 2008

        Big Book of Blobs

        by Pip Wilson, Ian Long

        A photocopiable collection of blob pictures to promote discussion. These blob pictures offer a unique way to initiate discussion about all sorts of issues and subjects. They are organised into themes and scenarios that include: Places - beach, cinema, cliff, concert, disco, homes, playground, staffroom, village Issues - bullying, death, disaster, divide, fame, families, feast, money, parents, protests, romance, sleep, talk, water safety, world Occasions - Christmas, Easter, football, lecture, nativity, Olympics, skateboarding Personal Development - body, caged, caring, doors, leaps, river, rock, shadows, valley, vertigo. Each picture is accompanied by ideas and questions to kick-start class, group or one-to-one discussion. Complete book included on accompanying CD Rom.

      • Psychology
        May 2012

        The Key to a Loving & Lasting Relationship

        by Dr. Sonja H. Snyman

        What makes some couples achieve happy long-lasting relationships, while others, try and try but do not?  The human quest for a successful long-term relationship has produced a plethora of hypotheses, psychological theories and a lot of popular advice about how to improve relationships.  This book is about how to forge a successful, lasting relationship by accepting and practising the good-enough paradigm. Psychologists, counsellors and individuals are offered a new way of understanding and looking at relationships.  A new perspective shows how to leave old hurts behind, how to understand destructive behaviour patters and how to gain new insights into whether one is trapped in the blame game or in sabotaging behaviour.  One will learn that no relationship has a fairy-tale ending.  One will also come to realise that by accepting a relationship as being "good-enough", it will be one of the most liberating and empowering shifts that one will ever make.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2022

        願陪着你

        從遺書中尋找預防自殺的啟示

        by 葉兆輝、張鳳儀 編

        在過去二十年,香港不幸地有約二萬人死於自殺,受影響的遺屬可能超過十數萬人。我們一直堅守「尊重生命,自殺輕生者一個都嫌多」的使命,透過與遺屬的接觸,以及研讀逝者遺下的說話,努力尋找可預防自殺的方法,盼望與讀者並肩作戰,一同成為身邊人的守護者,跟他們承諾「願陪着你」,陪伴彼此面對生命的挑戰。   這是一本助人自助的務實手冊,運用數據分析和闡述了香港過去二十年的自殺情況,並透過改編故事,展示了與自殺事件有關的啟示,為防止自殺工作奠下基礎。

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