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Book Description
Designed as a practical desktop reference, this book is the largest collection of hypnotic suggestions and metaphors ever compiled.
Customer Reviews:
A great reference tool.......2007-08-12
I'm an avid collector of hypnosis books because I am a professional hypnotist always on the lookout for more techniques. This book is a wonderful reference book for novices and advanced hypnotists on all levels. The beginning starts with dos and don'ts of hypnosis, as well as "if...then" and "when...then" and "as this happens, this will happens" phrases for later referencing. The end of the book has a large selection of hypnosis scripts for everything from relieving pain to self-confidence to helping cancer patients. You name it, it's in this book.
I've used this book so many times, I've lost count. It really is a valuable MUST-HAVE book that any serious hypnotist should own. It's well worth it.
great to deal with.......2007-01-16
Every thing was exactly as described, with prompt delivery. Could'nt imagine better than this.
The Hypnotists Desk Reference.......2006-06-15
I am a professional hypnotherapist in private practice. This book was one of my first purchases when I began studying hypnosis. It is essential to anyone interested in the field of hypnotism - from the beginner to the advanced. 5 years of private practice and I still refer to it often.
one of rhe best books out there in Hypnosis.......2005-12-14
A must have if you pratice Hypnosis. A classic!
Great find!.......2005-09-09
This book is full of many different suggestions, comments & information. It covers many, many different topics/issues people are going to hypnotherapists for help with. It is well worth the money to invest in your future as a hypnotherapist.
The book is hard cover, with over 600 pages. I began using it within a few days with 2 clients of mine. The suggestions I used out of the book were very helpful & worked very well.
Denise
Book Description
Step-by-step guide to creating compelling, memorable presentations
A chart that once took ten hours to prepare can now be produced by anyone with ten minutes and a computer keyboard. What hasn't changed, however, are the basics behind creating a powerful visual - what to say, why to say it, and how to say it for the most impact. In Say It With Charts, Fourth Edition --the latest, cutting-edge edition of his best-selling presentation guide -- Gene Zelazny reveals time-tested tips for preparing effective presentations. Then, this presentation guru shows you how to combine those tips with today's hottest technologies for sharper, stronger visuals. Look to this comprehensive presentation encyclopedia for information on:
* How to prepare different types of charts -- pie, bar, column, line, or dot -- and when to use each
* Lettering size, color choice, appropriate chart types, and more
* Techniques for producing dramatic eVisuals using animation, scanned images, sound, video, and links to pertinent websites
Customer Reviews:
Say It with charts.......2007-08-27
Very good as a quick guide for building presentations based on data and charts, but a little more information about when to use it type of chart would be very usefull
Getting the point across.......2006-03-02
As an equity analyst, consultant, and communication specialist, I saw - and made - dozens of colorful presentations with the best charts that excel can draw that simply didn't work.
After the failed presentation, a consultant or analyst who knows how to get his point across will draw a simple diagram or chart on a white board that will be far more convincing and effective than the entire PowerPoint presentation.
This book is for the person who wants to get point across.
Consider it part of a broad business education.......2005-10-25
When one considers the amount of time/money they spend on improving their job skills, it would seem obvious that a high-value read like 'Say it with Charts' would be worth some consideration. It provides a framework for using charts to your advantage- and not just within oral presentations. If anything, this book will increase your willingness to use charts to your advantage when selling an opinion. It forces the user to think about exactly what it is they are trying to say - and then produce a professional looking chart to relay that message.
Any edition will do - the content will not change with the times. The underlying principles can be quite powerful and can be the difference between a simple presentation and one which elicites praise.
Say It With Charts: The Executive's Guide to Visual Communication .......2005-10-24
The book is tremendous for anybody who wants to a make a presentation effective by making it easy to understand.
helpful - nothing more need be said.......2004-05-04
Full disclosure - I used to work at IBM and as an entry level consultant with an MBA there the first thing you are is the .ppt whipping post. That being said, the IBM training program covers many of the concepts from this book. Why?? Simple, they work. Is it the be all and end all? No. The only thing that can help you assemble good content is practice, practice, practice - with a healthy dose of constructive criticism from someone that knows what they are talking about. I just got through a days worth of presentations last Friday to one of the most senior technology people at a major government agency. All I can say is that I really, really, really wish that the people presenting before and after me had taken 5 mintues to review this book before getting in front of that crowd - it would have prevented some spectacular flamouts.
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The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.
In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.
Customer Reviews:
A little obvious.......2007-07-23
The book's focus is on the fact that many of the sayings we use in daily life can be seen as metaphors for more literal explanations. For example it takes a chapter to explain how we feel that "up" is "good" and "down" is "bad." It is not really a book for reading. It is a philosophical look at language. If you like 200 pages of explaining how the saying "You're the top" is a metaphor for about the top being better than the bottom than this is the book for you.
in opposition to the other reviews.......2007-06-01
After reading the other reviews, I feel obliged to opine about the book. I am a philosophy student. I generally introduce myself as a logician, but on the philosophy side. My areas of interest in philosophy are language, mind, epistemology, and metaphysics.
This book, as witnessed by the previous reviews, has a strong impact on readers. I agree with this sentiment. However, I disagree with the other sentiments that are expressed by the other reviewers. The other reviewers take the conclusions that the authors come to on face value. However, they fail to see some of the logical consequences of their view. For instance, the authors seem to be committed to what in philosophical circles is called anti-realism. This position can be boiled down to the claim that there is no external world; that may be a little harsh, but I feel that it expresses the overall point of anti-realism. the authors are committed to this position because they argue that truth, which is usually taken to be a correspondance between our statements and the facts, coherence between our statements, or some variation of pragmatism, is dependent upon metaphorical structuring of our experiences and the metaphorical concepts fittting together. This seems suspiciously circular; our metaphors and the sentences they ground are true when they fit together with the experiences that are structured by those very metaphors. we are never coming in contact with the world as is. there is always a metaphor between us and the world (except, of course, in our primitive concepts, one wonders why if primitive concepts, like up-down, front-back, can be conceptualized from experience alone, other concepts cannot be as well).
On another topic, when considering what a metaphor is, we understand that a metaphor puts two different and distinct things into a "X is B" relationship. For instance, "love is a journey." However, not all sentences of the form "X is B" are metaphors; for instance, "humans are mammals". Some, for example, are definitions. How can we tell the definitions from the metaphors? The only way is to know that the two objects in the metaphor are, in fact, different and distinct. This, however, involves conceptual understanding of the two objects apart from the metaphor. Thus, the concept has to be formed prior to the metaphor; the metaphor does not structure or ground the concept.
All in all, as a logician, I found the book to be distressing. The authors never really gave enough conclusive evidence to convince me that our conceptual system is metaphorical. In fact, the more I read the more I was convinced that their scheme presupposed a non-metaphorical conceptual scheme. However, I would recommend the book, but not in isolation. Don't indoctrinate yourself. If you read this, read something in support of the opposing position (I wish I could direct you to something here, but I have not done much research on the responses to Lakoff and Johnson). Hear all the arguments before you make a judgement as to whether our conceptual system is metaphorical.
A step upwards in understanding cognition.......2007-05-30
Metaphors are to language as building materials are to construction.
That is the point of this book which -- being written at the tail end of the 1970s -- presciently predicted the findings of evolutionary psychology that would follow within the next twenty years.
Specifically, writers Lakoff and Johnson understood that language wasn't merely spiced by the occassional metaphor but actually enabled by them. In this way, spacial allusions and other physical comparisons inform languages ability to describe abstract phenomenon.
Do you follow my argument?
Are you in an opposing camp?
Do these sentiments bring you up?
Do they enlighten you?
The various manifestations of our choice of metaphor become in their own way our choice of reality.
The thoughts outlined in this book have been largely confirmed by research in evolutionary psychology which has shown that our language centers borrow heavily from cerebral material that originally was pressed into service for understanding spacial relationships. So understood, this book therefore raises interesting questions about the nature of how we cognate and properly followed up also tells us much about our propensity to religiously ideate, our politics and other faith choices in general.
For use in college philosphy course........2006-12-28
This book reads like a text book or graduate thesis. Those with short attention spans need not pick up this book. While it did make some enlightening points on the pervasiveness and necessity of metaphors in our thought process, the book then trudges on for about another 100 needless pages.
The basic point of the authors is that; "...we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of metaphors." In the process they get quite wordy and go through lengthy explanations including one long discourse on why we understand a sentence to be true. It tests your self-discipline to keep reading.
The last 40% of the book then dives into a lenghty debate of objectivism vs. subjectivism and the presentation of their experientialist alternative. The authors present and then continue to rehash their arguments in a debate against a nameless opponent: the evil objectivist. There is some lip service paid to the less evil subjectivist.
I did gain a new understanding of the importance of metaphors in our language and thought, but not much else that I wanted to learn. The information that I found useful could have been presented in a much shorter form, perhaps a white paper.
Unintended consequences..........2006-09-18
So, I picked up this book awhile ago thinking that it would be a good survey of one part of linguistics. Yes, it is that. BUT, after reading several chapters, I discovered an unintended consequence, or perhaps an unexpected consequence. Since of the several reviews I read, no one addressed this isse, I thought I would.
Simply put: This book has improved my writing and the impact of my writing. Now, I might normally hit upon the perfectly crafted sentence eventually, but this book highlights so many issues in language that I believe it will help sooner and more effectively. Not like a style manual or how-to-write book, but in the context of the metaphor, the subtle implications of the sentence and the inferences readers might make from its construction. This is pretty exciting.
Many reviewers evaluate the book from a far more intellectual perspective than I, but for the more pragmatic of you that think it can have this unintended consequence, it might be just right for you. At the same time, your grasp of this concept will have a much stronger framework and structure bringng happiness to the linguistic engineers in the crowd. And your language will improve with cool words or phrases like "homonymy", "metonymies", or "experiential gestalt". So I am not that literate.
So enjoy, it is a very nice, informative read!
Book Description
This intriguing book examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced for the past fifty years. With their distinctive colors, thoughtful compositions, and narrative, these miniature creations reveal the emergence and continuity of the artist’s approach to her work. Internationally recognized for her mastery of a textile vocabulary of extremely different scales—sculpture, tapestry, site specific commissions for public spaces, environments of recuperated clothing and uniforms, and more—Hicks has thoughtfully crafted miniatures throughout her nomadic career. The palm-sized works present a record of her remarkable and personal journeys.
Focusing on some one hundred miniatures from public and private collections, the book demonstrates the breadth of Hicks's concerns: her persistent inquiry into the mysteries of color, her playful yet reverential subversions of weaving traditions, her surprising range of materials, and her exploration of new technology. From initial experiments based on pre-Columbian weaving structures to a 2005 sculptural project using ninety colors of synthetic filaments, these small works offer a unique opportunity to access and examine the artist's conceptual and technical forays. The volume includes informative essays by Arthur C. Danto, Joan Simon, and Nina Stritzler-Levine as well as illustrations of the artist’s working tools, related drawings, photographs, and chronology.
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By weaving practical insights and exercises through a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and folktales, Anita Johnston helps the millions of women preoccupied with their weight discover and address the issues behind their negative attitudes toward food.
Customer Reviews:
Gain Light and Insight.......2007-08-23
"Eating in the Light of the Moon" is hands down the best book on disordered eating I have yet to read, because it sheds light on the painful struggle with uplifting, inspiring storytelling. Johnston's soft, delicate voice will weave you through tales of distant lands which somehow bring you to the shore of self-discovery. This book does use psychology as the basis for its generalizations, but I never found it to be too preachy. Like saying good-bye to your favorite characters at the end of a novel, you will not want this story to end. It is one giant affirmation, and I recommend it especially to women who long to reclaim their hidden or lost feminine.
This book is wonderful.......2007-07-28
For people who want to recover from an eating disorder this book is a must for your library. It is conforting, interesting and soulful. It prompts the inner self to open its mouth and get ready to be fed what will truly nourish you.
An eating disorder can be a catalyst to your growth as a person if you surrender to it with awareness and be open to its teachings. This book can help you do that. When you really know what you need besides behaviors of an eating disorder then you can go about the task of learning and working in partnership with life to create what you are really wanting and desiring.
If you are new in recovery this book helps open the door to the deeper self and prepares you for a journey. If you are already in recovery and want another affirming voice to add to your support system, this book will help.
truly helpful book.......2007-07-10
this book was an EXTRAORDINARY experience....it was almost as if I was having a 1:1 therapy session with a psychologist. What a fantastic exploration into an isolated world of eating disorders where no one really knows what it is like until you have been there. This book really gets to the meat of what is underlying an eating disorder. Having experienced this myself, it was nothing short of a incredible awakening as to revealing why I do what I do. Highly recommended
Worth a Re-read, especially if the first time was hurried........2007-06-05
I am currently reading this book for the second time, immediately following a treatment program for disordered eating and bulimia. This book is an incredible source of inspiration, and a real beacon of light for those who are not currently in a therapy program.
I admit, the first time I looked through this book I was put off and uninterested in it because of the "mother earth, sacred feminine" tone in the first few pages. In retrospect, I am not sure that it was the point of view that wasn't my style as much as the fact that my ED was in charge of my rational mind, telling me that I was just fine and the book was stupid.
I recommend purchasing this book if you have read "Life with ED" or "Don't Live It, Diet" or some memoirs of those with EDs, because it is a totally different perspective. It isn't as easy to read as the "Life with ED", and it isn't a work book. It isn't a sad story about ED that will be triggering. Rather, it is a book divided into easy to read chapters that comfort the spirit and affirm recovery.
Thanks Dr. Johnston for such a creative and caring book.
great book about emotional eating.......2007-05-15
This is one of the best books I have ever read about emotional eating. The author is clear, easy to understand, and compassionate. She provides a mix of thoughtful and pragmatic info. I strongly recommend this book!!!!
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Reading the Bible Again for the First Time is Marcus Borg's follow-up to Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time. Like his earlier book, this one is written for lay people whose faith has been frustrated by their misapprehension that fundamentalism's claim to be the one true faith is valid. Borg, a professor of religion at Oregon State University, describes an alternative to fundamentalists' so-called "literal" readings of scripture. (He believes that such "literal-factual" readings do not live up to that description, and that the limitations of such readings have alienated many people who would otherwise remain part of the church.) Borg calls his alternative "historical-metaphorical" reading, a way of "taking the Bible seriously without taking it literally." Reading the Bible begins with a history of recent conflicts regarding biblical interpretation. Borg navigates the minefields of his subject with sensitivity and precision, explaining, for example, the important distinction between evangelical and fundamentalist readings of the Bible. He then offers historical-metaphorical readings of some key texts from both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Throughout, Borg writes with calm assurance and respect for those who would disagree with him. Reading the Bible is a credible guide to the project it names. It is a faithful exercise of reason, undertaken to help Christians hear more clearly the many voices recorded in the Bible. --Michael Joseph Gross
Book Description
One of the vital challenges facing thoughtful people today is how to read the Bible faithfully without abandoning our sense of truth and history. Reading the Bible Again for the First Time provides a much-needed solution to the problem of how to have a fully authentic yet contemporary understanding of the scriptures. Many mistakenly believe there are no choices other than fundamentalism or simply rejecting the Bible as something that can bring meaning to our lives. Answering this modern dilemma, acclaimed author Marcus Borg reveals how it is possible to reconcile the Bible with both a scientific and critical way of thinking and our deepest spiritual needs, leading to a contemporary yet grounded experience of the sacred texts.
This seminal book shows you how to read the Bible as it should be examined—in an approach the author calls "historical-metaphorical." Borg explores what the Scriptures meant to the ancient communities that produced and lived by them. He then helps us to discover the meaning of these stories, providing the knowledge and perspective to make the wisdom of the Bible an essential part of our modern lives. The author argues that the conventional way of seeing the Bible's origin, authority, and interpretation has become unpersuasive to millions of people in our time, and that we need a fresh way of encountering the Bible that takes the texts seriously but not literally, even as it takes seriously who we have become.
Borg traces his personal spiritual journey, describing for readers how he moved from an unquestioning childhood belief in the biblical stories to a more powerful and dynamic relationship with the Bible as a sacred text brimming with meaning and guidance. Using his own experience as an example, he reveals how the modern crisis of faith is itself rooted in the misinterpretation of sacred texts as historical record and divine dictation, and opens readers to a truer, more abundant perspective.
This unique book invites everyone—whatever one's religious background—to engage the Bible, wrestle with its meaning, explore its mysteries, and understand its relevance. Borg shows us how to encounter the Bible in a fresh way that rejects the limits of simple literalism and opens up rich possibilities for our lives.
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"Special e-book features: This PerfectBound e-book contains an exclusive interview with Marcus Borg and in-text hyperlinks to each of his notes and to key passages in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. One of the vital challenges facing thoughtful people today is how to read the Bible faithfully without abandoning our sense of truth and history. Reading the Bible Again for the First Time provides a much-needed solution to the problem of how to have a fully authentic yet contemporary understanding of the scriptures. Many mistakenly believe there are no choices other than fundamentalism or simply rejecting the Bible as something that can bring meaning to our lives. Answering this modern dilemma, acclaimed author Marcus Borg reveals how it is possible to reconcile the Bible with both a scientific and critical way of thinking and our deepest spiritual needs, leading to a contemporary yet grounded experience of the sacred texts. This seminal book shows you how to read the Bible as it should be examined -- in an approach the author calls ""historical-metaphorical."" Borg explores what the Scriptures meant to the ancient communities that produced and lived by them. He then helps us to discover the meaning of these stories, providing the knowledge and perspective to make the wisdom of the Bible an essential part of our modern lives. The author argues that the conventional way of seeing the Bible's origin, authority, and interpretation has become unpersuasive to millions of people in our time, and that we need a fresh way of encountering the Bible that takes the texts seriously but not literally, even as it takes seriously who we have become.
Customer Reviews:
Review of M.Borg's Reading the Bible Again for the First Time.......2007-09-09
This is just an excellent book, especially for those who find traditional expressions of Christianity empty and hollow. Professor Borg states that one's experience of God today is (can be) as real as some of the stories in the Bible relate. Readers concerned about social justice and the marginalization of our poor and disabled will find the chapter on the (Hebrew) Prophets particularly interesting.
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time.......2007-07-12
In reading several of Borg's books, I find them all inviting, easily read, yet thought provoking. With this particular book, I found a wealth of information that literally changed my view of the Bible. Rather than disputing areas of the Bible, Borg adds understanding and depth with a sensitive treatment of subjects at hand. This is one of my favorite books to be given as gifts for Christians and non-Christians.
learning about the bible.......2007-07-06
i have read this book twice myself and now have sent it to friends. i think it helps you know the bible and its history without getting an agenda like you do trying to read other books written about the bible. Borg writes in an easy style and not above your head. i would recommend this book highly to anyone.
Nice to know what I learned in graduate school is still good........2007-03-31
I studied the Bible in seminary over two decades ago thought I did not go into the ministry. My "Old Testament" professor was a rabbi. This book reinforces what I learned all those years ago. While I do not agree with every conclusion the author draws I do think he is on the right track.
One of the most interesting things Marcus Borg says is that no matter what something in the Bible means now, it had to mean something to the writer at the time. While Revelations may say something to us today, understanding what it says as applying to a society that would not exist for over two thousand years as if it was only a prediction that far in the future makes no sense.
Spiritual Enlightenment.......2007-01-15
Reading the Bible for The First Time is a wonderful book for anyone seeking a deeper meaning to the scriptures through a historical and metaphorical perspective. I've found it truly enlightening and intellectually stimulating.
Book Description
Using folktales and other metaphoric stories can aid the healing process
Just as stories have the power to enrich our lives, shape the way we perceive and interact with the world, and reveal the wonders of the human spirit, so too can they play an important and potent role in therapy-helping people develop the skills to cope with and survive a myriad of life situations. 101 Healing Stories celebrates the rewards of using parables, fables, and metaphors in therapy as a nonthreatening means to help clients discuss problems and consider possible solutions.
George W. Burns examines the healing value of using metaphors in therapy and provides 101 inspirational story ideas that therapists can adapt to share with clients for effecting change. He explains how to tell stories that engage the client, how to make them metaphoric, and where to find sources for such tales. Burns also shows readers how to build stories from personal experiences or their own imagination to use in session, making this thoughtful book an especially creative therapeutic tool.
Contains 101 stories grouped by desired therapeutic outcome, highlighting each story's applicability to a variety of presenting problems
Offers talking points for therapists such as speciÞc insights, outcomes, or skills that are illustrated by the stories
Features shaded tabs that index stories by therapeutic outcome for easy reference and selection
Customer Reviews:
Amazing.......2005-08-02
Stories are very good specially if you have people & want to tell them something.
good for trainers as closing story, for friends....
For therapists, for psycologists...
An excellent collection of Ericksonian metaphors.......2002-10-19
Dr. Milton H. Erickson often worked his "magic" by telling metaphorical stories to his patients. The construction of such effective metaphors has sometimes been difficult for Ericksonian hypnotherapists. Burns addresses this issue by affording the reader a collection of 101 therapeutic metaphors. For each story, the problems addressed, resources developed, and outcomes offered are listed.
Equally important is Burns' explanation of how to use these stories. Reading a story verbatim from this book is less likely to be effective than telling a modified version of a story so that it is isomorphic with the client's experience. Burns provides a list of do/don't reminders that are almost essential in enabling the reader to utilize therapeutic metaphors successfully.
If you enjoyed Tales of Enchantment, you will also love this excellent reference and instructional guide.
Customer Reviews:
Always have a story to tell.......2005-03-15
I was going to buy the book by George Burns who wrote 101 healing metaphors. I read portions of that book, and the stories I read were excellent.
More recently I was listening to a conference call with Kenrick Cleveland, an NLP sales pioneer. During this call they mentioned Therapeutic Metaphors by David A. Gordon, and how good this book was, a must read. Then they said something that made me decide to buy this book.
When you tell a story, the listener identifies with the lead character in the story, in essence believing the character is them. Can you imagine how powerful a story you can tell, knowing the listener is identifying with the main character, and how this can be applied either to sales or relationships.
I remember telling a female friend a story about how a friend of mine made a judgmental comment about woman who was overweight. She said she felt terrible because if that's what happens to this woman, then what does that say about peoples perception of her. I said this story is not about you, and jokingly said why does everything have to be about you? She laughed and agreed. Another example is fairy tales where girls identify with the princess, and boys identify with the Prince.
So, when I heard this conference call this was an ah ha moment for me. There is much instruction in this book about how to construct healing metaphors, and some examples.
I read one story in this book, and it had such visual impact that as I read it I felt I was there as this story was unfolding. That is how strong the imagery is. I do strongly recommend this book for any aspiring writer or storyteller. After all, good storytelling is all about getting and sustaining the listener or reader's attention, and giving them a memorable experience, while getting your message across.
My first foray into this field was the Erickson story book, My voice will go with you, which I highly recommend. If you have an interest in this field this book is a must, because these are case studies from the master himself.
The Gordon book breaks down the technique in more detail, teaching you how to use metaphor powerfully.
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This book explains the secrets of story telling capabilities.......1998-07-31
Virginia satir and Milton Erickson were great story telles. Using NLP technology, David analyzed these skills and combined the results in this book.
David Gordon was around in Santa Cruz when NLP was "invented" by Bandler & Grinder, yet he choose to focus on a different aspect, thus giving us some more material to learn from. This book is about building metaphors, improving upon them using elements that come from early NLP-research, and using them. In short,it is a complete guide to become another Milton Erickson or Virginia Satir yourself, or at least as far as story telling will bring you. You'll learn to use representation systems, submodalities and Satir categories to enhance your story.
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A comprehensive guide to understanding and using storytelling in therapy with kids and teens
"George Burns is a highly experienced clinician with the remarkable ability to create, discover, and tell engaging stories that can teach us all the most important lessons in life. With 101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens, he strives especially to help kids and
teens learn these life lessons early on, providing them opportunities for getting help and even learning to think preventively."
-Michael D. Yapko, PhD | Author of Breaking the Patterns of Depression and Hand-Me-Down Blues
"George Burns takes the reader on a wonderful journey, balancing metaphor, good therapeutic technique, and empirical foundations during the trip. Given that Burns utilizes all three aspects of the Confucian story referred to in the book-teaching, showing, and involving-readers should increase their understanding of how stories can be used therapeutically."
-Richard G. Whiteside, MSW | Author of The Art of Using and Losing Control and Working with Difficult Clients: A Practical Guide to Better Therapy
"A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields."
-Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD | Director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation
Stories can play an important and potent role in therapy with children and adolescents-helping them develop the skills to cope with and survive a myriad of life situations. In many cases, stories provide the most effective means of communicating what kids and teens might not want to discuss directly.
101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens provides straightforward advice on using storytelling and metaphors in a variety of therapeutic settings. Ideal for all who work with young people, this unique resource can be combined with other inventive and evidence-based techniques such as play, art, music, and drama therapies as well as solution focused, hypnotic, and cognitive-behavioral approaches. Offering guidance for new clinicians and seasoned professionals, George Burns's latest work delivers a unique combination-information on incorporating storytelling in therapy, dozens of ready-made stories, and tips for creating original therapeutic stories.
Innovative chapters include:
- Guidance for effective storytelling
- Using metaphors effectively
- Where to get ideas for healing stories
- Planning and presenting healing stories
- Teaching parents to use healing stories
In addition, 101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens includes dozens of story ideas designed to address a variety of issues, such as:
- Enriching learning
- Teaching self-care
- Changing patterns of behavior
- Managing relationships, emotions, and life challenges
- Creating helpful thoughts
- Developing life skills and problem-solving techniques
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This much-anticipated companion to the popular 101 Healing Stories: Using Metaphors in Therapy artfully guides the reader through the effective therapeutic process of storytelling with children and teens. In 101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens, George Burns provides pragmatic advice and detailed guidelines to presenting oral,visual, and play-based metaphors in therapy and offers techniques for working with child-generated metaphors as well as demonstrating how to create your own healing stories for children and adolescents. Professionals working with young people in any setting will find this book to be a powerful therapeutic tool.
Customer Reviews:
V. Good.......2005-08-02
Its nice,
Stories are verygood for children specially if you want to tell them something, or change something in there behaviour.
For therapists, for psycologists, parents...
deserve to have it in your home or office library to use when needed.
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