By Kevin Vallence
Consultants, Leaders, Managers and Trainers, this one’s for you!
As autocratic and heirarchical management styles are challenged, how do staff participate meaningfully and usefully in new structures and step up in ways that are positive for both the organisation and individual?
Change by Design uses questions to challenge us to [...]
By Wayne McCashen
Social Workers, Community Leaders, Mental Health Professionals: here is a step-by-step blue-print for a ’strengths-based’ approach to community capacity building as developed by St Luke’s Anglicare (Bendigo, Australia). Contains a three-day workshop and 39 handouts to guide people as they create resilient, flexible, well-connected communities. Author: Wayne McCashen
Published by Innovative Resources 2004. Softcover, [...]
Generate meaningful, therapeutic conversations with older clients or family members.
Age of Adventure is a photograpy-based set of cards depicting adventurous older Australians living their lives to the full. It is versatile and clever enough to operate as a speech therapy tool, a conversation prompt, a challenge to sterotyping of older community [...]
By Jennifer Lehmann
Ideal for Social Workers and Social Work Educators, these stories explore the sometimes heart-wrenching struggles and dilemmas of everyday lives. How do social workers and other professionals respond? The insightful questions that accompany the stories will prompt conversations about values, choices and the way society cares.
Author: Jennifer Lehmann. Published by Innovative Resources 2003.Softcover, [...]
By Wayne McCashen
Human Resources Managers, Community Leaders, Social Workers, Team Leaders: here is a unique kit of cards for inspiring exploration of the insidious nature of prejudice; identifying and naming the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation (or team) and insight about socially-just decision-making.
Published by Innovative Resources 2001, 32 full-colour, [...]
By Russell Deal & Simone Silberberg
Our Scrapbook of Strengths can be used with families, community groups, work teams, support groups, school children, and pretty much any other gathering of people.
It provides an opportunity to acknowledge and recognise the existing strengths and to identify ways in which these strengths can contribute to [...]
If you are serious about working towards a more just society here is a set of cards to inspire discussion and debate.
Topics and questions address personal and corporate responsibility in the face of constraint, discrimination and disadvantage. They also challenge us to create conditions that build hope, respect and fairness.
Published by [...]
Chaplains, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counsellors: how do you build conversations about meaning? Spirituality? Connectedness? Transformation?
Here is a set of cards based on original photographs that will inspire exploration of the importance of purpose and belonging in our everyday lives. This tool is not based on a particular theology or philosophy [...]
By Wayne McCashen
A practical guide to the Strengths Approach for Social Workers, Psychologists, Counsellors and anyone who works with people. The Strengths Approach as a model shifts focus from power-over to power-with; from deficits to capacities; from expert-focussed to the-client-as-expert. Author, Wayne McCashen, clearly and comprehensively describes the ideas, values, beliefs, and frameworks that help [...]
Talking Up Our Strengths is a set of 22 stunning photomontage cards that celebrate the strengths and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
As well as being a visual feast, Talking Up Our Strengths is a catalyst for inspiring conversations and storytelling in schools, communities, groups, social work settings, board [...]
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