Resources for narrative therapy

The Bears

Innovative Resources is proud to announce the release of a brand new edition of this iconic card set that has already found a home in the tool kits of thousands of human service workers.

Our new Bear cards have even more charm, express a greater range of emotions and lookeven more human! Perfect for social workers, [...]

Bereaved Mother’s Heart

By Carla van Laar
Art Therapists, Grief and Loss Counsellors, Social Workers and anyone wanting to explore grief from a creative perspective, this deeply moving, but ultimately uplifting visual and written journal follows the psychological and emotional journey of Carla van Laar after the death of her three-year-old son, Vaughn. The [...]

Inside Out

…a journalling kit.
By Deb Western
Creative writing teachers, counsellors, educators and personal journal keepers: here is a wonderful tool for creative self-development and self-expression.
A wide range of topics, comments, thought-provoking ideas and illustrations are suitable for application across a wide range of journalling styles.
Published by Innovative Resources 2003, 32 laminated, full-colour [...]

Picture This

Looking for inspiring, evocative, high – quality, text – free images?
These 75 original, diverse and eclectic photographs offer opportunities for people of all ages to reflect on their experiences. Here is a powerful conversation – stimulant for oiling the juice of imagination, memory and emotions.
Some of these full – [...]

Signposts

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 [...]

Storm in a Teacup

By Chris Townsend
Primary and Secondary Teachers, Art Therapists, Environmentalists and Parents; here is a poem set to paintings that follows the journey of a tear that drops into a teacup, eventually finding its way out to sea and then falling as rain over the same young boy and his beloved grandfather who cried the tear [...]

Storycatching

Attention teachers, counsellors, youth workers and creative writing coordinators.
Here are 80 full-colour storytelling prompts for people of all ages. From classrooms to discussion groups; a family game to a therapeutic tool. Perfect for anyone who works with people who have a story to tell. Whatever the application, Storycatching provides opportunities [...]

Symbols

Symbols is a box of 100 evocative images that work as poems for the soul.
A symbol is a metaphor–something that means something else. Metaphors and symbols work as short cuts–cosmic ‘worm holes’ to understanding and feelings. Symbols is a set of simple, free-hand line drawings of everyday objects that can suggest [...]