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, [...]
By John Holton
Carers, Social Workers and Social Work Educators, Counsellors and Chaplains; There are hundreds of thousands of people across Australia who care for someone with a mental illness. Caring is a delicate balancing act like no other. But how many of us really know the carers’ stories and understand [...]
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 [...]
Mental Health Professionals, Therapists, Psychologists and Social Workers: here is a mental health monitoring tool suitable for use with all ages.
Growing Well cards are built around key statements that research has shown are important indicators of mental health and balance. Accompanying each statement is a ’scale’ using simple illustrations of [...]
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 Ben Furman
Primary and Pre-School Teachers, Early Childhood Workers, Psychologists and Parents: here are solution-focused approaches adapted especially for children. This radical book is based on the notion that practically all problems can be seen as skills that need to be developed. The book is buzzing with ideas, stories and suggestions to inspire adults and [...]
Need some really good company? Meet Australia’s favourite marsupial in every kind of mood.
A great bunch of 50 cartoon koala characters for talking about feelings. Each circle-shaped card brings us up close and personal with a very expressive koala face. Which koala are you today? The mad, glad or just plain [...]
Attention teachers, chaplains, social welfare coordinators and anyone wanting to build insight into the vital role friendship plays in the maintenance of good mental health.
This engaging resource is ideal for: identifying and developing positive social skills; naming the characteristics of real friendship; building positive communication and celebrating individuality and [...]
Created specifically for Child Psychologists, Counsellors, School Welfare Officers, Social Workers, CASA staff and International Social Workers, My Feelings is a set of cards for assisting children to identify, talk about and understand the importance of emotions and body signals in building protective behaviours.
Delightful watercolour illustrations are the main aspect [...]
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 Gena McLean
Many of us surround ourselves with sticky notes, scraps of paper, or lists of things we want to remind ourselves to do on a day-to-day basis. Note to Self is a set of 24 stunning cards created by local author, Gena McLean, and designed by Castlemaine artist, Robyn Spicer. [...]
Attention Psychologists, Social Workers, Counsellors and Educators. Each of the 30 cards in this elegant little set creates a window into change, new possibilities and fresh ways of thinking. Key questions focus on goals, possibilities or strategies.
Published by Innovative Resources 2004. Author: Selina Byrne, Designer: Tim Lane 30 laminated, 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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
Designed for Mental Health Workers, Social Workers, Educators, Psychologists and Therapists.
From evaluating the effectiveness of a program to mapping sensitive personal responses to noticing change, The Scaling Kit is a versatile measurement tool that is simple to use and suitable for myriad applications. The simple illustrations in The Scaling Kit [...]
By Allan Kellehear and David Ritchie
Grief and Loss Counsellors, Social Work Educators, Teachers and anyone in need of a reality check: here is a brave, insightful and–believe it or not–lively opportunity to enter the experiences of seven people who know they are dying. This inspiring collection is based on interviews with seven Australians who are [...]
Psychologists, social workers, counsellors and adult educators will find this powerful set of watercolour images can invite their clients or students to reflect on their experiences and explore the meaning of ’shadows’ in their lives.
This resource acknowledges that pain and suffering (such as grief, loneliness, depression, loss and violence) often [...]
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 [...]
For Teachers, Tutors, Mentors and Trainers. Sometimes Magic is a set of 32 thought-provoking cards designed to explore the fascinating variety of ways individuals learn. Sometimes, magic does happen when we understand what works for us and can articulate our needs more clearly.
Published by Innovative Resources 2001. 32 laminated, full-colour cards, [...]
Describing feelings is at the heart of emotional literacy and therapeutic work.
Meet 52 quirky, engaging, happy, sad, afraid, shy, joyful and just plain outrageous “stone” characters – characters who wear their feelings all over their not-so-stony faces. On the back of each card are three possible words to help build a [...]
Psychologists, social workers, teachers, student welfare coordinators, chaplains and counsellors: here is a product perfect for identifying, naming and celebrating inherent strengths, qualities and abilities. Using vibrant illustration and gentle humour, this clever but simple card set is a strengths-based resource designed specifically for primary school aged children with the intention of nurturing emotional intelligence [...]
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 [...]
Most of us spend a great deal of our lives being part of one team or another: at school, in the community, in clubs, in sport and at work.
‘Strengths in Teams’ is a set of 30 lavishly illustrated, full-colour cards depicting a zany and delightfully whacky circus. Except this circus looks very [...]
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