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Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
by Dev Patnaik Peter MortensenPatnaik, founder and principal of Jump Associates, a growth strategy firm, notes that all people have the instinct to walk in other people's shoes, to empathize--but somehow, particularly in the world of business, that instinct gets lost. The author, also an educator, offers advice on how companies and individuals can regain their empathy, and what the payoffs are when they do. The author interviewed representatives of major manufacturers from Zildjian to IBM, politicians, farmers' markets conventions during the course of his research for this book.
Wired to Connect: The Surprising Link Between Brain Science and Strong, Healthy Relationships
by Leigh Ann Hirschman Amy BanksResearch shows that people cannot reach their full potential unless they are in healthy connection with others. Dr. Amy Banks teaches us how to rewire our brains for healthier relationships and happier, more fulfilling lives. <P><P> We all experience moments when we feel isolated and alone. A 2006 Purdue University study found that twenty-five percent of Americans cannot name a single person they feel close to. Yet every single one of us is hardwired for close relationships. The key to more satisfying relationships--be it with a significant other, a family member, or a colleague--is to strengthen the neural pathways in our brains that encourage closeness and connection. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Banks give us a road map for developing the four distinct neural pathways in the brain that underlie the four most important ingredients for close relationships: calmness, acceptance, emotional resonance, and energy. Four Ways to Click gives you the tools you need to strengthen the parts of your brain that encourage connection and to heal the neural damage that disconnection can cause.
Wired to Create
by Scott Barry Kaufman Carolyn GregoireIs it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity? Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman's groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire's popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the "messy minds" of highly creative people. Revealing the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, along with engaging examples of artists and innovators throughout history, the book shines a light on the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking. Kaufman and Gregoire untangle a series of paradoxes-- like mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration - to show that it is by embracing our own contradictions that we are able to tap into our deepest creativity. Each chapter explores one of the ten attributes and habits of highly creative people: Imaginative Play * Passion * Daydreaming * Solitude * Intuition * Openness to Experience * Mindfulness * Sensitivity * Turning Adversity into Advantage * Thinking Differently With insights from the work and lives of Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Proust, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Edison, Josephine Baker, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, musician Thom Yorke, chess champion Josh Waitzkin, video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and many other creative luminaries, Wired to Create helps us better understand creativity - and shows us how to enrich this essential aspect of our lives. From the Hardcover edition.
Wiring the Streets, Surfing the Square: Producing Public Space in the Mediated City (The Urban Book Series)
by Timothy JachnaThis book investigates the production of public space in contemporary urban contexts as conditioned by the suffusion of urban life with digital technologies. A “social production of technology” approach is taken to frame the digitally-mediated city as a communal social and cultural project. Acknowledging the multivalent and shifting nature of public space and the heterogeneity of the urban actors who form it, the “agency” of these different actors in appropriating digital technologies takes center stage. The dynamics of negotiations between regimes of control and impulses towards freedom and experimentation, the entanglement of the spatial commons and the digital commons, changes in the notions of what constitutes membership in a public or counterpublic, and evolving relationships between the various individuals and groups who share and constitute public space, are all revealed in different actors’ appropriation of digital technologies in the formation of public spaces and the conducting of public life in cities.The book is divided into two sections. Drawing on classic and contemporary scholars on public space, and on digital culture, Section I explores the implications of the convergence of these bodies of knowledge and lenses of critique and examination on the present urban condition, establishing a conceptual foundation upon which public space discourse is brought to bear on an interrogation of the “wired” or “mediated” city. Structured by the core concepts that underlie Hannah Arendt’s notion of agency in the constitution of the public sphere, Section II is devoted to discussing, and demonstrating through myriad concrete examples, how different “affordances” of digital technologies are implicated in the production of public space and in the interplay between urban governance and control, urban life and citizenship, and urban commodification. The topics in this book are of broad and current international relevance, and will appeal to scholars and students in architecture, urbanism, design, sociology, and digital culture.
Wirksame Führung bedeutet Haltung zeigen: Im Einklang aus innerer & äußerer Haltung zur authentischen Führungspersönlichkeit reifen. Eine Einführung (essentials)
by Oliver DreberDieses Buch ist eine Einführung in den Themenkomplex der Führung durch Haltung. Es bietet eine pragmatische Anleitung zur Selbstreflexion mit dem Ziel der Persönlichkeitsentwicklung. Theoretisches Grundlagenwissen zu Persönlichkeit & Führung wird mit neurowissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen aus dem Embodiment und aktiven Körperwahrnehmungsübungen kombiniert. Ganz nach dem Motto des Autors: „Raus aus dem Kopf, rein in den Körper.“.Empathie, bedürfnisorientierte Kommunikation, aktives Zuhören, Integrität, Loyalität, Kreativität, Resilienz & Achtsamkeit sind nur einige der new work soft skills, die für erfolgreiche Führung immer bedeutsamer werden. Doch kaum einer wird mit all diesen Sozialkompetenzen geboren. Wir müssen uns diese im Laufe unserer persönlichen Entwicklung meist erst erwerben. Wenn wir das tun, bildet sich Schicht um Schicht eine individuelle Persönlichkeit. Im Zuge dieser Reifung entstehen auch unsere Haltungen. Eine Haltung ist nicht nur ein mentales Konstrukt (innere Haltung), sondern findet immer auch Niederschlag in einer äußeren Haltung (Körperhaltung). Erst wenn innere wie äußere Haltung miteinander korrespondieren, kann eine authentische und damit wirksame Führungspersönlichkeit entstehen.
Wirtschaftspsychologie für Bachelor (Springer-Lehrbuch)
by Christian FichterDie Wirtschaft ist heute nicht mehr ohne das Fachwissen der Psychologie zu verstehen! Dieses Lehrbuch gibt einen kompakten und doch vollständigen sowie praxisnahen Überblick über die Wirtschaftspsychologie. Es ordnet die Disziplin historisch ein und bietet eine ebenso kurzweilige wie interessante Darstellung aller relevanten Kernthemen. Durch viele Praxisbezüge, Definitionen, Lernziele, Kontrollfragen und Hinweise auf vertiefende Literatur ist es sehr lernfreundlich gestaltet, zusätzlich fasst eine ausführliche Randspalte das Wichtigste zusammen. Eine Begleitwebsite auf www.lehrbuch-psychologie.springer.com bietet zahlreiche Zusatztexte, Lern-Tools für Studierende sowie Dozentenmaterialien.
Wirtschaftspsychologie für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Ulrich WalbrühlAuch in der Wirtschaft hängt der Erfolg in erster Linie von den Menschen ab. Somit ist die Psychologie die Wissenschaft der Wahl, für jeden der in der Wirtschaft erfolgreich sein möchte. Daher führt Ulrich Walbrühl Sie in die Wirtschaftspsychologie ein. Er erklärt Ihnen Differentielle, Allgemeine und Sozialpsychologie so, dass Sie sie auch ohne psychologische Vorkenntnisse verstehen werden. Auch praktische Anwendungen wie Personal-, Organisations- und Marktpsychologie kommen nicht zu kurz. So ist dieses Buch das richtige für Sie, egal ob Sie sich für das Studium, den beruflichen Alltag oder aus persönlichem Interesse mit Wirtschaftspsychologie beschäftigen.
Wirtschaftspsychologische Grundlagen für Personalmanagement: Fach- und Lehrbuch zur modernen Personalarbeit
by Michael TreierEine moderne Personalarbeit kann es sich in Anbetracht der Herausforderungen der Arbeit 4.0, des demografischen Wandels und Fachkräftemangels nicht leisten, Personal nur zu verwalten, denn der Mensch avanciert zum Potenzial- und Wertschöpfungsträger. Personalarbeit transformiert sich deshalb zum Gestalter mit dem erklärten Ziel, das organisationale Verhalten des Personals zielgerichtet zu beeinflussen. Personalmanagement und Wirtschaftspsychologie treten dabei als Gespann auf, um die knappen und wertvollen Humanressourcen im Spannungsfeld zwischen ökonomischen und sozialen Zielen zu erhalten und zu fördern. Viele „Nicht-Wirtschaftspsychologen“ im Personalbereich stehen vor der Herausforderung, psychologische Methoden und Instrumente in ihr Aufgabenportfolio zu integrieren. Dieses systematisch und didaktisch klar aufgebaute Fach- und Lehrbuch greift die Herausforderung auf, wirtschaftspsychologische Themen im Personalmanagement entlang der Wertschöpfungskette der Personalarbeit theoretisch fundiert und praxisnah zu platzieren. Auf jeder Station der Personalarbeit - von der Planung bis zur Freisetzung - werden Ihnen personalwirtschaftliche Grundlagen und wirtschaftspsychologische Bausteine vorgestellt, anschaulich erklärt und verknüpft. Zu den Herausforderungen der Zeit wie Digitalisierung, flexible Arbeitszeitmodelle und Wertewandel bietet es Ihnen hilfreiche Beispiele und Tipps. Zusätzlich gibt es Arbeits- und Informationsmaterialien Online zum Download.Die Zielgruppen Personalverantwortliche, Führungskräfte und Berater sowie Wissenschaftler und Studierende im Bereich Personalmanagement und Wirtschaftspsychologie, die Personal als wertschaffende Ressource wertschätzen. Der AutorProf. Dr. Michael Treier lehrt an der Fachhochschule für öffentliche Verwaltung NRW in den Bereichen Personal, Organisation und Psychologie. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt im Demografie- und Gesundheitsmanagement. Als Berater betreut er Unternehmen der Privatwirtschaft und Organisationen im öffentlichen Sektor.
Wisdom Won from Illness
by Jonathan LearCan reason absorb the psyche’s nonrational elements into a conception of the fully realized human being? Without a good answer to that question, Jonathan Lear says, philosophy is cut from its moorings in human life. He brings into conversation psychoanalysis and moral philosophy, which together form a basis for ethical thought about how to live.
Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy
by Christopher GermerBringing together leading scholars, scientists, and clinicians, this compelling volume explores how therapists can cultivate wisdom and compassion in themselves and their clients. Chapters describe how combining insights from ancient contemplative practices and modern research can enhance the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, substance abuse, suicidal behavior, couple conflict, and parenting stress. Seamlessly edited, the book features numerous practical exercises and rich clinical examples. It examines whether wisdom and compassion can be measured objectively, what they look like in the therapy relationship, their role in therapeutic change, and how to integrate them into treatment planning and goal setting.
Wisdom from the Couch
by Jennifer KunstA useful guide to understanding the mysteries of the mind and how we can change for the better.How can it be that perfectly intelligent people do such obviously counterproductive things so much of the time? Why do we do the things we know we shouldn't do, and why do we fail to do the things we know we should do? The simple answer to these questions is that the unconscious mind greatly influences all that we do, and this is the basis for the psychoanalytic idea that insight leads to change.Written by an experienced clinical psychologist with a knack for describing complex ideas in a lively and easy to comprehend way, Wisdom from the Couch will change the way you think about your internal and external life. Jennifer L. Kunst, PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Pasadena, CA. She is a senior faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Center of California in Los Angeles, where she has served as chair of the Curriculum and Continuing Education Committees. She is also an adjunct associate professor at the Graduate School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. She writes a blog on psychologytoday.com, A Headshrinker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn: The Game of Life, The Power of the Spoken Word, Your Word Is Your Wand, and The Secret of Success
by Florence Scovel ShinnHere in one volume are the four collected works of one of America's most beloved and best-selling inspirational authors. In her classic best-seller The Game of Life, Florence Scovel Shinn reveals the timeless message that has helped thousands to solve their problems. You can create anything you want simply by aligning your thoughts and words with the perfect good that resides divinely within you. Combined with the powerful affirmation found in Your Word Is Your Wand and the stirring examples of real-life successes in the other two volumes, The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn provides a complete guide for learning how to turn defeat into victory, lack into prosperity, fear into faith, and resentment into love.
Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land
by David Mas MasumotoIt was when David Mas Masumoto's father had a stroke on the sprawling fields of their farm that the son looked with new eyes on the land where he and generations of his family have toiled for decades. Masumoto -- an organic farmer working the land in California's Central Valley -- farms stories as he farms peaches. In Wisdom of the Last Farmer, an impassioned memoir of revitalization and redemption, he finds the natural connections between generation and succession, fathers and children, booms and declines as he tells the story of his family and their farm. He brings us to the rich earth of America's Fruit Basket, under the vine trellises and canes where grapes are grown, and to the fruit orchards flush with green before harvest, where he uncovers and preserves the age-old wisdom that is fast disappearing in our modern, information-driven world -- and that is urgently needed in this time of food crises and social disruption. Masumoto sees the price the family has paid to grow complex heirloom peaches -- when the market rewards tasteless, big, and red fruits -- and the challenges of maintaining traditions and integrity while working in the modern, high-pressure agricultural marketplace. As his father's health declines along with the profitability of the family farm, Masumoto has the further hard work of nursing his father back to health -- becoming master to the teacher who once schooled him -- and is driven beyond economic concerns to even larger questions of life, death, and renewal. In his gorgeous, lyrical prose, Masumoto conjures the realities of farming life while weaving in the history of American agriculture over the past century, encapsulating universal themes of work along with wisdom that could be gleaned only from the earth. By the end of the workday, he understands the feeling of accomplishment when you've done your best...and discovers that it's when he lets go -- of both his father and control of nature -- that wisdom manifests itself. And, when Masumoto's daughter intends to return to the family farm, hope is found in the generations. In the quiet eloquence of Wisdom of the Last Farmer, you will see how your own destiny is involved in the future of your food, the land, and the farm.
Wisdom of the Path: The Beautiful and Bumpy Ride to Healing and Trusting Our Inner Guide
by Yasmine Cheyenne“Yasmine reminds us that no matter what happens in our lives, we can decide to put one foot in front of the other, choosing to begin again. This book will inspire, motivate, and encourage all who read it.” –Tunde Oyeneyin, New York Times bestselling author of Speak, motivational speaker, and Peloton instructor A roadmap to self-healing and tapping into our inner wisdom when we need it most, from mental wellness advocate, self-healing educator, and author of The Sugar Jar Yasmine Cheyenne. “When I decided to stop hiding in the shadows of what I’d been through and embrace the hills and rugged terrain of my life, I saw who I really was and loved her.” —FROM THE EPILOGUEWe’re each walking our own journey, and sometimes it's a hard one: a divorce, a career change, grief, or a major life transition. These chapters of our lives can leave us feeling lost and overwhelmed thinking, “How did I end up here?” Most often, the answers we tell ourselves make us feel either stuck on the path or stuck in shame. We are uncomfortable with the discomfort that life inevitably presents.But another possibility is that we allow this question to spark curiosity that inspires and invites us to keep going, step by step, until we arrive on the other side of our journey.Wisdom of the Path helps you:Have more patience with yourself during strugglesGather the lessons and wisdom of your past to courageously face new untraveled roads aheadStand in your power and create the future you desireEmbrace that each journey—good and bad—has informed our core wisdom.Wisdom of the Path weaves stories of grief, heartbreak, joy, and overcoming that invite you to gather the wisdom you’ve collected throughout your life and use it for your path ahead. Anchored in four guideposts: base camp, intent, walk the talk, and lessons learned, this soulful and warm storytelling guide encourages us to embrace the bumpy roads of our lives with knowledge and knowing that we’re moving forward.
Wisdom of the Psyche: Beyond neuroscience
by Ginette ParisThe first edition of Wisdom of the Psyche engaged with one of the main dilemmas of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy: how to integrate findings and insights from neuroscience and medicine into an approach to healing founded upon activation of the imagination. In this revised edition, Ginette Paris re-focuses her attention on the modern lack of desire to become adult and updates the book with brand new neuroscientific research. Paris uses cogent and passionate argument, as well as stories from patients, to demonstrate that the human psyche seeks to destroy relationships and lives as well as to sustain them. She makes clear that the way out of those destructive states does not start with an upward, positive, wilful effort of the ego, but with an opening of the imagination, and aims to foster the dialogue between psychotherapists and neuroscientists. In clear and accessible language, Paris describes how depth psychology can be seen as a subject of the humanities rather than the sciences, and explains how gaining an understanding of neuroscience will not necessarily make us psychologically wiser.A unique and powerful book, Wisdom of the Psyche will be fascinating reading for Jungian and depth psychologists, psychotherapists, analysts and others in the helping professions, as well as students and those in training, and readers with an interest in psychology and neuroscience who want to create an inner life worth living.
Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy: Beyond Evidence-Based Practice
by Susan Pease BanittWisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy focuses on the creation of the therapist as healing presence rather than technique administrator—in other words, how to be rather than what to do. Trauma survivors need wise therapists who practice with the union of intellect, knowledge, and intuition. Through self-work, therapists can learn to embody healing qualities that foster an appropriate, corrective, and loving experience in treatment that transcends any technique. This book shows how Eastern wisdom teachings and Western psychotherapeutic modalities combine with modern theory to support a knowledgeable, compassionate, and wise therapist who is equipped to help even the most traumatized person heal.
Wisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy: Beyond Evidence-Based Practice
by Susan Pease BanittWisdom, Attachment, and Love in Trauma Therapy focuses on the creation of the therapist as healing presence rather than technique administrator—in other words, how to be rather than what to do. Trauma survivors need wise therapists who practice with the union of intellect, knowledge, and intuition. Through self-work, therapists can learn to embody healing qualities that foster an appropriate, corrective, and loving experience in treatment that transcends any technique. This book shows how Eastern wisdom teachings and Western psychotherapeutic modalities combine with modern theory to support a knowledgeable, compassionate, and wise therapist who is equipped to help even the most traumatized person heal. Chapters: Chapters 2 and 3 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience
by Stephen S. HallA compelling investigation into one of our most coveted and cherished ideals, and the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of this timeless virtue. We all recognize wisdom, but defining it is more elusive. In this fascinating journey from philosophy to science, Stephen S. Hall gives us a dramatic history of wisdom, from its sudden emergence in four different locations (Greece, China, Israel, and India) in the fifth century B. C. to its modern manifestations in education, politics, and the workplace. We learn how wisdom became the provenance of philosophy and religion through its embodiment in individuals such as Buddha, Confucius, and Jesus; how it has consistently been a catalyst for social change; and how revelatory work in the last fifty years by psychologists, economists, and neuroscientists has begun to shed light on the biology of cognitive traits long associated with wisdom--and, in doing so, begun to suggest how we might cultivate it. Hall explores the neural mechanisms for wise decision making; the conflict between the emotional and cognitive parts of the brain; the development of compassion, humility, and empathy; the effect of adversity and the impact of early-life stress on the development of wisdom; and how we can learn to optimize our future choices and future selves. Hall's bracing exploration of the science of wisdom allows us to see this ancient virtue with fresh eyes, yet also makes clear that despite modern science's most powerful efforts, wisdom continues to elude easy understanding.
Wisdom: The Psychology of Wise Thoughts, Words, and Deeds
by Robert J. Sternberg Judith GlückThe world is simultaneously facing many crises that humanity is failing to solve. Yet, at the same time, humans are smarter (with IQs on average thirty points higher than a century ago) and more knowledgeable (with the world's knowledge base at our fingertips), and scientific advances are accelerating. However, intelligence and knowledge are not enough: wisdom harnesses these strengths to serve the common good. Education is focused on acquiring knowledge, but schools would do better also to teach and test for the development of wisdom. To a lot of people, wisdom is an abstraction, but there is a growing body of scientific research into what wisdom is and how it works. This introduction sets out why wisdom is so important. Drawing on insights from psychology, philosophy, science, and common sense, this book provides a complete account of wisdom and how we can develop it throughout our lives.
Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgment
by Allan GibbardThis book examines some of the deepest questions in philosophy: What is involved in judging a belief, action, or feeling to be rational? What place does morality have in the kind of life it makes most sense to lead? How are to understand claims to objectivity in moral judgments and in judgments of rationality? When we find ourselves in fundamental disagreement with whole communities, how can we understand out disagreement and cope with it? To shed light on such issues, Alan Gibbard develops what he calls a "norm-expressivstic analysis" of rationality. He refines this analysis by drawing on evolutionary theory and experimental psychology, as well as on more traditional moral and political philosophy. What emerges is an interpretation of human normative life, with its quandaries and disputes over what is rational and irrational, morally right and morally wrong. Judgments of what it makes sense to do, to think, and to feel, Gibbard argues, are central to shaping the way we live our lives. Gibbard does not hesitate to take up a wide variety of possible difficulties for his analysis. This sensitivity to the true complexity of the subject matter gives his treatment a special richness and depth. The fundamental importance of the issues he addresses and the freshness and suggestiveness of the account he puts forward, along with his illuminating treatment of aspects of sociobiology theory, will ensure this book a warm reception from philosophers, social scientists, and others with a series interest in the nature of human thought and action.
Wise Decisions: A Science-Based Approach to Making Better Choices
by James E. Loehr Sheila Ohlsson WalkerA concrete and hands-on method for improving your everyday decisions Every 15 minutes, each of us can make ten or more small decisions. Some of them are relatively inconsequential, while others can change the course of our lives. What if you could improve all of your decisions, across the board, and start to build a healthier, more productive, and meaningful life? In Wise Decisions: A Science-Based Approach to Making Better Choices, a team of accomplished industry experts delivers an evidence- and research-based blueprint for making the best decisions you can with the information you have. You’ll learn to make the targeted, repeated investment of energy required to turn your decision-making process into one informed by reason, emotion, intuition, and science. In the book, you’ll discover: How to put the decision-making process under a microscope and learn what makes a decision truly wise Ways to help children, teens, and families make wise decisions How to train yourself to make wise decisions with voice training and other strategiesA can’t-miss resource for parents, teachers, coaches, managers, executives, and other business leaders, Wise Decisions also offers timeless advice and guidance for anyone else hoping to improve the decision-making abilities of the people close to them.
Wise Highs: How To Thrill, Chill, And Get Away From It All Without Alcohol Or Other Drugs
by Alex J. PackerEven though all of these people have been rewarded with the "high of giving" for helping me with this book, I would still like to thank them for their advice, support, and expertise. Beth Seiser, Director of Curriculum at FCD Educational Services, Inc., for her invaluable help in conceptualizing the book, researching healthy highs, tracking down resources, and reviewing the manuscript;
Wise Therapy (The School of Psychotherapy & Counselling)
by Tim LeBonIndependent on Sunday October 2nd One of the country′s leading philosophical counsellers, and chairman of the Society for Philosophy in Practice (SPP), Tim LeBon, said it typically took around six 50 minute sessions for a client to move from confusion to resolution. Mr LeBon, who has ′published a book on the subject, Wise Therapy, said philosophy was perfectly suited to this type of therapy, dealing as it does with timeless human issues such as love, purpose, happiness and emotional challenges. `Wise Therapy, is part of a series aimed at promoting an integrative attitude as its ethos. Among all the many perspectives of psychotherapists and counselors, philosophy needs to take its place and needs to find its voice. Tim LeBon has provided an effective means by which counselors can bring philosophy into their work with clients′ - APPA journal `Tim Le Bon′s Wise Therapy is a comprehensible and well argued book dealing with the practical therapeutic applications of philosophical research that may well be of interest to philosophers but -- as the author himself intends -- will be of most obvious benefit to therapists and counselors, both by informing their dialogue with clients in new ways and by helping them become more informed about ways to resolve the ethical dilemmas arising within the context of their own work′ - Metapsychology `A fascinating workshop for therapists and clients, backed up a thorough degree if philosophical acuity′ - Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis `I strongly recommend the book for philosophers as well as practitioners, teachers, students and supervisors in counselling and psychotherapy′ - Self and Society `Provides some additional and valuable arrows for the therapist′s quiver′ - Irvin Yalom, author of Love′s Executioner `Like Aristotle, Tim LeBon examines what is said and extracts what is best from it…. There are many fascinating exercises designed to bring out and enlighten the client′s values, conception of the good life, well-being, happiness, pleasure, and the proper place of reason in life…. Wise Therapy is well written and engaging. The case histories are illuminating examples of therapeutic techniques at work, the thought experiments are well designed, and the philosophical position adapted from the internal debates of the philosophers is level headed…. I recommend it highly to philosophers with an interest in counselling, and psychological counsellors with an interest in philosophy′ - Jeff Mason, The Philosophers′ Magazine `Tim LeBon has… authored a text which should become a staple on the philosophical counsellor′s bookshelf…. Wise Therapy is a concise, well-written book…. His ability to relate philosophical concepts to counselling concerns is admirable and attests to the skill and knowledge he possesses as a working counsellor. But, by far the most important part of Tim LeBon′s book to PC is the last chapter, "The Counsellor′s Philosophical Toolbox"′ - Craig Munns in The Examined Life ` Tim LeBon has done a good job of offering practical approaches to some of the most important and vexing issues that arise in counselling…. Tim LeBon′s book contains helpful suggestions, practical information, and useful examples, and would make a good addition to the library of any counsellors willing to allow philosophy to turn mere client sessions into wise therapy′ - Peter Raabe, Practical Philosophy Wise Therapy is an original and practical guide to how philosophy can benefit counselling and psychotherapy. Tim LeBon argues that therapy, informed by philosophy, can help clients make better decision and achieve emotional wisdom. He uses philosophical approaches to explore issues of right and wrong, the emotions and reasons, well-being and th
Wise Women: Myths and stories for midlife and beyond
by Sharon Blackie Angharad WynneAn unforgettable collection of retold myths and folk tales celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond, from the award-winning author of Hagitude'An extraordinary selection of stories ... beautifully and vividly retold' TLS'Read it, absorb it, treasure it!' SHAHRUKH HUSAIN, author of The Virago Book of Witches'A fascinating collection of female myths and legends' SARA SHERIDAN, author of The Fair BotanistsFrom early childhood, we learn about the world and its possibilities through myths and fairy tales. The heroines, though, tend to be golden-haired princesses, and the evil-doers often older women. But women today are searching for positive versions of themselves from midlife onwards, and this dazzling array of not-to-be-messed-with characters - from ungainly giantesses and sequin-strewn fairy godmothers to misunderstood witches and craggy crones - provides them. They outwit monsters, test and mentor younger heroines, embody the cycles and seasons of the earth, weave the world into being - and almost always have the last laugh.These women manifest their wisdom in different ways, and so offer us inspiration for how we too can walk boldly and live authentically in the second half of life.'Wonderful, both comforting and inspiring' VICTORIA SMITH, author of Hags'The book I've been longing for' JILL DAWSON, author of The Bewitching'I adored Wise Women - this is the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle when it comes to reframing the narrative in our culture about the role of older females' ELEANOR MILLS, author of Much More to Come: Lessons on the mayhem and magnificence of midlife 'Reading it quenched a thirst I didn't know I had. Oh for a world where stories of the power and joy of women's elder years are celebrated everywhere' DOREEN CUNNINGHAM, author of Soundings'Revisits our old stories, making them thrilling for us now' STELLA DUFFY OBE
Wise Women: Myths and stories for midlife and beyond - 'Extraordinary ... beautifully and vividly retold stories' TLS
by Sharon Blackie Angharad WynneAn unforgettable collection of retold myths and folk tales celebrating the wisdom and power of women in midlife and beyond, from the award-winning author of Hagitude'An extraordinary selection of stories ... beautifully and vividly retold' TLS'Read it, absorb it, treasure it!' SHAHRUKH HUSAIN, author of The Virago Book of Witches'A fascinating collection of female myths and legends' SARA SHERIDAN, author of The Fair BotanistsFrom early childhood, we learn about the world and its possibilities through myths and fairy tales. The heroines, though, tend to be golden-haired princesses, and the evil-doers often older women. But women today are searching for positive versions of themselves from midlife onwards, and this dazzling array of not-to-be-messed-with characters - from ungainly giantesses and sequin-strewn fairy godmothers to misunderstood witches and craggy crones - provides them. They outwit monsters, test and mentor younger heroines, embody the cycles and seasons of the earth, weave the world into being - and almost always have the last laugh.These women manifest their wisdom in different ways, and so offer us inspiration for how we too can walk boldly and live authentically in the second half of life.'Wonderful, both comforting and inspiring' VICTORIA SMITH, author of Hags'The book I've been longing for' JILL DAWSON, author of The Bewitching'I adored Wise Women - this is the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle when it comes to reframing the narrative in our culture about the role of older females' ELEANOR MILLS, author of Much More to Come: Lessons on the mayhem and magnificence of midlife 'Reading it quenched a thirst I didn't know I had. Oh for a world where stories of the power and joy of women's elder years are celebrated everywhere' DOREEN CUNNINGHAM, author of Soundings'Revisits our old stories, making them thrilling for us now' STELLA DUFFY OBE