Supervision provides a positive space for compassion, inquiry, reflection, and above all development. The chapters in this book are written from a wide range of perspectives, all of which take a practical approach to supervision and show how transformative it can be when approached in the right way.Contributions range from explorations of supervision as a journey of life-long learning and its place at the heart of practice to chapters on faith, transformation, dealing with feelings...

Change Your Life with Emotional Intelligence takes Daniel Goleman's revolutionary psychological theory and transforms it into practical self-help for you to boost emotional awareness in any part of your life. It introduces you to the principles of EI, explaining why the qualities of assertiveness, perception, motivation etc really matter if you want to live a fulfilled and successful life. The book takes an applied approach, encouraging you first to understand your own emotional identity, ...

In this eBook, the reader is taken through a powerful interactive process for creating compelling goals. Damian Hamill identifies and elaborates upon Seven Secrets, the NLP criteria that make the difference between achievable, ecological outcomes and those goals that are destined for failure.The eBook is structured in such a way that allows the reader to shape his or her own outcome as the process unfolds, developing a personal goal that is expressed in a way that maximizes the lik...

Coaching is one of the most sought-after leadership skills - vital for anyone who wants to develop a team of people who will perform effectively, but are also motivated and relish working together. It's also a dynamic discipline which, in recent years, has developed and grown to embrace theory and practice from a wide range of other disciplines, frameworks and models.Mastering Coaching starts by asking what skills an effective coach must now possess to boost the performanc...

Anger, Rage and Relationship presents a radically new way to understand and work with anger and rage issues. Taking a relational approach to anger and rage, the book presents a positive view of human nature, supported by recent research findings and illustrated with case studies, with individuals trusted to be essentially pro-social.Rather than promoting strategies and techniques for eradicating anger, Sue Parker Hall, puts forward an approach which seeks to not only work ...

Covering the essential key skills and personal development of the successful coach, mentor or supervisor, with guidelines for practice.

What is a New Year resolution?! To me a New Year resolution is a Goal I wish to make motivated by the coming of a New Year and the end of an old. Almost giving me permission to let go of the past and motivate me to look towards the future. Make New Year resolutions-AND KEEP THEM USING NLP! is an extract from Psychobabble: A strait forward plain English guide to the Benefits of NLP; showing the importance of making well formed outcomes and then actually visualising that they are real to boos...

No matter where you are, what you are doing, whether you are alone or with others, you are always in relationships. Whatever the relationship, it is always a couple- relationship, whether this, for example, is a parent with a child, a lover with a lover, a manager with an employee, a student with a teacher, a neighbour with a neighbour. This book is concerned with the much neglected area of relationships as dyads involving two unique individuals, in all settings in which human beings live,...

Professional boundaries between worker and client underpin all areas of practice in social work and social care, and the mismanagement of these boundaries can lead to unprofessional conduct and negative consequences for both worker and client.This book is a no-nonsense guide to boundaries – what they are, why they are there and how to maintain them, from legal boundaries and policies governing behaviour to rules surrounding confidentiality. Presenting a flexible framework of rules ...

This handbook is aimed at all kind of professionals who like to add coaching to their repertoire. Applying the coaching role, the professional (teacher, leader, counsellor, etc.) treat questions for help in a goal-oriented and developmental manner. The focus in this approach is combining successful progress with meaningful personal development and a participation in the well-being of the whole to which the client belongs. This handbook provides the basic ideas and tools to structur...

With more and more marriages ending in separation followed by divorce, we are seeing a fundamental shift in the pattern of family life. Much has been written about the ingredients of a good relationship but now we need to build a picture that identifies the ingredients of a good separation.Parents involved in these new family patterns often struggle to find ways of relating that work well for all members, especially for the children. Some are more successful than others. 'Creative ...

Winner of the NAGC Celebrating Gifts and Talents 2007 "Most Important Book" Gold AwardGifted Children is a lively and informative exploration of the mystery of the gifted mind and the social and emotional needs of gifted children and their families.The authors give an insight into what is 'normal' for gifted children, acknowledge the difficulties they experience, and offer pointers for parents on how to support them at home, in the interaction with siblings and other family...