Transformation and Change (eBook)

This is more than a "e;self-help"e; guide. It is a "e;workbook"e; that facilitates the reader's active engagement. There is also a companion fillable PDF to make the experience more user-friendly. The intent is to help create new opportunities, new narratives, and new connections with others. This workbook is somewhat self-autobiographical, joining with the reader in how to move forward, post-pandemic, towards personal, communal/contextual, and cultural/corporate shifts. At core, this is an intervention for creating Beloved Community Authenticity Groups, to undo damages from Covid-19, but also to overcome many political, racial, and economic divides. The reader will assess--carefully guided by a systemic, solution-focused therapist--how to revitalize purpose, beyond languishing. Individuals, couples, and families will find this workbook really helpful for the "e;next"e; conversations they need to have with others. Also, therapists, community leaders, and people in ministry will find this a valuable source to offer skills and poignant reflective exercises that will be useful for whatever groups they wish to facilitate. There are, within these pages, somewhat autobiographical stories to illuminate how a scaffolding access to change can occur, shifting mindsets. The point is not to agree on every aspect of difference, but to be open to how narratives unfold. Perspective taking and historical contexts offer new insights for humane connections and new understandings, one with the other.This is an "e;Each-Help-The-Other"e; workbook for personal, systemic, and structural change. Included are many resources, valuable tools for self-discovery and for developing a "e;theory of change,"e; plus implementational strategies that are entertaining and inspirational. The author documents an account from multiple perspectives towards enticing the reader in positive psychology and neuroscience-based ways to live into transformation, learning from lessons of the past. You will be inspired, challenged, uplifted, and grateful. Drawing upon theological, social, and philosophical and artistic giants from multiple disciplines. This "e;workbook"e; is the intervention for mental health and spiritual wellbeing, igniting you into actionable change and release. Storytelling practices are, at core, the basis of all the systemic change we need. This workbook sparks that movement.