Creating Change

Written for therapists, Co-Creating Change shows what to do to help "stuck" patients (those who resist the therapy process) let go of their resistance and self-defeating behaviors and willingly co-create a relationship for change instead. Co-Creating Change includes clinical vignettes that illustrate hundreds of therapeutic impasses taken from actual sessions, showing how to understand patients and how to intervene effectively. The book provides clear, systematic steps for assessing patients' needs and intervening to develop an effective relationship for change. Co-Creating Change presents an integrative theory that uses elements of behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, emotion-focused therapy, psychoanalysis, and mindfulness. This empirically validated treatment is effective with a wide range of patients.

Music, dance, drama, visual art, writing - what role do the arts play in our spiritual life? Some people believe the arts are essential to their spiritual practice because they bring moments of insight and transformation to their journey. Creating Change explores the many ways the arts cultivate spiritual depth and transformation. Stories from artists and congregations reveal how the arts breathe new life into prayer, worship, theological reflection, and the work of justice. It looks at how the arts allow us to express our spirituality with an individuality and depth that truly celebrates our connection to God.

Organizational Change integrates major empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to implementing communication in organizational settings. Laurie Lewis ties together the disparate literatures in management, education, organizational sociology, and communication to explore how the practices and processes of communication work in real-world cases of change implementation. Gives a bold and comprehensive overview of communication research and ideas on change and those who bring it about Fills in an important piece of the applied communication puzzle as it relates to organizations Illustrated with student friendly, real life case studies from organizations, including organizational mergers, governmental or nonprofit policy or procedural implementation, or technological innovation Winner of the 2011 Organizational Communication NCA Division Book of the Year

The two dozen essays assembled in Creating Change examine some of the most bitterly contested and controversial public events and public policy battles in American history. These writings, each by a leading activist or scholar, recount how a specific constituency—gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons, and their allies—achieved tremendous progress despite seemingly insurmountable barriers. With each of the chapters written by an activist or scholar integral to the specific area of discussion, this is a work of scholarship and a work of passion about the way the American political and cultural landscape became what it is today. It is the story of how social change is made.

Good Design is Good Feng Shui In Creating Change, Laura Morris unites modern interior design and creativity with ancient Feng Shui principles to create an easy-to-use handbook for bringing more energy into your home and life. Intentional design is about mindfully creating: using your hands to design your space with the ancient and powerful tradition of Feng Shui. Morris offers a "learn-by-doing" approach, introducing you to the basic principles of Feng Shui as you apply them through 27 easy-to-implement design projects, including dressing up your bathroom, styling your bookcase, balancing your kitchen, and more! "Feng shui is an incredibly transformative philosophy with the power to focus intention, heal in various ways and create tremendous shifts in your life. With ease, patience and knowledge, Laura opens the magical door to these ancient teachings, bringing their healing and balancing power to everyone i nterested. She offers practical, easy-to-comprehend feng shui applications for all levels." --Anjie Cho, author of 108 Ways to Create Holistic Spaces. "Laura Morris + Feng Shui = Magic. Anybody of any age can understand the simple and useful tools of this ancient principal just by reading a few pages of this masterfully curated book. A must read, must do book for sure!" --Tiffany Pratt, author of This Can Beautiful. "Creating Change is the perfect book for those of us who are intrigued by how Feng Shui can bring more life to our spaces, but too busy to become experts. Laura's simple, learn-as-you-go approach makes it easy--a nd fun--to start using Feng Shui immediately in your own home, space, and life." --Joan Sheridan LaBarge, publisher, Working Mother Media. WWW.MORRISFENGSHUI.COM

Are you tired of not living the life you truly want? Not feeling happy or fulfilled? Not living a life filled with purpose, passion and meaning? Are you interested in understanding WHY your life is the way it is? WHY, no matter what you have tried in the past, nothing really worked? WHY you couldn’t step out of your Comfort Zone? Most important- do you want to know HOW you can change that? Then this book for you! Creating Change will take you on a journey through your own conscious and sub-conscious mind, your unique kind of intelligence, your habits and limiting beliefs. You will become aware of some scientific facts about your brain, how it works and why it functions the way it does. You will learn certain methods and tools to make your brain work for you instead of against you by, among others, eliminate limiting beliefs and non-supportive habits, and how to re-program your programmed mind so you can reduce the level of stress, fear and self- judgment and by that enable yourself to find your true passion and purpose, enlarge and expand the level of (self) love and acceptance, health and joy. Creating Change offers an all-round step by step program that covers a wide range of crucial information which will support and help you create the reality you desire and deserve.

Creating Change in Mental Health Organizations discusses the findings of the experiment designed to identify the parameters of social change in mental health organizations. The title details the results from a variety of perspectives, such as experimental and hospital employees. The text first covers the need for social change in treating mental illness, and then proceeds to tackling organizational change background and research plan of the experiment. Next, the selection talks about the process of approach and persuasion. The next chapters cover the concerns in activating adoption, such as the factors, process, and conditions. Chapter 7 deals with the follow-up diffusion for the community lodge, while Chapter 8 talks about the principles for creating change in metal health organizations. The text also discusses the social policy decision aimed at solving human problems. The book will be of great use to professionals in the mental health care industry.