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Gifts, Talents, Skills

• 20 Things You Can Do When You Know Someone’s Gift
• We Come Bearing Gifts: The most frequently asked questions about using core gifts to navigate change.
• For Helping Professionals: Benefits of using the core gift process
• When Gifts Come Dressed As Trouble: Using core gifts as a tool for understanding and reducing undesirable student behavior.
• Seeds For Recovery booklet: Using core gifts to inspire hope and action
• What is Healing?: A definition
• Does Everyone Have a Gift?
• Common Gift Uses
• Evidence-Base for Gifts
• Group’s Signature Gift
• Why Strengths Aren’t Enough
• How Gifts Contribute to Healing and Wellness
• 3 Kinds of Gifts: What Will I Contribute?

• Talking Right: The promise of collaboration
• Components for a Service Delivery Collaborative

Problem Solving

• Listening Well
• The Problem with Problem-Solving
• The Road to Nowhere

Welcoming/Community Development

• Feeling Welcome: Joining out of loneliness for each other
• Why Focus On Welcoming?
• Four Domains of Welcoming
• Which Paradigm to Use?
• Strategic areas for increasing community development capacity in social service organizations.
• Helping a Person Get Connected: Action Principles for Creating Hospitality in Communities
• Guests and Hosts Exchanges
• Creating Welcoming Places Workbook for community associations, churches, and other groups

Storytelling

• Storytelling Trouble: How the trouble starts and what you can do about it.
• Three Essential Stories for the Ally to Tell.
• Story Telling Rules
• Listening Well

• Problems in Paradise: The strength-based movement is stuck and you can get it moving again.
• Is Your Organization Person/Family Centered and Community-Based?
• Why Strengths Aren’t Enough

Creating Positive, Hopeful Groups

• Team Strength Rating Sheet
• Basic Conflict Resolution Process
• 5 Levels of Authority
• Employees Without Hope
• Seven Hope Don’ts
• Ten Evidence-Based Reasons to Create a Hopeful Group
• Pivot Points for Understanding Hope
• Self-Rating for Leadership Commitment to Hope
• When Leaders Bring Bad News

Recovery

• Recovery Oriented Leadership booklet: Using the principles and practices of recovery to create hope, commitment, and action in your organization.
• New Possibilities For Recovery-based Employment: The Gifted Job Seeker
• Seeds For Recovery booklet: Using core gifts to inspire hope and action
• How Core Gifts Help Recovery
• Introduction to Recovery Oriented Leadership
• Tending the Fire: Engaging and Supporting Transition-Age Youth in AB2034 Programs