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Gifts, Talents, Skills
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Collaboration
Problem Solving
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
Strength-Based Services
- 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