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Reaching Resilience: A Training Manual for Community Wellness Paperback – September 14, 2017

4.4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
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In 1986 medical anthropologist Pat Omidian worked with Afghan refugees in San Francisco and first realized that people can find their own solutions when resilience is supported in culturally relevant ways. The ensuing years took her to Afghanistan under the Taliban, to earthquake torn Pakistan, to post-tsunami Japan, and Ebola threatened Liberia. This gem of a book shares lessons she learned in over thirty years of working in diverse cultures with people and communities in severe distress. Reaching Resilience offers an easy-to-use psychosocial health approach called Community Wellness Focusing (CWF), the combined work of many dedicated community activists and healers. Each chapter explains a basic principle and gives examples of activities that support inner sensing, group learning and deep empathic listening. Focusing Initiatives International is the organization that Pat started together with social justice activist Melinda Darer to promote and support CWF worldwide.
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    178 pages
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    September 14, 2017
  4. Dimensions
    8 x 0.41 x 10 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1976431964
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1976431968
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 14, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 178 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1976431964
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1976431968
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.41 x 10 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

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  • Marcella
    5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring, hope-giving and helpful
    Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2017
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    I'm so grateful this book exists. It is inspiring and helpful in equal measure, and that is no small feat. It has a personal quality that engages me as a reader, and great clarity about concepts that I can absorb and use. It gives me hope to read how Omidian has been able to help people even in inhumane conditions. It gives me optimism to read how much people can do on their own, when they are shown how to tap into the resources they already have within themselves. And it empowers me to be in the world more effectively myself: with Omidian's ideas, I can do better not only at helping others but also at just relating to people in my everyday, small-scale interactions. I'm immensely grateful to the author both for the work she does and for taking the time to write and teach about it. Thanks also to her cohorts for supporting her in doing so -- for example, Nina Joy's illustrations are priceless -- and to Focusing Initiatives International for publishing it so we can all benefit.
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  • joan K
    5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly terrific
    Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2017
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    The Resilience book is utterly terrific.. interesting and informative and very practical. It is a gem!
    Thank you for the care in which you put into this wonderful book. I loved the interesting way you tell your own story and the clarity with which you describe the exercises.
    I wish you much success with this wonderful new resource.
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  • Derek Mc Donnell
    5.0 out of 5 stars it is a fantastic resource based on lived experiences of community focusing intervention ...
    Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2017
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    BIg Thanks to Pat and her team, I downloaded Reachng Resilience, it is a fantastic resource based on lived experiences of community focusing intervention in such a wholistic an interactive way. I highly recommended it and look forward to incorporating into my own focusing way of living. Derek Mc Donnell.
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  • David I. Rome
    5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely well done.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2017
    Format: Paperback
    Training manuals are not easy to do, and Reaching Resilience is extremely well done. The language is clear and accessible, the exercises precise and easy to follow. Pat Omidian's sharing of stories from her own experiences in different countries are always engaging and instructive. The practice of Focusing, so difficult to describe at all, is effectively presented by keeping it simple, finding new language and images, integrating fresh steps like finding a calm place and gratitude, and – especially – avoiding jargon. The presentation shows the clear influence of the Muslim cultures in which it was developed, but the principles and exercises are universally applicable. A way of doing community development that emphasizes the ability of disadvantaged and traumatized communities to empower themselves, drawing on the resources of their own culture. The exercises can easily be adapted to enhance existing training curricula.
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  • R. Zubizarreta
    5.0 out of 5 stars Healing trauma with gentle somatic presencing...
    Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2018
    Format: Paperback
    Here's what I love most about this manual... the way it combines clear and detailed instructions, with the gentle tone and spirit that we need, when doing trauma healing work... while the manual is framed as "community wellness", and I fully respect its strengths-based focus, the reality is that Dr. Omidian has developed this work in partnership with communities who have endured and survived significant amounts of trauma, from both war and from structural violence. So the gentleness, warmth, and healing spirit of the simple yet powerful activities that she describes, are particularly significant in these contexts... may this work find its way into the hands of those who can apply it wherever it is most needed!
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  • T. Schneider
    5.0 out of 5 stars Restores spirits for traumatized people
    Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2018
    Format: Paperback
    Reaching Resilience provides an eminently accessible model for restoring the spirits of traumatized people successfully. I give it extra credit for building a model that ordinary people can replicate without requiring excessive supervision by experts in related field. I'm intrigued to see it in action or give it a try!
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  • brava
    5.0 out of 5 stars great read, I recommended highly
    Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2017
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    great read , I recommended highly.
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