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  • The Only Mind Worth Having

    Thomas Merton and the Child Mind

    by Fiona Gardner ...
    In The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is "the only mind worth having" and explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic command to become like small children. She demonstrates how Merton's belief and Jesus's command can be understood as part of contemporary spirituality and spiritual practice. To follow Christ's ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Embedding Spirituality and Religion in Social Work Practice

    A Socially Just Approach

    by Fiona Gardner ...
    Blending material from social work with religious and spiritual sources, this book makes explicit that engaging with spirituality in its broadest sense is an essential aspect of socially just social work practice. Gardner connects shared understandings of spiritual/religious traditions, critically reflective social work, First Nations relational world views, green and relational approaches.Through ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Taking Heart

    Experiences of Spiritual Searching, Self-Acceptance and Journeying to the Heart of Faith

    by Fiona Gardner ...
    The meaning and mystery of life is ultimately found in personal relationship, sometimes with another and, for those who search, sometimes with God. In Taking Heart the experiences of four people who are spiritually searching and looking for a direct experience of God are explored, and their different journeys through self-doubt to self-acceptance and to the heart of faith are discussed. These four ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Sex, Power, Control

    Responding to Abuse in the Institutional Church

    by Fiona Gardner ...
    Given their rhetoric on safeguarding, the response of religious organisations to abuse by the clergy - sexual, physical and spiritual - has been inept, thoughtless, mean, and without any sense of urgency. Sex, Power, Control explores the underlying reasons for the mishandling of recent abuse cases. Using psychoanalytical and sociological insights, and including her own experiences as shown in the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Being Critically Reflective

    Engaging in Holistic Practice

    by Fiona Gardner ...
    Series series Practice Theory in Context
    Many students and practitioners are familiar with critical reflection but struggle to make space for it in their everyday practice. This book provides an accessible and practical introduction not only to doing critical reflection, but to being critically reflective.- It demonstrates how reflective capacity can be developed in different practice contexts and applied productively to supervision, ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Self-Harm

    A Psychotherapeutic Approach

    by Fiona Gardner ...
    Self-harm is worryingly common in young women, and is often used as a way of easing emotional suffering. Self-Harm: A Psychotherapeutic Approach explores the issues involved from the perspective of a psychoanalytical psychotherapist. Fiona Gardner examines these issues through extensive clinical material and an analysis of the social and cultural influences behind self-harm. This book will be of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Critical Spirituality

    A Holistic Approach to Contemporary Practice

    by Fiona Gardner ...
    Critical spirituality is a way of naming a desire to work with what is meaningful in the context of enabling a socially just, diverse and inclusive society. Critical spirituality means seeing people holistically, seeking to understand where they are coming from and what matters to them at a fundamental level; the level that is part of the everyday but also transcends it. What is important in ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Researching, Reflecting and Writing about Work

    Guidance on Training Course Assignments and Research for Psychotherapists and Counsellors

    Edited by Fiona Gardner, Steven J. Coombs ...
    Researching, Reflecting and Writing about Work provides a guide to the research skills and critical thinking required to complete a research project for professional learning courses in counselling and psychotherapy.Written at a level easily accessible to those enrolled on a work-based qualification as well as those considering postgraduate research at master's level, this book includes:how we ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Critical Reflection in Context

    Applications in Health and Social Care

    Edited by Jan Fook, Fiona Gardner ...
    Critical reflection enables practitioners – especially those within health and social care –to theorise from their own practice, improving and developing their work and practising both creatively and professionally.This book provides an accessible overview of the influential Fook/Gardner Critical Reflection framework for students, researchers and professionals. It then presents a wide range of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Moving beyond myths and heroes to leading that liberates

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    Leadership for the Disillusioned is a true gem among the avalanche of books published each year on leadership. In a very different voice, Amanda Sinclair provides us with deep insights in her search for a different type of leader she truly liberates us from the shadow side of the leader within.'Professor Manfred Kets de Vries, Director, INSEAD Global Leadership CenterWe expect our leaders to be ... Read more

    $11.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spiritual Activism

    Leadership as service

    by Alastair McIntosh, Matt Carmichael ...
    A visionary but practical sharing of how spiritual insights, and deepening our inner lives, can impact leadership for social change.Over the past half-century, the issues facing activists have changed, as has our understanding and awareness of spirituality. For activists, spiritual philosophy is rising up the agenda because it offers distinct, tried and tested approaches to deep questions: Where ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Selling Spirituality

    The Silent Takeover of Religion

    by Jeremy Carrette, Richard King ...
    From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism.Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp, attack on this fallacy. It shows how spirituality has in fact become a powerful commodity in the global marketplace - a cultural addiction that ... Read more

    $57.99 USD