Publisher's Synopsis
Cultivate Hope and Engagement in YourLife is a complete curriculum empowering professionals to guide participants toward flourishing through engaging in passions related to work, hobbies, family time, and community welfare. Each chapter includes a therapeutic plan with goals, actions, demonstrations of learning, and tips for an effective therapeutic environment for individuals and groups. The chapters are:
- Chapter 1: Engage Using Your Right BrainChapter 2: Engage Your Feelings Through FashionChapter 3: Engage With Your GoalsChapter 4: Engage Through Motivated PassionChapter 5: Engage Through Enhanced Flow
People who flourish tend to engage with life fully. Being engaged with life can mean many things to different people, such as feeling happy and satisfied with your life, having warm social and supportive relationships, being hopeful about your future, having a sense of purpose and meaning, and being completely engaged in all aspects of your life.
There is no one pathway to an engaged life. Everyone has the opportunity to become more engaged in their lives through...
- Engaging in spare-time activities such as singing, gardening, and exercising.Engaging through volunteer work to help elders, students, or animals.Engaging at work by learning new technology, taking on leadership roles, and mentoringother employees.Engaging by using inner strengths such as courage, altruism, and patience.Engaging by focusing on social relationships involving family, friends, and community.
Since there is no best way to engage with the world, several questions can guide the exploration of engagement activities:
- What skills and talents do I possess or can I develop that will lead to greater hope?What skills and talents can I rediscover that will lead to greater hope?How can I identify and develop what I excel at and love?What am I passionate about?What activities can help me reach my full potential?What activities can I pursue that will lead to a path of hope?
This workbook is part of Positive Psychology - The Hope Series, a five-book series created by Dr. Michelle Scallon and Dr. John Liptak. Their Hierarchy of Hope model helps people generate hope and create a new purpose after experiencing significant or traumatic changes.
To flourish, people will explore their passions and identify activities that interest them. These activities are most identifiable when people lose all sense of time. Finding activities that put people in a flow state is crucial to elevatin
