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Reaching Resilience: A Training Manual for Community Wellness

Reaching Resilience: A Training Manual for Community Wellness

Omidian, Patricia A.

Paperback

Public HealthGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1976431964
ISBN13: 9781976431968
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 14 2017
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.38 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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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