How To Save Your Relationship
Here is a link to a great article on Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Guidelines for reconnecting and bringing relationships back to life. By Susan Johnson and Aviva Patz published on March 01, 2003 – last reviewed on June 13, 2012
Call to Action: What All Social Workers Can Do to Increase Access to Social Work Counselling in Workplace Group Benefits Plans
Dear OASW Member: As we all know, despite social work’s long-established expertise in counselling, this is not well recognized in workplace group benefits plans. Research documents that a range of personal factors impact upon the health and productivity of Canada’s workforce. Access to counselling provided by social workers is not simply an asset to employees…Read more
The Parent’s Tao Te Ching
by William Martin, from his book The Parent’s Tao Te Ching If you always compare your children’s abilities to those of great athletes, entertainers, and celebrities, they will lose their own power. If you urge them to acquire and achieve, they will learn to cheat and steal to…Read more
The 3 Minute Breathing Space
The 3 Minute Breathing Space is a mini meditation for the purpose of stepping out of automatic pilot and reconnecting with the present moment experience. This practice can be very useful when negative thought patterns arise, attempting to push you into a downward spiral of emotional reactivity. By slowing down and turning into the present…Read more
Can Mindfulness Increase Our Resilience to Stress?
VIDEO CLIP Published on Feb 20, 2013 Neuroscientist Richard Davidson and clinical mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn on how mindfulness training can lead to greater resilience to stress. An excerpt from “Becoming Conscious: The Science of Mindfulness” featuring Steve Paulson, Richard Davidson, Jon Kabat-Zinn & Amishi Jha. The New York Academy of Sciences Wednesday, February 6, 2013
