Working with children to convert problems into skills
 Well-known Finnish psychotherapist and TV presenter, Ben Furman, shares the Kids' Skills model for working with children that is influencing parents, teachers, counsellors and policy makers around the world. This is a playful and practical approach to solving difficulties faced by children where practically all problems can be seen as skills that need to be developed. This method invites children to become active participants in skill-building and solution-finding. A book buzzing with ideas, stories and suggestions.
 - Converting problems into skills. - Agreeing on the skill to learn - Naming the skill and choosing a power creature - Gathering supporters and building confidence - Planning the celebration and going public - Practising the skill and creating reminders

Kids' Skills - Playful and practical solution-finding with children

Ben Furman

St Luke's Innovative Resources

A strengths-based resource for sharing power and creating change Over the years St Luke's has provided training and consultancy services in strengths-based practice to thousands of human service workers and hundreds of organisations. Pivotal to the strengths approach is the principle of equal partnership between people - 'power-with'. This dynamic principle acknowledges that people are the experts on their lives and the rightful drivers of their own change processes. In The Strengths Approach principal trainer and author, Wayne McCashen, gathers together the material that is explored in these trainings. He clearly and comprehensively describes the ideas, values, beliefs, and frameworks that help create respectful and socially-just ways of working with people.This book is full of invaluable practice wisdom gathered over many years and anecdotes and examples of strengths-based practice in action. The book explores: Principles, skills, tools and frameworks Power-with and power-over Labelling Strengths and exceptions Pictures of the future The column approach Client-owned recording Supervision Community building Organisational culture ...and much more. 
The following is a short extract from the opening chapter: When asked the question, 'What sort of society do you want?' most people describe qualities such as social harmony, peace, justice, respect, sharing, mutual support and purpose. When thinking about this, people often imagine a society different to the one they observe and experience. The impetus to do this comes from experiencing and observing what happens when these qualities are not present. However, the capacity to imagine what 'could be' is made richly possible by our lived experience-people's personal experience and observation of what happens when respect, collaboration, inclusion, justice and support are present. In other words, people have aspirations that are made possible more by their positive experiences than their negative ones. These experiences are lived every day in communities, groups, neighbourhoods, families, workplaces, schools, clubs, other organisations or institutions, as well as in random encounters, lateral ties and informal links. The connection between people's strengths represented through real stories of lived experience and their aspirations for something better, is the key to every successful action for change. It is crucial to hope and an essential characteristic of the strengths approach. A must for social workers, educators, governments, community groups, organisations, businesses, families, teams and anyone interested in socially-just ways of sharing power and creating change. St Luke's Innovative Resources gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust in the publication of this book.

The Strengths Approach

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Kids' Skills - Playful and practical solution-finding with children

The Strengths Approach