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I thought since I was last talking about hope, I would share some quotes about it. These came from the NASW National Conference, the theme of which was Restoring Hope. It would be interesting to print these out and discuss them in a staff meeting, always wondering- how do we promote hope in our clients and in ourselves? “At bottom, everything depends on the presence or absence of one single element in the soul- hope.” Henri Frederic Amiel “There is no such thing as false hope”   Elizabeth J. Clark “Hope and hopelessness are both choices. Why not choose hope?” Greg Anderson “Hope is the dream of waking man.” Aristotle “Where there’s hope, there’slife. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” Anne Frank “Courage is like love. It must have hope for nourishment.”   Napoleon Bonaparte “We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.” John F. Kennedy “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope”. Martin Luther King, ...

Anyone who has taken the Risking Connections â training knows that a key element is that the path to healing is through a RICH relationship- one that includes Respect, Information, Connection and Hope. This is such a central point that the publisher, Sidran, has copy write protected the concept independently. In our training we ask participants to share ways in which they are currently demonstrating RICH with the clients, and also with each other in their team. Because amazingly it turns out that what the clients need in a relationship is the same as what we need for ourselves. For four weeks or so I am going to right about the dark side of RICH- by which I mean the difficult and complex aspects of creating RICH relationships. These are the areas where we struggle, stumble, and sometimes become less than helpful to our clients and each other. Let’s look at each part of RICH and discover what is hard about it and how we can overcome the challenges. This fourth week I will focus on Hope...

Any one who has taken the Risking Connections â training knows that a key element is that the path to healing is through a RICH relationship- one that includes Respect, Information, Connection and Hope. This is such a central point that the publisher, Sidran, has copy write protected the concept independently. In our training we ask participants to share ways in which they are currently demonstrating RICH with the clients, and also with each other in their team. Because amazingly it turns out that what the clients need in a relationship is the same as what we need for ourselves. For four weeks or so I am going to right about the dark side of RICH- by which I mean the difficult and complex aspects of creating RICH relationships. These are the areas where we struggle, stumble, and sometimes become less than helpful to our clients and each other. Let’s look at each part of RICH and discover what is hard about it and how we can overcome the challenges. This third week I will focus on Conn...

Any one who has taken the Risking Connections â training knows that a key element is that the path to healing is through a RICH relationship- one that includes Respect, Information, Connection and Hope. This is such a central point that the publisher, Sidran, has copy write protected the concept independently. In our training we ask participants to share ways in which they are currently demonstrating RICH with the clients, and also with each other in their team. Because amazingly it turns out that what the clients need in a relationship is the same as what we need for ourselves. For four weeks or so I am going to right about the dark side of RICH- by which I mean the difficult and complex aspects of creating RICH relationships. These are the areas where we struggle, stumble, and sometimes become less than helpful to our clients and each other. Let’s look at each part of RICH and discover what is hard about it and how we can overcome the challenges. This second week I will focus on Inf...