Discover and Create Meaning in Your Life: Cultivating and Utilizing Hope for Healing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781570253768)

Discover and Create Meaning in Your Life is a complete curriculum empowering professionals to guide participants in discovering their sense of meaning, purpose, and the knowledge that life is worth more than the sum of its parts. 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: Meaning in Ten Minutes

Chapter 2: Make Meaning by Taking Action

Chapter 3: Discover Meaning Through Mental Health Fitness

Chapter 4: Meaning Through Establishing Self-Worth

Chapter 5: Make Meaning by Doing Things for Others

This workbook is part of Positive Psychology - The Hope Series, a five-book series created by Dr. Michelle Scallon, PhD., and John J. Liptak, EdD. Their Hierarchy of Hope model helps people generate hope and create a new purpose after experiencing significant or traumatic changes. This workbook provides a method to help facilitators explore and answer these questions with their participants:

• How can people live a good life filled with hope?
• How can people stay resilient amidst challenges and change?
• How can people improve their lives?
• How can people find joy?

How can people capitalize on their strengths?