Honest Dialogue: Presence, Common Sense, and Boundaries When You Want to Help Someone (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781785923531)

Focusing on how someone in need can best be helped, the author identifies the skills and honesty of the person who wants to help as key to how effective this can be. Looking in detail at the nature of boundaries, willingness to speak from a place of authenticity and to be honestly present to the experience of the individual person, and the sensitive and economical use of language, the author shows how people in a state of deep personal crisis can be richly helped. Taking the view that no set response is always right or always wrong, he argues strongly for the importance of going with what is spontaneous and real in the moment, and responding thoughtfully and with integrity to the experience of the person in need.

The book is an inspiration to develop deep awareness about the practice of encounter. Focusing on experiences of crisis and anxiety, the author provides many in-depth case examples, and sample scripts with actual questions and answers included. This short and deceptively simple book will raise awareness of, and broaden the range of, possible interventions for the open-minded reader.

Author: Bent Falk
ISBN-10: 1785923536
ISBN-13: 9781785923531
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2017
Pages: 120
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.30d