Raising children with virtues: Bring out the best in your child and yourself (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789081223867)

Annelies Wiersma (1967) is one of the founding members of the Virtues Project in the Netherlands. She laid her hands in "The Family Virtues Guide" in 2001. She became immediately enthusiastic about the virtues approach, did a Facilitator Training in Geneva (with Margaret Mohamed and Sue Ferguson) and a Pace of Grace course (with Linda Kavelin-Popov and Dan Popov). Annelies introduced the virtues approach in her family and in her work as a communication trainer. Annelies also supports translations and Dutch publications of the Virtues ProjectTM. She has been the chair of the Dutch Virtues ProjectTM (Stichting Virtues Project Nederland) since 2004. Annelies owns her own business ACT on Virtues and has been giving advice, coaching and training since 2002 about the five strategies of the Virtues ProjectTM to parents, schools and individuals, both in the Netherlands and abroad (Belgium, Denmark, UK). Next to facilitating workshops and publishing books and other materials, Annelies works as journalist, textwriter and designer. She publishes regularly about the Virtues ProjectTM, for instance in Dutch magazines and she had a weekly column in the Suriname Newspaper. Up until now ACT on Virtues published besides "Raising children with the virtues" a set of 52 virtues cards for young children (with Tiffany Nightingale), a set of 52 virtues cards with cartoons for children age up 9+, "A Pace of Grace" and the set of 100 Virtues Reflection Cards (from Linda Kavelin-Popov) and "The Adventures of Mali & Keela" (from Jonathan Collins). "Graceful endings (Linda Kavelin-Popov), two yoga books based on virtues (Patty Jongemaets) and two drawing books for adults, with virtues reflection questions (Marja van 't Wel) and a virtues diary (2014) with the virtue of the week and virtues reflection quetsions. Linda Kavelin Popov acknowledged Annelies for her work by naming her a Master Facilitator. As Master Facilitator Annelies provides training and mentoring to new facilitators who want to work with groups with the Virtues Project."