Thin Moments and Thickening Narratives
Thin Moments and Thickening Narratives is offered to you as a field guide and companion to the book Thick Listening at Thin Moments. But what, you might ask, does a field guide offer when it comes to exploring spiritual care practice? Most dictionary definitions refer to field guides as books intended to provide a reader with words and pictures for identifying plants and animals found in nature.
For our purposes, this field guide is a book intended to provide you the reader with words and pictures for identifying what spiritual care practice looks like among those we meet in healthcare facilities, prisons, military settings, faith communities, business locations, and beyond. It’s a resource manual you can bring with you into the field of spiritual care.
Spiritual care is a field of knowledge and practice. It’s a field where living human documents and the living human web are read, explored and contemplated, where Buber’s “meeting” occurs, and thin moments become visible. Let’s enter this field with curiosity and, using this book, meet one another there.
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Learning Social Literacy
Can social life become more civil? Are children learning to care about themselves as well as other people? In a world that says it values relationship, do we understand what's involved in meeting human need so people can flourish in these relationships? This book offers a perspective on making human connections more stable and satisfying and claims that the exchange depends on learning how to read and interpret what's going on during social interaction. Social literacy is the ability and willingness to read what's going on during our encounters with others so that we remain true to ourselves (authentic) and yet remain well connected to other people (integrated).
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Love Builds Brains
You'll never look at child development the same way again.
Dr. Clinton lays out the early years' journey of attachment, self-regulation, connection, resilience and well-being, and does so with scientific explanations measured out in understandable doses. This book is full of deeply researched wisdom, offered in a conversational style. It's like having a coffee and a chat with Jean as you sit at her kitchen table.
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(CanadianPaediatric Society review – Emmett Francoeur)
JeanClinton delivers the strongest of arguments for the need to zero in on early years to nurture and promote the mental health of children. She describes how the brain’s plasticity makes it exquisitely capable of change, particularly in the early years but also over the lifespan. She does so with the special touch of a mother-grandmother-physician who knows about “feeling felt” and the need for the “drip-by-drip” consistent and sensitive responsiveness of the loving caretaker.
https://www.cps.ca/en/blog-blogue/your-grandmother-was-right-love-really-does-build-brains
Thick Listening at Thin Moments
A welcome manual for chaplains, pastors and spiritual caregivers in any context.
The book focuses on theory and is rich with scenarios that demonstrate ideas conveyed in each chapter. Its theoretical groundwork is balanced by comprehensive descriptions of clinical implications for spiritual care practice based on theories presented throughout its pages.
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