Cultivate Hope and Engagement in Your Life: Cultivating and Utilizing Hope for Healing
About this workbook:
Cultivate Hope and Engagement in Your Life is a complete curriculum empowering professionals to guide participants toward flourishing through engaging in passions related to work, hobbies, family time, and community welfare. 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: Engage Using Your Right Brain
- Chapter 2: Engage Your Feelings Through Fashion
- Chapter 3: Engage With Your Goals
- Chapter 4: Engage Through Motivated Passion
- Chapter 5: Engage Through Enhanced Flow
People who flourish tend to engage with life fully. Being engaged with life can mean many things to different people, such as feeling happy and satisfied with your life, having warm social and supportive relationships, being hopeful about your future, having a sense of purpose and meaning, and being completely engaged in all aspects of your life.
There is no one pathway to an engaged life. Everyone has the opportunity to become more engaged in their lives through…
- Engaging in spare-time activities such as singing, gardening, and exercising.
- Engaging through volunteer work to help elders, students, or animals.
- Engaging at work by learning new technology, taking on leadership roles, and mentoring
- other employees.
- Engaging by using inner strengths such as courage, altruism, and patience.
- Engaging by focusing on social relationships involving family, friends, and community.
Since there is no best way to engage with the world, several questions can guide the exploration of engagement activities:
- What skills and talents do I possess or can I develop that will lead to greater hope?
- What skills and talents can I rediscover that will lead to greater hope?
- How can I identify and develop what I excel at and love?
- What am I passionate about?
- What activities can help me reach my full potential?
- What activities can I pursue that will lead to a path of hope?
This workbook is part of Positive Psychology – The Hope Series, a five-book series created by Dr. Michelle Scallon and Dr. John Liptak. Their Hierarchy of Hope model helps people generate hope and create a new purpose after experiencing significant or traumatic changes.
To flourish, people will explore their passions and identify activities that interest them. These activities are most identifiable when people lose all sense of time. Finding activities that put people in a flow state is crucial to elevating well-being and enjoying and engaging with life.
The reproducible exercises and therapeutic processes in Cultivate Hope and Engagement in Your Life help participants explore the components of engagement that enhance flow, increase joy, and cultivate hope and engagement.
This workbook is also available in PDF eBook format, making it simple to store on your computer or mobile device and access with a PDF viewer. The PDF format allows you to easily print copies of the activities and worksheets during therapy and counseling sessions.
Cultivate Hope and Engagement Card Deck
Using the Discussion Starter Card Deck will break the ice, encourage openness, and help introduce a specific subject. Activity handouts included in these workbooks are reflective, easy-to-use exercises, presented in a variety of formats to accommodate multiple intelligences and different learning styles. Each question corresponds to a page in the workbook.
