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ABCD In Action By Mike Green, Henry Moore & John O’Brien

Order code: 02-M008 Price: £66.00 Format: 270x205mm 190pp paperback & 2hr 15min DVD ABCD in Action profiles five diverse groups who have utilised the principles of ABCD to create partnerships with those they serve and in effect, rejuvenate and revitalise their organisations. Included are profiles from: •Neighbourhood associations in Savannah, Georgia •Beyond Welfare, an organisation supporting people in poverty in Ames, Iowa •The Archdiocese of Upper Michigan in Marquette, Michigan •Lakes Region Community Services Council, supporting people with disabilities in New Hampshire •Neighbourhood Housing Services, an organisation providing affordable housing opportunities in Asheville, North Carolina. Plus extensive interviews and commentaries by Mike Green, Henry Moore and John McKnight.

A Little Behind by Dave Hingsburger
	Order code: 05-B010 Price: £8.90 Format: 215x140mm 114pp paperback Dave is called and asked to write for an increasing variety of magazines and journals. His opinion is sought on subjects ranging from sexuality to spirituality. He writes with warmth, with wit and with wisdom. He challenges himself as often as he challenges the reader and his writing reflects a mind constantly working towards greater understanding of what it is to be human. Laughter and tears, the stuff of life, all are here in this new collection. When it comes to understanding the value of disability, difference and diversity, we’re all a little behind. This book will help us to catch up.
A Little Book About Person Centred Planning by John O'Brien and Connie Lyle O'Brien
	Order code: 02-B015 Price: £9.40 Format: 210x130mm 154pp paperback Interest in person-centred planning has grown rapidly over the past few years, reflecting and driving growth in numbers of practitioners and variety of methods and sponsors among organisations. This growth in interest has shaped policy in several authorities and many agencies that have adopted person-centred planning as a method of choice for at least some of the groups of people they serve. Through person-centred planning’s first years, its early developers have been busy doing plans with people and their families, guiding others in learning to facilitate planning, consulting with organisations exploring person-centred work, and joining people with disabilities and their families to tell participants in conferences and workshops about what they have learned.
A Thousand Words by Cindy Caprio-Orsini
	Order code: 05-B002 Price: £8.90 Format: 215x140mm 104pp paperback Trauma is devastating. What is even more devastating is never being given the chance to heal from the trauma. Yet it happens every day. Why? Even in an era of “Progressive mental health treatment” there are an astounding number of people who believe that those with intellectual capacities, minimal verbal communication, or a disability are not able to benefit from trauma therapy. Better and easier to keep them medicated or preoccupied with simple tasks. Better for whom? Easier maybe, for those who say they care for them on a daily basis. What about the human being who suffers on a daily basis as she remembers the horrors of ritual rapes as part of her bed time routine? What about the young man who constantly has flashbacks of sadistic beatings at the hands of his mother and boyfriends. Trauma does not disappear just because someone is disabled.
About Teaching by Marsha Forest
	Order code: 02-B027 Price: £3.50 £1.00 Format: 215x135mm 33pp paperback Tell me, I’ll forget; Show me, I may remember; But involve me and I’ll understand….. This proverb nicely sums up Frontier College’s educational philosophy. Marsha Forest loved to teach. She would arrive early in her classroom, whether it was a university lecture hall, a community centre or a shelter for homeless people, and immediately re-organise the furniture. Chairs would be placed in a circle (“I need to see people’s faces”), handout materials would be stacked everywhere and whenever possible, beautiful, inspirational music would be playing. Marsha wrote this booklet to show us how to connect in a meaningful way, with the people living in these places. She taught us how, with these techniques and approaches, we could go, respectfully, to all of these places and work with people in pursuit of their dreams, however grand or modest.
Action for Inclusion: How to improve schools by welcoming children with special needs into regular classrooms by O'Brien and Forest with Pearpoint, Snow and Hasbury
	Order code: 02-B002 Price: £7.50 Format: 205x270mm 54pp paperback This book is the all time best seller of Inclusion Press, now in its 4th printing. It describes the Circle of Friends exercise, and the MAPS (Making Action Plans) process in detail. We strongly recommend it as a companion to the videos: With A Little Help From My Friends and the New MAPS Training Video. This book is filled with actual tips on how to develop an action plan (MAP) for including any child at risk of exclusion. It is not limited to any one label, but applies to children at risk at any age. Although it focuses on infant and primary school children, the process is transferable to high school students and adults.
All My Life's a Circle - Using the tools: Circles, MAPs & PATH by M Falvey, M Forest, J Pearpoint and R Rosenberg
	Order code: 02-B010 Price: £9.40 Format: 275x205mm 117pp paperback New expanded edition. Pages chock full of information which introduces teachers, parents, social workers, advocacy groups and interested citizens to the tools of Circles, MAPs and PATH. Each step of the process is detailed and graphics are included to give real life examples. A user-friendly introduction to useful and exciting tools for change. New sections include: Shafik’s MAP-the video transcript (see 02-V006 for the video) Judith Snow on Dreaming What is Person Centred Planning MAPS & PATH - Differences & Similarities Circles, MAPS & PATH: Creative Tools for Change. The MAPs Training Video and PATH Training Video are excellent compliments to this book.
Aquarius Now. Radical common sense and reclaiming our personal sovereignty by Marilyn Ferguson
	Order code: 18-B009 Price: £17.00 Format: 160x235mm 213pp hardback In ‘Aquarius now’ Marilyn Ferguson tells the truth we don't want to face - we have no enemy except ourselves and the mess we've made individually and collectively by refusing to look at what we're doing to our bodies, our minds, our society, and the Earth itself. We've been seduced by the Cult of Numbers, caught in a web of mindless materialism, obsessed with competition, with winning and losing, afraid of anything that can't be seen or measured, and in the grip of an economic model where only that which generates more money is worth pursuing. The imbalance we see outside ourselves only mirrors the imbalance within. The way to heal the imbalance is to heal ourselves. We have to stop thinking of ourselves as conquerors and start thinking of ourselves as fellow travellers with every living being on this planet. The task is not to climb a mountain, but to navigate a river. We need to take responsibility for our own actions. We need to heed the words of our many available teachers……..
Avalanche on the prairie by Grant McKenzie
	Order code: 05-B019 Price: £6.00 Format: 215 x 140mm 99pp paperback Owl, Measles and Ogre are three characters that you won’t soon forget. Each are different—each unique. But schools can be difficult places for those with differences. A bike race to escape school bullies leads Owl directly to a hidden world and life threatening danger. He is going to need every ounce of courage he has, and even that isn’t enough. Owl’s only hope for survival is Measles, a kid with Down Syndrome whose best friend is a computer! Owl has always wanted friends. And given the mess he’s in, there’s nothing he needs more!!

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