One of the most inspirational books ever, as Stephen Haff pulls off a miracle in the little one-room, after-school free meet up, where mixed-heritage kids of all different ages and reading levels (some zero) flock to write their stories, read them, and be heard.
As an instructor, myself, I was dazzled by the generous, ingenious ways he let the kids lead, with brilliant hints and mountains of belief in them, engaging them so they mirrored his love of reading, his joy in sharing. I was impressed as they helped each other read and translate Don Quixote from old Spanish (teaching him, sometimes), create a bilingual touring musical show, and become family.
It felt so much greater than a “feel-good” book, rising to heights that included one hundred professional writers coming in to participate humbly. Salman Rushdie said, “Cervantes would be proud.” This book fills my heart with joy.
"In my years of experience as a writer and as a college professor, I have never seen anything like this: the love for language, the passion for discussion, clarity of mind, and humility of heart. Stephen Haff invents impossible projects and makes them possible." -Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive
The unlikely, inspiring true story of a one-room school where children of undocumented immigrants and their teacher discover their voices and speak truth to power.
Still Waters in a Storm is an after-school program held in a small room in Bushwick, Brooklyn; it is a place for kids to…
When international journalist Gunilla Hamne interviewed victims traumatized by war and genocide and they shared their tragic stories, she wondered—as I did—what if they’d been re-traumatized by the recounting?
Not willing to “take another story from people who suffer and leave them with the pain,” she learned Thought Field Therapy, the tapping cure—one of my go-to trauma treatments. She’d found her answer. Together with trauma facilitator Ulf Sandstrom, they created Peaceful Hearts Network, teaching their simplified TTT trauma-relieving method around the world: in African countries, India, Canada, Sweden, to refugees on the Greek Isles, as well as in US prisons.
I’d lectured with them in Sweden and loved watching videos of joyfully healing people singing Sandstrom’s TTT song and tapping acupressure points. Wherever hurting people call them, there they are. And what I like best: they include a whole, illustrated course, so that anyone can learn the simple method and be able to share it anywhere, a gift to the world.
Healing from Emotional Trauma and Stress Is Possible
The Trauma Tapping Technique is an approach backed by evidence for those suffering from emotional trauma, as well as for first responders and humanitarian outreachers who risk being traumatized by proximity. It is based upon the authors’ experiences of working with survivors of armed conflict, genocide, pandemic and natural disasters over 10 years in 30 countries.
This is a book about emotional First Aid techniques to heal the physical and psychological symptoms of trauma. In this book you will learn
How emotional and post-traumatic stress can manifest
Step-by-step instructions for how to…
As a therapist, myself, I was so engaged when Lori Gottlieb was brave and candid enough to pull back the curtain in her therapy room where she struggled in her practice with a variety of defensive, complex patients.
How people tick and what makes them that way is a constant fascination to me. And her patients’ presenting issues were so familiar. But it was when the metaphysical rug was pulled out from under her and she took us with her to her own therapy sessions, that I was deeply engrossed. I learned a few brilliant approaches to different traumas and psychological challenges.
And, as I witnessed her own defenses unravel, I was confirmed in my belief that therapy can gently tempt the secrets we keep from ourselves to come out and let us heal. Both her insights and her humor lifted this book for me well above any expectations I’d had when I first picked it up.
Ever wonder what your therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New York Times bestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the scenes of her practice - where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
When a personal crisis causes her world to come crashing down, Lori Gottlieb - an experienced therapist with a thriving practice in Los Angeles - is suddenly adrift. Enter Wendell, himself a veteran therapist with an unconventional style, whose sessions with Gottlieb will prove transformative for her.
The Old One, an ancient whale carrying the wisdom of the cetaceans, assigns to what seems like an ordinary dolphin the “impossible” mission of waking humans to their full potential before it’s too late. But he can’t do it alone. He is told he will receive the help of a woman who has no idea of her role in this vital experiment. She is a therapist seeking new ways to communicate with her young patients.
How can they find the path to each other over the obstacles of land and sea? They must join their separate threads of intensity, science, visions, and open hearts—and bring to a waiting, hurting world this life-affirming message of what we might become.
