Psychosocial Support @ja

The paradigm we’re currently living in makes assumptions that most of us consciously and unconsciously live from. Some of these are beliefs in scarcity and lack, that someone needs to lose for us to win, that we have to use coercion, convincing, manipulation or people […]

The Confidence Clinic was created to help women reclaim control over their own lives. And the staff intentionally stepped back from any presumption of professionalism, any sense that they were part of that group of “expert” people who exercise control over others.

In a flyer advertising my book Creating Confidence: How to Do Social Work Without Destroying People’s Souls, I stated that my expertise consists of knowing that I’m not really an expert in anything other than myself. A friend responded by saying that, in her opinion, I was an expert in a great many more things than “myself”. But I didn’t make that statement to be modest. I wanted to make a point about experts and expertise.

In May, 2013, I was giving a brief workshop on Level 1 Focusing to a group of women in Islamabad, Pakistan. This group of women, all educated and most of them married, came to the workshop at the encouragement of their friend, who had a […]

Focusing International fosters social change by supporting community wellness and psychosocial wellness using a public health approach. One of the best description of the public health approach comes from The Public Health Agency of Canada, which describes this approach as follows: “Important values in public […]