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Welcome
The
Brisbane Institute of Strengths Based Practice (Inc) was
founded in 2006 to support approaches that promote
resilience as opposed to dealing with deficits. We are a
group of people from a range of professional backgrounds
such as social work, psychology, education and
management that believe, work with and
advocate strengths based practices. We recognise that
the strength based movement is gaining impetus
globally, with people from diverse backgrounds attracted
to this inward looking practice, whether it be teachers
utilising such strategies with their students, helping
professionals engaging with clients to fulfil their
potential, or employers and HRD Managers utilising
strength based performance appraisals with their
employers.
What are SBPs?
Strengths Based Practices (SBPs) concentrates on the
inherent strengths of individuals, families groups
and organisations deploying peoples' personal
strengths to aid their recovery and empowerment.
SBPs are empowering alternatives to traditional
methods with individuals, group or organizational
work. SBPs refrain from allowing crippling,
labelling and stigmatized language. Descriptions and
pathology owned by persons groups and organizations
that suggest acceptance of their condition as
hopeless or helpless to change are constructively
challenged through SBPs. Strengths based strategies
build and foster hope from within by focusing and
working with precedent successes. SBPs strategies
facilitate change by assisting to look at / what has
worked? what does not work? and what might work
presently making it important for facilitators and
those desiring change to be integral to this process
of change.
An International Conference on
‘Coping and Resilience’
Dubrovnik
2009
involving a
number of practitioners, academics and researchers is
planned to be held
3rd - 6th of October, 2009
in the City of Dubrovnik, Croatia, Europe.
There is only one place on
earth called Dubrovnik and all the
excitement of this city will be captured in
an exciting conference program and after
conference extensions that will make your
week to ten days in Europe completely
memorable.
OCTOBER 2009
MO
5 12 19 26
TU
6 13 20 27
WE 7 14 21 28
TH 1 8 15 22 29
FR
2 9 16 23 30
SA 3 10 17 24
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SU 4 11 18 25 |
Conference Announcement
The Brisbane Institute of
Strengths based Practice and the Society for
Psychological Assistance, Zagreb
http://www.dpp.hr/eng/onama.php
With likely collaboration
from a number of
International Societies for
Trauma and Stress Studies, mental health
community development and peace building,
clinicians and policy academics, therapists
and activist organisations
Announces an open call for
presentation.
Date claimer October - 2 Week
2009
Where else but Dubrovnik!
Venue:
Almost everything and every
space in the unique Dubrovnik!
See
http://www.tzdubrovnik.hr/english/index.php
http://www.croatia.hr/English/Multimedija/
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Please
visit
www.strengthbasedstrategies.com
for more info on 2006
International Conference
10 -
12 November 2006 Hyderabad - India |
Rural
Social Work Action Group