Addressing personal and planetary issues, Find Your Power describes how to strengthen your ability to bring about positive change. Drawing on insights from addictions recovery, positive psychology, storytelling and holistic science, it includes proven strategies for improving mood, building strengths and increasing effectiveness. The book addresses the following key themes: Motivational enhancement tools that will help you become clearer about your direction and more inspired to move that way; Tools for getting through blocks by looking at creative problem solving strategies, ways of dealing with fear and methods for transforming crisis or failure into turning points; and How to keep yourself going in the marathon of longer term change by strengthening support around you, tapping into purposes bigger than yourself and making what you do more enjoyable. The tools described can be used for any kind of change, from tackling depression and improving your life through to addressing world issues like peak oil and climate change. Chris Johnstone is uniquely positioned as a medical doctor whose annual Happiness Training Lectures in the UK are sponsored by the NHS. He is also a key figure in the Transition movement. Find Your Power is not only a highly effective self-help book, but also a call to adventure for everyone wishing to effectively participate in creating a healthier, more sustainable world.
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Chris approaches the challenge of changing things, whether in your life or the world, as a journey or adventure. In adventures, you expect to bump into things, obstacles are part of the course. But when there's too much in the way, and it seems too difficult, we tend to think of the change as beyond our power. At this point, rather than give up or feel defeated, Chris takes us on a different route: he invites us onto the quest of finding our power. By strengthening our ability to rise to challenges, motivate ourselves, find ways through blocks and design more enjoyable approaches to what we do, it becomes possible to open up new pathways forward. --From the Foreword by Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Movement
This brilliant and practical book is a call to liberation: it frees us to discover, use, and enjoy the powers life has given us --Joanna Macy, Author, World As Lover World As Self
I have read many, many books relating to the concepts of personal power/change, and I think this is by far the most helpful and useful. --Patricia Gaya Wicks, Lecturer in Leadership Studies, University of Exeter
This brilliant and practical book is a call to liberation: it frees us to discover, use, and enjoy the powers life has given us --Joanna Macy, Author, World As Lover World As Self
I have read many, many books relating to the concepts of personal power/change, and I think this is by far the most helpful and useful. --Patricia Gaya Wicks, Lecturer in Leadership Studies, University of Exeter
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With a background in medicine, psychology and group work, Dr. Chris Johnstone is a specialist in the psychology of positive change. After working for many years as an addictions specialist in the UK health service, he now focuses on teaching, training and writing. Johnstone has been active in the Transition movement, contributing to a chapter on the psychology of change in The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins, and has pioneered the application of the positive psychology approach in health-care, within organisations and in adult education. He edits the online newsletter The Great Turning Times.
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This book is wonderful. I especially love chapter 11, which I read at a time when I was feeling quite negative about the myriad climate change related issues facing us these days. After reading 'Find Your Power' I felt a lot more positive and empowered...and have learned to see how a crisis really can be transformed into a turning point, not only for individuals, but for whole communities and perhaps the entire human race.
Chris Johnstone has drawn from his experience as an addictions specialist, his work over more than two decades with deep ecologist Joanna Macy, his work in the field of positive psychology and his background in campaigning and activism. The tools contained within this book really did help me find the power within to face the challenging times ahead with renewed positivity, optimism and strength....and it has now taken up permanent residence on my bedside table.
Chris Johnstone has drawn from his experience as an addictions specialist, his work over more than two decades with deep ecologist Joanna Macy, his work in the field of positive psychology and his background in campaigning and activism. The tools contained within this book really did help me find the power within to face the challenging times ahead with renewed positivity, optimism and strength....and it has now taken up permanent residence on my bedside table.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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"His goal is for this book to become a friend and ally in the adventure of your life"
24 May 2010
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I've heard Chris Johnstone speak a little, and read some of his words. There's some good material about him on his website, and there was an earlier edition of this book. The thing that comes screaming through for me is how much he and his subject reflect each other: I feel that it is a sincere part of his mission to lead people on to becoming more powerful.
The background that he brings to this book covers four areas: his work as a drug and addictions therapist (helping people to overcome problems that may seem larger than they are), his work in positive psychology (the branch that looks at what it means to be mentally healthy and operating at our best), a long study in holistics and systems thinking (how large, woolly and complex systems fit and work together), and a talent for interviewing people in a way that brings out their experiences in a really helpful way.
On one level the book includes a series of precise and skilfully-created exercises, open-ended and powerful, that bring out problems and inner feelings, wishes, answers in areas such as articulating desires, discovering purpose and motivation, moving through fears, blocks and loss of momentum, how to be resilient when things go wrong, and - not least - how to enjoy when things go right. On another there's a background trend and message that is hopeful, supportive and encouraging. I felt gently led and guided into becoming more powerful.
One idea I particularly liked is the comparison of problems and challenges to the kind of adventure story where the hero grows in power, learns new skills, finds new answers over the course of the adventure, answers that he couldn't have imagined at the beginning. He refers to the multiple crises in all our lives around credit crunch, climate change, and resource problems. This was really helpful to me because it made it all right for me not to know, yet, all of the answers to all of my problems. My story is still unfolding, and I just have to keep heading in (roughly) the right direction.
So in the adventure of my life over the past little while, I deserve some of the credit for where I've got to and the growth I've made. And so does Chris Johnstone and this book.
The background that he brings to this book covers four areas: his work as a drug and addictions therapist (helping people to overcome problems that may seem larger than they are), his work in positive psychology (the branch that looks at what it means to be mentally healthy and operating at our best), a long study in holistics and systems thinking (how large, woolly and complex systems fit and work together), and a talent for interviewing people in a way that brings out their experiences in a really helpful way.
On one level the book includes a series of precise and skilfully-created exercises, open-ended and powerful, that bring out problems and inner feelings, wishes, answers in areas such as articulating desires, discovering purpose and motivation, moving through fears, blocks and loss of momentum, how to be resilient when things go wrong, and - not least - how to enjoy when things go right. On another there's a background trend and message that is hopeful, supportive and encouraging. I felt gently led and guided into becoming more powerful.
One idea I particularly liked is the comparison of problems and challenges to the kind of adventure story where the hero grows in power, learns new skills, finds new answers over the course of the adventure, answers that he couldn't have imagined at the beginning. He refers to the multiple crises in all our lives around credit crunch, climate change, and resource problems. This was really helpful to me because it made it all right for me not to know, yet, all of the answers to all of my problems. My story is still unfolding, and I just have to keep heading in (roughly) the right direction.
So in the adventure of my life over the past little while, I deserve some of the credit for where I've got to and the growth I've made. And so does Chris Johnstone and this book.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Chris Johnstone's latest edition of 'Find Your Power' is an essential book for anyone interested in creating positive change, on both a personal and planetary level. As a senior mental health practitioner working in higher education, I regularly recommend this to students I see who are struggling with low self esteem, depression, anxiety and addictions. What is particularly excellent about this book is that it offers a wide range of helpful theoretical concepts (underpinned with recent ideas from psychology and science) as well as practical tools which are easy to apply to daily life. I especially like the 'self help SSRI' model where 'Strategies, Stregths Resources and Insights' offers a much needed and refreshing alternative to the usual associated meaning of SSRI's(i.e. antidepressants).
Unlike your usual self help book, which can be rather over focussed on 'personal empowerment', what is refreshing, inspiring and visionary about this book is it's inclusion of wider planetary issues, reminding the reader how their sense of power is embedded in their intrinsic connection and interdependence with life. This book has not only been essential to my work as a coach, therapist, trainer and facilitator but has also strengthened my ability to respond to the concerning global and ecological crisis we face as humans.
Unlike your usual self help book, which can be rather over focussed on 'personal empowerment', what is refreshing, inspiring and visionary about this book is it's inclusion of wider planetary issues, reminding the reader how their sense of power is embedded in their intrinsic connection and interdependence with life. This book has not only been essential to my work as a coach, therapist, trainer and facilitator but has also strengthened my ability to respond to the concerning global and ecological crisis we face as humans.
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Chris Johnstone writes from the heart and he writes with skill. As a coach I have drawn on this book numerous times both for myself and for clients and will no doubt do so... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Kevin Chamberlain
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Great insights into power
I really like this book. It gives great insights into power by the guy who took on junior doctor's working hours in the UK. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Peter W. Burden
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Hope in Action
Chris's book is a gift to us all, offering a tool kit 'for resilience and positive change' that is realistic, hopeful and accessible. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Mel Bambury - High Heathercombe
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Find Your Power.
Find Your Power shows how it really is possible for big change to happen through small steps. Using techniques such as shifting focus to gratitude, honouring pain when it occurs... Read more
Published on 28 Feb 2011 by Jenny Smith
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A priceless ally for anyone wanting to make a positive contribution to...
From his wealth of experience in the fields of addiction counseling, positive psychology and as a leader of workshops in how to respond to global issues such as climate change,... Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2011 by layne gibson
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Find Your Power: Chris Johnston
This is great, I'd recommend it to anyone. It's full of little exercises to do and, unlike most books with little exercises, I found myself actually doing them. Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2010 by Jenny
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Simple language, powerfull message
I have bought the previous edition of Find Your Power and was a bit apprehensive after reading a few self help books that it will be more of positive self talk and not much else. Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2010 by Kamil Pachalko
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Excellent: highly recommended
This book is succinct, insightful and an extremely useful tool for anyone overcoming emotional difficulty in their life, or anyone interested in helping others who are going... Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2010 by Lucy Duggan
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Bigger and better
I've long been a fan of Chris Johnstone's 'Find Your Power'. It's the most wonderful toolkit for anyone who needs to build resilience in an unfriendly world. Read more
Published on 8 Sep 2010 by A. E. Lewis
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A call to adventure
I highly recommend "Find your Power" if, like me, you are concerned about climate change or involved in Transition Town initiatives. Read more
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