Books by Kathleen Adams

In an easy-to-use workbook format this publication offers a strengths based, preventative, positive approach, grounded in neuroscience research, for creating a stronger sense of overall well-being. It contains more than 65 unique writing prompts and a facilitator's guide with complete facilitation plans for 1-hour, 90 minutes and 2-hour groups.

The work of a school principal is a blend of nonstop demands, heart-opening connections, near-constant stress, passionate commitment, and a merry jumble of projects that flop or flourish. ItΓÇÖs easy to forget that the principals own health and harmony are among the things that also need attention.In this innovative workbook, youΓÇÖll be expertly guided through The Flourishing Principals eight strengths-based, solution-focused strategies for self-renewal are designed to support principals like you. YouΓÇÖll connect with core values, find and sustain healthy balance, acknowledge current reality, and set clear intentions. YouΓÇÖll rediscover innate creativity, refresh healthy communication skills, focus on self-care, and call upon guiding wisdom. YouΓÇÖll flourish!More than 70 well-crafted writing prompts guide you to self-renewal. Each is illustrated with the voice of a flourishing principal who has embodied these strategies. A facilitatorΓÇÖs guide featuring a step-by-step curriculum prepares you to lead a writing group with peers.

Teachers begin the professional journey with a treasure chest full of experiences, hopes, and expectations gathered from early childhood. Yet the everyday stresses and challenges of 21st century classrooms often leave teachers with neither time nor energy to recall their initiating dreams and desires. In this innovative workbook youΓÇÖll be expertly guided through a journey of self-discovery, back to the roots of your story, your evolution as a teacher, and the rituals and routines that help or hurt. YouΓÇÖll take time out to remember the ways that teaching blesses you. YouΓÇÖll learn to confront the inner critic and push back against the voice that tells you to do more, more, more. YouΓÇÖll discover the legacy you leave with your students. YouΓÇÖll fall in love with teaching all over again.Illustrated with 115 actual journal entries by 17 teachers in response to 65 well-crafted writing prompts, youΓÇÖll be held in a supportive international community as you rediscover yourself and your innate strengths. A facilitatorΓÇÖs guide featuring step-by-step lesson plans prepares you to offer this work as a writing group with peers.

Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. For decades, it has been the province of journals, memoirs, poets, and language arts classrooms. Social science research now provides indisputable evidence that expressive writing is also healing.