Resources

If you are involved with domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) and you are looking for an effective response to the above quotations, this site may interest you. It contains free resources built up over several years by a retired psychotherapist and used in prisons, individual and group settings, with a particular focus on men who have lost their way.

What do they offer?

A way of stopping the violence before it happens. Behaviour change that is welcomed not coerced. Men recovering meaning, purpose, control and dignity - finding their way instead of being lost and confused.

How does it represent a 'way forward'?

It uses new insights into emotional health from a model that is 'radically re-evaluating' healthcare in the UK

What new insights?

Insights from foundation truths or 'givens' that apply to humans everywhere regardless of race, gender, culture or status. A set of ideas that better explain emotional health. (read more)

What has 'therapeutic storytelling' got to do with this?

We dream in stories. Stories are the vehicle to carry sense-making metaphors into the deepest part of our brain, the part where thought and behaviour begin. Metaphor is the language of the emotional brain, and to change thinking and behaviour we need to impact the part of the brain where it originates.

List of resources