Wellness Group Toolkit: Ideas and Exercises for Support and/or Wellness Groups - Paperback

by Carmen Freeman (Author)

The 'I' in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are 'we.' -Author unknown- The Wellness Group Toolkit contains ideas and exercises designed to assist support and/or wellness group facilitators and participants in expanding their viewpoint about "support group" structure, and the types of activities that are appropriate and possible. By getting support and survivor groups to be reflective, introspective, and engaged, the author helps communities become stronger entities of encouragement and transformation. Divided into four main sections (Beginnings, Openings, Group Exercises, and Resources), this guide sparks the imagination and puts ideas, tools, and prompts into the hands of the people who need them.

Author Biography

Carmen Freeman, MS, CHT, is a retired transpersonal hypnotherapist, who specialized in working with physical challenges and illnesses. She is currently a speaker, and workshop facilitator, who has journeyed with MS for over thirty-two years. Although physically challenged, she lives her life with intention, and with an understanding that we are more than our body's experience. She was the founder of a national women's retreat, authored the Wellness Manifesto poster, created and facilitated the Boulder MS Wellness Group for 13 years, helped the MS Society create conferences focusing on wellness, and has facilitated numerous conference workshops for various organizations.