Hopes & Dreams - Developing Potential

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A Practical Approach to Developing Potential

By Robin Dynes

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Hopes & Dreams - Developing Potential by Robin Dynes is a practical guide designed to empower individuals to explore their ambitions, set achievable goals, and effectively plan their futures. Suitable for those undergoing significant life changes—whether returning to education, entering the workforce, or pursuing new interests—the book is structured into two parts. The first part offers six core sessions on starting out, deciding aspirations, goal setting, action planning, learning strategies, and future planning. The second part includes eight optional sessions addressing vital skills such as stress management, coping with change, assertiveness, conflict resolution, time management, and making a positive impression. Developed from extensive experience in adult education and social support, it serves as an invaluable tool for professionals supporting personal development.
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This resource is ideal for youth leaders, teachers, support workers, occupational therapists, social workers, and probation staff seeking practical methods to assist individuals facing major life transitions. It is particularly suited to adults looking to regain confidence, develop skills, and realise their hopes and dreams through structured planning and personal growth.

Suitable for youth leaders, teachers, support workers, occupational therapists, social workers and probation staff, this title provides the tools to help individuals explore their ambitions, set goals and plan to achieve them, manage their lives and gain the skills to make their hopes and dreams a reality.

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This practical resource provides the tools to help individuals explore their ambitions, set goals and plan to achieve them, manage their lives and gain the skills to make their hopes and dreams a reality. The programme is ideal for use with people who are making major changes in their lives and are ready to explore their options for the future. They may wish to return to education, go back to work, change jobs, start voluntary work, take up new interests or are considering other changes in their lives.

Hopes & Dreams - Developing Potential is divided into two parts: six core sessions covering: Making a start, Deciding what you want, Setting goals, Making it happen, Learning to learn and What next? and eight optional sessions. These can be used individually or added to the core sessions in any order, depending on identified need. The sessions cover: Dealing with stress, Coping with change, Being assertive, Overcoming relationship conflict, Organising your time, Dealing with disappointment, Keeping records and Creating an impression.

It is an ideal resource for youth leaders, teachers, support workers, occupational therapists, social workers and probation staff. It has been developed through the experience of working with groups and individuals in adult education, youth services, day centres and rehabilitation centres.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780863889097

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 July 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Speechmark Publishing Ltd

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 736g

Pages: 196

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About the Author

Robin Dynes is the Social Inclusion Officer for Skills & Learning in his local authority. His main role has been to develop an innovative outreach curriculum that is accessible and meets the needs of people with disabilities, older people and others who are vulnerable The aim is to ensure that people with disabilities have equal opportunity and an active and fulfilling role within the community. To do this he has formed partnerships with day centres, residential homes, social work teams, primary care, special schools, employment agencies, probation, elderly clubs, churches and other providers of services within the borough. The partnerships work together to support the health and wellbeing of the community. He also advises and contributes to the disability awareness and qualification training programmes for adult learning staff and tutors and the other agencies involved. In the past Robin has managed a mental health day centre, worked in a multi-purpose day centre, a number of psychiatric hospitals and is a trainer and counsellor. He is the author of a number of books including Writing Lie Histories, The Reminiscence Puzzle Book, Memory Games for Groups, The Non-Competitive Activity Book, Creative Games in Groupwork, Creative Writing in Groupwork, Anxiety Management, Positive Interaction Skills, The Memory Box and The Group Leader's Toolkit.