Your Brain on Ink
A Workbook on Neuroplasticity and the Journal Ladder
By (author) Kathleen Adams, Deborah Ross
Publication date:
20 April 2016Length of book:
200 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDimensions:
237x159mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781475814248
A growing body of neuroscience research has established the principle of neuroplasticity; a powerfully hopeful message that we can use our minds to change our brains in the direction of greater health and well-being. The key to shaping this change rests in how we direct and focus and our attention. 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.
In this companionable and lively workbook, the complex worlds of positive psychology, neuropsychology and expressive writing weave together. The result is accessible information and practice--an amazing feat of integration and utility. Ross and Adams make this weave look simple like the Russian Ballet makes turns and leaps look easy. The workbook clearly explains the neurological context of self-improvement and the expressive writing practice that is its vehicle. The book moves gracefully between information, exercises and dialogs; the reader/writer is engaged, active and absorbed throughout. Your Brain on Ink presents state-of-the-art information and writing techniques in a fun and practical way. It is a valuable contribution to the journal writing world.