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‘Purpos e’ card from the Angels card set Cover image painted by Trace Balla for the card set Angels: the strengths of everyday kindness. www.innovativeresources.org CONTENTS On Angels and Boats by Russell Deal 2Symbols 39 Talking Pictures 40 CARD PACKS & STICKERS Talking Up Our Strengths 41 Age of Adventure 4 Two Worlds New! 42 Angels New! 5Ups and Downs 43 Baby Strengths 6 Views from the Verandah New! 44 The Bears 7 What Works? 45 Can-Do Dinosaurs 8 Wonderful You 46 Cars'R'Us 9 Words 47 Change by Design 10 Coming Soon 48 Choosing Strengths 11 Deep Speak 12 BOOKS & PICTURE BOOKS Funky Fish 13 Byron and the Chairs 49 Girltopia 14 Captain Grumpy 50 Growing Well 15 Caring…and Other Hirewire Acts 51 Inside Out: A Journalling Kit 16 Communities of Hope 52 The Kangas and The Koalas 17 Creative Yoga for Teenagers 53 Mates Traits 18 Doing Change 54 My Feelings 19 The Harveys and Other Stories 55 Name the Frame 20 I See You 56 Note to Self 21 Jelly Bean’s Secret 57 Optimism Boosters 22 Kids’ Skills 58 Our Scrapbook of Strengths 23 Kids’ Skills In Action 59 A Patchwork Life 24 NoNo the Little Seal 60 Picture This 25 Rosy and Jack 61 Reflexions 26 Seven Dying Australians 62 Storm in a Teacup 63 Respect & Justice Cards 27 The Strengths Approach 64 Scaling Kit New: Interactive DVD! 28 Violet’s Voice 65 Sensitive New Age Cavepersons 29 The Wrong Stone 66 Shadows and Deeper Shadows 30 Signposts 31 BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE… Sometimes Magic 32 Value Packs 67 Stones…have feelings too! 33 Our Online Newsletter 71 Storycatching 34 Our Workshops 72 Strength Cards 35 Our Bookshop 73 Strength Cards for Kids 36 Thank You 74 Strengths to the Max 37 Order Form 75 Strengths in Teams 38 Customer Information 76 3 ON ANGELS AND BOATS By Russell Deal elcome to Innovative Resources’ latest catalogue. WWe are now over twenty-one years old and we remain determined to keep our little socialal enterprise boat afloat for a few more years yet. The cover of this catalogue is one of the cards ‘It can be a comforting metaphor from Angels: the strengths of everyday kindness, a to think that we are surrounded delightfully engaging set of cards illustrated by artist by angels who, in spite of their Trace Balla from Castlemaine in Central Victoria. human foibles and failings One of the many things the Angels cards can speak (or because of them), have to us about is generosity—in particular, those angels in human guise who have gifted us with their touched us with their gifts.’ generosity. It can be a comforting metaphor to think that we are surrounded by angels who, in spite of their human foibles and failings (or because of them), to be touched by others who, in one way or another, have touched us with their gifts. have offered us ‘angelic gifts’. In the Angels card set we have named and illustrated just 50 possible ways Sometimes it might be the kindness of complete we might give and receive such gifts. (A card set that strangers that moves us because their generosity attempted to name every possible angelic gift would comes with no expectation of reciprocity. be an impossibly large one!) Friends or family also share angelic gifts by offering love and support through good and bad times over Within the Angels cards you may well recognise many years. Think about parents, for example, who people who have had an impact on your life and resolutely and unconditionally love and care for their deserve recognition. Or the Angels might bring to child with a disability. Or perhaps it is the children mind those around you who could use an angelic gift who become the carers of a parent with a disability. at present and you may wonder how you could be Not everyone believes in the existence of angels as the bearer of such a gift. heavenly creatures, of course. But to be human is Why did we choose the ‘Purpose’ card for our cover? 4 There are several reasons. Firstly, Innovative other timeses when the purpose might be to spend Resources is purposeful in its publishing. We want time alone or with our kids or grandchildren, to create original materials that can touch people’s teaching and learning new skills, or to simply enjoy lives. In some small way, this is the gift that we a beautiful day not ‘achieving’ much at all in a want to share. In the creation of conversation- world increasingly dominated by ‘evidence-based building tools, we try to add illustration and design outcomes’. that invites others to reflect on, and talk about, At Innovative Resources we like to think that what’s important in their lives. messing about with cards can be the equivalent Behind all our publications there is a purpose—a of messing about in boats. People can enjoy our serious intent—to use our experience and skills card sets and extract meaning from them in many to help tackle social structures and processes that different ways. The cards come with suggestions discriminate, demean and disadvantage those in our not instructions. We are not trying to teach anyone communities. In doing this, we depend on the gifts anything. There are no puzzles that have to be of others—authors, artists, customers, colleagues, solved or goals that have to be reached. clients, communities, families and friends. Our hope is that when people mess about with And why the theme of ‘boat-building’? our cards they will discover their own meanings and create their own enjoyment from them. This is Well as Ratty famously said in Wind in the Willows: innovative Resources’ purpose as a publisher. When ‘There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half as it works for someone and they discover something much worth doing as messing about in boats’. about themselves, or their curiosity is sparked, that Messing about can be very purposeful at any time. can be thought of as a gift for them. Messing about in boats can serve many different purposes. Yes, it can have a very functional purpose Russell Deal of getting from A to B over water but there are Founder and Creative Director 5 The strengths AGE OF ADVENTURE of active ageing Active aging is a positive part of the life cycle.e. Age of Adventure seeks to emphasise the creative, relational and fun aspects of the ‘later years’ and acknowledge that ‘life isn’t over until it’s over’. Age of Adventure features 50 full-colour photographic images that aim to challenge stereotypes of ‘the elderly’, enhance life- direction, reinforce positive aspects—such as gained wisdom—and validate older people’s choices. Here are images to make you laugh, reflect, celebrate, and acknowledge the vital roles and diversity offered by older members of our communities. Older and younger generations alike can use Age of Adventure to explore possibilities and Here are images to make you CARD PACK set goals for the future. laugh, reflect, celebrate, and • Which card comes closest to your picture acknowledge the vital roles of how you would like to grow old? and diversity offered by older • What might stop you growing old in this way? members of our communities. • Which card represents the most likely picture of yourself in old age? 50 laminated, full-colour cards, 150 x 150mm, • Which characters do you admire most? Why? full-colour polypropylene box, 28 page booklet. ISBN 978 1 9209452 9 9 Booklet author: Judi Fisher Designer: Billington Prideaux Partnership CAT NO: 3400 AU$49.50 6 Ph: (03) 5442 0500 (International: +61 3) www.innovativeresources.org New! Inviting the strengths of angels ANGELS into our everyday lives —THE STRENGTHS OF EVERYDAY KINDNESS Angels—the strengths of everyday kindness is a set of 52 exquisitely-illustrated, heart-warming cards featuring ‘everyday’ angels. Each card represents an important quality or skill that we may want to celebrate or invite into our family, workplace, classroom and community, such as contentment, peace, assertiveness, clarity, openness, balance or adventure. Counsellors, social workers, teachers, trainers, managers and motivators can use these cards to build conversations, encourage storytelling, and help people of all ages think differently about who they CARD PACK CA are, what is important, and how to navigate life’s ups and downs. • Is there are card that reminds you of someone you know? • Can you choose a card that represents something you have received or given today? (It could be a quality, a feeling, a virtue, or an act of kindness.) • Think of someone who could really use some support right now: What card represents a quality you would want to ‘visit’ them? • Is there a card that represents a strength you 52 laminated, full-colour cards, 120 x 130mm, would like to develop more? polypropylene box, 36-page booklet • What is one step you could take towards this? ISBN: 978 1 920945 65 7 Author: Karen Masman • For something you are about to undertake, which Artist: Trace Balla, Designer: Mat Jones two cards represent the strengths you will need most? CAT NO: 4950 AU$49.50 Ph: (03) 5442 0500 (International: +61 3) www.innovativeresources.org 7 Understanding baby behaviours, BABY STRENGTHS nurturing healthy bonds I can be creative Caring for a baby or toddler can be fun, surprising, reaatit challenging, exhausting…the best and most difficult I can mirror you thing you have ever done! Baby Strengths is a set of I can be anything delightfully-illustrated cards to help build or reinforce thh inng behaviours crucial for secure attachment between babies and their primary carers.