“Knowing others
is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others
is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
“Strength does not come from physical
capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“Success is achieved by developing our
strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses”
- Marilyn vos Savant
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Brisbane Institute
Strengths
Strategies
Strengths
Approach
Human
Resource
Development
Social change
Transition societies
Role of youth
Entrepreneurship
development Governance and people strengthening
practices
Volunteers
development
Asset Based
Community Development Micro credits and finance
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POSTERS - Brisbane Institute of Strengths based Practice, Brisbane,
Australia
International Conference Sarajevo
STRENGTHS BASED
MANAGEMENT OF SOCIAL
CHANGE
WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON
TRANSITION COUNTRIES
Sarajevo Conversations
2011
Sarajevo 16-18 SEPTEMBER
2011
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Are you
interested in the following areas?
Social
Change, Strengths Based Practice,
Transition Countries, Community Care
and Development, Global Humanitarian
resettlements, Youth sector,
Entrepreneurship development, Corporate
Social Responsibility, Governance and
people strengthening practices,
Volunteers for development, Counselling,
Indigenous People Development and
Economic Development
Then this is your conference.
Given a variety of approaches to
management of social change and nation
building, papers around transformational
change at the level of individuals,
groups, and the collective psyche;
moving from resilience to hope building
and reviewing practicing skills to
enhance in each of these areas are
central to the themes of this
conference.
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This conference clearly is an
opportunity for addressing them from a
number of perspectives.
Viewed from a Strengths based
practices SbPs,
presentations at the conference will
focus on the inherent strengths
of individuals, groups and
organizations. We are looking for
empowering alternatives to traditional
methods with individuals, group or
organizational work. We wish to see
strategies that facilitate change by
assisting to look at / what has worked?
What does not work? And what might work
presently making it important for those
who facilitate and those desiring change
to be integral to this process of
change.
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Our learning
comes as a result of our partnership with a number of
organisations
and individuals
who belong to the following organisations:
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The
Society for Psychological Assistance
The
Mission
of the Society for Psychological Assistance is to help
alleviate the suffering of traumatic stress survivors
and to provide psychological and psychosocial assistance
to individuals, families, groups and communities in
distress.
Goals
of the Society are:
· To
provide direct psychosocial assistance to survivors of
traumatic stress, with special focus on underserved
populations;
· To
provide psychological support, counselling and therapy
services to individuals and families in distress, grief
and crisis;
· To
train professional and non-professional mental health
care-providers, and to serve as a field training center
for university graduate students;
· To
develop clinical and community-based needs assessment
techniques, protocols and instruments;
· To
develop program monitoring methods and impact evaluation
indicators;
· To
provide professional support and consultation to
organizations and individuals;
· To
publish books, manuals, research articles for
professionals and brochures and leaflets for the
community at large;
· To
help increase community awareness and understanding of
stress, trauma and recovery.
http://www.dpp.hr |
for Family Studies and Development
(DIFSD) conducts research and promotes
scholarship on the legal, sociological,
and scientific basis of the natural
family as the fundamental unit of society.
It achieves its objectives through
regional family conferences, academic
research, publications, inter-disciplinary
studies and policy initiatives. In 2006,
DIIFSD, in partnership with local experts
and government agencies, convened four
regional conferences in the cities of
Vienna,
Nairobi, Kuala Lumpur and Stockholm.
Its initiatives seek to implement the Doha Declaration, an
internationally recognized reaffirmation of Article 16 (3) of the
United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which reads:
"The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society
and is entitled to protection by society and the State."
The Institute contributes to Qatar Foundation's community
development mission through its policies and programs that
build on the concept that a framework of strong, stable families
facilitates dialogue and harmony at all social levels.
DIFSD has created a unique on-line library, called the Global Family
Matters Information System (FAMIS), as a family-related research
resource. It has also created a series of documentaries that explores
practices and behaviors contributing to well-functioning families and
societies.
A series of three volumes from the 2004 Doha International
Conference for the Family considered global events that affect the
natural family.
The 2004 Doha conference marked the 10th anniversary of the
United Nations 'International Year of the Family'.
For more information about the Doha International Institute for Family
Studies and Development, visit
www.fsd.org.qa
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 AusAID of the Australian
Government is one of the
proud sponsors of the Coping
and Resilience 2009
International Conference
organised by the Brisbane
Institute of Strengths Based Practice
AusAID is responsible for
managing Australia's overseas aid program.
The objective of the aid
program is to assist developing countries r
educe poverty and achieve
sustainable development, in line with
Australia's national
interest.
AusAID provides advice and
support to the Minister and Parliamentary
Secretary on development
policy, and plans and coordinates poverty
reduction activities in
partnership with developing countries.
AusAID's head office is in
Canberra. AusAID also has representatives
in 25 Australian
diplomatic missions overseas.
http://www.ausaid.gov.au/
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