About Innovative Resources
Innovative Resources is the publishing and bookselling arm of St Luke's Anglicare - an organisation that has been providing a wide range of community services throughout North Central Victoria, Australia for more than 25 years.
Our range of therapeutic card sets, books and stickers can be used by human service professionals in many different roles and cultures. Innovative Resources is committed to creating materials that promote a strengths-based philosophy, use straightforward language and require no special training.
All our published materials reflect St Luke's motto: Respect, Hope, Fairness.
Some good questions to consider:
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Why are you introducing the cards? |
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Is there a trusting, respectful relationship between those who will be using them? |
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Is it the right time to introduce them? |
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Will the cards get in the way of the learning that is already occurring? |
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Have issues of confidentiality been considered? |
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Is there sufficient time and is this the right forum to work through the insights, issues and vulnerabilities that may be raised? |
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Is the tool appropriate to the energy and literacy levels of the users? |
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Are the cards culturally relevant? |
Strength Cards for Kids- Original
by Innovative Resources
Psychologists, social workers, teachers, student welfare coordinators, chaplains and counsellors: Here is a product perfect for identifying, naming and celebrating inherent strengths, qualities and abilities. Using vibrant illustraion and gentle humour, this clever but simple card set is a strengths- based resource designed specifically for primary school aged children with the intention of nurturing emotional intelligence and self-esteem. Published by Innovative Resources.
Booklet author: Russell Deal
Illustrator: John Veeken
40 hard-wearing, laminated, full-colour cards, 210 x 150mm, polypropylene box, 24-page booklet packed full of great ideas for using the cards.
Cars R Us
by Innovative Resources
Inspired by Choice Theory, Reality Therapy and incorporating strengths - based ideas, Cars R Us is a conversation - building tool ideal for exploring feelings, responses and articulating goals. Perfect for anyone wanting to engage boys or men in important conversations. For those familiar with Glassers work this is a hands - on tool that includes all the car - based metaphors Choice Theorists find so useful. The set consists of 52 brilliant cartoon - illustrated Fleet cards, 16 Know Your Vehicle cards, 10 Thinking Bubbles, one Journey Planner and an Owners Manual. Cars R Us poses questions we can all use to ensure were in the drivers seat of our own car, with a tank full of fuel, a well - tuned engine, an effective map of our journey, and a safe set of tyres.
Booklet authors: Russell Deal with Ivan Honey
Illustrator and designer: Mat Jones.
Published by Innovative Resources.60 full - colour cards 210mm x 148mm, 10 cards 150mm x 100mm, a comprehensive booklet of suggestions, polypropylene box
Picture This
by Innovative Resources
Looking for inspiring, evocative, high - quality, text - free images? These 75 original, diverse and eclectic photographs offer opportunities for people of all ages to reflect on their experiences. Here is a powerful conversation - stimulant for oiling the juice of imagination, memory and emotions.Some of these full - colour images are poignant, some are heart - warming and others are tinged with humour. This highly interpretive tool can open up conversations, storytelling and creative writing about feelings, goals, and points of view.
Booklet author: Russell Deal
Designer: Brent Seamer
Published by Innovative Resources 2007, 75 laminated, full - colour cards, 170 x 125mm, full - colour polypropylene box, 48 - page booklet.
Shadows and Deeper Shadows
by Innovative Resources
Psychologists, social workers, counsellors and adult educators will find this powerful set of watercolour images can invite their clients or students to reflect on their experiences and explore the meaning of 'shadows' in their lives.This resource acknowledges that pain and suffering (such as grief, loneliness, depression, loss and violence) often need to be 'storied' before resolution is possible.
Published by Innovative Resources 2002, new ed: 2005.
Booklet authors: Russell Deal, Fiona Gardner & John Holton.
Artist: Carolyn Marrone.
Designer: Tim Lane
Evocative water-colour images on cards 210 x 150mm. Full-colour cardboard box, 36-page booklet.
Our Scrapbook of Strengths
by Russell Deal & Simone Silberberg
Our Scrapbook of Strengths can be used with families, community groups, work teams, support groups, school children, and pretty much any other gathering of people. It provides an opportunity to acknowledge and recognise the existing strengths and to identify ways in which these strengths can contribute to the resilience of the group. Open doors to alternative stories about the group's relationships--and re-instigate hope in a problem-saturated story. Restore faith in a group's capability to overcome issues, undertake new projects and successfully achieve their goals.
New ed. published by Innovative Resources 2009
Booklet authors: Russell Deal & Simone Silberberg
Artist: Carolyn Marrone.
Designer: Tim Lane
42 A5 full-colour, laminated cards in a full-colour polypropylene box.