Part of a package for students and qualified nurses and allied health professionals such as health visitors, midwives and occupational therapists, which looks at awareness and how we view the world around us.

From the author of "Beginning with Empathy" the formula of a two-in-one workshop package is repeated in its companion title "Beginning with Awareness". The Learner's Handbook offers teaching about self-awareness in relation to health care which workers in any field of patient care will find useful, either as a book for self-study or for work in groups. The practical exercises laid out in the book, reinforce the theories Tschudin puts forward on awareness and also meet the needs of new training programmes for nurses and all allied health groups. The handbook would be appropriate to workers at any stage of professional development. The Facilitator's Guide provides a complete manual on how to organize and lead a two-day workshop, with suggested timetables, exercises, discussion triggers and follow-up points. Exercises and theory in both parts of the package follow the same sequence and can be used in conjunction or separately.

Part 1 The outer world: room
object
view
your work place
events
media
art
leisure
time
space
routine
other people. Part 2 The go-between world of the body and the senses: body awareness
your body
clothes
posture
smell
touch
taste
hearing
seeing
sexuality. Part 3 The inner world: thoughts
more thoughts
thinking
value-thoughts
feelings
motivation
values
needs and wants
supernatural experiences
spiritual and religious aspects
the unconcious or unknown
dreams
dreams-symbols
meaning
integrity.