Author: Balestracci Davis Publisher: Medical Group Management Association/Center for Research in Ambulatory Health Care Administration ISBN: 9781568294384 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 406
Book Description
Forget everything you've learned in any "statistics" courses you've ever attended. This ground-breaking book will introduce a "mind set," not a "tool set" to effectively utilize data to improve your practice. This totally revised and streamlined edition presents an everyday organizational language to understand the many guises of variation and a framework to react appropriately. A deeper understanding of variation is far more important than statistical techniques when solving quality improvement problems in a healthcare practice. While defined projects are still necessary for organizational improvement, but they must be seen in the context of cultural transformation. Data Sanity will catalyze this process and the use of everyday data to create the time to make effective, more strategic projects. You will learn elegantly simple -- and counterintuitive -- techniques that can create group consensus in seconds. As a result, you can lead deeper, more productive conversations about data and quality issues, which can be the surprising catalyst for true organizational excellence.
Author: Steve Taylor Publisher: Hay House, Inc ISBN: 1848508751 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
Have you ever thought that there might be something wrong with human beings, even that we might be slightly insane? Why is it that so many human beings are filled with a restless discontent, and an insatiable desire for material goods, status and power? Why is it that human history has been filled with endless conflict, oppression and inequality? In this ground-breaking and inspiring book, Steve Taylor shows that we do suffer from a psychological disorder, which he refers to as humania, or ego-madness. This disorder is so close to us that we don't realize it's there, but it's the root cause of all our dysfunctional behaviour, both as individuals and as a species. Back to Sanity explains the characteristics of humania, where it stems from and how it leads to the madness of materialism, status-seeking, warfare, inequality and other symptoms of our insanity. But equally importantly, Back to Sanity shows how we can heal this mental disorder and allow the fleeting moments of harmony that we all experience from time to time to become our permanent state of being.
Author: Mark B. Borg, Jr., PhD Publisher: Central Recovery Press ISBN: 1942094825 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
A vital guide to overcome the barriers to achieving intimacy and meaningful connection. People in resilient relationships are co-owners, experience reciprocity, and are better prepared to meet challenges authentically and effectively. In this sequel to the best-selling Irrelationship, the authors use examples from their clinical practice to review the concept of irrelationship and expand the DREAM Sequence, a tool used by affected couples to address perennial relationship issues. By mutually and mindfully viewing the relationship as a third entity, separate from each individual, couples will learn how to live in and with the ambiguity of empathy, intimacy, vulnerability, and emotional investment and view relationship sanity as a deliberate and joyful undertaking to maintain and deepen connection.
Author: Mindy Baker Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462059899 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 398
Book Description
On the surface, Lark Conners appears to be your average college freshman. She likes hanging out with her friends, going to clubs, working out, and exploring her new life on her own. Her two best friends, Trent and Arryn, are textbook examples of intelligent, handsome, and popular college boys. Life for Lark was just what you'd expect-but it turned out to be nothing she could have ever imagined. When an unexpected event turns her life upside down, nothing even her vivid imagination could have devised happens. Her old life is whisked away, and her new life as Sanity Shadowhouse begins. Now, she is the master of a group of preternatural beings, consisting of vampires, lycans, pixies, and other creatures of immense power. She soon discovers that not only was her picture-perfect life too good to be true, it was also actually a complicated ruse, carefully constructed to keep her hidden from her family's ancient enemies. Once Sanity is introduced to a world of magick and unusual creatures she once dreamed about, she learns that she has abilities people would die-or kill-for.
Author: Margaret J. Wheatley Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers ISBN: 1523006277 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 177
Book Description
What Would It Be Like to Restore Sanity? What would it be like to work together again in creative and generous ways? What would it be like to be curious about who you're with rather than judging or fearing them? What would it be like to engage together in exploring possibilities rather than withdrawing in conflict or disagreement? What would it be like to be working well together? From 50 years working with leaders globally, I state with full confidence that leadership has never been more difficult. And it's not our fault. We've been good and caring leaders, we've led people in empowering, engaging ways to create meaningful, productive work. But now we face external conditions far beyond our control to change, dynamics intensifying at shocking speed. The perfect storm is here, created by the coalescence of climate and human-created catastrophes. As leaders dedicated to serving the causes and people we treasure, confronted by this unrelenting tsunami, what are we to do? I state my answer to this also with full confidence: We need to restore sanity by awakening the human spirit. We can achieve this only if we undertake the most challenging and meaningful work of our leader lives: Creating Islands of Sanity. An Island of Sanity is a gift of possibility and refuge created by people's commitment to form healthy community to do meaningful work. It requires sane leaders with unshakable faith in people's innate generosity, creativity, and kindness. It sets itself apart as an island to protect itself from the life-destroying dynamics, policies, and behaviors that oppress and deny the human spirit. No matter what is happening around us, we can discover practices that enliven our human spirits and produce meaningful contributions for this time.
Author: Thomas Glynn Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 9780914590293 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
Explores a fictional county where the desperation of dirt farming produces a mind that questions not just the limits of sanity, but indeed its rightful continent Jarrel likes to play with dynamite. Jeeter likes to drive pick-up trucks down muddy Adirondack logging roads at 50 miles an hour, sideways. Both of them, flirting with sanity, plot to dynamite a third brother, Lester, from a mental institution. The elements of that plot include a woman farmer, an Indian who just may be able to fly, and of course, Lester, whose only crime against sanity is the ability to sit in a wheelbarrow, pick his scabs, and question the sky. Together, the five of them structure a fragile existence in the north country of upper New York State, an area where farming has ceased to be fashionable of profitable but merely a series of deadly exercises in survival. What happens when the caprice of their personalities, the struggle for existence, and the authorities chip away at their unstable cohesiveness, provides the backbone of the novel. By turns comic, tragic, and clumsy, Temporary Sanity explores a fictional county where the desperation of dirt farming produces a mind that questions not just the limits of sanity, but indeed its rightful continent.
Author: E Podvoll Publisher: Shambhala Publications ISBN: 0834828723 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 417
Book Description
Recovering Sanity is a compassionately written examination of the experience of psychosis and related mental illnesses. By presenting four in-depth profiles of illness and recovery, Dr. Edward Podvoll reveals the brilliance and chaos of the psychotic mind and demonstrates its potential for recovery outside of traditional institutional settings. Dr. Podvoll counters the conventional thinking that the millions of Americans suffering from psychosis can never fully recover. He offers a bold new approach to treatment that involves home care with a specially trained team of practitioners. Using "basic attendance," a treatment technique inspired by the author's study of Buddhist psychology, healthcare professionals can use the tools of compassion and awareness to help patients recover their underlying sanity. Originally published as The Seduction of Madness, this reissue includes new introductory material and two new appendices.
Author: Francis J. Kaklauskas Publisher: University Professors Press ISBN: 1939686792 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 868
Book Description
Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy and Counseling (Volume 1: Revised and Expanded Edition) brings together influential scholars and practitioners who have studied and practiced at the intersection of Buddhism, psychotherapy, and counseling, including Karen Wegela, Mark Epstein, Han F. de Wit, Ed Podvoll, Jeff Fortuna, Robert Walker, Farrell Silverberg, Chuck Knapp, Dale Asreal, and others. Brilliant Sanity draws particularly from the Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist traditions that emphasize the importance of individuals being of benefit to others and the world. This revised and expanded edition comes 13-years after the release of the widely successful first edition and includes four new chapters. The majority of the original chapters have been updated drawing upon advances in theory and research. In this new volume, increased attention is given to multicultural and social justice perspectives as well. The introduction and 24 chapters in this new edition are essential reading for students and experienced practitioners interested in Buddhist psychotherapy and counseling.
Author: Santosh Jha Publisher: Santosh Jha ISBN: Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 125
Book Description
This is a dangerous book. It may shatter you beyond redemption. It may make you forfeit, continuity of comfort with your own being and the world you live. But, the rewards are mesmerizing. It unravels mysteries you thought humanity could never. It’s about universal yet elusive actuality of Reality and Humanity. It is about you, you never knew. Dig in, brave it, for prosperous 2020; lifelong bliss. Annihilation of humanity is inevitable as stupidities-hypocrisies embedded in consciousness and perception of Reality make Sanity an Impossibility. Intelligence has ‘Seeds’ of its own extinction. 21st century wisdom bares the mechanism-process of compulsive insanity of humanity. This in turn lists out, how an individual can attain Personal Sanity in life-living, even amid madness of milieus. In the pathology lies the diagnosis of the methodology of cure; in the genetics of problem is embedded the genesis of solution. This is Rule of Causality. When you decipher the anatomy of human world insanity, prescription of individual sanity is charted out. This eBook logically deconstructs collective human hypocrisies and stupidities to objectively construct framework of lasting personal bliss. Humanity in general does not have the primary culpability of human world hypocrisies and stupidities, as insanity of humanity is coded in the way Reality unravels and expresses itself and the way the human consciousness is designed to perceive it. Still, the human culpability is colossal as despite this knowledge about Reality and Consciousness design being available since ages and now fully deciphered, humanity happily continues to repeat the same mistakes, refusing foolishly to learn from them. This too happens and shall keep happening till the inevitable extinction of humanity in foreseeable future as this too is very much the mechanism and process of Reality and its expression-perception in human world. All these are no more complicated and unknowable knowledge in 21st century. The knowledge about Reality and its unraveling by the innately restrictive human mind consciousness has been there since around 3000 years but now, modern science has perfectly deciphered it and explained it in reasonably understandable terms. The critical knowledge of Reality, Human Consciousness and Cognition, along with objective, measurable understanding of the Cosmic Rule of Causality in contemporary scientific wisdom definitively establishes that Sanity Is Impossibility in human world. This knowledge then in its holism reflects happily on the fact that the very understanding of the causalities of insanity of collective humanity reveals the elements that can and should install personal sanity, poise, order and wellness symmetry in an individual. The core purpose of this eBook is to deliberate in detail about why Sanity is a Possibility only at personal and individual level and any aware and sincere persona can attain it. Naturally, this eBook also categorically lists out the mechanism and process of how an individual can attain his or her personal sanity and system, fully understanding as why this can happen, even when the human world continues with its ever-evolving hypocrisies and stupidities, till annihilation of humanity happens. Welcome.
Author: Balestracci Davis
Author: Steve Taylor
Author: Mark B. Borg, Jr., PhD
Author: Mindy Baker
Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
Author: Thomas Glynn
Author: E Podvoll
Author: Francis J. Kaklauskas
Author: C.L. Black Jr.
Author: Santosh Jha