A Brilliant Thing CIC

Inspiration Corner

This is where we share all the resources that we have recommended during 1:1 sessions, and that have been shared within the WhatsApp group.

Please share any resources you would like us to add!

Toolkits

Trauma Informed Communities Toolkit – cocreated by A Brilliant Thing CIC, Bolton Public Health and VCSE Sector

Lost Voices – A toolkit for digital campaigners – put lived experience at the heart of your online work with this toolkit

Books

Do Book Series – this is a really useful short form series of books, they call them ‘inspirational pocket books for doers!’ we especially like Do Purpose and Do Change.

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas – a deep thinking book about uncertainty that spans sectors, politics, religion and humanity

The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler – for those of us who think in pictures, this is part of a fab series of books and this is especially useful.

HumanKind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman – a wonderful book that reminds us that humans are indeed-kind

Articles

Carl Rogers’s Actualizing Tendency: Your Ultimate Guide (positivepsychology.com) Really useful to learn about during transitions and life thresholds.

Gestalt Therapy and Focusing – an overview of an existential and experiential theraputic approach based on “what we resist, persists” (the paradox of change), useful background to somatics (body) work.

In Defense of Performance: A Manifesto by Brad Stulberg -Interesting perspective on routines, body and mind experience and performance, aligned with our thinking at ABT but through a different lens.

Videos

Alan Watts – what do do when you need to stop thinking – an oldie but a goodie!

Brene Brown Empathy – A lovely animation about the difference between sympathy and empathy.

Podcasts

Invisibilla -We love this podcast series about unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions.

The Sunday Social Podcast -Auture marketing is the things you can do right now to support your business in the future.