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Abstract / Summary

One thing that all people can count on in the twenty-first century is living with chaos. Chaos refers to a state of confusion in your life, the experience of random or unpredictable occurrences, and/or a lack of order to your daily life, space and belongings. Chaos can be seen in the many changes in the workplace, cell phones ringing and people constantly beset with interruptions, the barrage of new information flooding into your brain, thousands of choices, new and improved product ideas, new technologies that arrive daily, and new family structures. Often a family member volunteers or is forced to take on a new role such as care-giving. These are just a few of the many ways people are experiencing increased chaos in their lives which leaves them feeling irritated, frustrated, exhausted, angry, overwhelmed and/or confused.Many people are interested in returning to the days when life was simpler, calmer, more controllable and more predictable. People want their lives to be full of events, people, and things they can predict and count on. Instead, they feel like they are losing their sense of purpose, control and predictability, and the result of these feelings is a sense of exasperation and weariness.People often ask, “Why worry about chaos, there’s nothing you can do about it?” The fact is that people can control the chaos in their lives. It can be quite liberating to realize that chaos, although unsettling, need not be as frustrating as people believe. They can learn to define patterns of chaos and redirect their energies and abilities. The purpose of this book is to provide people with the right lens to see the patterns in the chaos in their lives. This workbook will show participants that although chaos can be frustrating and stressful; by being redirected it can also enrich lives and provide a sense of meaning and purpose. The activities are divided into four chapters to help you identify and select assessments easily and quickly: Chapter 1: Disorganization. This chapter helps participants explore how a lack of organization in personal and professional life leads to feeling a sense of chaos.Chapter 2: Control of Chaos. This chapter helps participants explore how well they are able to control the effects of chaos in their lives through limiting distractions, staying organized, and maintaining influence of their lives despite outside forces.Chapter 3: Juggling Multiple Roles. This chapter helps participants explore their effectiveness in juggling multiple roles and finding balance among the roles they play.Chapter 4: Time-Pressure. This chapter helps participants identify and explore the impact that poor time-management skills are having on their overall level of life chaos.All of the guided activities are fully reproducible for use with your clients/participants.

Field of Interest

Counseling & Therapy

Copyright Message

Copyright © 2013 Whole Person Associates. All rights reserved.

Content Type

Book

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0 sec

Format

Text

Original Publication Date

2013

Page Count

90

Publication Year

2013

Publisher

Whole Person Associates

Place Published / Released

Duluth, MN

Subject

Counseling & Therapy, Psychology & Counseling, Health Sciences, Group Counseling, Theoretical Approaches to Counseling, Psychological issues, Life events, Stress, Stress management, Life skills

Clinician

John J. Liptak, fl. 1990, Ester A. Leutenberg, fl. 2010