Riding the Dragon - Wicks, Robert J
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Drawing upon both Eastern and Western traditions, this book offers dragon riding lessons to help readers face and accept their problems and grow through them. The lessons include: prune carefully and often; recognize your renewal zones; catch the slide; seek hidden possibilities; engage the darkness; pair clarity and kindness; and more.
Noted psychologist and bestselling author Wicks draws upon Eastern and Western traditions to help people deal with difficulties, encouraging people to engage their problems, to ride the "dragons that escaped from the cave" rather than try to slay them or drive them back.…mehr

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Drawing upon both Eastern and Western traditions, this book offers dragon riding lessons to help readers face and accept their problems and grow through them. The lessons include: prune carefully and often; recognize your renewal zones; catch the slide; seek hidden possibilities; engage the darkness; pair clarity and kindness; and more.
Noted psychologist and bestselling author Wicks draws upon Eastern and Western traditions to help people deal with difficulties, encouraging people to engage their problems, to ride the "dragons that escaped from the cave" rather than try to slay them or drive them back.
Autorenporträt
Psychologist and popular speaker Robert J. Wicks is the author of more than sixty books for individuals and professionals, including the bestselling Riding the Dragon. He speaks internationally about resilience, self-care, and the prevention of secondary stress to audiences from the US Congress to Walter Reed Army Hospital, from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to Harvard Children's Hospital, and from the Princeton Theological Seminary to the NATO Intelligence Fusion Center in England. Some of Wicks's presentations include speaking at the commemoration of the Boston Marathon Bombing at the Boston Public Library; a keynote for the American Medical Directors Association; a course in Beirut, Lebanon, for relief workers from Aleppo, Syria; and the psychological debriefing of relief workers evacuated from Rwanda during the genocide in 1994. He also regularly speaks at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress. Wicks serves as a professor emeritus at Loyola University Maryland, and has taught in universities and professional schools of psychology, medicine, nursing, theology, education, and social work. He earned a doctorate in psychology from Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital and has received honorary degrees from Georgian Court, Caldwell, and Marywood universities. In 1996, Pope John Paul II awarded Wicks a papal medal for his service to the Catholic Church. He also received the first Alumni Award for Excellence in Professional Psychology from Widener University and the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the American Counseling Association's Division on Spirituality, Ethics and Religious Values in Counseling.