Driving Forward in Reverse: 50 Car Metaphors for Counselors, Teachers, and Life Coaches to Help Others Navigate Life
Metaphors are one of the many ways that counselors, professional coaches, and teachers help clients and students to gain insights and move forward.
Driving Forward in Reverse: 50 Car Metaphors for Counselors, Teachers, and Life Coaches to Help Others Navigate Life provides examples, anecdotes, and self-discovery exercises using creative ideas with cars — something almost everyone can easily relate to—as a multi-purpose tool to assist others on their life path.
The metaphors in Driving Forward in Reverse offer concepts around such diverse topics as identity, social support, communication, rejuvenation, safety, and behavior. It helps you ask and answer questions such as what message are you sending to the world, how do you relate to challenges, who is in your support group, where do I go, and are you driving on the wrong side of the road.
“Brilliant, creative, and saturated in wisdom, John McCarthy and Melissa Lake’s Driving Forward in Reverse is an invaluable resource I will long use as a staple in my work! Clever, thoughtful, and remarkably illuminating, the reader is guided through myriad life challenges using car metaphors as clever as they are distinct. The automobile takes on a completely new meaning as it assists us in navigating such life circumstances as identity, communication, rejuvenation, safety, and so much more. This is a treasure I highly recommend!”
—Thelma Duffey, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Past President, The American Counseling Association, Founder, The Association for Creativity in Mental Health
The Innovator Next Door. 50 Stories of Creative Inspiration to Spark New In-the-Box Thinking
Looking for inspiration from innovators who creatively found solutions to challenges? Interested in learning a simple, proven process to spark new thinking? Only in The Innovator Next Door will you find such gems.
McCarthy helps you remember that you don’t have to be a genius to develop innovative and effective solutions to challenges, bottlenecks, and persistent problems. As a career educator, McCarthy presents these concepts in a clear and understandable way through the use of stories as a way to inspire confidence in your own creative problem-solving.
To help you transform creative questions to results, McCarthy provides 50 real-world examples of problems, dilemmas, and creative solutions.
Instead of re-using yesterday’s thoughts today, you can see how everyday innovators re-imagined difficulties in finding valuable solutions to relatable challenges in life. Through stories from throughout the world, The Innovator Next Door helps to equip readers with tools and thought-provoking questions to address problem-opportunities in creative ways. The Innovator Next Door is sure to spark new ideas.
“John McCarthy helps readers easily tap into their own personal treasure trove of fleeting thoughts that, if nurtured, could lead to brilliant solutions to the big and little problems we regularly encounter in life.”
—Laura E. Marshak Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Psychologist, and Author
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