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	RESOURCES & LINKS
	RISW Workbook The full workbook can be downloaded from here as a PDF file. (Left-click and select "Save Target As"). If you wish a FREE hard-printed copy, these are available on request from The Stationery Office Bookshop, 71 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9AZ Tel: 0870 6065566


	CARE SCOTLAND On the Scottish Executive's Care Scotland site, you can find a Reimagining Social Work 'Core Ideas' page, with video clips of Pat Kane and Indra Adnan from New Integrity, explaining the RISW approach; and testimony from participants in the process, from Edinburgh City Council and South Lanarkshire Council Social Work departments. There is also a back-up 'Resources' page

	'Presence of mind' is an important aspect of the performance and competence of social workers. Yet how is it developed? What are the narratives and stories that social workers hold themselves about what they do - and what does society and culture think? To become conscious of these is to begin the development of a "response-ability" that supports "responsibility". CULTURAL NARRATIVES FILM AND TELEVISION 'Social Work Goes to the Movies: Motivated Representations?' http://www.aber.ac.uk/~jmcwww/Identact/Papers/paper57.doc A 1999 paper from Miriam Freeman (University of South Carolina) and Deborah Valentine (University of South Carolina), which examines the image of the social worker in 43 movies from 1940-1998. Useful resource for identifying particular movies to use in the "Cultural Narratives" section of the RISW workbook. IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase) search on "social worker" http://www.imdb.com/SearchPlots?social+worker This is a search through the 'plot' archives of the world's biggest database on movies and television, using the keywords 'social worker'. Each entry links to a plot summary: the menu bar to the left can take you to a variety of extra information, including whether the film is available for purchase. THEATRE 'Protection' by Fin Kennedy (2002) This play, written by one of Britain's most exciting young playwrights, and performed at both the Soho Theatre and the National Theatre in London, is an examination of a social work team in London, and the struggles and strains of their working and emotional lives. It is particularly useful in dramatizing particular aspects of social work practice - the encounter with clients, the conduct of team meetings, the attitudes toward policy - and can be used in the Cultural Narrative section of the RISW workbook, to refine participants' sense of the stories of social work. The play is available on request from Fin Kennedy agent at Curtis Brown, please contact Zoe Tolkien (zoet@Curtisbrown.co.uk) See Guardian article, 'A sympathetic ear', Raekha Prasad Wednesday June 25, 2003 http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,7843,984005,00.html OTHER MATERIALS Consciousness , by Rita Carter (Weidenfield Nicholson, 2002) Amazon link
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	Social work is regularly faced with major contradictions and complexities. Social workers have to be both caring and controlling, both humanistic and law-driven, balancing subjective and objective knowledge in their encounters with clients and other care professionals. The Fear and Love Loops are one such model for mastering these complexities. (See 'Updates on RISW Models' for examples of the Loops in use). But the whole question of the balance between intuition and analysis in social work is of considerable interest. Fear and Love Loops PDF on CareScotland http://www.carescotland.org.uk/images/R ISW/fearloveloops.pdf Ten Things To Do In A Conceptual Emergency , by the International Futures Forum (2003) Purchase hereThe IFF, a think-tank based in St. Andrews, Scotland, developed the Fear and Love Loops from the work of one of its founder members, Brian Goodwin.
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	Social workers might be able to expand their consciousnesses, and enliven their imaginations about social work, by thinking about questions of narrative and knowledge. But where can they get the energy to turn these enlightenments into reality? Part of RISW involves an appreciation of our playful natures. We understand play as equivalent to engagement - an active embracing of difficulty and complexity. What sense of confidence and vision can be gained by imagining oneself as a social player, as well as a social worker? The Play Ethic PDF on CareScotland http://www.carescotland.org.uk/images/RISW/player.pdf The Play Ethic: A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living , by Pat Kane (Macmillan, 2004) Amazon link For immediate background on The Play Ethic, please visit the book's main site at http://www.theplayethic.com, or the Play Ethic's daily blog, Play Journal at http://www.playjournal.org Finite and Infinite Games , by James Carse (Ballantine, 1986) Amazon link Small, cheap, clear and compelling book about the 'life of a player'.
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	Social workers have much to tell the wider world about their competencies and wisdom. But what is their vision of the wider world - where do they see social work positioned in rapidly-changing societies, defined by information and globalisation? What is the 'big picture' in which social work might flourish? The Four Quadrants PDF on Care Scotland http://www.carescotland.org.uk/images/RISW/The+Four+Quadrants.pdf A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality, by Ken Wilber (Gateway, 2001) Amazon link For background on 'four-quadrant' thinking. Also visit the Integral Institute ( http://www.integralinstitute.org/approach.htm) Social Work and the Third Way: Tough Love as Social Policy , by Bill Jordan (Sage, 2000) Amazon link From Welfare to Wellbeing , Institute for Public Policy Research (2002) Amazon link . These provide interesting social and political contexts for social work in the UK. 'Am I my brother's keeper?', Zygmunt Bauman, European Journal of Social Work , vol. 3, no. 1 (2000). Essay on social work and the identity of "work" and "labour" Available here Background Reading These are books and articles that have informed the Re-imagining Social Work method and process: Social Work and the Third Way: Tough Love as Social Policy , by Bill Jordan (Sage, 2000) Amazon link From Welfare to Wellbeing , Institute for Public Policy Research (2002) Amazon link A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality, by Ken Wilber (Gateway, 2001) Amazon link For background on 'four-quadrant' thinking Consciousness , by Rita Carter (Weidenfield Nicholson, 2002) Amazon link The Play Ethic: A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living , by Pat Kane (Macmillan, 2004) Amazon link For background on The Play Ethic Ten Things To Do In A Conceptual Emergency , by the International Futures Forum (2003) Purchase here For background on the Fear and Love Loops

CONSCIOUSNESS..
Observing our own mind
WAYS OF KNOWING.
What counts as knowledge?
ENGAGEMENT.
Where do we find stamina, energy and enterprise?
AGENCY.
Acting always with the big picture in mind