Customer Reviews

You are going to love this book Review by Jane Reed, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Education, University of London

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It is fun and encouraging as well as being full of good tips and activities. It brings the complex notion of personal power to life, offers insight into our errors as a species and invites a sense of soul and purpose to our journey. I can’t recommend it more highly. (Posted on 01/11/2012)

I wholeheartedly recommend this book. Review by Richard Velleman, professor of Mental Health Research, University of Bath

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Have you ever been told: ‘You can’t change it, you just have to accept it’? This book turns that view on its head. Chris Johnstone focuses on helping people access their own motivational force; redesigning elements of the way they think so they are not held back; integrating positive visionary thinking, planning, doing and reviewing; and developing trust and confidence in oneself.
(Posted on 01/11/2012)

Invaluable Review by Richard Barnett of the New Forest Transition group, www.newforesttransition.org

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Invaluable. This is not one of those gimmicky management technique books that so often promise miracle results overnight. Chris Johnstone has produced a masterclass for those who need help to keep fighting for what they believe in and reach goals that are seemingly impossible. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
(Posted on 01/11/2012)

Keep it by your bedside Review by Linda Crook, family doctor and artist

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This is one of the very few books I always want to have by my bedside. With each chapter I’ve had further insights and breakthroughs. It has given me practical encouragement with many areas of my life, helping me with personal issues, my work and in responding to my concerns about the world. I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t benefit from the tools in this book.
(Posted on 01/11/2012)

Helpful and useful Review by Patricia Gaya Wicks, lecturer in Leadership Studies, University of Exeter

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I have read many, many books relating to the concepts of personal power/change, and I think this is by far the most helpful and useful. (Posted on 01/11/2012)

a different kind of self-help book Review by Mary-Jayne Rust, psychotherapist

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Find Your Power is a different kind of self-help book. It describes, in detail, how we can move into our potential, helping ourselves and the world at the same time.
(Posted on 01/11/2012)

You will learn to see the situations you fear as challenges to overcome Review by Brigit Strawbridge, founder of The Big Green Idea, www.thebiggreenidea.org

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Find Your Power provided me with the psychological tools, skills and strategies to face and overcome my fears. It is written and formatted in such a way that you first gain a deep understanding of the nature of fear, before learning that the uncomfortable and disturbing feelings you are experiencing are important and necessary catalysts to motivate real and lasting change. By the time you finish reading this book you have learned to see the situations you fear as challenges to overcome or, in Chris’s words, ‘a call to adventure’.... Find Your Power has taken up permanent residence on my bedside table and I’d say it is a must-have for Transition ‘Heart & Soul’ groups!
(Posted on 01/11/2012)

A call to liberation Review by Joanna Macy, author, World As Lover World As Self

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This brilliant and practical book is a call to liberation: it frees us to discover, use, and enjoy the powers life has given us.

(Posted on 01/11/2012)

Chris offers useful tools that anyone can pick up and implement Review by Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Movement

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I am deeply grateful for Chris’s work. He distils so much into these pages with his wide experience and insights, and he offers useful tools that anyone can pick up and implement. While the impending peak in world net energy is a cause for concern and a call for radical action, being able to distil and bottle Chris’s energy would indeed be a gift for a resource constrained world. Fortunately the book you hold in your hands does exactly that.
(Posted on 01/11/2012)