Christian Counselors

ENHANCING YOUR POTENTIAL

 WHY PUBLISH?

Extend the Counseling Session:  Once you have a book that represents your counseling approach, therapy and concepts, you can use the book like a textbook or workbook and extend the counseling session

Encourage Review and Retention: It is next to impossible for clients to remember everything you tell them during your sessions.  Your book can be a valuable tool that allows your clients to review the important points of your session and by reviewing, enhance retention.

Enhance Your Credibility: Any professional who has authored a book is held in higher esteem that those who have not authored a book. 

Empower Your Referral Process:   Encourage referrals by suggesting that your book be given to friends and family of those you counsel.  Those being referred will be more apt to call and check you out because they like what they read.

 Elevate Your Self-Esteem:  Once you author a book and see your name on the cover, you will feel better about yourself, more confident about your practice, and more professional about the way you present yourself.

Ensure Consistency:  A book allows you to always hit the points you want to make.  Instead of relying on your memory, you can use your book as the structure for your sessions.

Expand Your Opportunities:  Authors are always in demand as special keynote speakers, leaders of seminars, and special presentations.

THREE MARKS OF A SUCCESSFUL WRITER

1.      A successful writer always has a purpose for writing

2.      A successful writer always has a workable plan

3.      A successful writer always has a passion for his or her writing

THREE INITIAL STEPS TO BEGIN WRITING

1.      Determine what you want to say and to whom you want to say it to

2.      List main ideas you want to cover (you can add to this list as you begin to write)

a.       Use clustering to develop ideas—begin with a seed idea, then write other ideas that cluster around the seed idea

b.      Keep a notepad on you at all times to jot down ideas

3.      Begin to write consistently at least 2 pages a day

 ALLOW W’S TO EXPAND YOUR THINKING

Don’t forget to use who, what, when, where, why, and how to help you develop your thinking

EXAMINE ALL FACETS OF AN IDEA

Describe it

Compare it

Illustrate it

Explain it

Analyze it

Apply it

Defend it

Argue against it

Associate it

CONTENT JOGGERS

Consequences, Process, Problem/Solutions, Cause/Effect

Domino Effect, Symptoms, Focus or lack of focus, Examples

Phobias, Management techniques, Protacol, Red flags, Signs, Outcomes

Warning Signs, Trigger/Triggering events, Description, Illustrations,

Case study, Underlying Issues, Unresolved Issues, Surface Issues