Rose Programme Manuals can be freely downloaded for the benefit of community workers everywhere. They are a mixture of theory and practical exercises. There are overlaps as most psycho-social work includes understanding yourself, others and managing your aims in life.
Rose Programme "Tall Tales and Deep Truths" for Creative Therapies
The Rose Programme for Creative Therapies, and the Tall Tales Toolbox manual gives both the theory and guidance how to use creative methods in psycho social work with children and older people, as well as numerous practical exercises for direct working with children and the community in a relaxed, creative and healing way. There are examples of programme plans and guided imagery, as well as photocopiable resources. You can download the manuals here free:
Click Here for the original Rose Programme for Creative Therapies: Tall Tales and Deep Truths
Click here for Tall Tales Creative Therapy Toolbox in English
Click here for Tall Tales Creative Therapy Toolbox in Sinhala
Click here for the Tall Tales Creative Therapy Toolbox in Tamil
Rose Programme "Hoists and Safety Ropes" for Stress and Self Esteem
For both workers supporting vulnerable people, and those simply trying to stay afloat and needing a little rebalancing in this time of ever-increasing pressures, this manual gives both a little theory and many practical exercises.
There is so much written on the subject that this is simply a quick brushstroke aimed at giving a practical workshop to improve your self esteem and work out where your stress is coming from.
Each person has a unique set of personality and circumstances, and therefore no “one size fits all”. There are a variety of different exercises on offer, and each person needs to discover their own best-fit techniques from the plethora offered here.
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Rose Programme "Seeking Solutions" Drugs Work Manual
The Rose Programme manual for Seeking Solutions: This is a tried and proven manual written from many years’ experience working with drug users and running drug projects for young people in the UK. This gives drugs and alcohol education and rehabilitation training with theory to help you understand why people take drugs and how to educate and support people to work towards control and harm minimisation, as well as practical exercises that can be used directly with young people in educational and therapeutic settings.
Click here for Seeking Solutions manual in English
Click here for Seeking Solutions manual in Sinhala
Rose Programme for Finding Yourself
Sometimes life can be a challenge and the dreams and aims of youth seem so out of kilter with our current lives. We can find that we feel that we have lost our core and we feel unhappy in our existence, and untrue to our real selves.
This programme is a self-help manual with 10 easy creative exercises aimed to challenge and question people to get back to basics and discover their lost core identity.
These exercises help us re-balance ourselves and take a fresh look at who we are, what we need to change and how to fulfil who we really are.
Rose Programme for Prisoner Rehabilitation
The Rose Programme for Prisoner Rehabilitation is taken from work undertaken at Welikade Prison in Sri Lanka under the auspices of Mr Lakshman Silva. This programme was aimed at training long term prisoners to help prisoners shortly to be released start preparation for their return and look honestly at what they needed to change in their behaviour and surroundings, face important relationships positively and realistically, in order to plan and have a greater chance of behaviour modification and success with their new life outside.
This manual is set out so that the theory is at the beginning and practical exercises follow afterwards.
Section One is focused on the main principles that trainers and officers need to understand before embarking on the workshops.
Section Two is a practical guide to running the sessions.
Section Three is an inventory of games and exercises.
It is important that all trainers understand the aim of the work and the main principles of training before they begin to use the practical exercises. All trainers should read through and discuss the manual with more experienced personnel before they begin the training process.
Click here for the Rose Programme for Prisoner Rehabilitation manual in English