Life can be so very challenging. People experiencing dark nights of the soul need support to make their way through the tough times and find the light of the morning. This handbook for counsellors offers some helpful tools to support others through their dark times, finding hope in their redemptive stories for healing. This hope is life-giving and allows one to SOAR through stories of personal meaning, with other respectful relationships beside us, a community encircling us and restorative time to flourish in nature. This practical handbook includes twenty-six worksheets with prompts, offers nourishing poems, and integrates theory and practice using positive psychology and narrative therapy principles. It focuses on connection, using the power of life stories approached from personal, relational, community and nature aspects. There are many resources in each section for further insights. This handbook also contains creative ideas for working with children, youth, refugees, those grieving and those traumatized in order to help improve self-compassion and a sense of identity for hopeful redemptive stories to soar in life.
