50 designs to inspire, surprise and delight—qualities that, in themselves enhance self-care.

For social workers, counsellors, health professionals, teachers, managers, carers and parents—self-care is critical. Despite our resilience, working with others who are facing significant difficulties can take a toll. Unless human service organisations actively support self-care, then sick days and staff turnover can escalate. With 50 beautifully-illustrated cards and 100 thought-provoking questions, this resource is designed to put self-care on the agenda in supervision, teams, planning, policies and procedures at work, and in our personal lives at home.

• Pick cards for common self-care challenges experienced in the ‘helping’ professions.
• Are any of these relevant for you right now? On a scale of 1—5, how you are doing with each?
• What have you done before that might help? What new thing could you try? Who could help?
• Create a self-care plan: Pick cards for where you would like to be heading and key aspects of the plan. What steps you could take today, tomorrow, next week?
• Which cards show things you would like your organisation/team/personal life to focus on more?