Hoisting a Whirlwind: A Poetry Therapy/Creative Writing Resource Book

These 22 original poems, or perhaps in some cases, "meditations", have been composed specifically to achieve the objectives of Developmental Bibliotherapy. Both youths and adults are prompted into a meditative self-awareness that encompasses a range of emotions, feelings, and moods. Their thought content is drawn to facilitate an enhanced awareness and contemplation of the processes of personal growth and the search for meaning. In turn, the creative writing exercises that follow each poem encourages the individual to "relate" in a manner that taps into the need for interpersonal connectedness in line with the overarching developmental goals of a deepened and enlarged reality orientation and sense of responsibility.