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Paperback Reflection Pond: Nurturing Wholeness in Displaced Children Book

ISBN: 0971330824

ISBN13: 9780971330825

Reflection Pond: Nurturing Wholeness in Displaced Children

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Book Overview

Reflection Pond is a meditation on identity, culture, and healing in children separated from family. Among the numerous causes for these displacements are poverty, abuse, neglect, natural disaster, epidemic, immigration, incarceration, addiction, war, genocide, oppression, and child labor and trafficking.

In the face of such loss and trauma, our children have the power for healing and growth within them. Every aspect of their lives is affected by an often solitary quest for beauty and belonging. We who raise and serve these displaced young, through our embrace, are a vital factor in their ultimate healing.

Jaiya John has shared time with thousands of uprooted children through his global rehumanizing mission and freedom work. Reflection Pond offers us his personal meditation, a looking glass for what these youth have whispered into his spirit. They have shared their need for reflection ponds: people, places, and experiences through which their own beauty and purpose are reflected back to them.

Reflection Pond is an invaluable resource for MSW programs, staff development, parents and caregivers, social workers, counselors, therapists, community leaders, youth justice, foster care, adoption, homelessness, policy and lawmakers, legal & court, child welfare, educators, advocates, and mentors.

Customer Reviews

3 ratings

I simply loved it.

Jaiya John did an amazing job on this book. His writing style was easy to read and allowed my mind to visualize everything he was talking about. As someone who works in the child welfare field, this book inspired me and helped to renew my hopes for the future of our children. Jaiya has a wonderful way of getting you to think and at the same time touch your soul to motivate you to make this a better world to live in. This is definitely a must read book!

Thought provoking and insightful.

Reflection Pond is truly wonderful on so many different levels! Its message is so giving and loving! The analogies and poetry used to explain and describe youth, separation, behaviors, families, heritage, emotions, healing, identity, "well fare", spirit, beauty, and their relationship are illuminative. One of my favorites is the poem on page 68...very powerful and uncensored. Futhermore, I think Reflection Pond is a wondrous, comprehensive, reflection of youth and a tool for families, parents, prospective parents, child advocates and mentors to use to raise our children holistically so that they can reach their full potential and reflect their gifts throughout the world. Reflection Pond also resonated with me on a personal level. Using the right formula to reprogram our minds for change to reach that peaceful state is key to living a wholistic and balanced life and it applies universally...to children and adults.

Wow, but I need to let it all sink in

I just finished this book yesterday and there is so much in it that it will take some time and re-reading to let it all sink in. The writing style matches the content which makes it a very "dense" book to read. Each sentence or paragraph made me want to stop and think about it more deeply before continuing. I agree with Jaiya John's implied suggestions for improving the current child welfare system, but wish he would have stated things more plainly. As an adoptive mother, there were sections I found challenging to read, but that I know are critical for me to deal with in order to best serve my children. I highly recommend this book for anyone working with children and teens who have been disconnected from their first families.
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