New Releases by Don Carter

Presented as a series of case studies, this book offers the reader an insider’s account of the power dynamics in Australian education and how the application of that power influences education policymaking. The authors, Adrian Piccoli and Don Carter, have been in the room when some of the biggest decisions in Australian education have been made. This book traverses various theories of power and authority to explore the selected experiences of the authors who come from opposing sides of the political spectrum (a former National Party minister for education and a former teacher, union member and left-leaning academic) to share a behind-the-scenes story of education in Australia not readily available to the public. The chapters capture their personal experiences in senior education leadership roles, where they made key decisions on diverse topics such as how to allocate multibillion-dollar education budgets, the split of school funding between education sectors, contentious curriculum decisions and other policy and political objectives. Drawing on organisational theory, international relations and education, a variety of resources such as hard and soft power, credibility, persuasion and notions of capital are used to make sense of their experiences in education. Through this, the authors explain who has the biggest influence over those decisions and why these complex power dynamics, when not used properly, can mean that the best interests of students are not always at the heart of the decision-making process. Written for teachers, school leaders and other education professionals, this book presents a rare insight into power and authority in the Australian education system.

Feeling lost after loss can leave us with a frantic fluttering inside, carrying that now-restless love without a place to immediately settle. And this is not just in the response to death, but with necessary changes of all kinds. Embark on the journey through grief and into growth with this new VIBE (Virtual Interactive Book Experience) as Transformational Coach, Don Carter, guides you through traversing the changes in your life with joy and anticipation. u200b Part book. Part course. All heart.

This 7th annual collection of contest-winning stories and poems features Grand Prize winner Heather Debling and merit winners Don Carter (humor), Monic Ductan (love), Christianna Soumakis (passion), Tristan Marajh (depth), and Ross Berger (bonus) plus 29 more voices the world needs to hear and stories that need to be told.

"Thawing Addiction - The Tip of the Iceberg" is the 5th book in Don Carter''s Thawing the Iceberg Series. Addiction comes in many forms and while each of them have their own idiosyncrasies, recovery from them is generally the same process. Carter believes "What works for most people - works for most people!" The more than 200 Twelve-Step programs available today are testimony that what works for addiction is Twelve-Step recovery in the vast majority of cases. But beginning a Twelve-Step journey begins AFTER transition from a lifestyle of addiction to a lifestyle based upon recovery. In Thawing Addiction, the author draws upon more than 30 years of service in the treatment of addiction to outline the most critical issues to be faced during the transition, stabilization, and early stages of recovery. Anyone struggling with any type of addiction will benefit from understanding and addressing these critical issues. Carter lays out the issues in an organized and systematic way culminating with a "Universal Step One" for all addictions. That first step is based upon all of the knowledge outlined in the preceding chapters. As with the other books in the series, Thawing Addiction begins with a presentation of the authors Iceberg Model. Each book then zooms in on a specific aspect such as complex PTSD, childhood abandonment issues, Adult/Child Syndrome, toxic relationships, and in this case treatment and recovery from all forms of addiction including Codependency. In Thawing Addiction, Carter outlines how Codependency is an "addiction to the outside" of one''s self. He demonstrates how the signs and symptoms of Codependency follow those same signs and symptoms for any addiction. Don Carter has over three decades of professional experience as a licensed Clinical Social Worker helping people recover from addiction, toxic shame, PTSD, codependency, Adult/Child Syndrome, and the relationship problems resulting from these issues. His Iceberg Model is a 30,000-foot view of the big picture as the model synthesizes Addiction, Codependency, and Adult/Child Syndrome into one systemic model that is easily understood by people who have grown up in a less-than-nurturing or otherwise dysfunctional family. The Iceberg Model is presented in each of the other books so that the reader can start with whatever aspect they are most impacted by without having to read the other books first. In other words, each book in the series stands alone. Thawing Addiction may be the fifth book in the series but if addiction is at issue then it is definitely the one to start with because healing the issues outlined in the Iceberg Model must proceed from the top down. Addiction is at the "Tip of the Iceberg" for many reasons. Most of all, because if one begins working on the most painful issues first, it can and usually does stir up a compulsion to seek comfort and relief the only way the addicted person knows how - by engaging in their addiction of choice. Thawing Addiction is a complete guide to the many critical issues that must be addressed during the transition and stabilization period of early recovery. One must develop a lifestyle of recovery with all the supports in place to achieve abstinence and possess the coping skills and resources to face the deeper issues. The author defines addiction as an unhealthy, primary relationship with an object or activity designed to produce the desired mood swing - on that brings momentary comfort and relief. "Thawing Addiction - The Tip of the Iceberg" presents the issues relevant to anyone in early recovery from any addiction.

Words from the Heart is a book of poems written during various times in my life. The represent the thoughts in my mind were my "way of escape" when I needed to express the sentiments of my heart.

Everyone has a personal set of values that drives every thought, feeling, and behavior. But when asked "what are your eight top values? What are the eight things that are MOST important to you?" the response is usually a blank stare, a haphazard listing of a few ideals, or some other response that indicates the information is not readily available to the conscious mind. The "Freedom for Life" program is a step-by-step, systematic plan for bringing those over-riding principles and ideals into sharp focus so they can be used to designing your future."Freedom For Life" is a toolbox full of tools for transforming your life and getting what you want. It is written as the core of Don Carter''s 12-week life coaching program. The program will help you articulate your goals, organize them, break them down to manageable steps, and pursue them in a consistent way that will motivate and enable you to achieve success.The author believes that keeping things as simple, yet as thorough and comprehensive as possible is as motivational as it is effective. That''s why the material in this book is highly condensed, yet all the major pieces within will lead the reader who takes action on the exercises through the goal attainment process in a very effective way.The workbook is designed to be used as part of a personal coaching program. In some cases, highly motivated and organized individuals who are experienced in goal attainment can use the book on their own and achieve great results. However, the full benefit is best realized when the reader is involved with a coach who has knowledge and skill in the coaching process. It''s the very nature of the coaching relationship itself that makes life coaching such a powerfully transformative process.Program Structure and Table of Contents: Introduction Section One - Getting Ready to Change, Understanding Change Section Two - What do I really want? NLP Logical Levels of Change Section Three - Why do I want it? Values Clarification Exercises Section Four- Designing My Future, Creating My Vision Section Five - What stops me from getting what I want? The Seven Major Blockers & the Roots of Self-Sabotage Section Six - My Personal Assets Inventory, Positive Opposites, Five Things You Should Know About Yourself, Positive Self-Statements Section Seven - Creating My Action Plan, Setting Goals, Steps & Phases, and Tasks, Time Management Chart Section Eight - Self-Hypnosis, Visualization, and Affirmation, Tools for Personal Trance-formation Section Nine - Filling Up My Toolbox, More Tools for Growth & Change Section Ten - Troubleshooting and Advanced Tools,Power Questions and Advanced Tools Section Eleven - Staying on Track, Assessing your Progress Section Twelve - Accepting Success,Letters From the Future Don Carter, MSW, LCSW has been a psychotherapist for nearly three decades during which time he has been employed at several mental health agencies around Mid-Missouri. He has held positions from entry level up to manager of a behavioral health program at a large hospital. His primary specialty areas include personal growth, overcoming addictions, letting go of codependency, healing mood disorders, rebounding from trauma induced PTSD, and recovery from growing up in a less-than-nurturing-family, aka Adult/Child Syndrome.

Thawing Toxic Relationships is number three of a four part series entitled Thawing the Iceberg. The Thawing the Iceberg Series is designed to address various issues outlined in the author''s bestselling book, Thaw - Freedom from Frozen feelings. The other two books in the Series are: Thawing Adult/Child Syndrome and Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues. Thawing Toxic Relationships is a book about healing and co-creating healthy, functional relationships for those who grew up in a dysfunctional family. If you relate to Don Carter''s Iceberg Model, would like to have a genuinely happy and functional relationship then this book is for you. Building healthy relationships, a skill that eludes most people who have been raised in a less-than-nurturing family, is the ultimate objective for Thawing Toxic Relationships. These three books take the reader into three specialized pathways to healing the abandonment, shame, and contempt outline in Carter''s Book Thaw - Freedom from Frozen Feelings Read about the Cycle of Drama, the Chemistry of drama how to save your marriage, improve communication, how to set and maintain healthy boundaries, be assertiveness, identify relationship mind games (Distance and Pursuit games, the Punishment Cycle, the Drama Triangle - and why we play them). Gather the tools and skills necessary to overcome these and many other dysfunctional relationship patterns. Growing up in a moderate-to-severely dysfunctional family does not offer the necessary training to co-create a healthy, happy & functional relationship. Just as Thawing Adult/Child Syndrome heals your relationship with yourself; Thawing Toxic Relationships helps you heal your relationships with those who are most important to you.

Additional Contributors Therm Gibson, Marion Ladewig And Joe Norris.

Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues is an "Inner Child" approach for grieving abandonment issues and healing the unfinished business of childhood. Since the wounds of unmet childhood needs are emotional in nature, recovery from these wounds needs a healing process emotional in nature. We humans are also meaning-makers and information processors who need to know why and how we are the way we are. That''s why Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues is designed with an insight-oriented (cognitive) component as well as an experiential (emotional) component. The program integrates an interactive workbook with approximately 60 MP3 Audio programs that are designed to help release blocked emotions and resolve childhood grief & loss issues. While the audios are not absolutely necessary, they will enhance healing process dramatically. Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues is the second in the four-part Thawing the Iceberg Series by Don Carter, MSW, LCSW.

Thawing Adult/Child Syndrome and other Codependent Patterns is the first in the four-part Thawing the Iceberg Series by Don Carter, MSW, LCSW. All of the books in the series are written to stand on their own as a complete program. The Thawing the Iceberg Series is a set of programs designed to assist in the healing of the emotional wounds outlined in the author''s original work, Thaw - Freedom from Frozen Feelings. Thawing Adult/Child Syndrome is geared toward surfacing the underlying patterns of behavior and limiting beliefs that keep us stuck in unproductive relationships, the original wounds of abandonment, shame, and contempt, and how our subconscious mind adapted to the unique circumstances of our childhood by creating survival skills that now interfere with healthy coping. Anyone who has ever found themselves repeating dysfunctional patterns that has cause problems in their life and relationships, and then wonder "Why do I do that?" or "Why am I like this?" is likely to experiencing habitual subconscious programming that has been referred to as Adult-Child Syndrome. Thawing Adult-Child Syndrome and other Codependent Patterns focuses in on the "here-and-now" symptoms of dysfunction in our adult life and relationships. This insight-oriented program helps bring one''s "Inner Family of Self" & "Life Script" to the surface so that appropriate changes can be made. The program helps heal the relationship with self, which is based upon the idea that "One cannot have a healthy relationship with others until they first develop a healthy relationship with themselves."

"...geared toward surfacing the underlying patterns of behavior and limiting beliefs that keep us stuck in unproductive relationships, the original wounds of abandonment, shame, and contempt, and how our subconscious mind adapted to the unique circumstances of our childhood by creating survival skills that now interfere with healthy coping." --P. [4] of cover.

Old MacDonald and his tractor can handle most of the work on the farm, from pulling a plow, to following a combine, to going home at night, in a rhyming tale reminiscent of the children''s song, Old MacDonald had a farm.

Young transport fans can follow a package across country by truck, train, plane and ship in this bright companion to Get to Work Trucks! Beginning on Monday ("Wrap it....Mail it!") the story is propelled through the days of the week by simple verbs ("Lift it....push it...careful with it!") and illustrated with irresistible paint-and-plaster artwork.

Shows a typical day for a group of working trucks: a loader, a dump truck, a digger, a bulldozer, a cement mixer, a tow truck, a crane, and a roller.

In a text that grooves and swings with the rhythms of jazz, Don Carter celebrates some of America’s greatest jazz legends. Grandpa Jack loved jazz. He called it “heavenly.” So now that heaven is where Grandpa Jack’s at, his grandson imagines it to be a place filled with music. In a club called the Cotton, Grandpa Jack can hear all his favorite musicians play together in Heaven’s All-Star Jazz Band. And when that glorious music has filled his soul, Grandpa Jack steps up onto the stage and adds his own bit of rhythm with his famous spoons solo. Don Carter celebrates some of jazz’s greatest legends and the lasting bond their music creates between a boy and his grandfather.

Shows a typical day for a group of working trucks: a loader, a dump truck, a digger, a bulldozer, a cement mixer, a tow truck, a crane, and a roller.

Provides readers with detailed descriptions of the area''s choice running venues--the 35 best routes and six best races around Washington, D.C. 41 maps. 4 photos.