WHAT IS HOPE WORK?

WHAT IS HOPE WORK?

Hope work is the art of giving hope in life’s difficult moments.
Hope work is the practice of setting up an environment where people find the courage and wisdom to express the hopes they have.
Hope work is inspiring, exciting, encouraging, intentional and rigorous.
Hope work is the science of learning what the world’s most experienced researchers have learned in the process of studying hope.
Hope work is the discipline of organizing hope knowledge and teaching it to others.
Hope work finds ways to bring hope and reality together and still have both.

WHERE DO WE DO HOPE WORK?
In classrooms,
At conferences,
In counselling,
In support groups,
Wherever people gather to face challenge and find a path to a positive future, that is where hope work belongs.

HOW DOES HOPE WORK?
Hope is the interaction of thinking, feeling, acting and relating that enables us to imagine a future in which we are willing to participate.
We can think more positively.
We can relate more humanely.
We can act more creatively.
We can feel more hopeful.

And when we feel more hopeful
We act more positively
We relate more humanely
We think more creatively.
And we are able to imagine a future we could not imagine only a moment before.

And when we imagine that future, we are already stepping into it.

Want to know more about hope work? Go to HOPE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA