The whole process of adaptation following brain injury is a Hero’s Journey - hence the title of the book. Anyone who manages to make this adjustment successfully is a hero and should be honoured as such.

This book has been written to help improve the quality of life for people following brain injury. We have run education groups over many years and during this time we have discovered that certain concepts are key in helping people move forward in rehabilitation. The 51 stories, analogies, similes and images that we have used in this book form the basis of the Education Group we have run with our patients over the last decade or so. It works!

Each concept is presented as an image with a story. Explanatory text is also included. Images and stories provide a quick and easy way to understand some quite complex ideas.

"Each concept is presented as an Insight, a Challenge or an Adventure. When each of the concepts in this book have been dealt with you will be approaching the end of your Hero’s journey! You may not be at the end because you may still face other Challenges and Adventures, and may need to acquire new Insights, which are personal to your needs; these cannot be specified in the book. However, you will be well equipped to deal with these as they arise."

The book is suitable to be used by families, people with brain injury, and therapists. The concepts should be worked through from start to finish and then revisited as many times as needed in order to gain understanding. With this understanding, progress will take place. Each concept has a task to be completed; this can be marked and then used to demonstrate progress.

The book has been made available as a download so that individual concepts can be printed out for use as often as needed.

Comments:

"I am facilitating the Hero's Journey as a weekly progamme session at our brain injury rehabilitation centre. We have had such a positive response to the course so far, it is really having an impact on our clients and bringing a lot of hope. I'm a huge advocate for this resource! I've only been working with brain injury for about the length of time I've been facilitating Hero's Journey, so to be able to have the results we've been having without me having any background knowledge beyond my own research for each session is pretty spectacular. I'm learning so much from it and from what it brings out of our clients."