Many of the concepts on which Risking Connection® is based (e.g., the role of the therapeutic relationship, psychoeducation, empowerment, meaning-making, and the effects of the work on the worker) have theoretical and empirical support that has been extensively published.
"The Helper's Power to Heal and to Be Hurt—or Helped—by Trying," by B. Hudnall Stamm, E.M. Varra, L.A. Pearlman, and E. Giller (2002). Reprinted from Register Report: A Publication of the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, Washington, D.C.
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"
- C.S. Lewis
"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
- E. E. Cummings
"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."
- Henry J. Kaiser
"Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships . . . the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt