Dr Venkat Pulla founder and President of Brisbane Institute of Strength Based Practice introduces Strengths Based Practices (SBPs), which concentrates on the inherent strengths of individuals, families groups and organisations deploying peoples’ personal strengths to aid their recovery and empowerment. SBPs are empowering alternatives to traditional methods with individuals, group or organisational work. SBPs refrain from allowing crippling, labelling and stigmatised language.
Descriptions and pathology owned by persons groups and organisations that suggest acceptance of their condition as hopeless or helpless to change are constructively challenged through SBPs. Strengths based strategies build and foster hope from within by focusing and working with precedent successes. SBPs strategies facilitate change by assisting to look at; what has worked, what does not work and what might work presently, making it important for facilitators and those desiring change to be integral to this process of change.