For all the latest news, view and reviews from Innovative Resources, we have two free newsletters:

> The Serious Optimist (a printed newsletter sent to our customers).

> SOON: our online newsletter (it's free to subscribe).

For further information please give us a call on (03) 5442 0500 (international phone +61 3 5442 0500) or email us at info@innovativeresources.org.

Training Opportunities!

Invigorate your personal and professional lives!

Please click here to view our training page.

Teachers, counsellors, supervisors, managers, social workers, psychologists, occupational therapists, family workers, parents... in fact anyone who works with people or just loves being creative is invited to attend.

The Strengths Cafe - just launched!

The Strengths Cafe is:

...a melting pot for the myriad of strengths-based stories that flow through

our door and inboxes every day.

...a gathering place for the feedback, reviews and users' stories that have grown from Innovative Resources' publications.

Cafes are traditionally places where people from all parts of the community come together. They are places for meeting with friends and colleagues to share ideas and insights. They are familiar venues where we can tell our stories and describe our experiences over the cheerful clink of glassware and hiss of steam from the cappuccino machine!

Like its real-life counterparts, the Strengths Café is forum for exchange. It's a place to hear the stories of those who use our publications, and discuss the many creative and respectful ways in which people are working with others. It's also a venue where people can learn about a whole range of unique and innovative practices being developed for a vast range of different situations and cultures.

Click here to pop into the Cafe for a look!

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Ordering from us

There are a number of different ways you can purchase from us.

You can use our website, call us or fax us.

Click here for some detailed help with ordering.

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Newsletters

Our hardcopy newsletter, The Serious Optimist is sent to current Australian and New Zealand customers.

Full electronic versions are available here as PDFs. Please choose from one of the following, bearing in mind that these files are quite large and may take some time to download.

We also have an online newsletter, called SOON - Seriously Optimistic Online News. Click here to view SOON.

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Current edition:

2008

	The Serious Optimist Issue 36 (PDF - approx 500 Kb)
	The Serious Optimist Issue 35 'A New Look Optimist' (PDF - approx 300 Kb)

Previous editions:

2007

	The Serious Optimist Issue 34 'The Extraordinary Ordinary' (PDF - approx 1.5 Mb)
	The Serious Optimist Issue 33 'Looking for the Soup Spoon' (PDF - approx 2.3 Mb)

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2006

	The Serious Optimist Issue 32 'What makes a good friend?' (PDF - approx 2.4 Mb)
	The Serious Optimist Issue 31 'What car are you today?' (PDF - approx 1.9 Mb)
	The Serious Optimist Issue 30 'Frozen Moments' (PDF - approx 1.7 Mb)

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2005

	The Serious Optimist Issue 29 'Picturing Hope, Fairness and Transformation' (PDF - approx 3 Mb)
	The Serious Optimist Issue 28 'Resourcing Seriously Optimistic Schools' (PDF - approx 2.5 Mb)
	The Serious Optimist Issue 27 'Hot off the Press' (PDF - approx 1.5 Mb)

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2004

	Spring 2004 'Turning problems into skills' (PDF - approx 1.5 Mb)
	Bumper summer edition 2004 'Kids of the Kokoda Trail' (PDF - approx 3 Mb)

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Catalogue download

Our 2007 Mini Catalogue (Our 2008 catalogue is due out in May 2008)

Click to download it (approx 1MB)

Want our full catalogue sent to you? Then click here and fill in your details.

Our 2007 US Catalog

Click to download it (approx 1MB)

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Price list...

Please be patient as we update our downloadable price list. This will be available soon. In the meantime please go to the search page to find the resources you are looking for. Or contact us directly.

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