Works by
Robin Casarjian
(Writer)

Audio

• The Art of Forgiving: A Practical Path to Maturity and Inner Peace (1998)
  Cassette
  We’ve all been hurt by people who are important to us. Many of us remain imprisoned in old grievances, blocked from moving on by our inability to forgive. But what does it really mean to forgive ourselves and others? How can we begin to free ourselves from the psychological bondage of hostility when we feel we’re not ready to forgive? The Art of Forgiving explores these and many other questions while giving you the tools for forgiving yourself and others. Using exercises and guided visualizations, Robin Casarjian demonstrates a practical strategy for healing the hurt from painful relationships, developing self-esteem, and cultivating inner strength and genuine peace of mind.

Books

• Power Source: taking Charge of Your Life (2003) by Bethany Casarjian and Robin Casarjian

• The Power Source Facilitator's Manual (2003) by Bethany Casarjian and Robin Casarjian

• The Houses of Healing Training Manual (2000)
  The Houses of Healing Training Manual is a guide for facilitating a 12-session course based on the book, Houses of Healing: A Prisoner’s guide to Inner Power and Freedom. The course draws from a variety of personal growth modalities, which include:

  • Practicing meditation, self-regulation, and stress-management techniques

  • Learning cognitive reframing and attitudinal healing

  • Acknowledging, working with, and healing childhood trauma

  • Transforming anger, resentment, and unhealthy guilt and shame

  • Working with forgiveness

  • Acknowledging and working with grief, the "silenced emotion"

  • Nurturing spiritual growth

  In the twelve-page introduction to the Manual, Robin Casarjian offers personal suggestions to the reader on how to approach facilitating a Houses of Healing course. She encourages the reader to use the material in whatever ways suit him or her best. In the body of the Manual, she outlines twelve weekly sessions, explaining concepts and exercises and relating them to the text of Houses of Healing. Included with each week’s lessons are "Self Work" sheets that can be duplicated for the participants in the course.

• Houses of Healing: A Prisoner's Guide to Inner Power and Freedom (1995)
  Houses of Healing: A Prisoner’s Guide to Inner Power and Freedom is a groundbreaking book for prisoner healing and (re)habilitation. Houses of Healing deals directly with root causes of crime, violence, and addiction and offers a practical approach to emotional growth that speaks specifically to the challenges facing incarcerated men and women.
  
  Having worked with hundreds of inmates in Massachusetts prisons for over eight years, author Robin Casarjian, a veteran teacher and counselor, developed the emotional literacy curriculum/ program presented in Houses of Healing.
  
  From the outset of her work in prisons, it was clear to Ms. Casarjian that until prisoners were able to heal issues that were, for many, at the root of their criminal and addictive behavior, they would be unable to extract themselves successfully from the criminal justice system. It was also obvious that resources for prisoner rehabilitation were sorely needed.
  
  In 1992, she founded The Lionheart Foundation for the purpose of making her emotional literacy curriculum/program available to prisoners around the country. To achieve this goal, in 1995 The Lionheart Foundation funded the publication and free distribution of Houses of Healing: A Prisoner’s Guide to Inner Power and Freedom. This project, called the National Emotional Literacy Project for Prisoners, continues to expand today.
  
  Houses of Healing: A Prisoner’s Guide to Inner Power and Freedom can be used, as thousands are using it today, independently or in group courses in many settings and formats. Prisoners use the book for self-study over months and even years. Counselors and chaplains use Houses of Healing to complement their treatment programs and/or create entirely new programs. Houses of Healing courses are led by mental health and substance abuse counselors, chaplains, volunteers, and even prisoners. (For additional guidance or assistance, they often use The Houses of Healing Training Manual and the Houses of Healing Educational and Training Video Series.)

• Forgiveness: A Bold Choice for a Peaceful Heart (1992)
  he world's great spiritual traditions all teach forgiveness as the key to inner peace. But many people find this an impossible ideal -- perhaps even a way of glossing over pain, anger, and wrongdoing. Now, in this wise and heartfelt book, psychotherapist Robin Casarjian confronts the dilemmas of forgiveness and offers a new approach to healing our old wounds and self-judgments. Drawing on the philosophy of A Course In Miracles, plus years of experience with her own clients, she shows us why letting go of the past is not only possible but necessary, if we are to achieve lasting health and harmony. Within these pages are simple but powerful exercises, meditations, and visualizations that acknowledge our hurt even as they lead us beyond it. Here, too, are moving true accounts of forgiveness in action, showing how parents and children, spouses and lovers, workers and bosses -- even victims of crime and historic injustice -- can all find peace.