The Forgive for Good Recovery Workbook

Frederic Luskin, PhD, cofounded and currently serves as director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Project. Luskin has worked in preventive cardiology as well as cofounded the Life Works and Wellness Education programs at the Stanford School of Medicine. He is on faculty for the Stanford School of Business Executive Education program, where he teaches mindfulness and positive psychology to business executives from all over the world. He also coaches multiple Stanford Sports teams in mindfulness and positive psychology.Luskin's forgiveness work has been applied and/or researched in universities, veteran's hospitals, churches, corporate sites, and hospitals. He has helped people recover from the murder of their family members in Northern Ireland, the aftermath of the attacks on 9/11, in Sierra Leone and Columbia after their civil wars and in arctic Canada where native populations dealt with the loss of their ancestral lands. He is the author of the bestselling books Forgive for Good and Forgive for Love which together have sold over 100,000 copies.Luskin teaches stress management, emotional intelligence, and happiness skills to corporate clients throughout the US. His work focuses on the research-proven triad of a healthy and happy life: enhancing interpersonal relationships, creating a positive purpose in life, and guided practice in appreciation and other positive emotions.Lyndon Harris is a former Episcopal priest, whose journey toward forgiveness began in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Following 9/11, Lyndon initiated and led for 8.5 months a service mission for first responders at the former World Trade Center. This mission offered support as the responders endured the hardship of searching for survivors and, ultimately, the remains of the dead. His work was covered widely: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CBS News, NBC News, and a host of others. But after the work was completed, like many first responders, Lyndon's life fell apart. Forgiveness became the essential tool for reclaiming his life. He is currently working on a book detailing his journey to forgiveness following the tragedy of 9/11.Harris teaches forgiveness internationally, offering keynotes and workshops around the world. For the past five years, Lyndon has been working with Frederic Luskin and other researchers to develop and measure the effectiveness of the secular method of forgiveness for promoting long-term positive resilience in recovery found in this book. Lyndon is a graduate of The School of Theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, and is a fellow of the Episcopal Church Foundation.

“Helping people forgive is one of the most common challenges I face in my therapeutic work. However, there has been little in terms of guidance or a reliable model for forgiveness. The authors have resolved this disconnect with The Forgive for Good Recovery Workbook. This workbook provides us with a road map for forgiving, and I have personally and professionally benefitted from Lyndon Harris’s work.” —Richard Jones, MA, MBA, LCAS, CCS, CEAP, SAP, c-EMDR, executive vice president and executive director for Heritage CARES, a division of Heritage Health Solutions  in Coppell, TX