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“Let Me Show You the Basement…”: A Guide to Staying Safe in Clients’ Homes

Author: Debbie Stanley

With a title inspired by the frightening client experience that motivated Debbie to develop her personal safety curriculum for professional organizers, “Let Me Show You the Basement…”: A Guide to Staying Safe in Clients’ Homes is the culmination of Debbie’s years of research into the many ways that professionals doing home visits can find themselves in harm’s way.

Debbie Stanley is the organizing industry’s voice of personal safety.

• Developer and instructor of the NAPO course “PO-402: Safety in the Organizing Environment” and the ICD course “CD-130: Personal Safety with CD Clients” (aka “Basic Safety”)

• In-home consultant since 1997

• Former personal safety instructor and 2nd degree black belt in the martial art of tang soo do

• Committed to keeping colleagues safe

$19.95; free U.S. shipping

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AN INDUSTRY CLASSIC

Newbie Pitfalls: 50 Obstacles on the Road to Success as a Professional Organizer and How to Avoid Them!

Author: Debbie Stanley

A BCPO-recommended resource!

New organizers, don’t you wish you could learn from a veteran organizer and avoid costly “learning experiences” of your own?

This large-format, 50-page collection of anecdotes, cautionary tales, and lessons learned the hard way will help you to dodge common speed bumps and sail smoothly into your successful organizing career. $24.95; free U.S. shipping

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THE PO’S BEST SOURCE FOR ETHICAL GUIDANCE

Ethical Pitfalls for Professional Organizers

Author: Debbie Stanley

A BCPO-recommended resource!

Ethics is something we know we should uphold, but trying to grasp it feels a lot like herding cats. In Ethical Pitfalls for Professional Organizers (paperback; 107 pages) we discover a strategic and, of course, organized approach to understanding ethics, mitigating risk, avoiding harm, and encouraging honor in ourselves and each other. $19.95; free U.S. shipping

Click here for a review by Janet Barclay, The Organized Assistant.