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Re-Authoring Life Narratives After Trauma: A Holistic Narrative Model of Care

Author : Charles B. Manda
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781928396901

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Re-Authoring Life Narratives After Trauma: A Holistic Narrative Model of Care by Charles B. Manda Pdf

Re-authoring Life Narratives after Trauma is an interdisciplinary, specialist resource for traumatic stress researchers, practitioners and frontline workers who focus their research and work on communities from diverse religious backgrounds that are confronted with trauma, death, illness and other existential crises. This book aims to argue that the biopsychosocial approach is limited in scope when it comes to reaching a holistic model of assessing and treating individuals and communities that are exposed to trauma. The holistic model must integrate an understanding of and respect for the many forms of religion and spirituality that clients might have (Pargament 2011). It will not only bring a spiritual perspective into the psychotherapeutic dialogue, but it will also assist in dealing with the different demands in pastoral ministry as related to clinical and post-traumatic settings. The book makes several contributions to scholarship in the disciplines of, although not limited to, traumatic stress studies, pastoral care and counselling, psychology and psychiatry. Firstly, the book brings spirituality into the psychotherapeutic dialogue; traditionally, religious and spiritual topics have not been a welcome part of the psychotherapeutic dialogue. Secondly, it underscores the significance of documenting literary narratives as a means of healing trauma; writing about our traumas enables us to express things that cannot be conveyed in words, and to bring to light what has been suppressed and imagine new possibilities of living meaningfully in a changed world. Thirdly, it proposes an extension to the five-stage model of trauma and recovery coined by Judith Herman.

Creating a Life Together

Author : Diana Leafe Christian
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781550923162

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Creating a Life Together by Diana Leafe Christian Pdf

Creating a Life Together is the only resource available that provides step-by-step practical information distilled from numerous firsthand sources on how to establish an intentional community. It deals in depth with structural, interpersonal and leadership issues, decision-making methods, vision statements, and the development of a legal structure, as well as profiling well-established model communities. This exhaustive guide includes excellent sample documents among its wealth of resources. Diana Leafe Christian is the editor of Communities magazine and has contributed to Body & Soul, Yoga Journal, and Shaman’s Drum, among others. She is a popular public speaker and workshop leader on forming intentional communities, and has been interviewed about the subject on NPR. She is a member of an intentional community in North Carolina.

The Writing Life

Author : George Fetherling
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773588257

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Selected from thousands of pages of the daily journals of George Fetherling - the inexhaustible novelist, poet, and cultural commentator - The Writing Life reveals an astute and candid observer of his contemporaries as well as himself. Hundreds of figures in the arts and public life crisscross the pages of Fetherling's journals, from Margaret Atwood and Marshall McLuhan, to Gwendolyn MacEwen and Conrad Black. The book begins in mid-1970s Toronto, a time of cultural ferment, and carries on to Vancouver and a new century. A captivating and intimate narrative, The Writing Life provides a compelling portrait of the last three decades of Canadian cultural life. From the book: Tuesday 4 February 1992 / Toronto Early this morning the latest in a series of strange phone calls from Edmund Carpenter in New York to discuss successive versions of his Canadian Notes & Queries piece on Marshall McLuhan. He falls to reminiscing and at one point says: "Marshall always reminded me of that passage in Boswell in which Boswell says that if you chanced to take shelter from a rain storm for a few minutes in Dr Johnson's company, you would come away convinced that you had just met the smartest man in the world. Marshall was like that too. Of course, if you spent an hour with Marshall, well, that was something quite different."

Critical Approaches to Life Writing Methods in Qualitative Research

Author : Thalia M. Mulvihill,Raji Swaminathan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317244462

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Critical Approaches to Life Writing Methods in Qualitative Research by Thalia M. Mulvihill,Raji Swaminathan Pdf

Life writing projects have become part of the expanding field of qualitative research methods in recent years and advances in critical approaches are reshaping methodological pathways. Critical Approaches to Life Writing Methods in Qualitative Research gives researchers and students looking for a brief compendium to guide their methodological thinking a concise and working overview of how to approach and carry out different forms of life writing. This practical book re-invigorates the conversation about the possibilities and innovative directions qualitative researchers can take when engaged in various forms of life writing, such as biography, autobiography, autoethnography, life history, and oral history. It equips the reader with the tools to carry out life writing projects from start to finish, including choosing a topic or subject, examining lives as living data, understanding the role of documents and artifacts, learning to tell the story, and finally writing/performing/displaying through the voice of the life writer. The authors also address the ways a researcher can begin a project, work through the issues they might face along the journey, and arrive at a shareable product. With its focus on the plurality of life writing methodologies, Critical Approaches to Life Writing Methods in Qualitative Research occupies a distinct place in qualitative research scholarship and offers practical exercises to guide the researcher. Examples include exploring authorial voice, practical applications of reflexivity exercises, the relationship between the narrator and participants, navigating the use of public and private archives, understanding the processes of collaborative inquiry and collaborative writing, and writing for various audiences.

Authoring Your Life

Author : Marcia B. Baxter Magolda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000980097

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Authoring Your Life by Marcia B. Baxter Magolda Pdf

Who am I? What do I want in relationships? How do I know what to believe? How do I manage the stresses of living?This is a guide to addressing life’s challenges and competing demands. It will help you to reflect on the problems and setbacks you encounter to discover your own voice, uncover your authentic sense of values, build your confidence, and find meaning in your life. This is, however, far more than a self-help book; and it addresses multiple audiences.Because everyone’s circumstances differ, and life is unpredictable, this book does not offer simplistic solutions and steps to follow. Instead, Marcia Baxter Magolda immerses you in the stories of thirty-five adults whom she has followed and interviewed for over twenty years. With her guidance, and using the self-authorship framework she has developed, you will recognize in yourself many patterns and parallels from the protagonists’ stories of emotional and intellectual growth. By reflecting on these life stories, you will gain insights about your individual values and identity, and strengthen your sense of self-reliance to handle significant transitions and unexpected circumstances. In addition to helping you identify the phases of your journey to self-authorship, Marcia Baxter Magolda offers reflective exercises and questions to help you uncover your strengths and identify the barriers that may be inhibiting you from building the internal, psychological compass that will serve as the foundation for your journey. Offering advice on how to be “good company” for those who have set out on their journey to self-authorship, the book is also addressed to partners, family members, friends, teachers, mentors, and employers, so they can offer support to those that face these challenges.Finally, for scholars of adult development, this book offers the latest articulation of the developing theory of self-authorship.

Light Writing & Life Writing

Author : Timothy Dow Adams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0807847925

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Light Writing & Life Writing by Timothy Dow Adams Pdf

On the surface, the use of photography in autobiography appears to have a straightforward purpose: to illustrate and corroborate the text. But in the wake of poststructuralism, the role of photography in autobiography is far from simple or one-dimensional

Creating a Life Worth Living

Author : Carol Lloyd
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780062262684

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Creating a Life Worth Living by Carol Lloyd Pdf

Dreaming is easy. Making it happen is hard. With a fresh perspective, Carol Lloyd motivates the person searching for two things: the creative life and a life of sanity, happiness and financial solvency. Creating a Life Worth Living is for the hundreds of thousands of people who bought Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, but who are looking for more down-to-earth solutions and concrete tasks for achieving their goals. Creating a Life Worth Living helps the reader search memory for inspiration, understand his or her individual artistic profile, explore possible futures, design a daily process and build a structure of support. Each of the 12 chapters, such as "The Drudge We Do For Dollars" and "Excavating the Future," contains specific exercises and daily tasks that help readers to clarify their desires and create a tangible plan of action for realizing dreams. The book also provides inspiring anecdotes and interviews with people who have succeeded in their chosen fields, such as performance artist Anna Devere Smith, writer Sally Tisdale and filmmaker R. J. Cutler. The pursuit of one's dreams is one of the great joys in life but also one of the most terrifying. Creating a Life Worth Living is an invaluable road map for this journey, guiding readers as they take the first tentative steps that are necessary before they can fly.

Cutting for Stone

Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184001754

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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Pdf

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

Exiles and Communities

Author : Jo Anne Pagano
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438415338

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This book is a meditation on the profession of teaching from the perspective of a woman whose intellectual identity as teacher and writer is inseparable from her whole life as a woman. Pagano brings the methods and insights of feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism to bear on a reading of her own educational practice in order to reach a transformed understanding of the educational enterprise. She raises serious questions: How are we implicated in what we know? What actions are required by our knowledge? Responses to these questions are given with probing analyses of practice, ethics, gender, knowledge, and curriculum. In Exiles and Communities: Teaching in the Patriarchal Wilderness Jo Anne Pagano teaches us how to teach as she sustains identity in transformation and relinquishes neither the world nor other people to thought.

Breakthrough to a Supernatural Life

Author : Franklyn M. Spence
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498492096

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Breakthrough to a Supernatural Life by Franklyn M. Spence Pdf

He heard it while participating in his camp-counseling job at age sixteen: "I am coming soon." Seeing no one was around him, author Franklyn Spence believed he had heard God's voice. More instances of God speaking to him, even through a vision of Jesus, left him overwhelmed spiritually and aware of his gifts for prophecy and healing. He recalls these faith-defining moments in his Christian testimony/self-help guide, Breakthrough into the Supernatural Realm. Growing up in his church, Franklyn remembers being taught God was distant, accessible only for special occasions. However, the God Franklyn experienced at camp was real, intimate and calling him to an impossible task. He states in his book God developing his faith through tests, whether healing a sparrow to praying for strangers, and frequently communicating with him. Franklyn wants readers to have the same relationship with God, hearing His voice as clear as he did at camp.

Your Life Matters

Author : Junie Swadron
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781642799521

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Your Life Matters by Junie Swadron Pdf

Your Life Matters! helps people of all ages honour their truth and embrace all that they have lived by teaching them to write their life stories. Author, psychotherapist, and writing coach Junie Swadron has guided men and women to write their life stories for more than twenty-five years. Her books, Re-Write Your Life and Write Where You Are, have helped thousands of writers move through fear and writer's block. In Your Life Matters! you will learn how to: Inspire others with the wisdom you've attained in your lifetime Achieve your life-long dream of writing your story Bust through your blocks to write with confidence and ease Free yourself from your painful past by writing your truth Allow the hard lessons of life to become your greatest gifts

J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing

Author : David Attwell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698406711

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An insightful literary biography of the Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee’s, illuminating the creation of his extraordinary novels J. M. Coetzee is one of the most renowned yet elusive authors of our time. Now, in J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell explores the extraordinary creative process behind Coetzee's work, from Dusklands to The Childhood of Jesus. Drawing on Coetzee's manuscripts, notebooks and research papers housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Attwell reveals the fascinating ways in which Coetzee's famous novels developed, sometimes through more than fifteen drafts. He convincingly shows that Coetzee's work is strongly autobiographical, and that his writing proceeds with never-ending self-reflection while it moves toward aesthetic detachment. Above all, Attwell argues, South Africa, with its history, language, landscape and conflicts, is much more present in his novels than we have realized. Having worked closely with Coetzee on Doubling the Point, a collection of essays and interviews, Attwell is an engaging, authoritative source. J.M. Coetzee and The Life of Writing is the first book-length study to make use of Coetzee's extensive archive. A fresh, engaging and moving take on one of the world's foremost literary figures, it is bound to change the way Coetzee is read.

Mastin Kipp's Claim Your Power

Author : Mastin Kipp
Publisher : Hay House
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401949549

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Mastin Kipp's Claim Your Power by Mastin Kipp Pdf

"With [this book], you'll wake up energized by the momentum you've unleashed, an energy that will only increase with each new accomplishment and breakthrough. And you'll discover the peace and sense of self-respect that comes only to those who follow through and bring their Purpose to life"--Amazon.com.

The Writing Life

Author : Deborah Shepard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995109532

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A unique, candid and intimate survey of the life and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip Temple, David Hill, Joy Cowley, Vincent O'Sullivan, Albert Wendt, Marilyn Duckworth, Chris Else, Fiona Kidman and Witi Ihimaera. Constructed as Q&As with experienced oral historian Deborah Shepard, they offer a marvellous insight into their careers. As a group they are now the 'elders' of New Zealand literature; they forged the path for the current generation. Together the authors trace their publishing and literary history from 1959 to 2018, through what might now be viewed as a golden era of publishing into the more unsettled climate of today. They address universal themes: the death of parents and loved ones, the good things that come with ageing, the components of a satisfying life, and much more. And they give advice on writing. The book has an historical continuity, showing fruitful and fascinating links between individuals who have negotiated the same literary terrain for more than sixty years. To further honour them are magnificent photo portraits by distinguished photographer John McDermott, commissioned by the publisher for this project.

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

Author : Anonymous,Duchess Goldblatt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780358216773

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Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous,Duchess Goldblatt Pdf

Part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, the story behind a beloved pseudonymous Twitter personality reveals how a writer deep in grief rebuilt a life worth living.