The Ethic Of Traditional Communities And The Spirit Of Healing Justice

Author : Jarem Sawatsky
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781846428913

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The Ethic of Traditional Communities and the Spirit of Healing Justice by Jarem Sawatsky Pdf

What is healing justice? Who practices it? What does it look like? In this groundbreaking international comparative study on healing justice, Jarem Sawatsky examines traditional communities including Hollow Water - an Aboriginal and Métis community in Canada renowned for their holistic healing work in the face of 80 per cent sexual abuse rates; the Iona Community - a dispersed Christian ecumenical community in Scotland known for their work towards peace, healing and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship; and Plum Village - a Vietnamese initiated Buddhist community in southern France, and home to Nobel Peace Prize nominated author, Thich Nhat Hanh. These case studies record a search for the kind of social, structural, and spiritual relationships necessary to sustain a healing view of justice. Through comparing cases, Sawatsky identifies the common patterns, themes, and imagination which these communities share. These commonalities among those that practice healing justice are then examined for their implications for wider society, particularly for restorative justice and criminal justice. This innovative book is accessible to those new to the topic, while at the same time being beneficial to experienced researchers, and will appeal internationally to practitioners, students, and anyone interested in restorative justice, law, peace building, and religious studies.

Author : Rupert Ross
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780143191971

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Indigenous Healing by Rupert Ross Pdf

Imagine a world in which people see themselves as embedded in the natural order, with ethical responsibilities not only toward each other, but also toward rocks, trees, water and all nature. Imagine seeing yourself not as a master of Creation, but as the most humble, dependent and vulnerable part. Rupert Ross explores this indigenous world view and the determination of indigenous thinkers to restore it to full prominence today. He comes to understand that an appreciation of this perspective is vital to understanding the destructive forces of colonization. As a former Crown Attorney in northern Ontario, Ross witnessed many of these forces. He examines them here with a special focus on residential schools and their power to destabilize entire communities long after the last school has closed. With help from many indigenous authors, he explores their emerging conviction that healing is now better described as “decolonization therapy.” And the key to healing, they assert, is a return to the traditional indigenous world view. The author of two previous bestsellers on indigenous themes, Dancing with a Ghost and Returning to the Teachings, Ross shares his continuing personal journey into traditional understanding with all of the confusion, delight and exhilaration of learning to see the world in a different way. Ross sees the beginning of a vibrant future for indigenous people across Canada as they begin to restore their own definition of a “healthy person” and bring that indigenous wellness into being once again. Indigenous Healing is a hopeful book, not only for indigenous people, but for all others open to accepting some of their ancient lessons about who we might choose to be.

Author : Jarem Sawatsky
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621890355

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Justpeace Ethics by Jarem Sawatsky Pdf

People too often enter into conflict with an eye on how to resolve, manage, or transform it, thereby losing sight of the people involved and the end desired. Justice and peace too often serve as abstract ideals or distant shores. We have not yet learned enough about how these ends can also be the means of conflict resolution. Drawing on the imaginations of some leading peace and restorative justice practitioners, Justpeace Ethics identifies components of a justpeace imagination--the basis of an alternative ethics, where the end is touched with each step. In this simple companion to justpeace ethics, Jarem Sawatsky helps those struggling with how to respond to conflict and violence in both just and peaceful ways. He offers practical examples of how analysis, intervention, and evaluation can be rooted in a justpeace imagination.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Peace
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131557501

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Peace Research by Anonim Pdf

A monthly journal of original research on the problem of war.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2744 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211722686

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Jarem Sawatsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0995324298

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Healing Justice by Jarem Sawatsky Pdf

"This is one of those books you wish everyone would read and keep and meditate on."-Thomas Moore, NYT bestselling author of Care for the Soul "Wise, beautiful and invaluable" -Tara Brach, bestselling author of Radical Acceptance 2018 NAUTILUS AWARD WINNER Has an unfair past yielded years of endless anguish? Discover ancient traditions that will teach you to live a brighter future. Does your life seem rife with injustice? Have you ever noticed that sometimes seeking out justice only leads to more suffering? Are you searching for a less destructive path to fulfillment? Bestselling author Jarem Sawatsky has travelled the world to find a better way. After spending extensive time studying communities that practice healing justice, he's ready to share these joyful teachings with you. Healing Justice: Stories of Wisdom and Love combines research, storytelling, and honest observations to challenge the outdated notion that justice requires trading an eye for an eye. Sawatsky immersed himself in communities in Canada, Scotland, and France that employ little-known practices to transform suffering into wellness. By sharing the teachings of the lotus, the eagle feather, and the Celtic knot, the author lights the path in your journey toward regaining your wholeness. In Healing Justice, you'll discover: Practical steps to turn pain and suffering into positivity The relationships necessary to support holistic inner healing The alternatives to violence, vengeance, and shame when seeking justice How to incline your life toward a healthier future Observations from a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated author, and much, much more Healing Justice is an inspirational guide for adapting a painful past into a restorative future. If you like the works of Anne Lamott, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Bren Brown, then you'll love Jarem Sawatsky's groundbreaking guide about returning to a life of joy. Buy Healing Justice to begin your journey toward peace today Book 2 in the award-winning & National bestselling series. More than 35K copies of the series sold and over 475 of five-star reviews. Available in digital, print and audiobook.

Author : Jamie Rowen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107108769

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Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement by Jamie Rowen Pdf

This book re-imagines transitional justice as a movement, and explains why truth commissions are promoted and created. By exploring how the movement developed, as well as efforts to create truth commissions in the Balkans, Colombia, and the US, it examines the processes through which political actors translate transitional justice into political action.

Author : Richard Katz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781620552681

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Indigenous Healing Psychology by Richard Katz Pdf

Connecting modern psychology to its Indigenous roots to enhance the healing process and psychology itself • Shares the healing wisdom of Indigenous people the author has worked with, including the Ju/’hoansi of the Kalahari Desert, the Fijians of the South Pacific, Sicangu Lakota people, and Cree and Anishnabe First Nations people • Explains how Indigenous perspectives can help create a more effective model of best practices in psychology • Explores the vital role of spirituality in the practice of psychology and the shift of emphasis that occurs when one understands that all beings are interconnected Wherever the first inhabitants of the world gathered together, they engaged in the human concerns of community building, interpersonal relations, and spiritual understanding. As such these earliest people became our “first psychologists.” Their wisdom lives on through the teachings of contemporary Indigenous elders and healers, offering unique insights and practices to help us revision the self-limiting approaches of modern psychology and enhance the processes of healing and social justice. Reconnecting psychology to its ancient roots, Richard Katz, Ph.D., sensitively shares the healing wisdom of Indigenous peoples he has worked with, including the Ju/’hoansi of the Kalahari Desert, Fijians native to the Fiji Islands, Lakota people of the Rosebud Reservation, and Cree and Anishnabe First Nations people from Saskatchewan. Through stories about the profoundly spiritual ceremonies and everyday practices he engaged in, he seeks to fulfill the responsibility he was given: build a foundation of reciprocity so Indigenous teachings can create a path toward healing psychology. Also drawing on his experience as a Harvard-trained psychologist, the author reveals how modern psychological approaches focus too heavily on labels and categories and fail to recognize the benefits of enhanced states of consciousness. Exploring the vital role of spirituality in the practice of psychology, Katz explains how the Indigenous approach offers a way to understand challenges and opportunities, from inside lived truths, and treat mental illness at its source. Acknowledging the diversity of Indigenous approaches, he shows how Indigenous perspectives can help create a more effective model of best practices in psychology as well as guide us to a more holistic existence where we can once again assume full responsibility in the creation of our lives.

Author : Renee Linklater
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633848

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Decolonizing Trauma Work by Renee Linklater Pdf

In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the “soul wound” of colonialism at the centre, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through trauma, depression and experiences of parallel and multiple realities. Through stories and strategies that are grounded in Indigenous worldviews and embedded with cultural knowledge, Linklater offers purposeful and practical methods to help individuals and communities that have experienced trauma. Decolonizing Trauma Work, one of the first books of its kind, is a resource for education and training programs, health care practitioners, healing centres, clinical services and policy initiatives.

Author : Laurence J. Kirmayer,Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780774858632

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Healing Traditions by Laurence J. Kirmayer,Gail Guthrie Valaskakis Pdf

Aboriginal peoples in Canada have diverse cultures but share common social and political challenges that have contributed to their experiences of health and illness. This collection addresses the origins of mental health and social problems and the emergence of culturally responsive approaches to services and health promotion. Healing Traditions is not a handbook of practice but a resource for thinking critically about current issues in the mental health of indigenous peoples. Cross-cutting themes include: the impact of colonialism, sedentarization, and forced assimilation; the importance of land for indigenous identity and an ecocentric self; and processes of healing and spirituality as sources of resilience.

Author : Kris Clarke,Michael Yellow Bird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351846271

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Decolonizing Pathways towards Integrative Healing in Social Work by Kris Clarke,Michael Yellow Bird Pdf

Taking a new and innovative angle on social work, this book seeks to remedy the lack of holistic perspectives currently used in Western social work practice by exploring Indigenous and other culturally diverse understandings and experiences of healing. This book examines six core areas of healing through a holistic lens that is grounded in a decolonizing perspective. Situating integrative healing within social work education and theory, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from social memory and historical trauma, contemplative traditions, storytelling, healing literatures, integrative health, and the traditional environmental knowledge of Indigenous Peoples. In exploring issues of water, creative expression, movement, contemplation, animals, and the natural world in relation to social work practice, the book will appeal to all scholars, practitioners, and community members interested in decolonization and Indigenous studies.

Author : Linda L. Barnes,Susan Starr Sered
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195167955

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Religion and Healing in America by Linda L. Barnes,Susan Starr Sered Pdf

Americans have long been aware of the phenomenon loosely known as faith healing. Such practices most often received attention when they came into conflict with biomedical practice. During the 1990s, however, the American cultural landscape changed dramatically and religious healing became acommonplace feature of our society. The essays in this book chart this new reality. Insofar as healing traditions constitute the meeting ground or point of conflict between different groups, argue the authors, they provide a powerful lens through which to examine cultural changes at work. Each ofthe papers offers a particular case study. Many emphasize gender, race, ethnicity, and class as key components of healing experiences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133618582

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Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jarem Sawatsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : SELF-HELP
ISBN : 0995324204

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Dancing with Elephants by Jarem Sawatsky Pdf

Based on the popular blog of the same name, Dancing With Elephants includes insightful interviews with chronic disease experts Toni Bernhard, Lucy Kalanithi, and Patch Adams. Sawatsky's landmark book provides support that only a fellow traveler down this road can offer. If you like touching stories, mindful wisdom, and a touch of irreverent humor, then you'll love Sawatsky's life-changing book.

Author : Jarem Sawatsky
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780718842949

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Justpeace Ethics by Jarem Sawatsky Pdf

Too often when people enter into conflict with an eye on how to resolve it, manage it or transform it, they lose sight of the people involved and the desired end. Too often justice and peace serve as an ideal or some distant shore. We have not yet learned enough about how these ends can also be the means of restorative justice and peacebuilding. Drawing on the imaginations of some leading peace and restorative justice practitioners, this book identifies components of a justpeace imagination. This imagination is the basis of justpeace ethics, where the end goal is touched with each step. This simple little book is designed to help those struggling with how to respond to conflict and violence in an ethical and transformative way. It offers practical examples of how analysis, intervention and evaluation of peacebuilding and restorative justice can be rooted in imagination of justpeace ethics.