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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Personal transformation"”.
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Understanding the process of personal transformation in medical students
This dissertation will examine the effect that a new programme of Simulation Based Education has on the professional development of senior medical students. Rather than purely conducting evaluative research concerning the efficacy of Simulation Based Education within educational curricula this …
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The empowered body : creative expression as a force for personal transformation
… through art renders creative expression as a transformational agent. The interaction of the conscious and the unconscious is essential to the concept of psychic growth. The processes of integration and introspection are discussed with reference to the resolution of repressed issues and inner …
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Experiential learning: An exploration of the effect of Zen experience on personal transformation
… to academic knowledge. The thesis traces how personal authenticity became the defining characteristic informing all my methodology. This inquiry asks and answers the question can research be transpersonal? Initially the research started out looking at a transpersonal issue in the form of …
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Solidarity and salvation : the relationship between personal transformation and community in Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The major thesis of this dissertation is that personal transformation is grounded in community existence and experience. Bonhoeffer's understanding and experience of community provide key insights into this dynamic relationship. The development of his theology, shaped by his experience of struggle …
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The essence of a tacit intersection : a heuristic inquiry into nature-based leisure and personal transformation
… was to discover the essence ofthe intersection ofpersonal transformation and nature-based leisure, culminating in a rich and detailed account of this otherwise tacit phenomenon. As such, this research built on the assumption of this beneficial intersection of nature and personal transformation and …
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Resilience and Resistance: Public Narratives from Post-Katrina New Orleans
… of civility and leadership in expectations of personal transformation; and of self-reliance and civic engagement in acts of resistance. Discussion will focus on how editorialists work to create public narratives that will unite their audience and maintain social order during post-disaster …
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The Development of the Batten Leadership Institute at Hollins University: A Case Study
… BLI. The Communication Skills Group and its interpersonal component as well the presence of positive female role-models created the most personal transformation for the student participants. The students' previous ideas and definitions of leadership became more comprehensive. As a result of their …
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Grotesque Evolutions
This original collection of poems explores personal transformation, specifically through three overarching themes: the dream and its significance to waking life and the psyche, the hybridization of the human body with animals or the dismemberment of the body, and the discovery of self through human …
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Seeing the State: Women, Incarceration, and Social Marginality
… mechanisms for women to use to demonstrate their personal transformations, and recovery homes, drug treatment programs, and religious groups ultimately extended the discourses around "criminal" and "rehabilitated" identities that women experienced while incarcerated. Women contrasted their present …
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The Aperture of Mastery: Uncovering Transformative Insights from ICF Master Certified Coaches
… presence, play a crucial role in facilitating transformation within the coaching relationship. Yet, the depth of this presence is not merely an inherent skill or something that can be learned in a classroom; it is cultivated through a coach's personal journey of transformation and mastery. The …
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Honduran cloud forests and coral reefs : exploring the process of transformative learning in adolescents
… the process of transformative learning (TL) and personal transformation in adolescents. In applying the grounded theory methodology, I developed a TL model that outlined how the key components of my theory contributed to personal transformations amongst the participants. My findings suggest five …
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Circles of learning : creating opportunity to give voice and bear witness to self, others, and nature in environmental education
… implications for environmental education and personal transformation. From a phenomenological perspective, I have positioned my research as an autobiographical narrative of what it is to be both researcher (observer) and research instrument (facilitator & participant) as well as creating the …
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The Blue Hour
… symphony reflects on environmental shifts and personal transformation. Growing up in Korea, I was surrounded by vibrant blue skies, but upon returning as an adult, I witnessed the effects of air pollution, with children now coloring the sky in shades of gray. This realization, contrasted with …
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Children's Dance-Making: An Autoethnographic Path Towards Transformative Critical Pedagogy
… of embodied understanding and as a process for personal transformation in life. As a reflective practitioner, I observe and write data reflexively using dance narratives. I describe instances where child dance-makers construct personally relevant meanings that embody personal transformations not …
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Nomad School
… M.A., Autumn 2006 Fine Arts A Journey of Self Transformation Dr. James Kriley Dr. Randy Bolton As a result of social and family expectations I was pushed to pursue a lifestyle where my passion and talent for the Arts did not have a place. Nomad School is a personal and artistic research project …
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Nomad School
… M.A., Autumn 2006 Fine Arts A Journey of Self Transformation Dr. James Kriley Dr. Randy Bolton As a result of social and family expectations I was pushed to pursue a lifestyle where my passion and talent for the Arts did not have a place. Nomad School is a personal and artistic research project …
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Mend: a personal exploration of healing
… I use it in conjunction with healing and the transformation of an inner conflict. Coming from a family of embroiderers in Austria I use needle and thread as my tools and physical objects as triggers in search of what has been forgotten or repressed. The work centers largely around a shared …
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IL CANONE DELLA RIDUCIBILITÀ ALLA PROVA DEI FATTI: CRITICITÀ PERSISTENTI NEL MECCANISMO DI LEGITTIMAZIONE DELLA PENA PERPETUA
… judicial assessments of the prisoner’s personal transformation, in order to restore coherence between the constitutional model of punishment and the actual dynamics of its execution.
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The Individual after Stalin: Fedor Abramov, Russian Intellectuals, and the Revitalization of Soviet Socialism, 1953-1962
… and overcome the consequences of his cult of personality. A new emphasis was placed on sincerity and the individual; and not only on fashioning the future, but also on understanding the details of the past and present. Among writers, a new importance was allotted to the diary, which was …
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Business interns' experiences partnering with a nonprofit entrepreneurial foundation: exploring service-learning, high impact practice pedagogy
… service learning, high impact practices include personal transformation, hard and soft skill development, and career development. Furthermore, this research supports high impact, service-learning pedagogy for business schools in designing internships. These appropriately designed courses can help …
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