scholarly journals Catching Dreams: Applying Gestalt Dream Work to Canadian Aboriginal Peoples

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
Nicole Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Gestalt Therapy ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Dream Work ◽  
Therapeutic Technique ◽  
Wellness Strategies

Gestalt therapy is similar to an Aboriginal worldview in that they both involve a holistic approach and focus on health and wellness strategies. The Aboriginal worldview is best portrayed as holistic in nature, where the circle of wellness symbolizes unity, wholeness, completeness, and balance. Dream work is a therapeutic technique utilized in Gestalt therapy that could be very useful for Aboriginal peoples given their spiritual and narrative way of being. This article demonstrates the cultural acceptability for utilization of dream work in Gestalt with Aboriginal clients. Furthermore, it discusses both strengths and limitations of this modality of therapy. Implications for use are also discussed.

Holistic Approach in Building a Corporate Wellness Strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Denitsa Andonova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Corporate Wellness ◽  
Literature Overview ◽  
Wellness Strategies

This article analyses the tendency of implementing the holistic approach to corporate wellness strategies. Based on the guidelines of Corporate Health and Wellness Association and combined with observation and practical cases in companies the following article presents literature overview, trends, challenges and good practices in building a corporate wellness strategy and programs in Bulgarian companies.

scholarly journals Redistribution and Recognition: Assessing Alternative Frameworks for Aboriginal Policy in Canada

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Maciel ◽  
Timothy E.M. Vine
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Adequate Account ◽  
Theoretical Overview

In this paper, we argue that government approaches to addressing the claims of Aboriginal peoples in Canada are insufficient. Historically, these approaches have focused on redistribution. At the same time, these approaches have all but ignored recognition. We argue that a more holistic approach that addresses both redistribution and recognition is necessary. Further, we attempt to show that our approach is consistent with the tenets of liberalism. By conceiving of Aboriginal politics as such, the state may be better able to address claims. We begin by providing a theoretical overview of redistribution and recognition, respectively. Then, we proceed to show how redistribution and recognition must work together in an adequate account of justice with respect to Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Finally, we offer a conception of Aboriginal politics that fulfills this desideratum, and integrates the principle of recognition and redistribution in a way that is within the bounds of liberalism.

Warlpiri Dreaming Spaces: 1983 and 1985 Seminars with Félix Guattari

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-113
Author(s):  
Barbara Glowczewski
Keyword(s):  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
Dream Work ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter unfolds a dialog between Guattari and Glowczewski about Australian collective dream-work, totemism and rituals of resistance during collective discussions, including Eric Alliez, Jean-Claude Pollack and Anne Querrien. ‘Félix Guattari — Barbara is an anthropologist specialising in Australian Aboriginal peoples who has written a fascinating piece of work about the dreaming process. I’d like her to tell us a bit about the collective technology of dreams among the Australian Aboriginal people she has studied. In this context, not only do dreams not depend on individual keys, but they are also part of an a posteriori elaboration of the dream that anthropologists have characterised as mythical. But Barbara comes close to refuting that definition. And dreaming is identified with the law, and with the possibility of mapping the itineraries of these people, who circulate all the time since they cover hundreds of kilometers. Barbara, I would like to ask you to try to tell us how the dreaming method functions. My first question is to ask you to explain the relationship between dream, territory, and itinerary.’

A Holistic Approach to Corporate Health and Wellness

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Tauzin ND ◽  
Karim Pachiyannakis
Keyword(s):  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Health And Wellness

scholarly journals Strengthening Aboriginal Health through a Place-Based Learning Community

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Anderson ◽  
Basia Pakula ◽  
Victoria Smye ◽  
Virginia Peters (Siyamex) ◽  
Leslie Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
The University

The Sts’ailes Primary Health Care Project is a partnership in Sts’ailes, British Columbia, between Sts’ailes, Fraser Health Authority (FHA), and academic researchers at the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia. The creation of knowledge by and for Aboriginal Peoples and a commitment to strength-based research are key aspects of the project. These key elements guide the partners as they work together to explore and identify ways to enhance health services for the Sts’ailes people and other FHA clients in the region. This paper describes how the principles of place-based learning communities (PbLCs) are being implemented within the collaboration in order to facilitate the co-production of culturally appropriate strengthbased knowledge that supports the health and wellness of the Sts’ailes community. PbLCs are a welcome innovative mechanism for generating a cross-cultural understanding of local health and wellness issues. This paper makes a contribution to the documentation of successful participatory community-academic research partnerships.

scholarly journals DreamSenseMemory - a Gestalt-based dream-work approach embracing all our senses

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitte Holzinger ◽  
Franziska Nierwetberg ◽  
Larissa Cosentino ◽  
Lucille Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Dream Content ◽  
Gestalt Therapy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Dream Work ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Memory Processing ◽  
Neurological Findings ◽  
The Senses

Gestalt therapists believe that their task is to help their clients to experience repressed, ambivalent, and unpleasant things in order to accept and implement them in their whole self. To implement those ‘things’, those elements of the self, they need to be uncovered first, which is a process that often is achieved by dream work, as messages from the unconscious that are stuck in our dreams can be revealed by certain Gestalt-therapy methods. The method in focus is the newly developed DreamSenseMemory technique which is based on neurological findings on how the senses at play influence memory processing. Dream work with the DreamSenseMemory method has the advantage that by using this method on a regular basis, dream content will not only be remembered more often but also in more detail. Thus, effectively supporting dream work and its process of understanding the message of the unconscious, accepting the elements withing and implementing them in the self.

scholarly journals Staff and student health and wellness at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University: current status and needs assessment

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
N. Koen ◽  
L. Philips ◽  
S. Potgieter ◽  
Y. Smit ◽  
E. Van Niekerk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Student Health ◽  
Reference Ranges ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Promotional Strategies ◽  
Wellness Initiatives

Background: Emphasis is currently placed on the importance of employee and student wellness initiatives. The aim was to assess staff and student health status at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS), Stellenbosch University (SU), and to conduct a wellness needs assessment.Methods: Online, self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data concerning staff and students. Additionally, students’ anthropometric and biochemical parameters were assessed. Summary statistics, correlation coefficients and appropriate analysis of variance were used for data analyses.Results: Data were obtained from staff (survey: n = 300) and students (screening: n = 536; survey: n = 330). Some 58% (n = 174) of staff had a self-reported BMI of ≥ 25 kg/m2 whilst mean screening values for all variables fell within normal reference ranges for students. In all, 78% (n = 232) of staff reported to exercise 150 min/week and 28% (n = 91) of students were sedentary for 8 h/day; 63% (n = 188) of staff expressed the need to make better food choices, 17% (n = 55) of students were aware of the need to change but experienced reluctance, and both staff and students felt dietary assistance would be beneficial (43% vs. 46%). In addition, 79% of staff (n = 208) and 42% of students (n = 138) reported being under constant pressure.Conclusion: Much can be done to improve the health and well-being of both staff and students at the FMHS, SU. Wellness is a multifactorial concept; as such, health-promotional strategies for classrooms and workplaces should consider all factors in order to provide a holistic approach and potentially identify those who are at risk of a sub-optimal wellness status.

scholarly journals NEED OF THE HOUR FOR INDIA - EVIDENCE-BASED ALL-INCLUSIVE PREVENTIVE NUTRA - NUTRI HOLISTIC APPROACH PRODUCTS BY BOTH PHARMA GIANTS AND CLUSTER STARTUPS

INDIAN DRUGS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (11) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Vish Prakash ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Guest Editorial ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Global Market ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Logarithmic Phase ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Dear Reader ◽  
Material Advantage

Dear Reader, This Guest Editorial could not have been better timed than now even though it should have given the call nearly ten years back! However, this editorial has become longer than what I envisaged, and seek your patience to read through it in your leisure time. The positioning of the Indian subcontinent as a leader in the world for Health and Wellness is an important agenda. The paradigm shift of Health to Health and Wellness is the need of the hour. India in its tradition and Wisdom has always related to Food and Wellness as one entity, especially in Ayurveda and the basic concepts governing it. That’s not all. If India does not wake up and push the agenda of Wellness strong enough internally and be a Global Champion with its heritage of 5000 years of traditional wisdom in this area, then we are sure to lose out on many Economic fronts too in this sector, especially in the discovery battle of New Drugs. It can emerge as a leader and the Pharmaceutical Industry must aggressively ensure that the huge raw material advantage India has in its resilience of Agriculture and the favorable climate it provides, from North to South and East to West 12 months in a year, is capitalized. We are sitting on a Platinum mine but almost not using it at all?! The need for infrastructure and capacity building for the Wellness Industry to grow is unlimited in India and also in the global market and its huge reach out. It needs a new movement altogether to have a budget allocation from the Pharma Giants to invest in India and the Government’s mindset to partner and promote the same, not just by parks but an investment to make it win-win financial enterprises which will thrive with Trillions of Indian Rupees businesses with India as a hub. There are many who have done it boldly and hats off to them. But much much more is needed in the logarithmic phase and scale.

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