Transactional Self Care and Empathy Theory in Nursing (A Perspective)

Theory development as one of the highest forms of knowledge development that provides opportunity among health providers to identify new and modern approaches of understanding human transformation. This theory uprooted from the mere encounter between the nurse and the one nursed in the phenomenal field called “nursing situations.” The context clearly defines the major components of nursing as the person, environment, and health and how they interact to generate meanings, ideals, and intentions in nursing. The recognition of empathy as a critical essential of caring is highlighted in the theory. The expression of transactional caring and empathy as unending expression of caring in nursing becomes the pillar in the nurse-patient human encounters.

HUMAN TRANSFORMATION IN THE MODERN CULTURAL SPACE: ETHICAL-AXIOLOGICAL ASPECT

The article examines the transformations of man in the modern cultural space in the ethical and axiological aspect. Emphasis is placed on understanding the transformations of the «external», which are associated with (self) construction of the image of man and the human body, through the prism of artificial/natural dichotomy. It is noted that the common directions of «human improvement» are based on such values as the cult of the ideal body, the cult of youth, the cult of beauty, the superpowers of the human body. Emphasis is placed on the problem of the limits of permissible artificial interference in the biological nature of man to preserve the natural human essence.

Ethico-Phenomenological Appraisal of Religion and Development in Africa

Empirical studies linking contemporary discussions on human transformation indicate that development faces a number of interrelated challenges, foremost being the neglected importance of religion as a determinant for development. Even though religion poses the capacity of serving as a strong force in boosting societal development and its importance is continuously increasing since the beginning of the new millennium, a number of hypotheses still fail to connect religion to development. Drawing upon an extensive contemporary research on religion and development literature, this study examines the relationship between religion and development in Africa. With an insight provided into understanding the independent layers of religious development nexus in Africa, a criterion on what should constitute an appropriate approach toward societal development is thus supplied. Findings reveal that religion remains one clear option of inspiration and motivation for welfare and humanitarian engagement. This study has significant implication for cumulative research on African religiosity and development.

SIGNS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION OF THE VYSHNEVOLOTSK WATER COMPLEX AND ITS REASONS (TVER REGION)

Article presents the results of the study of the human transformation of urban wetlands of VyshnyVolochyok (Tver region, Russia), which shows its main causes (drainage, the effects of sand and peat excavation, industrial and domestic wastewater, garbage) and environmental consequences (fragmentation of wetlands, pollution and shallowing of water bodies, shrub vegetation («green desert» effect)), loss of recreational opportunities of the suburban landscape.

The Transformative Role of Crisis in the Context of Contemporary Anthropological Problems

The focus of consideration of human transformation sets up optics to track multi­ple configurations in the formation of its modern forms at the intersection be­tween realities from heterogeneous areas – the logic of the polysemy of the hu­man identity crisis. Identity configurators mediate, for example, between an inter-element macrophysical order greater than the resulting individual and an intra-element microphysical order smaller than that individual (G. Simondon) Or the relationship between the transcendent and the immanent, forming the ex­perience of transdisciplinarity (Ya. Svirsky). This mediation between the ultimate (contradictory, conflicting, contrasting) realities (events, situations) is the begin­ning of the formation (individuation) of a particular individual. Such a vision raises questions. Does the transformation of a person always take place against the background of crisis phenomena similar to the modern crisis of technological civilization, which are manifested in the relationship of a person between his ex­ternal and internal nature? And what, then, do we mean by conceptualizing the term crisis? The article attempts to show the crisis as a converter of the course of evolution of the biosocial nature of man. The conceptualization of the term crisis is formed through the grasping of a variety of ambivalent semantic interpreta­tions, which are guessed in the situational analysis of the case studie, between the judgments about the essence and existence of modern man in his ontological presuppositions.

Experience design and the dimensions of transformative festival experiences

Purpose In the emerging transformation economy, there is a shift from staging memorable experiences for many to eliciting life-transformative events for one. This study aims to understand how transformative experiences can be guided and what prerequisites are needed to elicit human transformation when designing experiences. This study borrows positive psychology as a theoretical lens to explore festivals as a prime context for liminal transformative experiences in the hospitality context. Design/methodology/approach A constructivist qualitative research design was used through 31 in-depth interviews. To ensure experience recollection, memory formation and integration of the experience into long-term transformative effects, all interviewees had attended an electronic dance music festival in the past 12 months. Findings Guided by the positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishments (PERMA) model, the thematic analysis revealed a series of psychological and contextual dimensions around PERMA and liminality that need to occur for transformative experiences, personal growth and self-transcendence to happen. Practical implications This study provides a guideline for event organisers and experiences designers to intentionally design and occasion positive human experiences in temporal and spatial liminal hospitality consumption contexts. Psychological and contextual dimensions are identified as critical factors in facilitating human transformation. Originality/value This paper bridges the emerging transformation economy, experience design and positive psychology. Grounded in PERMA, the study offers a novel theoretical model that serves as a framework for both transformative experience research and practical experience design.

How to Understand the COVID 19 Epidemic Phenomenon?

The author discusses the mental barriers that are obstacles to understanding the phenomenon of COVID19 pandemic, and proposes a thesis that the crisis is not due to a new or a sudden mutation of a dangerous virus, but rather the collapse of our natural biological defences as we head into a civilizational cul-de-sac. The consequence is an attack by elements from within a biotope, which for millions of years had held within it viruses in many ways similar to that currently ravaging the planet. The popular perspective however is that of an alien, oriental, indeed criminal entity against which we must defend ourselves. However, the newest scientific research posits a different vision, which situates the virus in a biocenosis of which we are also a part. A balanced relationship had existed in which both man and virus formed a functional whole and in which biological mechanisms existed to create immunity (analogous to vaccination) up to the point where this relationship has been disrupted by man’s activities. The reduced resistance to infection of today’s children is symptomatic of this disruption as increasing susceptibility to infection appears to be in tandem with our civilisation as it continues its so -called progressive trajectory. We are now under attack from elements within our biocenosis with which we had been existing in a functional relationship for millions of years. In the evolutionary process viruses were assigned a regulatory function maintaining herd functionality through effecting the removal of aged and ailing units. The Sars2 Cov virus now performs this function killing those weaker aging or ailing members of our species and illustrates the reality of the 6th great species extinction as a part of the Anthropocene. The author treats COVID 19 as a factor accelerating human transformation to one in which cyborgization become a dominant trope of existence, affecting in the first instance human communities in which urbanisation and civilizational transformation is proceeding rapidly.