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Blend - Blending: this is where two separate, individual things are turned into something, where each part is still "itself" - yet no
longer looks (and acts) the same. For example, chocolate milk is a blend of white milk, and dark, brown cocoa. Once they are
blended they only seem to have disappeared: in reality, they are still there. Their "identity" was not lost.
Culture (from the web):
Culturally Based - Value Laden: this means that certain concepts, ideas and standards of what is acceptable and desirable are
based on the "values/beliefs" of a particular culture. And thus they can vary widely from culture to culture and communities.
Culture-Centred: in counselling, this means taking your culture, and cultural background into account.
Cultural Relativism: entry coming
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WORDS - TERMS - CONCEPTS (if you have a question or comment regarding any of the following
- go to Contact Us and send it to me).
Blend - Blending: this is where two separate, individual things are turned into something, where each part is still "itself" - yet no
longer looks (and acts) the same. For example, chocolate milk is a blend of white milk, and dark, brown cocoa. Once they are
blended they only seem to have disappeared: in reality, they are still there. Their "identity" was not lost.
- The same applies to humans who enter into a relationship/marriage, or who "blend", or combine two families. If it is
done properly (see Blended Families) each remains themselves - yet they take on a different appearance. It is similar to,
but different from, to integrate (see below).
Culture (from the web):
- Culture is the entire way of life of a group of people.
- Dominant culture: Culture of the social or political group that holds the most power and influence in a society.
- Subculture (Anthropology): the shared customs and beliefs of a smaller group within a larger, dominant culture.
- (Sociology): a social group with shared characteristics that distinguish it in some way from the larger cultural group or
society in which it is embedded. Generally, a subculture is distinguished either by a unifying set of ideas and/or
practices (such as the corporate culture or the drug culture) or by some demographic characteristic (such as the
adolescent culture, the culture of poverty, or the culture of dysfunction). - Counterculture: a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture
- In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those
of the social mainstream, a cultural equivalent of a political Opposition. In casual practice, the term came to prominence
in the general press as it was used to refer to the youth rebellion that swept North America and Western Europe in the
1960s.
Culturally Based - Value Laden: this means that certain concepts, ideas and standards of what is acceptable and desirable are
based on the "values/beliefs" of a particular culture. And thus they can vary widely from culture to culture and communities.
- It means that unless you take someone's (or your own) cultural/community background into consideration you may
encounter a "difficulty". This is because the definitions, or "standards" you are using to compare may be considerably
different from those in other places, with other people. - There is no "one" standard. BUT, there are some things that may be used as constants - concepts, descriptions and
definitions such as given below - certain practices in human life can be encouraged, while others may be discouraged.
Yet, even this is a concept deriving from a particular cultural viewpoint. - Much of the information in the articles and discussions on the site may vary widely from your culture, community, or
background. But, if they seem reasonable and desirable to you, then by all means use them as the "standard" to
measure your situation by, or to use as a standard you choose to achieve.
Culture-Centred: in counselling, this means taking your culture, and cultural background into account.
Cultural Relativism: entry coming
Client/Person Centred: in counselling this means taking you, as a person, with feelings, needs, wants, achievements and
your community/cultural background seriously.
DEPENDENT: the state, or condition, of under someone (or something) else's control and constraint - upon whom one has to
rely almost totally for one's needs and wants.
DOUBLE-BIND: Gregory Bateson, in his book, Toward An Ecology Of Mind, suggests that a great number of emotional and
behavioural problems people experience in their lives is due to having received not just "mixed messages", but opposite
messages from the primary care-giver in their lives when they were children. By opposite he meant, that the care-giver while
saying one thing, was in fact doing the opposite of what those words were saying. And that they denied there was a
contradiction. He called this the Double-Bind. The confusion of those contradictory things resulted in major psychic and
emotional damage in the child. And worse yet, that adult child is/was most likely to pass exactly the same behaviour and
attitude on, by repeating it in their adult life.
Dissociation
Dissociation is an unexpected partial or complete disruption of the normal integration of a person’s conscious or
psychological functioning. Dissociation is a mental process that severs a connection to a person's thoughts, memories,
feelings, actions, or sense of identity.
Dissociation can be a response to trauma, and perhaps allows the mind to distance itself from experiences that are too much
for the psyche to process at that time.
Dissociative disruptions can affect any aspect of a person’s functioning.
Although some dissociative disruptions involve amnesia, the vast majority of dissociative events do not.
Since dissociations are normally unanticipated, they are typically experienced as startling, autonomous intrusions into the
person's usual ways of responding or functioning. Due to their unexpected and largely inexplicable nature, they tend to be
quite unsettling.
Different dissociative disorders have different relationships to stress and trauma.
Dissociative amnesia and fugue states are often triggered by life stresses that fall far short of trauma.
Depersonalization disorder is sometimes triggered by trauma, but may be preceded only by stress, psychoactive substances,
or no identifiable stress at all.
-Wikipedia
your community/cultural background seriously.
DEPENDENT: the state, or condition, of under someone (or something) else's control and constraint - upon whom one has to
rely almost totally for one's needs and wants.
- INDEPENDENT: the state or condition of being free from external control and constraints. However, total independence
is a fallacy or illusion: we are all dependent on a great number of various things, conditions, laws, and peoples, for
example: it is more correct to state that we are: - INTERDEPENDENT: a condition, or state of being, where people depend on each other, reciprocally and mutually, thus
helping each other: mutually dependent - mutually beneficial (needing each other reciprocally. - Also see Codependent - Codependency.
DOUBLE-BIND: Gregory Bateson, in his book, Toward An Ecology Of Mind, suggests that a great number of emotional and
behavioural problems people experience in their lives is due to having received not just "mixed messages", but opposite
messages from the primary care-giver in their lives when they were children. By opposite he meant, that the care-giver while
saying one thing, was in fact doing the opposite of what those words were saying. And that they denied there was a
contradiction. He called this the Double-Bind. The confusion of those contradictory things resulted in major psychic and
emotional damage in the child. And worse yet, that adult child is/was most likely to pass exactly the same behaviour and
attitude on, by repeating it in their adult life.
Dissociation
Dissociation is an unexpected partial or complete disruption of the normal integration of a person’s conscious or
psychological functioning. Dissociation is a mental process that severs a connection to a person's thoughts, memories,
feelings, actions, or sense of identity.
Dissociation can be a response to trauma, and perhaps allows the mind to distance itself from experiences that are too much
for the psyche to process at that time.
Dissociative disruptions can affect any aspect of a person’s functioning.
Although some dissociative disruptions involve amnesia, the vast majority of dissociative events do not.
Since dissociations are normally unanticipated, they are typically experienced as startling, autonomous intrusions into the
person's usual ways of responding or functioning. Due to their unexpected and largely inexplicable nature, they tend to be
quite unsettling.
Different dissociative disorders have different relationships to stress and trauma.
Dissociative amnesia and fugue states are often triggered by life stresses that fall far short of trauma.
Depersonalization disorder is sometimes triggered by trauma, but may be preceded only by stress, psychoactive substances,
or no identifiable stress at all.
-Wikipedia
Ideology: ideology is the underlying system, or pattern, or blueprint that makes up people's beliefs, attitudes and values etc. In doing so, they
progress toward seeing the world (life, others, etc) from a narrower and narrower point of view. It is a perspective that emphasizes certain ideas
or values, while rejecting, or minimizing others. It is through that perspective, point of view, or "ideology" that people explain the world to
themselves and others, and work toward making changes that are based on that perspective, as well as gradually attempting to get others to
adopt the same perspective (through persuasion, psychological manipulation otherwise known as brain-washing, or force). It is usually
connected to political beliefs, and frequently to religious/spiritual beliefs as well.
Integrate: to integrate something, is to include it into some existing thing. It doesn't just mean to "stick it in anywhere" - it means to incorporate it
so that the end result is a harmonious working together. An example would be, perhaps, wearing clothes where the various articles "match"
each other to make a nice appearance. Or a floral arrangement - or interior decorating - the various components have to "fit", to make it work.
Minister - Ministry: basically, all it means is to provide, or give a service, care, etc
progress toward seeing the world (life, others, etc) from a narrower and narrower point of view. It is a perspective that emphasizes certain ideas
or values, while rejecting, or minimizing others. It is through that perspective, point of view, or "ideology" that people explain the world to
themselves and others, and work toward making changes that are based on that perspective, as well as gradually attempting to get others to
adopt the same perspective (through persuasion, psychological manipulation otherwise known as brain-washing, or force). It is usually
connected to political beliefs, and frequently to religious/spiritual beliefs as well.
Integrate: to integrate something, is to include it into some existing thing. It doesn't just mean to "stick it in anywhere" - it means to incorporate it
so that the end result is a harmonious working together. An example would be, perhaps, wearing clothes where the various articles "match"
each other to make a nice appearance. Or a floral arrangement - or interior decorating - the various components have to "fit", to make it work.
- In human life, integration is important too. "Fitting in", for example, is important, and a particular challenge for young people. But couples
who move in together to start a relationship or marriage, must also integrate two completely different personal styles into a new whole:
one, which if done properly, will result in each remaining who they are - yet going about their day-to-day life in a different way. - Similarly, when two families are blended, or merged - activities, etc have to be altered and adjusted, and accommodation is required to
achieve harmony, and a functional, healthy, and happy situation.
Minister - Ministry: basically, all it means is to provide, or give a service, care, etc
- it is commonly associated with religious "clergy", and has become more like a title, than a description.
- yet, a pastor, priest, or minister is simply someone who offers, or provides a service: in their case, a particular service, and activities,
dealing with the spiritual-religious components of people's lives.
R.D. Laing: Laing was a British psychiatrist who developed a radical approach to working with patients who displayed certain forms of
psychosis. He suggested that rather than being a permanent, incurable mental/emotional illness, it was instead a particular way a person in
need of resolving major emotional trauma had chosen to "work it through". So that, in fact, it was "normal behaviour" insofar as it was their
particular chosen coping strategy. He and his staff interacted with those patients, on the patients own terms - and at their own pace,
accepting the behaviour, speech etc as "normal". Once the patients grasped that they were being accepted and responded to as a "normal"
person, their progress toward resolution of their problem was phenomenal, and in most cases, the original psychiatric diagnosis was
changed, and the person "healed".
Renaissance: the time period of European history which "closed" the Middle Ages and brought about the modern world.
psychosis. He suggested that rather than being a permanent, incurable mental/emotional illness, it was instead a particular way a person in
need of resolving major emotional trauma had chosen to "work it through". So that, in fact, it was "normal behaviour" insofar as it was their
particular chosen coping strategy. He and his staff interacted with those patients, on the patients own terms - and at their own pace,
accepting the behaviour, speech etc as "normal". Once the patients grasped that they were being accepted and responded to as a "normal"
person, their progress toward resolution of their problem was phenomenal, and in most cases, the original psychiatric diagnosis was
changed, and the person "healed".
Renaissance: the time period of European history which "closed" the Middle Ages and brought about the modern world.
- It was a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries.
- Renaissance (French) means "rebirth": the revival of learning and culture that began in the 14th century in Italy, and the 16th century
in northern Europe. - In Italian it is referred to as the "Rinascimento".
- It gave birth to a period of scientific revolution and artistic transformation.
- The effects led to major changes in social life, spiritual/religious life, & economic life and patterns.
- The effects are still being felt - and are expanding constantly.
Serendipity: this refers to where you find something unexpected and useful while you are/were searching for something else entirely. This
concept is closely related to synchronicity (see below).
Synchronicity: this refers to the experience of having two (or more) things happen "coincidentally" in a manner that is meaningful to the
person or persons experiencing them. In those instances, the meaning suggests an underlying pattern.
There is no coincidence in the cosmic multiverse ("universe" is an outmoded concept): synchronicty differs from coincidence. Synchronicity
implies not just a happenstance, or accident, but an underlying pattern or dynamic that is being expressed through meaningful
relationships or events: this concept holds to the belief that all things, and everything is related. This word and concept was coined by the
Swiss psychologist Carl Jung.
Synergy: this is the energy arising from the cooperative interaction among groups that creates an enhanced combined effect,
where their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects.
concept is closely related to synchronicity (see below).
Synchronicity: this refers to the experience of having two (or more) things happen "coincidentally" in a manner that is meaningful to the
person or persons experiencing them. In those instances, the meaning suggests an underlying pattern.
There is no coincidence in the cosmic multiverse ("universe" is an outmoded concept): synchronicty differs from coincidence. Synchronicity
implies not just a happenstance, or accident, but an underlying pattern or dynamic that is being expressed through meaningful
relationships or events: this concept holds to the belief that all things, and everything is related. This word and concept was coined by the
Swiss psychologist Carl Jung.
Synergy: this is the energy arising from the cooperative interaction among groups that creates an enhanced combined effect,
where their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects.
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Personal & Life Skills Empowerment Vocabulary Tools
A glossary/dictionary of words, terms and concepts to support your new understanding and attitude
Dawn Cove Abbey's Life Skills & Empowerment - Growth Reference Section
Healing
outreach
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the world
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EMOTIONAL INTIMACY: Emotional intimacy is a psychological/emotional state. It occurs when there is a high trust level and
communication between two people: the kind of trust and caring that fosters the mutual sharing of each other's innermost
selves. It is unrestrained mutual self disclosure. We offer a workshop on this topic.
GNOSTIC/GNOSTICISM
Gnostic comes from the Greek word for "knowledge", and originated in a belief system that flourished in Hellenistic (Greek)
culture. It had a major influence on Christianity. In particular that of the Johannine tradition (ie, the gospel of John, the letters of
John, the gospel of Thomas), as compared to the myth spread by the so-called apostle Paul.
Gregory Bateson: see Double-Bind
Heal - healing: these mean "to make whole", taking something which had separated into pieces and rejoining them.
Holistic: this word also comes from "whole" - it means inclusive, or "the whole thing/person".
communication between two people: the kind of trust and caring that fosters the mutual sharing of each other's innermost
selves. It is unrestrained mutual self disclosure. We offer a workshop on this topic.
GNOSTIC/GNOSTICISM
Gnostic comes from the Greek word for "knowledge", and originated in a belief system that flourished in Hellenistic (Greek)
culture. It had a major influence on Christianity. In particular that of the Johannine tradition (ie, the gospel of John, the letters of
John, the gospel of Thomas), as compared to the myth spread by the so-called apostle Paul.
- It was also a blanket term used to describe various religious sects and mystical religions in the first few centuries A.D.
- Gnosis referred to the notion that there is a special, hidden knowledge that only those who truly seek it may possess.
Somewhat akin to the current notion of some christian denominations, of a "personal God" whom you come to know -
on your own - but different. - Gnosticism arose as a religious belief system - with many variations - whose orientation advocated gnosis as the way
to release a person's spiritual element. This, of course, was considered heresy by Christian churches, for it held that
one could know God directly - without church mediation. - At Dawn Cove Abbey, we believe that priests are not mediators between people and God. Rather, people who are
seeking God (in whatever manner they understand that metaphor or concept) can benefit from the synergy that comes
from community and ritual/ceremony - and an orientation toward the sacred (sacraments) that are shared together.
The priest thus becomes a guide.
Gregory Bateson: see Double-Bind
Heal - healing: these mean "to make whole", taking something which had separated into pieces and rejoining them.
Holistic: this word also comes from "whole" - it means inclusive, or "the whole thing/person".
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