726 research outputs found

    In the Eye of the Storm: A Special Report About the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Response to the 2005 Gulf States Disasters

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    Describes the foundation's early decision-making, immediate response, and long-term commitment to rebuilding in the hurricane-affected areas. Highlights staff and grantee activities, as well as lessons learned about the grantmaking process and strategy

    Inner Work Community: Shadow Work as Spiritual Formation

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    The NPO statement surrounding this doctoral project is that A theological, practical, and community-centered framework for shadow work is disconnected from Christian spiritual formation. This doctoral project is the culmination of a three-fold process: discovering the need for shadow work in the context of spiritual formation, designing multi-faceted virtually-based opportunities to address this need among individuals and groups, and delivering those opportunities via online courses, one-on-one shadow work, and digital content such as essays, articles, and podcasts. My vocational context is my unofficial organization, and MVP, Inner Work Community, which provides these opportunities. Inner Work Community is extended through partnerships with Portland Center, the Companioning Center, and Deep Water Men’s Ministry. My research stems primarily from the work of Carl Jung, his concept of shadow and his broader psychological theory. Shadow refers to the parts of individuals or groups that are hidden, rejected, or denied conscious awareness. Shadow work is any effective process for identifying and integrating one’s hidden self. Mythologist, Joseph Campbell and Christian Jungian psychologist, Murray Stein provide the theological foundations for the project. I designed Inner Work Community to offer various opportunities and mediums for shadow work. I place emphasis on the exploration of Jungian psychology while highlighting how Jungian theory naturally aligns with the Biblical narrative and Christian values of wholeness, loving relationship, and abundant life. Participants in this research engaged courses, individual shadow work, and digital content from a Jungian psychological perspective, and most identified with the Christian faith. Spiritual Formation certainly deals in part with the inner life, but lacks sufficient language and practices for navigating and integrating the dark side of the human experience. This project demonstrates Inner Work Community as a facilitator of exploration and recovery of people’s full humanity and relational vitality by encountering and integrating the hidden self

    Re/making the 'Meeting Place' - Transforming Toronto's Public Spaces Through Creative Placemaking, Indigenous Story And Planning

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    The theme of Toronto as a middle ground has been often referenced by historians and archaeologists alike: "geographically a meeting point between Canada's vast natural resource wilderness, such Atlantic Ocean seaports as New York and Montreal, and the sprawling continental Midwest, and since prehistory, a place of meditation and exchange between different cultures and peoples" (Carruthers, 2008, p.7). The international community might know Toronto as one of the best cities in the world in liveability or quality of living (Mercer survey, 2016). Unfortunately, our city's important legacy as a middle ground or a "meeting point" has not been adequately celebrated both locally and internationally. The purpose of the research is to highlight the city's diverse culture and identity as a modern world city with a unique Indigenous heritage that goes back centuries, beyond the colonial era. Looking at history and its representation through the post-colonial lens, my research has the potential to not only build our unique sense of identity and pride as city's inhabitants, but to also serve as an important link in ongoing Canadian reconciliation efforts, in light of Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 2015 report and recommendations. I study how unearthing Toronto's forgotten/erased Indigenous historic narratives can remake our city a true "Meeting Place". I believe that by celebrating our pre-colonial history we have an opportunity to make Toronto more livable, more inclusive, more just city for all its Lefebvre's citadins. The research focuses on studying the city's Indigenous background, its current state of representation; on undertaking a comparative analysis of relative cases throughout the world; and on developing a local case study. Ideally, future steps will lead to establishing a centrally located art/history project and/or a network of small-scale public places where our Aboriginal history is showcased and celebrated. Toronto's story - our sense of place - will not be complete without acknowledging our Aboriginal roots. Beyond historical representation set in the past tense, it is imperative to talk in the present and even future language. Recognition of the continuous presence of Indigenous peoples on this territory is one of the building blocks in re-claiming the city by its Indigenous inhabitants. It is also an essential milestone in the process of Reconciliation

    Meta-Ethnographic Development of a Dialogue Methodology Applied to Organization Discourse

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    A gap exists between theoretical stances that acknowledge the importance of dialogue as a dynamic within socially constructed structures, and steersmanship of those constructs--e.g., directing, intervening or transforming organizations. A mechanism which links theory with practice is missing, leaving practitioners with an acknowledgment of dialogue\u27s central position, but without tools to enact this centrality in practice or research. This research constructs a conceptual model of dialogue, derived from the literature. Using this model as a base, the research seeks to generate a dialogue methodology bridging theory and practice with respect to organizational dialogue. The model, methodology, and research results are intended to further organizational research in organization change interventions. Notions of dialogue are explored through classical perspectives to construct a foundation model of dialogic complexity. The model\u27s purpose is to make explicit dialogue perspectives from a wide range of literature and to develop an initial research point of view which includes use of dialogue as a research methodology. A qualitative multi-level ethnographic approach is used in which ethnography of discourse events of a university undertaking a Total Quality Leadership change initiative is the basis for meta-ethnography. This meta-ethnography captures development of a methodology which centralizes dialogic concepts within notions of co-genetic logic and dynamics of distinction (Herbst, 1993; Braten, 1983) making which become the basis of participant dialogue at one level, and at a higher level articulates understanding of a notion of organizational dialogue. Implications of this research involve the use of dialogue analysis as a learning tool for second order learning and organization transformation, as well as extending understanding of dialogue dynamics in complex organization change

    Tangos Before Sunrise, Sunset and Midnight: A Conversational Journey with Jesse and Celine

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    Stripping the story of a romantic relationship down to its essentials, then fiercely delving into the details and potential variations of those essentials, director Richard Linklater and his collaborators created a unique trilogy of films spanning eighteen years in both real and fictional time. In Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013), two appealing yet flawed characters meet by chance on a train headed for Vienna, risk extending their acquaintance during a one-night tour of the city, then spend the next two decades either brooding about or deeply engaged with each other. The journey of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) as a couple is like a complicated series of dance steps repeated many times but never in exactly the same way. Their marathon conversations build on one another, echoing back and forth across the years, sometimes consciously and sometimes not, generating intimacy one moment and misunderstanding the next. Words and memories bind them together, except when weaponized to serve resentment and a desire to inflict pain. This work attempts to trace the subtle twists and turns of these two fascinating characters as their passion for each other waxes and wanes and waxes again. Like most relationships, of any kind, theirs never stands still. Before Sunset and Before Midnight reflect the inevitable wear and tear, but also the emotional depth, that time and aging can bring to friendship or love. Linklater\u27s trilogy is a fictional exploration of possibilities that is well-worth exploring in itself for the insights and excitement it brings to its universal subject

    Anointing as the Iconic Interruption of the Loving God

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    The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick has traditionally been conceived within pre-modern conceptual categories and the supporting structure or worldview of Aristotelian metaphysics. Postmodern sacramental theology suggests a reflexive reformulation, one that no longer sees the world as the transparent horizon of experiences within which the divine can be pointed out, but rather that the incompleteness and contingency of being human offers hidden glimpses of the divine. This reformulation expresses the sacrament of anointing as an experience of iconic interruption of the loving God within the context of the suffering, vulnerability, and dying of a member of the Christian community. Liessjen, writing on a postmodern understanding of the sacrament of anointing , has proposed an outline, a mere sketch of the communal and pneumatological dimensions of the sacrament that shift to the foreground in this new millennium of theological reflection. I explore the expanded horizons of the sacrament of anointing of the sick that come into view when the postmodern concepts of icon and interruption are utilized. This dissertation examines not only the above mentioned communal and pneumatological dimensions of the sacrament in more depth, but also the accompanying openness in mystery to ever new contexts, the theological limits that arise from these contexts, and the questions that arise when traditional sources dialog with postmodern cultural anthropologies implicit in these contexts. Chapter One presents a brief history of Anointing of the Sick and how each community and time attempted to better understand the mysterious gift of divine love celebrated and actualized in their communal rituals of visiting, healing, and reconciling the sick. Chapter Two examines the theology of Anointing in the revised Rite. Chapter Three examines anointing as an iconic interruption of the loving God. The fourth chapter examines the experience of iconic interruption of the loving God in the sacramental ritual of anointing of the sick. Chapter Five looks at specific case studies and address issues that arise as postmodern conceptual categories are used to focus any systematic view of the Sacrament of Anointing. Iconic interruption provides a powerful set of concepts that provoke new insights for the changing perceptions of culture and social life in our world

    Methodology of computer-mediated communication.

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    Process Mining Concepts for Discovering User Behavioral Patterns in Instrumented Software

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    Process Mining is a technique for discovering “in-use” processes from traces emitted to event logs. Researchers have recently explored applying this technique to documenting processes discovered in software applications. However, the requirements for emitting events to support Process Mining against software applications have not been well documented. Furthermore, the linking of end-user intentional behavior to software quality as demonstrated in the discovered processes has not been well articulated. After evaluating the literature, this thesis suggested focusing on user goals and actual, in-use processes as an input to an Agile software development life cycle in order to improve software quality. It also provided suggestions for instrumenting software applications to support Process Mining techniques

    Chat Communication in a Command and Control Environment: How Does It Help?

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    Military command and control (C2) teams are often faced with difficult, complex, and distributed operations amidst the fog and friction of war. To deal with this uncertainty, teams rely on clear and effective communication to coordinate their actions; two current conduits for communication in distributed military teams include voice and chat. Chat communication is regarded by many in the C2 world as the premier method of communicating with the power to lessen some of the traffic and disturbances of current voice communication, and its usage continues to exponentially increase. Despite this operational view, countless laboratory studies have demonstrated detrimental effects of chat communication relative to voice communication. The current study investigates the gap between laboratory research results and usage in complex environments, and empirically tests the effect that chat communication has on tactical C2 performance through an air battle management synthetic task environment. Results demonstrate that participants performed better on time-critical, emergent events with voice communication and better on preplanned missions when they had access to archival information. Voice communication is a valuable, high bandwidth channel that is essential for coordination in highly complex situations, while chat communication is a nonintrusive form of communication that allows the operator flexibility in prioritizing the information flow through the use of archival information. The challenge in operational settings with overcrowded radio channels, however, is to protect the voice channel to ensure it is available when the situation demands it. With careful implementation, voice and chat communication can be complementary technologies to facilitate complex work
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