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A Field Guide to Sanctuary: Women’s Experiences of Personal Sanctuary Contextualised Within Chronic Health Conditions
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Sheehan Deatherage, L. Colleen
This analytic autoethnography draws on a passage from Celtic philosopher John O’Donohue to consider women’s experience of personal sanctuary within the context of chronic health conditions. Guided by the question: ‘what is your experience of sanctuary and how does that relate to your experience...
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2021
Posttraumatic growth is a phenomenon that is characterized by the significant personal changes and growth that an individual can experience after a traumatic event. This research contributes to the existing body of research on posttraumatic growth by deeply looking into the experience after...
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Sing, Pray, Heal: Neo-Kirtan and the Perceived Health Benefits of Westernized Group Chanting
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"Neo-kirtan," a Westernized version of a devotional call and response singing practice, is growing in popularity outside of kirtan's original South Asian contexts. This research project aims to describe the cultural and musical components of neo-kirtan through ethnographic analysis with...
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2022
As churches and other ministries struggle with financial shortfalls due to COVID-19 and other socio-religious reasons, many church leaders are anxious about becoming under-resourced. Funding is quickly becoming an urgent challenge, and many churches and ministries are either restructuring to...
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The Function of Aesthetics in Art Therapy: How Art Therapists Perceive the Role of Aesthetics in Art Therapy Interventions with Adolescents and Young Adults
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This research was fuelled by observations of aesthetic subscriptions in adolescents and young adults. Combining a curiosity with this phenomenon with graduate studies, an intrigue developed considering the nuanced differences between how each of these sectors define, utilize, and approach...
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2022
The following study addresses the experience of climate grief in young organizers in Edmonton, Alberta / amiswaciwâskahikan, Treaty 6. Grounded in an art-based research methodology and using a theological lens, I examined the ways climate organizers give meaning to their grief and the ways shared...
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Understanding Indigenous Women's Experiences of Engaging in Activities to Heal From Intergenerational Trauma
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This study investigated Indigenous women’s experiences of healing from trauma. The legacy of colonization and Indian residential schools continues to impact Indigenous peoples through historic and intergenerational trauma. Very little research exists on the impact of historic and...