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2015
This research is a soulful quest into learning through the experience of a social dance. It offers some antidote to the problem-solving approaches that typify attempts to improve the world. Within an Indigenist framework which celebrates knowledge as growing out of relationships, this thesis is...
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Integrating and African-Centred Clinical Pastoral Therapy Approach to the Healing of Women Survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide: A Personal Dialogue
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The purpose of this research was to understand the impact of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide on seven female survivors and how those survivors dealt with issues of repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Another aim was to determine what these women’s lives are like now, how they have been coping...
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Interior Preparations: How a Theological Reflection on John 13:1-20 Shaped an Art Therapist's Practice of Preparation
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This thesis uses a heuristic methodology to explore the impact that a theological reflection had on my preparations for facilitating art therapy sessions. Through this research I engaged in a theological reflection on John 13 – the account of Jesus washing his disciples’ feet – as a pivotal...
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Fall 2016
This research, through a theology of appreciative voice, Presence and Service, used an Indigenous expressive arts-based approach in partnership with the Canadian Opera Company, to explore how a group of 15 vulnerable, immigrant and/or first generation immigrant youth live with their struggles...
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Living from the Heart: An Exploration of the Lived Meaning of Spirituality for Community-dwelling, Oldest Elders; An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
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My love and admiration for my mother and other vibrant elders kindled my desire to learn about the lived spirituality of community-dwelling, “oldest-old” persons (aged 85 years and older). I embraced an opportunity to celebrate two elder friends, Paul and Mel, who agreed to join me in an...
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2014
This phenomenological study examined the lived experience of two men and one woman who are living their lives in response to a personal calling. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were used to collect the data pertaining to the question: What is the experience of awakening to a call to live...
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Living the Tension: Deepening an Understanding of the Therapist's Experience with Social Identities and Power Relations
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Research on therapists’ experience of their own social identities and power relations in the therapeutic space is limited. This study provides an opening into the experience of three therapists who described living the tension of their own social identities and power relations so that space is...
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2013
Are people still experiencing the presence of the holy in today’s world? If they are, through what means are they making this connection? Jewelry is a reliquary of personal and spiritual memory. It is through conversations about their jewelry that I enter into my participant’s important beliefs...