Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738174957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738174957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Your Mindful Compass
Author: Andrea Maloney ScharaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615928791
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
"Your Mindful Compass" takes us behind the emotional curtain to see the mechanisms regulating individuals in social systems. There is great comfort and wisdom in knowing we can increase our awareness to manage the swift and ancient mechanisms of social control. We can gain greater flexibility by seeing how social controls work in systems from ants to humans. To be less controlled by others, we learn how emotional systems influence our relationship-oriented brain. People want to know what goes on in families that give rise to amazing leaders and/or terrorists. For the first time in history we can understand the systems in which we live. The social sciences have been accumulating knowledge since the early fifties as to how we are regulated by others. S. Milgram, S. Ashe, P. Zimbardo and J. Calhoun, detail the vulnerability to being duped and deceived and the difficulty of cooperating when values differ. Murray Bowen, M.D., the first researcher to observe several live-in families, for up to three years, at the National Institute of Mental Health. Describing how family members overly influence one another and distribute stress unevenly, Bowen described both how symptoms and family leaders emerge in highly stressed families. Our brain is not organized to automatically perceive that each family has an emotional system, fine-tuned by evolution and "valuing" its survival as a whole, as much as the survival of any individual. It is easier to see this emotional system function in ants or mice but not in humans. The emotional system is organized to snooker us humans: encouraging us to take sides, run away from others, to pressure others, to get sick, to blame others, and to have great difficulty in seeing our part in problems. It is hard to see that we become anxious, stressed out and even that we are difficult to deal with. But "thinking systems" can open the doors of perception, allowing us to experience the world in a different way. This book offers both coaching ideas and stories from leaders as to strategies to break out from social control by de-triangling, using paradoxes, reversals and other types of interruptions of highly linked emotional processes. Time is needed to think clearly about the automatic nature of the two against one triangle. Time and experience is required as we learn strategies to put two people together and get self outside the control of the system. In addition, it takes time to clarify and define one's principles, to know what "I" will or will not do and to be able to take a stand with others with whom we are very involved. The good news is that systems' thinking is possible for anyone. It is always possible for an individual to understand feelings and to integrate them with their more rational brains. In so doing, an individual increases his or her ability to communicate despite misunderstandings or even rejection from important others. The effort involved in creating your Mindful Compass enables us to perceive the relationship system without experiencing it's threats. The four points on the Mindful Compass are: 1) Action for Self, 2) Resistance to Forward Progress, 3) Knowledge of Social Systems and the 4) The Ability to Stand Alone. Each gives us a view of the process one enters when making an effort to define a self and build an emotional backbone. It is not easy to find our way through the social jungle. The ability to know emotional systems well enough to take a position for self and to become more differentiated is part of the natural way humans cope with pressure. Now people can use available knowledge to build an emotional backbone, by thoughtfully altering their part in the relationship system. No one knows how far one can go by making an effort to be more of a self-defined individual in relationships to others. Through increasing emotional maturity, we can find greater individual freedom at the same time that we increase our ability to cooperate and to be close to others.
Disaster risk reduction in school curricula: case studies from thirty countries
Author: Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9230010871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
New Perspectives on Our Lives with Companion Animals
Author: Aaron Honori KatcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Proceedings of the International Conference on the Human-Companion Animal Bond, held at the University of Pennsylvania, October 5, 6, 7, 1981.
Development in Infancy
Author: T. G. R. BowerPublisher: W.H. Freeman
ISBN:
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition
Author: Jacqueline Ki-ZerboPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Language, Data, and Knowledge
Author: Jorge GraciaPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319598880
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, LDK 2017, held in Galway, Ireland, in June 2017. The 14 full papers and 19 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 initial submissions. They deal with language data; knowledge graphs; applications in NLP; and use cases in digital humanities, social sciences, and BioNLP.
Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection
Author: Pierre CointePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540484434
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection, Reflection'99, held in St. Malo, France in July 1999. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 44 submissions. Also included are six short papers and the abstracts of three invited talks. The papers are organized in sections on programming languages, meta object protocols, middleware/multi-media, work in progress, applications, and meta-programming. The volume covers all current issues arising in the design and analysis of reflective systems and demontrates their practical applications.
Le guide indispensable pour éduquer son chien
Author: Éditions Le guide indispensablePublisher: Éditions Le guide indispensable
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : fr
Pages : 227
Book Description
Pour tous les amoureux des chiens et à ceux qui ont ouvert leurs foyers à ces compagnons à quatre pattes, cet ouvrage se veut être votre allié dévoué dans le voyage enrichissant de l'éducation canine, un parcours où la compréhension mutuelle et la complicité entre l'homme et son fidèle compagnon sont les clés d'une relation harmonieuse. Élever un chien va bien au-delà d'une simple cohabitation ; c'est une aventure qui requiert dévouement, patience, et surtout, une connaissance approfondie des besoins et des comportements canins. Dans ces pages, nous explorerons ensemble les principes fondamentaux de l'éducation canine, guidés par le respect et la bienveillance envers nos fidèles amis. Que vous soyez un maître novice ou expérimenté, ce guide vous fournira des conseils pratiques, des astuces éprouvées, et des informations essentielles pour comprendre le langage canin, établir une communication efficace, et éduquer votre chien de manière positive.
Service Dogs
Author: Tom ColemanPublisher: Pawsitivity Press
ISBN: 0998546429
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
How unwanted dogs are rescued and then trained as service dogs to help people with disabilities. WINNER--2016 Midwest Book Award. All proceeds will go to the 501(c)(3) charity, Pawsitivity Service Dogs. "Simply astonishing in its volume, information, approach-ability, readability, transparency, experienced voice, helpfulness/usefulness and honesty. It's inspirational, as well as competent, realistic, transparent, practical'. Its tone is forthright but kind."--Dr. Beth Rausch, DVM, University of Wisconsin, River Falls "Our service dog is better than any medication. She has not just helped my daughter but the whole family. Millie is the best, most loving and loyal companion for my daughter. Tom and Julie of Pawsitivity are the kind of people that really care and just keep giving. I can not say thank you enough."--James Artisensi, father of a child with a Pawsitivity service dog
