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Item Needs assessment for a mediation training film(1997)In this study a needs assessment was conducted to determine if there is a need for a mediation training film/video in community mediation training programs across the United States. The needs assessment also determines content for the film/video as well as assessing for the need of a film. For the purpose of this study, the researcher explored the question: Is there a need for a representative mediation training film/video in the arena of community mediation? Data were collected through interviews. To analyze the data a qualitative formula was followed to uncover the themes from interview data. Findings revealed that there is a need for a mediation training film/ video in the setting of community mediation. The themes that emerged were concerns regarding the improvement of training practices, quality and effectiveness of a film/video and adaptability of a film/video into each interviewees' organization each were discussed in-depth. The researcher recommends that community-based mediation centers and their training programs need to continue to improve mediator training to stay current as disputes are becoming increasingly difficult. The presence of the researcher during interviews as well as the nature of the questions asked may have influenced the interviewees' responses.Item My dream is my castle: dreams, art and language in the classroom(1990)This paper explores the thesis that the use of children's dreams in the elementary school classroom will enhance students' creative output and assist in the acquisition of language skills. The author supports his thesis with reference to various previously published writings and his own study. His study involved 114 students from several classrooms in the San Francisco Bay Area, representing five language groups. The procedure, involving group discussion and recording of dream images through writing and drawing, is outlined. The findings are compared to a similar study by Garfield (1984). The paper concludes that dreamwork, used in the manner described, can be effectively integrated as part of a larger arts—based curriculum to provide students with a resource from which to draw creative expression.Item Moving towards conscious consumption: an integral inquiry into post-consumer attitudes and behaviors(2009)This thesis draws on the integral model as a theoretical framework to situate an investigation of post-consumer attitudes and behaviors. A mixed-methods approach has been used to explore the phenomenon from first-, second-, and third-person perspectives, employing four different methods of inquiry: autoethnographic journaling, structured meditative inquiry, hermeneutic analysis, and online survey. Findings of this study suggest that post-consumer attitudes and behaviors are linked to worldcentric levels of psychological development. The main characteristic of post-consumer behavior, identified through all four methods, is an internal orientation that reaches beyond self-concern to include concern for others and the natural environment. Triangulation of findings across methods further revealed: a) Post-consumer attitudes or values do not predict post-consumer behavior. b) The main obstacles to post-consumer behavior are economic calculations. c) At a deeper level of awareness, consumption is done to establish a favorable separate selfidentity. And d) increased awareness of our oneness or interconnectedness with all of life would minimize harmful consumption.Item Muse, medium, & meaning: bringing the body into art and art into the body for healing, creative sustenance, and well-being(2014)I have divided my thesis into three main sections. The first - A Search for Purpose - is an account of my personal and artistic history. It is divided into three subsections of pivotal art processes explored at JFKU that connect to events from my childhood and adolescence, carrying common threads concerning our collective relationship to the body and the healing of my artistic creative process. Section two - Show Me How to Do Like You - presents the social and philosophical contexts in which my work arises. Its subsections covering clay, movement and storytelling, body image, and somatic psychology, include influential people in my development and significant characteristics of each modality. In the third section I offer a brief overview of my identity as a teacher and facilitator, highlighting a workshop I taught at JFKU, which leads to current applications of my work, as well as future possibilities.Item Opening the door...(2016)My art work, and spiritual practices, serve to promote an awareness of native cosmology and heal the wounding that 500 years of colonization has produced. This healing extends to all people and creation. I extend it to the winds, water, plants and animals. They are our relations. The works I create, maintain an awareness of: the four legged, the water creatures, the winged, the flora and fauna. The planet itself is a living entity. My audience is lead back to this reality. The four elements of creation are my relations. They are: fire, water, earth, and air. They compose my genetic code. As a native descendent, I live by a value system that recognizes and honors the seventh generation from now. My obligation and connection to them compels and informs the intentions captured in my artwork. I follow a mandate, that was given to me by my father (Matilde Raphael Torres) when I was 17 (...ish). He told me to "open the doors..." for those who have been denied entry." During the second world war, he served in the south pacific theater of combat. He was an armament specialist in the United States Army Air Corps. My father was one of a multitude of Mexican-Americans who served this country during this conflict. I was shocked when he told me that the worst thing the government ever did to him was "make me a Mexican again." According to him, his service time was spent "eating like a king." and "playing baseball." He was extremely talented at both endevours. It was disheartening for me to hear that after returning to the U.S. of A., he was told, "We don't hire Mexicans." Though he was a veteran, my father had difficulty qualifying for his house loan. He suffered constant racial discrimination throughout his career as a "letter carrier" for the U.S. post office. In honor of my father, I work at "opening doors" in life.
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