Joseph Naytowhow: waniskā “Wake Up!” to Wholeness through nîhiyawiwin

In this article, the authors present the teachings of nēhiyaw (Cree) Emerging Elder and Knowledge Keeper Joseph Naytowhow. In a celebrated nēhiyaw (Cree) fashion, storytelling and language are used as examples of a non-linear and sometimes complicated journey back to self, culture, nature and healing. Against the background of being kidnapped, imprisoned in a religious institution, and robbed of all-things nēhiyaw (Cree), this article offers a sense of Joseph Naytowhow’s journey back to intimacy, love, and affection which aids in one’s search for emotional safety. Joseph utilizes nîhiyawiwin knowledge tools such as dreaming to aid in his journey back to nîhiyawiwin (Cree culture) and nehiyawewin/Cree language. From a residential school internee to a leader and Emerging Elder, he notes the importance of mentors in a relational approach to healing. This article provides an invitation through “the sunrise song” to “Wake up!” and create a more respectful and reciprocal world of internal wholeness.

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Revisiting a family approach in youth ministry

In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi ◽

10.4102/ids.v50i1.2078 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anita Cloete

Keyword(s):

Youth Ministry ◽

Contemporary Society ◽

Religious Institution ◽

Relational Approach ◽

Family Approach ◽

The Family ◽

Constitutive Factor ◽

Theological Task ◽

The Church

The primary aim of this article is to reflect on the ‘family’ of a family approach in youth ministry. The overall aim of the article is to confirm the importance of family as social and, specifically, a religious institution. Therefore, a family approach in youth ministry is of utmost importance, but it is argued that it is more feasible if the responsibility is taken up to continuously reflect on being a family in contemporary society. That implies that reflection on family is as much a cultural task as a theological task. Therefore, an interdisciplinary reflection is valued as cultural, is multifaceted and an ever chancing phenomenon. One of the outstanding characteristic of families today is diversity. Diversity, with regards to family, is mostly related to the structure of family and attention has therefore been paid to it in a section of this article. It is argued that diversity should not be perceived as negative, because, despite of the diverse structure of family, constructive relationships is proposed as the binding and constitutive factor in being a family. The focus on relatedness moves beyond blood ties to relatedness and solidarity as fundamental for our humanness. Thatcher (2007:6) differentiates between a structural and relational approach to family. A relational approach is opted here with the emphasis on the quality of the dimension of the relationships. These relationships are also understood to be grounded in theological sources such as the Person of God and the church.

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UN Stabilisation Operations and the Problem of Non-Linear Change: A Relational Approach to Intervening in Governance Ecosystems

Stability International Journal of Security and Development ◽

10.5334/sta.727 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Adam C. Day ◽

Charles T. Hunt

Keyword(s):

Linear Change ◽

Relational Approach ◽

Non Linear

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B. The Non-Linear Calculations for Pulsating Stars

Symposium - International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s0074180900019008 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 28 ◽

pp. 105-176

Author(s):

Robert F. Christy

Keyword(s):

Major Part ◽

Afternoon Session ◽

Discussion Session ◽

Pulsating Stars ◽

Fourth Symposium ◽

Non Linear ◽

Considerable Discussion ◽

Informal Approach ◽

Preceding Session

(Ed. note: The custom in these Symposia has been to have a summary-introductory presentation which lasts about 1 to 1.5 hours, during which discussion from the floor is minor and usually directed at technical clarification. The remainder of the session is then devoted to discussion of the whole subject, oriented around the summary-introduction. The preceding session, I-A, at Nice, followed this pattern. Christy suggested that we might experiment in his presentation with a much more informal approach, allowing considerable discussion of the points raised in the summary-introduction during its presentation, with perhaps the entire morning spent in this way, reserving the afternoon session for discussion only. At Varenna, in the Fourth Symposium, several of the summaryintroductory papers presented from the astronomical viewpoint had been so full of concepts unfamiliar to a number of the aerodynamicists-physicists present, that a major part of the following discussion session had been devoted to simply clarifying concepts and then repeating a considerable amount of what had been summarized. So, always looking for alternatives which help to increase the understanding between the different disciplines by introducing clarification of concept as expeditiously as possible, we tried Christy's suggestion. Thus you will find the pattern of the following different from that in session I-A. I am much indebted to Christy for extensive collaboration in editing the resulting combined presentation and discussion. As always, however, I have taken upon myself the responsibility for the final editing, and so all shortcomings are on my head.)

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