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'There can be a perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness
and beauty, in insisting on flowering just when the world expects
you to become quiet and diminish.' Sharon Blackie What is Hagitude?
It means being at ease with the unique power women embody in the
second half of their life. It means having a strong sense of who we
are and what we have to offer the world. And a firm belief in our
place in the ever-shifting web of life. For the woman who wishes to
flourish without chasing eternal youth comes Hagitude. Interweaving
myth, psychology, landscape and ecofeminism, acclaimed author
Sharon Blackie reclaims the mid years as an alchemical moment -
from which to shift into your chosen, authentic and fulfilling
future - and the elder years as a path to dynamic influence. 'A
fascinating book ... well researched, packed with stories and
bursting with lovely descriptions of the natural world. There's
plenty in it to inspire women of every age.' Christina Patterson,
Sunday Times
A book of natural wonders, practical guidance and life-changing
empowerment, by the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller If Women
Rose Rooted. 'To live an enchanted life is to pick up the pieces of
our bruised and battered psyches, and to offer them the nourishment
they long for. It is to be challenged, to be awakened, to be
gripped and shaken to the core by the extraordinary which lies at
the heart of the ordinary. Above all, to live an enchanted life is
to fall in love with the world all over again.' The enchanted life
has nothing to do with escapism or magical thinking: it is founded
on a vivid sense of belonging to a rich and many-layered world. It
is creative, intuitive, imaginative. It thrives on work that has
heart and meaning. It loves wild things, but returns to an
enchanted home and garden. It respects the instinctive knowledge,
ethical living and playfulness, and relishes story and art. Taking
the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy
tales and folk culture, this book offers a set of practical and
grounded tools for reclaiming enchantment in our lives, giving us a
greater sense of meaning and of belonging to the world.
Discover the transformative power of the hidden feminine with this
beautiful oracle, and unlock spiritual nourishment, inspiration,
and a deeper connection with nature. The Rooted Woman Oracle is a
mesmerizing 53-card oracle deck from Sharon Blackie, an
award-winning writer and internationally recognized teacher in the
field of mythic imagination. Follow the path to unlimited
creativity, greater strength and endurance, and create more flow in
your life with this magical oracle. Distilling decades of knowledge
and wisdom, Sharon has created a unique and magical oracle that
entwines three different threads: Places, Allies, and Journey. From
the inspirational 'Mountain' to the flowing 'River', you'll
experience the archetypal qualities of specific places and take
spiritual strength from the land. You'll feel supported by women
from Celtic myth and folklore—your Allies—like initiatory
Ceridwen and The Cailleach, protector of the wild; and you'll find
Journey cards that reflect the different stages of the Heroine's
Journey and help you follow your unique mythopoetic path through
life. The Rooted Woman Oracle will help you to renew your sacred
connection with nature, reclaim your power, and find authentic and
meaningful ways of being in this world.
This book helps meet an urgent need for theorized, accessible and
discipline-sensitive publications to assist science, technology,
engineering and mathematics educators. The book introduces
Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) and demonstrates how it can be used
to improve teaching and learning in tertiary courses across the
sciences. LCT provides a suite of tools which science educators can
employ in order to help their students grasp difficult and dense
concepts. The chapters cover a broad range of subjects, including
biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics, as well as different
curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practices. This is a crucial
resource for any science educator who wants to better understand
and improve their teaching.
Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers contributes to the current
struggles for decolonising education in the global South, focusing
on the highly illuminating case of South African higher education.
Galvanised by #FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall student protests,
South Africa has seen particularly intense and broad social
engagement with debates over decolonising universities. However,
much of this debate has been consumed with definitions and
meanings. In contrast, Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers shows how
conceptual tools, specifically from Legitimation Code Theory, can
be enacted in research and teaching to meaningfully work towards
productive decolonisation. Each chapter addresses a key issue in
contemporary debates in South African higher education and show how
practices concerning knowledge and knowers are playing a role,
drawing on quantitative and qualitative research, praxis, and
interdisciplinary research.
Drawing on myth and fairy tales found across Europe - from Croatia
to Sweden, Ireland to Russia - Sharon Blackie brings to life
women's remarkable ability to transform themselves in the face of
seemingly impossible circumstances. These stories are about coming
to terms with our animal natures, exploring the ways in which we
might renegotiate our fractured relationship with the natural
world, and uncovering the wildness - and wilderness - within.
Beautifully illustrated by Helen Nicholson, Foxfire, Wolfskin and
Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women is Blackie's first collection
of short stories.
This book helps meet an urgent need for theorized, accessible and
discipline-sensitive publications to assist science, technology,
engineering and mathematics educators. The book introduces
Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) and demonstrates how it can be used
to improve teaching and learning in tertiary courses across the
sciences. LCT provides a suite of tools which science educators can
employ in order to help their students grasp difficult and dense
concepts. The chapters cover a broad range of subjects, including
biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics, as well as different
curriculum, pedagogy and assessment practices. This is a crucial
resource for any science educator who wants to better understand
and improve their teaching.
Charged with possibility and power, this memorable collection is an
extraordinary immersion into the bodies and voices, mindscapes and
landscapes, of the shapeshifting women of our native folklore.
Drawing on myth and fairy tales found across Europe from Croatia to
Sweden, Ireland to Russia, these stories are about coming to terms
with our animal natures, exploring the ways in which we might
renegotiate our fractured relationship with the natural world, and
uncovering the wildness and wilderness within.
Can adversity lead to enduring positive change across the lifespan?
Providing a thoughtful and considered exploration of this question,
this book presents a critical reassessment of posttraumatic growth,
based on correcting prior theoretical and methodological
limitations in the current research. Its core argument is that
posttraumatic growth should be reconceptualized as positive
personality change, and thus should be studied using novel
methodological approaches from the field of personality psychology.
Broadly, this argument is put forward in five progressive sections.
Beginning by giving a conceptual and interdisciplinary overview of
posttraumatic growth as a phenomenon, the volume then reviews the
current academic conceptualization of posttraumatic growth and
makes a case for a 'reset' in the research. The next section
maintains that posttraumatic growth is in fact a form of positive
personality change and should be analyzed using personality science
methodology. Using positive personality change as a theoretical
foundation for posttraumatic growth, the following two sections
look at posttraumatic growth in context. It is explored both in the
long term, such as in the development of reflective knowledge and
wisdom, and in specific situations such as with refugees in Sri
Lanka and survivors of the Rwandan genocide. Lastly, Exploring the
Psychological Benefits of Hardship: A Critical Reassessment of
Posttraumatic Growth concludes by offering recommendations for
scholars and researchers that will improve the quality of research
on posttraumatic growth, and will advance this important and worthy
field.
This volume presents to the international world of learning the
first fruits of a project launched by the European Science
Foundation (ESF) in 1977. Tribute should be paid to the late
Professor Aleck Chloros, Judge in the Court of the Euro- pean
Community, whose belief in the European ideal and enthusiasm for
European co9peration and the comparative study oflegal problems
made him an eloquent ad- vocate of a large-scale ESF venture into
the field of comparative law. Judge Chloros had envisaged the
creation of a permanent, sizable and well-equipped European in-
stitute for comparative legal studies. The successive working
parties convoked by the Executive Council of the ESF, which I had
the honour of heading from the be- ginning, came to the conclusion
that this ambitious vision could not be realized im- mediately; the
financial situation of the member organizations of the ESF also de-
teriorated, making a cautious approach a necessary virtue. The
solution ultimately adopted by the last of the working parties -
the Ad Hoc Committee for Compara- tive Law - and submitted to the
General Assembly of the ESF in 1979 called for the launching of
four pilot projects. In November 1980, the Assembly approved de-
tailed plans for two of these projects, the first of which
concerned medical respon- sibility - the subject of this volume. A
Steering Committee was set up to monitor the projects. The
organisation of the study was entrusted to Professor Dr.
The decision-making process in agriculture rests squarely on
information available to farmers, entrepreneurs and policy-makers.
Information can best be considered as a productive resource,
potentially limiting and influencing the efficiency of production,
marketing, processing and administration. Yet it is not an aspect
of agriculture which has been isolated as an autonomous study area.
Indeed, at the production level, the role of information hardly has
been defined and in practice the processing of raw data to provide
useful information is informal and crude. Exceptions do exist,
however, and at all levels in the industry it is possible to detect
a ground swell of demand for improvement. Even where serious and
successful attempts have been made to establish formal information
systems, as, for example, in the case of the agricultural economics
profession in the 1920s and 1930s for national policy-making
purposes, obsolescence has occurred, making the systems
inefficient. Information systems are expensive to establish and to
operate, and where, owing to development of the industry or change
in the type of decision which must be made or advances in the
technology of information systems, inefficiencies have become
obvious, re-evaluation is a matter of urgent concern. The concern
is the greater as agriculture develops and control of production
and marketing becomes more critical: under these conditions,
appropriate decision-support through formal information systems
becomes the keystone for a viable enterprise.
The numbers of Africans living in absolute poverty continues to
increase. Through bolder and more innovative approaches, the poor
can be helped, at very reasonable cost, to break out of poverty. We
use the experience from one of the poorest countries on the
continent, Malawi, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty
creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. We develop a
model easily replicable at modest cost to lift people quickly out
of poverty, with sustainable benefits.
If Women Rose Rooted has been described as both transformative and
essential. Sharon Blackie leads the reader on a quest to find their
place in the world, drawing inspiration from the wise and powerful
women in native mythology, and guidance from contemporary role
models who have re-rooted themselves in land and community and
taken responsibility for shaping the future. Beautifully written,
honest and moving, If Women Rose Rooted is a passionate song to a
different kind of femininity, a rallying, feminist cry for the
rewilding of womanhood; reclaiming our role as guardians of the
land.
Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on
the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that
poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist.
Poverty, AIDS and Hunger outlines an easily-replicable model, at
modest cost, that could lift people quickly out of poverty, with
sustainable benefits.
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Rob Blackie, Peter Blackie; Edited by Mike Marts; Artworks by Daniel Maine
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Taking as her starting point the inspiration and wisdom that can be
derived from myth, fairy tales, and folk culture, Dr. Sharon
Blackie offers a set of practical and grounded tools for enchanting
our lives and the places we live, so leading to a greater sense of
meaning and of belonging to the world. Enchantment. By Dr.
Blackie's definition, a vivid sense of belongingness to a rich and
many-layered world, a profound and whole-hearted participation in
the adventure of life. Enchantment is a natural, spontaneous human
tendency -- one we possess as children, but lose, through social
and cultural pressures, as we grow older. It is an attitude of mind
which can be cultivated: the enchanted life is possible for anyone.
It is intuitive, embraces wonder, and fully engages the mythic
imagination -- but it is also deeply embodied in ecology, grounded
in place and community. To live this way is to be challenged, to be
awakened, to be gripped and shaken to the core by the extraordinary
which lies at the heart of the ordinary.
Since the Genocide against the Tutsi, when up to one million
Rwandan people were brutally killed, Rwanda has undergone a
remarkable period of reconstruction. Driven by a governmental
programme of unity and reconciliation, the last 25 years have seen
significant changes at national, community, and individual levels.
This book gathers previously unpublished testimonies from
individuals who lived through the genocide. These are the voices of
those who experienced one of the most horrific events of the 20th
Century. Yet, their stories do not simply paint a picture of lives
left destroyed and damaged; they also demonstrate healing
relationships, personal growth, forgiveness and reconciliation.
Through the lens of positive psychology, the book presents a range
of perspectives on what happened in Rwanda in 1994, and shows how
people have been changed by their experience of genocide.
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