Instead, this was a moment of community and personal empowerment.
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He saw a deep link between political independence and personal empowerment.
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Friday's winter solstice ignites a new sense of personal empowerment as Capricorn season begins.
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On Tuesday, sweet Venus meets optimistic Jupiter, giving you a steady stream of inspiration and personal empowerment.
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In a culture so single-mindedly focused on personal empowerment and victory over victimization, how could she not?
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Several of the 16 books he has written, including his 2013 personal-empowerment manifesto, "Choose Yourself," continue to sell briskly.
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He runs a charisma masterclass in London covering everything from body language and tone of voice to messaging and personal empowerment.
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She has become, in essence, a thirty-one-year-old version of Faith, a polished young spokeswoman for women's personal empowerment.
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Finally, with the unwitting help of authors preaching personal empowerment, they're bailing on the obligation to care about your happiness at all.
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To the Editor: I was so disheartened by Barbara Ehrenreich's leap to assume that it's selfish to find personal empowerment through positive thinking and gratitude.
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Worst of all, since these platforms appear so interactive and democratic, we experience this degradation of our social processes as a form of personal empowerment.
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"We think Activity blends our biographical voice with dance music tropes such as closeness, atmospheric changes, and personal empowerment, solidifying our sound," Holy Balm said about the record.
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Their accounts of family histories can serve as a source of ethnic pride and personal empowerment for younger generations searching for their identities as racial and ethnic minorities.
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Actually, a lot of my work deals with personal empowerment issues, looking for those rare moments when users can gain power that makes us feel bigger than we are.
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Carter has given many of them away, and she and her associates have partnered with other organizations to create a larger movement centered around traffic-stop safety and personal empowerment.
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We tested whether specific individuals — namely, those who are searching for their own means of personal empowerment, were the most likely to express more violent ideas in response to mass shootings.
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But history also shows — from Athens to Washington — that citizens' equality and state institutions that provide justice and control power offer the greatest prospect of social stability, happiness and personal empowerment.
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The promise of America is not the possibility of individuals going at it alone and achieving in a high-profile way as a result, and the purpose of politics is not personal empowerment.
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As much as I applaud Cheryl's firmer stance here, I tend to see the line between cosmetic measures that trigger personal empowerment, and those that arise from cultural judgment, as subjective and awfully blurry.
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But personal empowerment has also been essential in her efforts to promote gender equality, like when she led a successful public campaign to demand that Wimbledon pay women the same amount of prize money as men.
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Complex questions — of medicine, morality, personal empowerment and the proper role of government — are often reduced to the kind of all-or-nothing propositions that are ever more common in the polarized politics of the Trump era.
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The wearying grind of the tour clashes with the effervescence of the band's lyrical preoccupations, which have shifted from youthful social commentary about topics such as bullying and the academic pressures of South Korean education toward uplifting messages of personal empowerment.
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Half of the group was engaged in the COPE (Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment) Healthy Lifestyles TEEN (Thinking, Emotions, Exercise and Nutrition) cognitive behavior program, which was recently included in the National Cancer Institute's database of Research-Tested Intervention Programs.
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Beyoncé's music is so much about personal empowerment, especially on the week-and-a-half-old Lemonade, that it feels like an incredible missed opportunity for her not to have given more direct and active support to North Carolina and its fight against HB 2.
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That's an effective line for personal empowerment, but it also gives consumers the warm glow of feeling like they're champions of equality without having to do much work understanding the many ways in which society condones or rejects a man's expression of masculinity based on his race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
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This assault was undertaken in a spirit of social optimism, in the name of personal empowerment and (eventually) female equality, and infused with a confidence that the old legal and moral structures were simply oppressive, that in an enlightened society most people wouldn't need normative models of partnering and child rearing to flourish and succeed.
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You will need: A hot charcoal discPestle and mortarA ceramic or heatproof dish 1 pinch of thyme (to connect and trust your inner voice) 1 bay leaf (for strength and personal empowerment) 1 pinch rosemary (for clarity, wisdom and protection) 3 cloves (for courage) A pen and paper A black tourmaline crystal for some added assistance to keep you grounded Before you start, be as chill as possible so you can really be mindful and in the moment of what you are doing.
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The son, Jairek Robbins, is also a personal empowerment trainer. In October 2001, Robbins married Bonnie "Sage" Robbins ( Humphrey). They live in Manalapan, Florida.
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The goal of the curriculum group sessions is to change the youths perceptions of the commercial sex industry, in addition to building self-esteem and personal empowerment in fighting against commercial sexual exploitation.
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In 2013, Arab-Bedouin women from Lakiya and other Bedouin towns participated in a sewing course for fashion design at the Amal College in Beer Sheva, including lessons on sewing and cutting, personal empowerment and business initiatives.
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The therapeutic effects of an adventure challenge program on the personal empowerment of women survivors of sexual trauma. Journal of Experiential Education, 25(3), 350. families in distress,Chen, T., Haljun, B., & Schwer Canning, S. (2003). Adventure as enrichment: Measuring social outcomes for families.
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The Compensatory Model has been a designation of black churches where congregants find acceptance, appreciation, and applause often denied them within dominant society. Motivation stems from a promise of achieving personal empowerment and recognition, i.e., congregants are "compensated" with improved self-esteem as their peers affirm their successes.
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In 2008, Kalamazoo College had twenty-three on-going service-learning programs. Several courses in the college incorporate service-learning into their curricula. Programs in service-learning include Community Advocates for Parents and Students, Helping Youth through Personal Empowerment, Academic Mentorship In Giants On-going Success, the Woodward School, Keeping the Doors Open, and Farms to K.
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These landscapes explore the environmental justice issues of racial and class inequality, wealth disparity, social welfare, political participation, personal empowerment, and more. While the Cry Joy Park series is the same physical installation in each iteration, its focus on the relevant local environmental justice issues makes it site specific, leading to new forms that changes with each installation.
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Twenty Arab-Bedouin women participated in a sewing course for fashion design at the Amal College in Beersheba, including lessons on sewing and cutting, personal empowerment and business initiatives.Economic Empowerment. Arab-Bedouin Fashion Design A number of Bedouin women have undergone professional botanical training and established a business producing a range of unique skin care products based on traditional Bedouin herbal medicine.Bedouin Projects.
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There is no known safe level of alcohol consumption either when trying to get pregnant or during pregnancy. With alcohol abuse remaining highly stigmatized—particularly in the case of pregnant women—some advocate for treatment programs to focus on a non-judgmental stance, on personal empowerment, and on offering contraceptives to women engaging in sex, in order to prevent fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
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One of the Innovation set of episodes was called People in Motion,Mifflin, Lawrie (March 30, 1995) "Just Try To Slow These People Down", The New York Times. Retrieved July 16, 2013. which looked at technology as a method of personal empowerment for people with disabilities. People in Motion comprised three episodes, hosted by the musician Itzhak Perlman, that aired in 1995.
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Even among the poorest and least educated groups of both the conservatives (the Pro-Government Conservatives) and the left-wing (the Disadvantaged Democrats), these differences in opinion about personal empowerment are apparent. While 74% of Pro-Government Conservatives believed that people can get ahead with hard work, only 14% of Disadvantaged Democrats agreed while 79% disagreed and the other 7% refused to answer.
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In 2011, she was chosen to participate in a special project of the Internationales Institut fur Politik & Gesellschaft (International Institute for Politics and Society), Germany, in cooperation with the UN – UNICEF, on female leadership. She expressed her vision on personal empowerment and women's leadership in the book Female Leadership - Learning from the World’s Most Successful Women.Plehwe, Kerstin (1/9/11). Female Leadership - Die Macht der Frauen.
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In 1990, psychologist Albert Bandura used Model Mugging for a psychology study where he and Elizabeth Ozer tested the hypotheses that "perceived coping and cognitive control self- efficacy govern the effects of personal empowerment over physical threats". The women participated in a mastery modeling self-defense program in which they sought to learn the physical skills to defend themselves successfully against unarmed sexual assailants.
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Self-mentors are devoted and passionate in sustaining their success. A sense of accomplishment is motivational enough for them to continue their endeavor and maintain personal empowerment and self-efficacy (Bond & Hargreaves, 2014). Beckford (2012) agrees with the influence of self-mentoring to one’s position of personal power and ownership. You take control of your life as you journey on a path that is right for you.
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Eran Ben-Shahar, in Australia, 2007 Eran Ben-Shahar (; born 11 March 1969) is an Israeli author, philosopher, journalist and inventor. Born in Haifa, Israel, after living and lecturing in the Galilee, Israel he now lives in New Zealand. Author of the bestseller Barely-Bear Makes Money and also of 42 – Personal Empowerment Pocket Guide and Ofer the Fawn – The Water Riddle. Creator of the "Social-Capitalistic" concept.
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Alejandra Llamas (born August 15, 1970) is a Mexican-American best-selling author, speaker, founder of the MMK Process and personal empowerment expert. She is the author of best-selling books El Arte de la Pareja, El Arte de Educar, Maestría de Vida, El Arte de Conocerte, Una Vida Sin Límites, Libérate and Esencia de Líder, published by Penguin RandomHouse. She is the founder of the MMK Institute., approved by the International Coach Federation.
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One remix on the CD maxi single was done by the Pet Shop Boys, featuring added lyrics by the band. The song features a dance groove tempo, and talks about personal empowerment and self-sufficiency. "Sorry" received positive reviews from contemporary critics, who declared the track the strongest song on Confessions on a Dance Floor. Some critics also commented on the song's disco-influenced beats while comparing it to Madonna's older dance songs.
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In 2008, Babeland opened a new location in Park Slope, Brooklyn, making a total of three stores in New York City. In 1999, the Toys in Babeland staff developed a specific mission: to promote and celebrate sexual vitality by providing an honest, open and fun environment. Encouraging personal empowerment, community education, and support for a more passionate world are key. In 2003, Venning and Cavanah published Sex Toys 101: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing and Using Sex Toys.
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Twenty Arab- Bedouin women from Rahat, Lakiya, Tel Sheva, Segev Shalom, Kuseife and Rachma participated in a sewing course for fashion design at Amal College in Beer Sheva, including lessons on sewing and cutting, personal empowerment and business initiatives.Economic Empowerment. Arab-Bedouin Fashion Design As a result, tourism and crafts are growing industries and in some cases, such as Drijat, have reduced unemployment significantly. The new industrial zones being constructed in the region are also increasing job opportunities.
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Today, Reclaiming has several dozen affiliated communities across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia. Weeklong intensives called "Witchcamps" bring Reclaiming people together in about a dozen regions. Classes such as "Elements of Magic", "Rites of Passage", and specific meditative and magical techniques such as the "Pearl Pentacle" and the "Iron Pentacle" assist participants to share practical skills in personal empowerment and group process. Reclaiming has also produced several CDs of Pagan chants and songs, and publishes the magazine Reclaiming Quarterly.
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In November 2012, Dr. Ram Charan, along with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev guided "Insight; the DNA of Success" a leadership program bringing together, for the first time, the tools of professional and personal empowerment. Fortune magazine calls him 'the most influential consultant alive'. The 4-day program held at the Isha Yoga Center, saw 200 business leaders converge in an exploration that bridged spirituality and business. Charan was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources in 2000 and named a Distinguished Fellow in 2005.
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There is a number of organizations carrying out different activities aimed at supporting and facilitating entrepreneurship in Israel's South in order to further integrate the 160,000 Bedouins living in the Negev into Israel's mainstream economy. They are primarily aimed at Bedouin women. Twenty Arab- Bedouin women from the towns of Rahat, Lakiya, Tel Sheva, Segev Shalom, Kuseife and Rachma participated in a sewing course for fashion design at the Amal College in Beer Sheva, including lessons on sewing and cutting, personal empowerment and business initiatives.Economic Empowerment.
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"Ella, elle l'a" (French for "Ella, She Has It") is a single released by French singer France Gall. It was released as a single from her album Babacar, on 24 August 1987, and became a hit across Europe, the Americas (especially in Quebec and the Southern Cone) and Asia (especially in Japan) Written by Michel Berger, the song is a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, but also a protest against racism and an anthem to personal empowerment. Musically, "it swings between sheared rhythms of the bass and flashed brass".Elia Habib, Muz hit.
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This course promoted personal empowerment and professional training, delving deeply into the subject of traditional medicine and healing by use of plants and herbs. Tel Sheva and Jasmine together built a program to develop the business with the hope of creating an herbal medicine and cosmetics chain based on their age-old Bedouin traditions and techniques. Each businesswomen was given a 20,000 shekel loan from the CJAED Sulam Loan Fund."2009, "Asalla's Approval from the Ministry of Health" CJAED" The plants required for the products are currently picked by the group in unprotected desert regions.
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The Human Be-In focused the key ideas of the 1960s counterculture: personal empowerment, cultural and political decentralization, communal living, ecological awareness, higher consciousness (with the aid of psychedelic drugs), acceptance of illicit psychedelics use, and radical liberal political consciousness. The hippie movement developed out of disaffected student communities around San Francisco State University, City College and Berkeley and in San Francisco's beat generation poets and jazz hipsters, who also combined a search for intuitive spontaneity with a rejection of "middle-class morality". Allen Ginsberg personified the transition between the beat and hippie generations.
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Playground in Rahat There are a number of organizations carrying out different activities aimed at supporting and facilitating entrepreneurship in Israel's South in order to further integrate the 210,000 Bedouin living in the Negev into Israel's mainstream economy. They are primarily aimed at Bedouin women. Twenty Arab- Bedouin women from the towns of Rahat, Lakiya, Tel Sheva, Segev Shalom, Kuseife and Rachma participated in a sewing course for fashion design at the Amal College in Beer Sheva, including lessons on sewing and cutting, personal empowerment and business initiatives.Economic Empowerment.
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Women who participated in the improving classes had a measurable and greater sense of personal empowerment that differed greatly from the "stereotype of the ideal Mexican female" in the 1980s. Many of the women involved in COMO became leaders in their communities and at work. In 1985, Villalva was involved with bringing attention to the press about a dangerous contamination affecting workers in a metal foundry. Over 193 workers suffered from various symptoms ranging from neurological disorders to sterility because they had been exposed to radioactive cobalt 60.
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As such, using speculative fiction becomes not only a way to create future possibility but a way to ignite current social change and resistance. By questioning ideas of race, history, gender, and class, it pushes for personal empowerment side by side with societal progress against oppressive systems present in society. Works that center people of Mexican American descent, particularly women and queer people, in narratives of science, technology, and thus progress, can be understood as works of Chicanafuturistic art and literature.Ramírez, Catherine S. “Afrofuturism/Chicanafuturism: Fictive Kin.” Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, vol.
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Basic body awareness therapy is an evidence-based treatment form in physiotherapy first developed in the ’70.. It represents a holistic approach to human movements considering physical, physiological, psychological and existential aspects of human existence. B-BAT aims to bring aspects of health and human resources to the fore. B-BAT is based on the theory of psychotherapist Jaques Dropsy and his movement system. It has roots in a number of different movement systems from Western and Eastern tradition (Alexander, Feldenkreis, Gindler, Idla, Zen meditation, T'ai chi) emphasizing the body and nonverbal communication as a gateway to personal empowerment.
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While self-help groups for mental health increase self-esteem, reduce stigma, accelerate rehabilitation, improve decision-making, decrease tendency to decompensate under stress, and improve social functioning, they are not always shown to reduce psychiatric symptomatology. The therapeutic effects are attributed to the increased social support, sense of community, education and personal empowerment. Members of self-help groups for mental health rated their perception of the group's effectiveness on average at 4.3 on a 5-point Likert scale. Social support, in general, can lead to added benefits in managing stress, a factor that can exacerbate mental illness.
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Francescato's contributions fall in three main areas. In women's studies, she investigates sex roles in families and communes; gender differences among activists, local and national politicians; dual career families; single childrearing; and separation and divorce processes. She is currently studying gender differences in aging processes, studying triads of caregiver/elder/most involved relative, as well as triads of grandparent/parent/adult grandchild, for effects on systemic wellbeing and intergenerational solidarity. In the field of theory- grounded intervention methodologies, she investigates: personal empowerment using traditional media and online social networks; organizational empowerment through participatory multidimensional organizational analysis; and community empowerment through multidimensional profiling.
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Long also redefined the Hawaiian concept of mana, (privileged as a divine power in traditional Hawaiian belief), and presented it instead as a vitalizing life force, which can, with knowledge of the three selves, be used in a manner of "personal empowerment" to heal body and mind and achieve life goals. Long believed he had discovered an ancient Truth, not just about Hawaiian spirituality but linking back to India and ancient Egypt. He believed Hawaiians were a lost tribe of Berbers. He wrote that spiritual adepts migrated to Hawai‘i from Egypt, passing on to the priests of India some of their basic beliefs.
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Womanhood, body image, and personal empowerment are frequently occurring lyrical themes in Trainor's music, which is influenced by the popular music of the 1950s, and blends the genres pop, R&B;, doo-wop, and blue-eyed soul. Outside of the music industry she has had voice roles in the animated films Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) and Playmobil: The Movie (2019) She served as a judge on the television talent show The Four: Battle for Stardom (2018) and currently is a judge on The Voice UK (2020). Trainor's accolades include a Grammy Award, four ASCAP Pop Music Awards, and two Billboard Music Awards.
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Spirited Bodies is an activist organisation that champions body positivity, feminism and personal empowerment through the practices of life modelling and life drawing. It was founded in by female professional life models based in London, UK, to create a safe environment in which groups of women could try nude modelling for artists. Subsequently it has staged both mixed-gender and women-only events. Since 2018, Spirited Bodies has been active in campaigning for the use of life drawing as a means to help teenagers overcome social media body confidence issues by challenging the conceptions of conventional beauty.
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To be "spiritual," in contrast, connotes personal practice and personal empowerment having to do with the deepest motivations of life. As a result, in cultures that are deeply suspicious of institutional structures and that place a high value on individual freedom and autonomy, spirituality has come to have largely positive connotations, while religion has been viewed more negatively. According to Robert Fuller, the SBNR phenomenon can be characterized as a mix of intellectual progressivism and mystical hunger, impatient with the piety of established churches. According to Robert Wuthnow, spirituality is about much more than going to church and agreeing or disagreeing with church doctrines.
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They found that art therapy can improve the process of psychological readjustment to the change, loss, and uncertainty associated with surviving cancer. It was also suggested that art therapy can provide a sense of "meaning-making" because of the physical act of creating the art. When given five individual sessions of art therapy once per week, art therapy was shown to be useful for personal empowerment by helping the cancer patients understand their own boundaries in relation to the needs of other people. In turn, those who had art therapy treatment felt more connected to others and found social interaction more enjoyable than individuals who did not receive art therapy treatment.
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Michael Cragg of The Observer wrote that Courage, recorded in the aftermath of Dion's husband's death in 2016, is suffused with lyrics about loss and rebirth. Jason Lipshutz from Billboard wrote that Dion's 2013's Loved Me Back to Life was a winning effort, but Courage is even more vital, with a "propulsive" opener in "Flying on My Own", a "devastating" title track, and lots of "worthwhile reflections in between". According to him, Dion's focus on Courage on loss, recovery and personal empowerment makes it one of the most mature and impressive pop releases of 2019. Courage was chosen as one of the best albums of 2019 by Billboard staff.
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In the first few months after his injury, Shilon began talking to teenagers and students about his story. In his lectures, Shilon emphasizes personal empowerment, coping in extreme situations, tools for dealing with life- altering challenges, the ability to use personal challenges in the development of solutions and more. Shilon has lectured to a variety of audiences, and has delivered his message at events throughout Israel and other countries. Majority of his speeches throughout the US and Europe were dedicated to fundraising for the benefit and well-being of the IDF soldiers, areas related to the medical field, such as Magen David Adom, rehabilitation centers, blood collection centers and more.
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Jasmine El-Rashidi, "Dina Habib Powell: Egyptian in the White House" , Al-Ahram Weekly (Cairo), October 7–13, 2004. She adopted the same views, later recalling that "... when I started to work with Republicans I realised that I agree with the views of personal empowerment, of less government involvement, of having the ability to talk about things without the government necessarily being involved. And on the economic side I'm definitely a believer that people should spend more of their money and spend it the way they think so and invest it wisely." For her honors thesis, she wrote about the value of mentoring juvenile delinquents.
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Art and Social Nature and its cornerstone, The May Pamphlet, established Goodman as a noteworthy cultural theorist, despite it being mostly ignored at its release. Goodman would sustain the May Pamphlet libertarian social critique for the rest of his life and continued to refine its ideas in works including Growing Up Absurd, the 1960 study of alienated youth in America that established his importance as a mainstream cultural theorist and pillar of leftist thought during the counterculture. The May Pamphlet saw a wider audience when Growing Up Absurd brought about a resurgence of Goodman's writing. Through his influence, the stances of the 1940s New York anarchist magazines prefigured the activism and personal empowerment stances of the 1960s New Left.
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Self-esteem is a practical and productive technology linked to the technology of norms, which produces of certain kinds of selves. Self-esteem is a technology in the sense that it is a specialised knowledge of how to esteem ourselves to estimate, calculate, measure, evaluate, discipline, and to judge our selves.Cruikshank, 1996:273 The 'self-esteem' approach considers a wide variety of social problems to have their source in a lack of self-esteem on the part of the persons concerned. 'Self-esteem' thus has much more to do with self-assessment than with self-respect, as the self continuously has to be measured, judged and disciplined in order to gear personal 'empowerment' to collective yardsticks.
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One of her first objectives was to reorganize the school to help each student develop skills, learn knowledge and develop an attitude that personal empowerment could be achieved."Renfrew (1999)", p 24 She had to train professionals as well, teaching courses in psychology at the University of the Republic School of Nursing, Social Services Department, the Psychology and Human Relations Department and organizing courses and seminars focused on the treatment of children with mental retardation for teachers at the Normal Institute of Montevideo. One of the first things she did was establish a Club for Parents, whose purpose was to provide a support network for families. They published a newsletter and held support groups twice daily.
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Currently, social work is known for its critical and holistic approach to understanding and intervening in social problems. This has led, for example, to the recognition of poverty as having a social and economic basis rooted in social policies rather than representing a personal moral defect. This trend also points to another historical development in the evolution of social work: once a profession engages in social control, it is directed at social and personal empowerment. This is not to say that modern social workers do not engage in social control (consider, for example, child protection workers), and many, if not most, social workers likely would agree that there is an ongoing tension between these forces within the profession.
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Grave of Buckminster Fuller Designer Buckminster Fuller is often cited for his use of trim tabs as a metaphor for leadership and personal empowerment. In the February 1972 issue of Playboy, Fuller said: The official newsletter of the Buckminster Fuller Institute is called "Trimtab".Trimtab, the monthly digital news service of the Buckminster Fuller Institute Fuller’s metaphorical use of the trim-tab mechanism received considerable media attention in January 2019 when actor Jeff Bridges appreciated it in his Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech at the 76th Golden Globes: 'Bucky made the analogy that a trim tab is an example of how the individual is connected to society and how we affect society. And I like to think of myself as a trim tab.
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Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, the gospel of success, or seed faith) is a religious belief among some Protestant Christians that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to religious causes will increase one's material wealth. Prosperity theology views the Bible as a contract between God and humans: if humans have faith in God, he will deliver security and prosperity. The doctrine emphasizes the importance of personal empowerment, proposing that it is God's will for his people to be blessed. The atonement (reconciliation with God) is interpreted to include the alleviation of sickness and poverty, which are viewed as curses to be broken by faith.
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It then changes to Fm–Gm-Cm in the chorus, while continuing in A–Cm–A–Fm in the intermediate verses, ultimately ending in repeated lines of "I've heard it all before". Lyrically the song has excerpts of different languages including French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, Hindi, Polish language and Japanese.Madonna Confessions on a Dance Floor Album liner notes (Warner Music Group) Retrieved on July 15, 2009 The song talks about personal empowerment and self-sufficiency, denoting a shift in focus of Madonna as an artist from her previous songs about supremacy like "Everybody" (1982), "Vogue" (1990) or "Music" (2000) which was centered around the subject of music itself. Among the various remixes, the Pet Shop Boys remix consisted of additional vocals provided by Neil Tennant from the group.
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It acknowledged that the problems facing the Palm Island community were not the making of the Palm Island residents, but resulted from unresolved trauma of dislocation, long-term under-funding and poor decision-making of successive Queensland governments since 1918. However the community also had a role to play in improving the future for young people, which should include fostering relationships with both non-profit and commercial organisations, outside of the government sector. For its part, the government needed to "facilitate major structural reform by providing adequate resources, removing impediments, altering governmental and bureaucratic attitudes, providing coordinated and flexible services, and helping to create an environment that encourages personal empowerment and private investment in the community". Four key areas of focus were land, governance, economic development and justice.
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Members lent their voices to female and sexual issues, were winners of the yearly prize at the Sex Maniacs Ball (now Night of the Senses) founded by Tuppy Owens, openly voiced their admiration for sexual politics icons such as Annie Sprinkle and Betty Dodson, and generally advocated for open female sexuality as a healthy part of human nature. In an extension of the 1970s feminist statement that ‘the personal is the political’, they stated that no feminist movement was complete without female sexuality being reexamined, redefined and expressed in whatever shape it took by women themselves. They saw rock music as the perfect medium to do so, as it had been the arena for the expression of masculine sexuality for so long, whereas women's bodies were often a marketing spice to add interest to a product rather than a source of personal empowerment.
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After 10 years, Alejandra Llamas publishes a new edition of her first book A Life Without Limits, becoming a best-seller in Mexico and the US. Alejandra Llamas is currently a teacher and the creator of the MMK Process, based on ontological coaching, guided meditation, pillars of self, and other methods to achieve a higher level of consciousness and self-awareness. She creates, gives and directs the certification for the MMK Process through her own educational organization The MMK Institute, an organization that certifies people all over the world to become facilitators of the MMK Process. She is a frequent guest on television and radio programs discussing personal empowerment techniques and human behavior. In 2019, Alejandra Llamas was the recipient of The Best Seller's Choice Awards for Coaching in Miami, FL, recognizing best-selling authors in Spanish.
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