Ken wilber's<i>a theory of everything:</i>Some societal and political implications

Currently, a fragmentation in ideas exists regarding understanding psychological wellness and preferred routes to healing. This is evident in current adventure therapy (AT) literature, where unique combinations of experiential learning, challenge activities, novel experiences, group work, and other psychological theories are often used to account for positive outcomes and to explain mechanisms for change. Rarely is contact with wilderness environments included as an important variable associated with positive outcomes and change. AT has been rightly criticized for not recognizing the ecological paradigm of therapy conducted in wild nature. By including principles from integral systems theory, we offer adventure therapists a map, allowing for these seemingly disparate parts to fit together into a coherent whole. In addition, we propose that wilderness is a crucial cofacilitator in the change process. If seriously considered, these ideas pose a number of important questions for AT theory and practice.

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“…These four areas are referred to as the four-quadrant model ( Fig. 1) (Esbjorn-Hargens & Zimmerman, 2009;Taylor, 2001;Wilber, 2001).…”

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The Ecology of Adventure Therapy: An Integral Systems Approach to Therapeutic Change

2010

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“…It sees humans as able to adapt to their environment, when forced to do so by life conditions, by constructing new, more complex, conceptual models of the world that allow them to handle new problems (Taylor 2001). This process eventually culminates in an ultimate, most inclusive structure with greater inclusiveness, determinateness and organicity.…”

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“…Wilber's vision is described by Taylor (2001) as representing an oscillating process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behaviour systems to newer, higher order systems as an individuals' existential problems and behaviour change. Tsoukas (1994) describes this organic sequence of specified steps being undertaken as leading towards an ultimate, most inclusive structure, which unfolds in the direction of greater inclusiveness, determinateness and organicity.…”

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Contextualist-coaching for complex times

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This thesis addresses the lack of empirical clarity about what coaches do, what works and whatconstitutes research evidence in coaching, as well as the lack of explicit theoretical perspectives upon which current coaching and its research are based. It establishes that contemporary coaching takes place in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world, and that there is need for a contextualist-coaching approach.In a review of the literature, Pepper's (1942) four world hypotheses are used as a lens of analysis for identifying implicit assumptions currently in use in coaching and its associated activities. To address these problems identified in the academic and practitioner literature on coaching, a research strategy involving Peirce's triadic system of inferential logic (Hartshorne & Weiss 1935) within an analysis and synthesis dialectic framework is justified as a suitable process for forming hypotheses appropriate to the epistemic circumstances of the problem. An initial analysis and synthesis dialectic, commenced through the analysis conducted using Pepper's world hypotheses during the literature review, is completed through a process of synthesis using abduction to formulate a hypothesis of best inference.iii It is hypothesised that the incompatibility between the open system environment within which coaching occurs and the closed and partially open system assumptions upon which coaching practice and theory are currently based could be addressed with a coaching approach that adopts the open system assumptions of Pepper's meta-theory of contextualism. Such a contextualistcoaching framework might be more effective than current coaching approaches within the open system external environment. Given that no contextualist-coaching approach currently exists, the following research question is formulated: Research question: How can the researcher-practitioner coach within the assumptions of a contextualist world hypothesis?An action research methodology is justified as appropriate for addressing this research question.

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Ken wilber'sa theory of everything:Some societal and political implications

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The Ecology of Adventure Therapy: An Integral Systems Approach to Therapeutic Change

The Ecology of Adventure Therapy: An Integral Systems Approach to Therapeutic Change

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