Transformational Changes in Health Status: A Qualitative Exploration of Healing Moments

Rahtz, Emmylou; Bonnell, Sian; Goldingay, Sarah; Warber, Sara; Dieppe, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.explore.2017.06.005

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“…Our prior belief was that many visitors to Lourdes would have a noetic experience. We also thought that they might interpret their experience in an ontological way, and that finding a clearer sense of meaning would help them on their journeys to improved physical, mental, and spiritual health and well-being, in other words, to help them heal (Rahtz et al 2017). Nourishing exchanges, as we will explain, are valuable in this healing process.…”

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Spiritual, Religious, and Faith-Based Practices in Chronicity

Hatala¹,

Roger²

2021

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This book explores how people draw upon spiritual, religious, or faith-based practices to support their mental wellness amidst forms of chronicity. From diverse global contexts and spiritual perspectives, this volume critically examines several chronic conditions, such as psychosis, diabetes, depression, oppressive forces of colonization and social marginalization, attacks of spirit possession, or other forms of persistent mental duress.As an inter-and transdisciplinary collection, the chapters include innovative ethnographic observations and over 300 in-depth interviews with care providers and individuals living in chronicity, analyzed primarily from the phenomenological and hermeneutic meaningmaking traditions. Overall, this book depicts a modern global era in which spiritualty and religion maintain an important role in many peoples' lives, underscoring a need for increased awareness, intersectoral collaboration, and practical training for varied care providers.This book will be of interest to scholars of religion and health, the sociology and psychology of religion, medical and psychological anthropology, religious studies, and global health studies, as well as applied health and mental health professionals in psychology, social work, physical and occupational therapy, cultural psychiatry, public health, and medicine.

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Spiritual, Religious, and Faith-Based Practices in Chronicity

Hatala¹,

Roger²

2021

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“…We need a recognition of our interdependence with nature and a course charted toward reciprocal healing of humans and sentient nature on multiple scales. Reciprocal healing between humans, such as healers and clients (Rhatz, Bonell, Goldingay, Warber, & Dieppe, 2017) or physicians and patients (De Conciliis, 2014), may occur when the well-being of both parties is deeply and positively affected during transcendent moments of mutual acknowledgement and intense connection (Dieppe, Goldingay, & Warber, 2020). Such moments may be possible face-toface with more-than-human nature (Abram, 1996) when sentience is acknowledged and deep interconnection is felt.…”

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Methods for Integrating Transdisciplinary Teams in Support of Reciprocal Healing: A Case Study

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We live in a time of accelerated environmental change. Links between ecosystem health and human health and well-being are increasingly recognized with ever more awareness of impending environmental catastrophe. There is a need for reciprocal healing on multiple scales. Transdisciplinary teams have the potential to address complex socioecological problems, yet they also have inherent challenges. There is a need for new ways of working. This paper details a collaborative and emergent process undertaken to address these challenges. The methods-a combination of established and novel techniques-are important for facilitating transdisciplinary team development and eliciting commitment to shared work. As an example, we share a case study of team building including exploration of literature about environment and health that will inform future work within a multiphase project, Women's Dreams. Grounded in an emergent strategy approach that values addressing complex changes through relatively small interactions, our process incorporated six methods: individual mind mapping, bibliomancy, group processing using sticky notes and paper, group mind mapping, free writing, and synthetic reflection. Emergent themes included healing, story-culture, encountering nature, place, invitation, remembering , and gathering together. Recurring concepts running through these themes focused on disease, relationship, ways of being, wild wisdom, and reimagining the future. Along with a generative method of team building, we offer invitations to action, both personal and collective, for cultivating reciprocal healing and a future that is more directly sustainable for all, human and more-than-human. Key Words: Environmental change-Environmental psychology-Team development-Naturehealth-Emergent strategy-Mixed methods research.

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Moments

Miller¹

2020

Producing Shared Understanding for Digital and Social Innovation

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Transformational Changes in Health Status: A Qualitative Exploration of Healing Moments

Abstract: Healing moments are a recognized and distinct concept within healing, although they remain under-explored in the literature. Our findings suggest that such experiences are common among alternative medicine practitioners. The concepts we uncovered can inform future research.

Cited by 59 publications

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Spiritual, Religious, and Faith-Based Practices in Chronicity

Spiritual, Religious, and Faith-Based Practices in Chronicity

Methods for Integrating Transdisciplinary Teams in Support of Reciprocal Healing: A Case Study

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