Tulani Ackerman increases discussion about the needs of children, youth, and education
On July 1st, 2010, the StEps movement will hit the road to walk and bike throughout British Columbia in an effort to gather stories and ideas about challenges faced by the provincial education system. The goal is to promote communication between students, parents, teachers, administrators, community members, and the provincial government. (more…)
Yoga approach provides alternative tools for physical, emotional and mental wellness to at-risk youth
A ‘Yoga Connect Project,’ offered at Nanaimo District Secondary School, has offered teens in an alternate program the opportunity to use yoga for its many physical and mental health benefits.
Instructor Regis (Durgadas) Chapman, of Silent Motion Yoga, told The Nanaimo News Bulletin that students minds crave silence from emotionality and electronic overload, but that sometimes it can be difficult to obtain that experience.
The project was inspired by a program in New York called The Lineage Project, which provides yoga and meditation for physical, emotional and mental wellness to at-risk and incarcerated youth ages 10 to 21. (more…)
Autoethnography a powerful way to investigate personal & cultural issues, including trauma & illness
Autoethnography is “research, writing, story, and method that connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political,” says Carolyn Ellis, a professor and researcher at University of South Florida.
Dr. Ellis teaches a range of courses related to personal stories and ethnographic narratives, including Communicating Illness, Loss, and Grief.
The Farm at Cedar Woods offers farm worker and food preparation training, along with therapeutic horticulture
Cedar Woods Farm—located in Cedar, B.C.—describes itself as a 28 acre healing environment; it offers horticultural therapy and training programs for people with barriers. The Farm uses chemical-free methods to grow vegetables, fruit and herbs in a fenced three acre market garden and a barrier-free herb garden. Program participants learn and work in a socially supportive environment. The Farm works to model a mutually supportive, nurturing community guided by principles of empowerment and sustainability. (more…)
Looking at obsessive compulsive disorder: From arbitrariness of diagnosis to roles of recovering patient, the use of creative nonfiction in research
Police raids on compassion clubs providing medicinal marijuana are a reminder just how challenging change is going to be
Police launched a major marijuana crackdown in Quebec last week, targeting 35 people in raids on marijuana compassion clubs. Five clubs in Montreal and Quebec City were hit.
In B.C., Maple Ridge RCMP arrested a man who is licensed by Health Canada to grow marijuana, making it the first such case in the Vancouver area where a legal grower has had the drug seized by police. (more…)
