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Exploration of Mind: Meditation as Vehicle for Personal and Professional Development
(2014)
This thesis is an autobiographical investigation that focuses on a Buddhist retreat experience as it relates to my development as an emerging counsellor. It is placed within a growing interest in the intersection between ...
Tapping into the Gift of the Wounded Healer: Exploring a Personal Journey Through Woundedness
(2014-07)
The following manuscript is an autoethnographic study in which the author explores her journey and process as a wounded healer. In order to gain a deeper understanding of her experiences, the author connects her personal ...
Shamanic Approaches and their Implications for Counseling Practice: An Autoethnography
(2014-07)
Shamanism is considered by some to be the first form of counselling, which first developed as a collaborative practice (MacKinnon, 2012). In this thesis I attempt to demonstrate that shamanism can inform counselling, not ...
Toward Contentment: My Own Account
(2014)
This personal and literary exploration of ambition and contentment in seeming opposition to one another was undertaken out of personal desire to explore and elucidate the role of contentment in the life of the author, ...
Evolution of the Grey Child: An Autoethnography of Masculine Identity Development
(2014-07)
This autoethnography explores the psychosocial dynamics that have influenced my development through challenges of immigration, racism, classism, the dynamics of family systems under stress, as well as the processes of ...
The Journey After Parental Child Abduction: An Autoethnography
(2014)
The objective of this thesis was to explore the consequences of parental child abduction on abductees from the perspective of a person who experienced international parental child abduction at the age of six. I, the author, ...
A Chinese Acting-Firstborn‘s Immigration Experience
(2013-08)
This autoethnographic study attempts to illustrate author‘s identity development experience as a first-generation Chinese-Canadian originated from Hong Kong in the early 1990‘s. The purpose of this research is to explore ...
Scared to Death: Exploring Death Anxiety and the Wounded Healer
(2013-07)
The following manuscript is an autoethnographic study in which the author explores her struggles with death anxiety throughout her life. In order to gain a deeper understanding of her experiences, the author connects her ...
Birthing the Father Within: Therapeutic Approaches for the Nascent Father
(2013-07-29)
In this study, I explore the nature and meaning of the experience of leaving one state of consciousness behind to enter into that of fatherhood, and I argue that the passage into fatherhood can be an opportunity for men ...
Re-conceptualizing Self-Care
(2013-12-01)
Although it is widely acknowledged that those in helping professions, such as counselling psychology, have a higher risk of experiencing burnout, little is done to prepare counsellors-in-training, or to encourage practicing ...