Centering

Centering
Author: Mitra Rahnema
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2017
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1558967990

In October 2015, a group of distinguished UU religious professionals of color gathered together in Chicago to embark on a radical project. The conference was sponsored by the UUMA’s Committee on Antiracism, Anti-oppression, and Multiculturalism. It started with the premise that discussions of race in Unitarian Universalism have too often presupposed a White audience and prioritized the needs, education, and emotions of the White majority. The goal was to reframe Unitarian Universalist anti-oppression work by putting the voices, experiences and learnings of people of color at the center of the conversation. The resulting book, Centering, captures the papers that were presented and the rich dialogue from the conference to share personal stories and address the challenges that religious leaders of color face in exercising power, agency, and authority in a culturally White denomination. Centering explores how racial identity is made both visible and invisible in Unitarian Universalist ministries.

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
Author: Cynthia Bourgeault
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2004
Genre: Contemplation
ISBN: 1561012629

Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening is a complete guidebook for all who wish to know the practice of Centering Prayer.

Exploring Body-Mind Centering

Exploring Body-Mind Centering
Author: Gil Wright Miller
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2011-01-25
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1556439687

Exploring Body-Mind Centering features 35 essays on Body-Mind Centering (BMC), an experiential practice based on the application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical, and developmental principles. Using the work of BMC founder Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen as a springboard, the book showcases diverse situations—from medical illness to blocked creativity—in which this discipline is applied with transformative results. Exploring Body-Mind Centering is divided into three sections, preceded by an introduction framing BMC as a pathway to becoming aware of relationships that exist throughout the body and mind and using that awareness to act. The first section lays the groundwork for this process, with real-life experiences and exercises that encourage readers to interact with the text. Section two contains valuable case stories describing the experiences of BMC students and practitioners as they work with clients. Section three shows how BMC can be integrated with other disciplines and practices that include the arts, medicine, and yoga. The book concludes with a biography of Cohen, a profile of the School for Body-Mind Centering, and a history of BMC.

Practical Centering

Practical Centering
Author: Larkin Barnett
Publisher: Quest Books
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2012-04-10
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0835609030

Includes breathing techniques and mindful exercises to benefit the chakras, the seven spiritual centers of the body, with a "recipe card" for each exercise, which includes color, location, physical senses, emotions, and affirmations.

Centering Theory in Discourse

Centering Theory in Discourse
Author: Marilyn A. Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1998
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780198236870

This edited collection of previously unpublished papers focuses on Centering Theory, an account of local discourse structure. Developed in the context of computational linguistics and cognitive science, Centering theory has attracted the attention of an international interdisciplinary audience. As the authors focus on naturally occurring data, they join the general trend towards empiricism in research on computational models of discourse, providing a significant contribution to a fast-moving field.

Centering and Extending

Centering and Extending
Author: Steven G. Smith
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438464231

An original metaphysical proposal building on classical and contemporary sources. In Centering and Extending, Steven G. Smith retrieves and refashions some of the best ideas of classical and early modern metaphysics to support insight into the natures of mental and material beings and their relations. Avoiding what he critiques as distortive paths of idealism, materialism, repressive monism, and overly permissive pluralism, Smith builds his framework on centering and extending as universal principles of formation. Identifying the basic consistency of being with these principles in symmetrical partnership enables a naturalist process view that, unlike Whitehead’s, does not overbalance toward the subjective and teleological and, unlike Deleuze and Guattari’s, does not overbalance toward the material and chaotic. This view supports useful conceptions of mind and matter, form and energy, reason and cause, and a layered world order without relying on a blind concept of supervenience or emergence. It also respects and reinforces a division of roles between metaphysical sense-making and spiritual determinations of meaningfulness. “This is a highly original, speculative, and deeply learned metaphysical treatise on the basic categories of existence needed to account for human experience of the world. It contributes to the contemporary metaphysical discussion in Western philosophy by adding a new, intelligent, and interesting voice.” — Robert Cummings Neville, author of Ultimates: Philosophical Theology, Volume One

Re-Centering Culture and Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Practice

Re-Centering Culture and Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Practice
Author: Mary Adams Trujillo
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0815656637

The field of conflict resolution centers on relationships and ways of approaching methods for problem solving. These relationships and approaches vary deeply depending on the individual, society, and background, proving that cultural perspective is fundamental to any dispute intervention. Re-Centering Culture and Knowledge in Conflict Resolution Practice is a collection of original essays by scholars and practitioners of conflict resolution and others working in marginalized communities. The volume offers a sampling of the cultural voices essential to effective practice yet not commonly heard in the discourse of conflict resolution. The authors explore the role of culture, race, and oppression in resolving disputes. Drawing on firsthand experience and sound research, the authors address such issues as culturally sensitive mediation practices, the diversity of perspectives in conflict resolution literature, and power dynamics. The first anthology of its kind, this book combines personal narratives with formal scholarship. By melding these varied approaches, the authors seek to inspire activism for social justice in today’s multicultural society.

Centering

Centering
Author: Sanders G. Laurie
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1983-11
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780892814206

A complete guide to awakening your full potential, CENTERING offers techniques that help you take charge of your destiny. Through a process of consciousness expansion, this book shows how to enhance learning power; heighten awareness of the world around you; discover new talents and how to use them; relieve stress; increase career satisfaction and financial security; enjoy better health and more fulfilling relationships; and even more.

about Centering Possibility in Black Education

about Centering Possibility in Black Education
Author: Chezare A. Warren
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2021
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807779547

Improving education outcomes for Black students begins with resisting racist characterizations of blackness. Chezare A. Warren, a nationally recognized scholar of race and education equity, emphasizes the imperative that possibility drive efforts aimed at transforming education for Black learners. Inspired by the “freedom dreaming” of activists in the Black radical tradition, the book is comprised of nine principles that clarify how centering possibility actively refuses limitations for what Black people can create, accomplish, and achieve. This interdisciplinary volume also features over 30 original images, poems, and lyrics by Black artists from around the United States, each helping to breathe new life into the concept of possibility and its relevance to remaking Black children’s experience of school. Warren draws on research in history, cultural studies, and sociology to cast a vision of Black education futures unencumbered by antiblackness and white supremacy. This justice-oriented text will inspire innovative solutions to eliminating harm and generating education alternatives Black students desire and deserve. Book Features: Describes practical, antideficit approaches to educating Black children, youth, and young adults.Focuses on productively reorienting visions, philosophies, and rationales guiding contemporary Black education transformation work.Includes relatable stories and anecdotes written in a conversational style.Filled with provocative pieces of original art by Black artists, such as paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media, spoken word, poems, and song lyrics.