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Monday, April 29, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Post 14. Progress, finally.
I suppose that since I do tend to mention this blog I should provide a basic rundown of the things that I'm working to accomplish
1) The American Red Cross. I'm working with the Red Cross to help provide transportation for people who have been in the armed services in order to support the VA and the medical systems engaging those people. I really like this work because veterans are people who have already discovered a life of service and always have gratitude for people who help them in terms of living that way. It is really super what some of these individuals say to me at those times. I'm moving this program forward and making it sustainable, as a part of the Service to Armed Forces (SAF) program. Additionally I'm planning to help develop a disaster preparedness program for youth in Jefferson County, Colorado in order to engage young people in the teaching of younger people, to help provide meaning for important learning experiences that people can share. I hope to include some young people who would otherwise be considered at-risk in this process because it provides meaning for accomplishments in a prosocial way. You can help too www.redcross.org
2) The City of Lakewood. I'm engaging citizens in my area with a person names Jonathon Stalls who owns www.walk2connect.com and I'm doing this because Jonathon is a wonderful resource in terms of helping to design and implement sustainability strategies. These strategies will help improve access for pedestrians and cyclists in Lakewood. Lakewood is a community that formed around mechanized travel, and is in the process of growing and changing in order to support community members who engage in alternative and healthy lifestyles. This connection will be a great resources that allows the city to grow.
3) Jefferson County. I'm working with my mentors who were a part of Jefferson County Open School in order to bring together Alumni for a workshop I am developing at the International Democratic Education Conference. www.idec2013.org I am doing this in order to share my experiences in education and in my lifetime as a way to send a message of reducing violence in our culture, teaching ways to reduce the tolerance of violence, and teaching ways to cope with our violent culture in a way that enables stronger bonds with our communities. Any of the strategies I used throughout my development can be implemented in a way that fosters meaning for the accomplishments of young people, in a prosocial way, that will help change the direction of the communities in The United States cultural milieu.
4) My Girlfriend. Well, for as important as all of these social projects are, my girlfriend is the one who is helping me engage those resources. She is an amazing woman who needs my support, personally, socially, spiritually, and intellectually because she has a gift. She can help people to see the angels which she calls light beings. And so one of the roles I am in is protecting her and enabling her to continue in this direction. I happen to know the directions in which human perception changes, those directions can be operationalized as symbols, and this becomes a language of perceptions and actions. I am helping to teach this amazing woman what I know of those perceptions, to help foster her growth while enabling the process of enlightenment for others in this lifetime.
I figure with all of these social projects people will start to take notice of the benevolent nature of my activities. I do intend to write about my struggles with bullying and the social ostracism and stigmatization that has taken place systematically in my life. The State of Colorado system for Vocational Rehabilitation is operated by people who insisted that I am not an educated man, and that I will not complete college or complete any of the work you see in the foregoing posts. Of course I intend to do my college internship for the very same man who told me that I would not succeed and that I could not be supported in this process. My next step is to tell the story, about how to survive and fall in love with, a society that says by every other indication that they do not accept me. I suppose one of the greatest motivations, is being told that I cannot succeed.
And so in general that is what is going on. Thank you for reading, I hope it is not an arduous read.
I suppose that since I do tend to mention this blog I should provide a basic rundown of the things that I'm working to accomplish
1) The American Red Cross. I'm working with the Red Cross to help provide transportation for people who have been in the armed services in order to support the VA and the medical systems engaging those people. I really like this work because veterans are people who have already discovered a life of service and always have gratitude for people who help them in terms of living that way. It is really super what some of these individuals say to me at those times. I'm moving this program forward and making it sustainable, as a part of the Service to Armed Forces (SAF) program. Additionally I'm planning to help develop a disaster preparedness program for youth in Jefferson County, Colorado in order to engage young people in the teaching of younger people, to help provide meaning for important learning experiences that people can share. I hope to include some young people who would otherwise be considered at-risk in this process because it provides meaning for accomplishments in a prosocial way. You can help too www.redcross.org
2) The City of Lakewood. I'm engaging citizens in my area with a person names Jonathon Stalls who owns www.walk2connect.com and I'm doing this because Jonathon is a wonderful resource in terms of helping to design and implement sustainability strategies. These strategies will help improve access for pedestrians and cyclists in Lakewood. Lakewood is a community that formed around mechanized travel, and is in the process of growing and changing in order to support community members who engage in alternative and healthy lifestyles. This connection will be a great resources that allows the city to grow.
3) Jefferson County. I'm working with my mentors who were a part of Jefferson County Open School in order to bring together Alumni for a workshop I am developing at the International Democratic Education Conference. www.idec2013.org I am doing this in order to share my experiences in education and in my lifetime as a way to send a message of reducing violence in our culture, teaching ways to reduce the tolerance of violence, and teaching ways to cope with our violent culture in a way that enables stronger bonds with our communities. Any of the strategies I used throughout my development can be implemented in a way that fosters meaning for the accomplishments of young people, in a prosocial way, that will help change the direction of the communities in The United States cultural milieu.
4) My Girlfriend. Well, for as important as all of these social projects are, my girlfriend is the one who is helping me engage those resources. She is an amazing woman who needs my support, personally, socially, spiritually, and intellectually because she has a gift. She can help people to see the angels which she calls light beings. And so one of the roles I am in is protecting her and enabling her to continue in this direction. I happen to know the directions in which human perception changes, those directions can be operationalized as symbols, and this becomes a language of perceptions and actions. I am helping to teach this amazing woman what I know of those perceptions, to help foster her growth while enabling the process of enlightenment for others in this lifetime.
I figure with all of these social projects people will start to take notice of the benevolent nature of my activities. I do intend to write about my struggles with bullying and the social ostracism and stigmatization that has taken place systematically in my life. The State of Colorado system for Vocational Rehabilitation is operated by people who insisted that I am not an educated man, and that I will not complete college or complete any of the work you see in the foregoing posts. Of course I intend to do my college internship for the very same man who told me that I would not succeed and that I could not be supported in this process. My next step is to tell the story, about how to survive and fall in love with, a society that says by every other indication that they do not accept me. I suppose one of the greatest motivations, is being told that I cannot succeed.
And so in general that is what is going on. Thank you for reading, I hope it is not an arduous read.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Post 13. Prospective Consideration of the Roles of Rites of Passage and Acculturative Stress.
This post is really a stub. This is a way for Corey to remind himself of the best direction to begin moving in to start expanding research of violence, culture, and education. So here I have posted a link to an innovative original article which addresses urban violence in the context of cultural stresses, and the absence of strong American rites of passage, within our culture. This is my road-map, for beginning to reduce the tolerance of violence, the article applies to Mexican-American youth, but I plan on finding ways to adapt these concepts toward urban youth in general.
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This post is really a stub. This is a way for Corey to remind himself of the best direction to begin moving in to start expanding research of violence, culture, and education. So here I have posted a link to an innovative original article which addresses urban violence in the context of cultural stresses, and the absence of strong American rites of passage, within our culture. This is my road-map, for beginning to reduce the tolerance of violence, the article applies to Mexican-American youth, but I plan on finding ways to adapt these concepts toward urban youth in general.
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Holleran, L., & Jung, S. (2005). Acculturative stress, violence, and resilience in the lives of Mexican-American youth. Stress, Trauma and Crisis, 8(2-3), 107-130.
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