Bøker av Joseph Randolph Bowers

Clay art therapy inspires awakening. Earth-infused and experiential methods are relational, self-reflective, and transformational. Clay therapy provides documented outcomes in healing, anxiety and stress reduction, trauma and recovery, as well as in reframing beliefs and identity. The approach builds skills in daily living and relationships. Seeking a holistic perspective to inform clay therapy, this project follows decades of research into the healing of trauma in minority cultures revealing the hidden power of spirituality as meaning making. A person-centred method reframes minority identity within a postmodern psychotherapy. Experiential methods in therapeutic art-as-life and life-as-art embraces scientific evolutionary theories of development, cooperation, ascent, and convergence. Clay-based psychotherapy is informed by culturally infused methods reflecting on western, minority, and disability experiences. We explore our therapy studio productions as well as the works of contemporary sculptor Andrea Martini, and the 15th century works in terracotta by Andrea della Robbia. Our approach provides for opportunities to reflect on the nature of clay art therapy in healing, capacity and skill building, identity formation, and in facilitating transcendent outcomes.

A poetry collection with a dramatic blend of coming of age romantic and erotic impressions, intensive sensitivity, and remarkably confronting depths of observation on the human condition. Raw existential realisations flow into surrendering acknowledgements of brokenness explored with courage. The underbelly of masculinity is exposed with strength, compassion, and tenderness. Friends of Dorothy may find yourselves uplifted by tornadoes, earthquakes, and floods. This second edition comes ten years after the first edition of two books, Humanity: The Search for Place, and Naked Night. Both are combined into one volume. Celebrating thirty years since composition and first readings in the cafes of Toronto. Enduring time, this collection exudes vital energy, youthful honesty, and old-soul maturity. The poetry is edited, reformatted, typeset in fresh style, retains original sequences, and appears without commentary for your full enjoyment. Western Desert suggests a uniquely Australian aesthetics of place, space, with a few new poems added to top off the collection. More poignant now than ever. Life is like that. The best things take time to percolate.

The Minim Way is a Way of Life and Guide for the Soul's Journey. The Eremitas Familia Minima, the Smallest Family of Solitaries, or the Minims, is anyone who identifies with this Ancient Way of Living in the Now. This little Book holds the secrets of many lifetimes. You will find a renewed vision of the ancient Franciscan and Bodhisattva vows, with profound reflections on the spiritual path. The Way and Life are presented in an ontopoetics of soulful listening. The Poetry of Soulful Awakening is followed by the foundation's Constitution as a gift for those who would live in the Minim Way into the future. Included is an original amplified translation of Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Sun. References and footnotes are provided. Based on 45 years of work, this scholarly and scripturally based reflection provides an integral vision for sacred living in a secular age.

A rare window into the often mysterious, sacred, and hidden world of First Nation, Native Canadian, and North American Indian culture and spiritual teachings. Arising from Ancient Springs. First published by the Mi'kmaq community in a regional periodical, and later carefully adapted for a wider audience. Now in Second Edition. Sacred Teachings from the Mi'kmaq Medicine Lodge is a Sacred Medicine Bundle rich in traditional teachings and contemporary reflections. Based on the mystical teachings of the age-old seasonal moon cycles, the Sacred Circle of Readings provides a Liturgy of Creation around the major traditional Ceremonies. A source of great wealth and power in spirituality, wisdom, and psychosocial healing. Readers will be given heart. Indian spirituality comes alive. New pathways open up. A way forward appears through living a more sacred, balanced, and honourable life.

Powerful medicine. A rare glimpse into sacred sexuality, gender, and identity. Honouring an often-hidden beautiful cultural landscape. Instructive, accessible, scholarly, relevant and practical. An insightful contribution to sexuality and gender, gay and lesbian, Native North American, and Indigenous studies. An integral textbook for courses in education, counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, social work, medicine, nursing, and health. Welcoming and empowering for youth, adults, and family. Dr Joseph Randolph Bowers is an Australian-Canadian Counsellor Psychotherapist and author of The Practice of Counselling, Sacred Teachings from the Medicine Lodge, and On the Threshold: Personal Transformation and Spiritual Awakening. Mi'kmaq Elder Dr Daniel N. Paul is a Canadian Historian and celebrated author of We Were Not the Savages: First Nations History. The authors reveal how Two Spirit and Traditional Medicine have always existed and are being rekindled in our times.