Consciousness raising means increasing people's awareness or understanding about a particular issue or topic. It aims to make individuals realize and pay attention to ideas, problems, or perspectives they may not have been aware of before.
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Good counseling includes the kind
of consciousness raising that helps people become aware of the options available to them.
Men's groups and mixed groups also are frequently organized
around consciousness raising, as people in churches become more aware of the issues.
How could this still be happening, so much mindless violence, even after so
much consciousness raising, so much media attention, so much legislation.
Residential - Residential programs are 24 hour per day, seven day per week social model environments that require a minimum of 40 hours per week of counseling and / or structured therapeutic activities such
as consciousness raising, twelve steps, stress management, poly - drug education, relapse prevention and planning groups.
Some of the techniques described here are suitable for use with groups or individuals or couples when the main focus is on reeducation or
consciousness raising with normally functioning people.
[2] They wanted the creation of art to be less of a private, introspective adventure and more of a public process through
consciousness raising sessions, personal confessions and technical training.
«She said, «I don't
need consciousness raising, I need consciousness lowering,»» Walsh said, adding: «Lisa doesn't need money, she has a successful she's doing well without Weinstein.»
Both women and men need, and are asking for, the kind of counseling and
consciousness raising which will help them challenge old stereotypes and liberate more fully their spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical potential.
Other suggestions are available from many sources, particularly the Task Force
on Consciousness Raising of the National Organization for Women and from Women Committed to Women.
I developed a number of tools for inward looking, personal assessment through the women's movement's
consciousness raising processes in order to understand how racism and sexism work within the art community as well as the community at large.
Increasingly, women are getting
into consciousness raising groups with other women and discovering that they are not «sick,» that other women have the same experiences and feelings, that they don't need counseling at all but merely a sense of their own identity which will allow them to lead fuller lives.
When I see you, your hard work, the results of your hard work, I wonder why so many other journalists don't take note and emulate the consummate reporting and
consciousness raising efforts you render.
Most consciousness raising groups decide each time on a topic for the next meeting and proceed each time with a go - around on that topic.
Sometimes the very
term consciousness raising scares some women who would otherwise be interested, in which case the following might be better: «A group of women interested in women's issues as they relate to the church will meet... If you are interested come and help us decide how to proceed.»
They can together
launch consciousness raising programmes starting from the local situation and proceeding to the macro and global levels and objectives.
«So a complex is where consciousness lives,» said J. «
There consciousness raises its house, erects its walls, and you are what's inside, the rest of the world is what's outside.
First, as teachers became aware of formative assessment characteristics and practices, most teachers recognized that they were already doing some formative actions — such as giving students general feedback — and entered an initial stage that we
call consciousness raising.
Inspired by the outreach work of the Black Panther Party focused on illiteracy, poverty, and hunger;
feminist consciousness raising; and radical self - care initiatives, these projects take a holistic approach to self - preservation, thus preserving people and culture for posterity.
Their efforts yielded early examples of installation art, pedagogical strategies
like consciousness raising, and a number of performance pieces including Faith Wilding's Waiting, and Chicago's Cock and Cunt Play.
In December 2015 she co-organized a programme of feminist events across the ICA, The Showroom, Raven Row and SPACE called «Now You Can Go,» inspired by Italian feminisms of the 1970s and 1980s,
exploring consciousness raising, affective withdrawal, and feminist generation.
Dr. Suzuki has accomplished a good deal in the form of
environmental consciousness raising over the years but his recent aggressive and now mystical approach is simply alienating more and more Canadians.
Under present conditions, the intense
consciousness raising about the «rightness» of personal choices that worked so well in the early days of the women's movement will end up escalating the divisive finger - pointing that stands in the way of political reform.
But men
need consciousness raising and liberating too; their anger, while initially a response to the changes women are seeking, often evolves to an awareness of the way sex role stereotyping has limited them too.
Write to National Organization for Women Task Force
on Consciousness Raising (addresses listed in Bibliography) as well as denominational task forces.
Nonetheless, the combination
of consciousness raising for Phyllis, and conjoint counseling followed by a growth - therapy group for couples helped Bob and Phyllis learn to value each other and themselves as adults, and to find new and more constructive ways of dealing with their conflicts.
This is a new phase in
the consciousness raising of people throughout the world.
There is a dubious link between genuine scholarship and such fashionable courses as peace studies, feminist literature, seminars in social activism,
consciousness raising, semiotics, and a host of other current preoccupations.
That's been one of the hardest struggles for me since I got
my consciousness raised.
JOE: Well, Bill, just wait till your wife gets
her consciousness raised.
All good counseling is
consciousness raising, that is, helping a client or counselee or parishioner to discover and nurture her or his full and unique humanness.