Sentences with phrase «direct personal experience of»

Trauma is described as the direct personal experience of an event that involves actual or threatened injury to one's mental health and psychological well being.

Design Ventura gives young people direct personal experience of how design and business can work together to realise creative ideas.

Regular exchanges of teachers and students should be arranged, so that direct personal experience of other peoples may be an integral part of the organized program of education.

Probably not, unless the church teaches you how to meditate deeply and you have a direct personal experience of God.

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Does he have direct, personal, and incontrovertible experience of something that can only be a living God, a God that can only be the God of Abraham?

To that assessment this essay will contribute modestly by arguing (1) that an account of experience must be compatible with the fact that there is no one thing which is what experience is or is the essence of experience, (2) that no philosophically adequate account of what experience is can be established merely by appeal to direct, personal, intuitive experience of one's own experience, (3) that generalization from features found in human experience is not sufficient to justify the claim that temporality is essential to experience, but (4) that dialectical argument rather than intuition or generalization is necessary to support the claim that experience is essentially temporal.

Even if there is direct recall of experiences in the noncontiguous past, those past experiences are also mediated to us through intervening events in both the brain and unconscious personal experience; for every experience takes some account of the entire past.

Even those who can claim to have had direct, personal experience of the divine must somehow interact with persons who can not make or even understand such a claim.

: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with particular, concrete historical or individual experience.1 Williams affirms that the specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a specific and observable difference in the behavior of things» (page 178) and goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's specific causality] must take the form of observable results in cosmic history, in human history, and in personal experience» (page 179).

Culturally, the symbolic universe produced by this experience of the Holy Spirit is personal and direct, and is not subject to priestly mediation (Alvarez, 1992, p. 87).

We may believe that God is Person, but we must do so on other grounds, such as the authority of Jesus» teaching, direct personal experience, or rational probability.

And this is so primarily not where God is conceived in categorial notions, but where he is given not absolutely, but in the transcendental experience as the condition of every personal activity directed to one's earthly surroundings.

Berenson (1990) suggests that «spirituality, as opposed to religion, connotes a direct, personal experience of the sacred unmediated by particular belief systems prescribed by dogma or by hierarchical structures of priests, ministers, rabbis, or gurus» (p. 304).

The spiritual dimension (life as relationship) focuses on life in a praying community: it includes both interior experience — the direct encounter with God resulting in a personal knowledge of God's love — and exterior manifestation — daily life lived in an ever - deepening love relationship with God, or life as a testimony to the sifts of the spirit.

Time and again he rests his case against Hartshorne on appeals like the following: «In my personal, noninstantaneous direct experience, I do not find that I am a succession of units.

One can not have direct experience of another, but another's existence may be inferred as a reasonable hypothesis to account for the coming and going, and for influences upon personal experience.

Although any kind of stress can lead to PTSD, it typically involves a direct personal experience where the victim felt threatened, was injured or saw someone else die, being threatened or injured.

That being said, Mass Audubon's experience is that emailing and calling legislators and the Governor's office is a more personal, timely, and direct method of requesting action.

While online petitions can at times be an effective means of gathering support for some issues, Mass Audubon's experience is that emailing and calling legislators and the Governor's office is a more personal, timely, and direct method of requesting action.

Whether you are Jamie Oliver trying to show support for breastfeeding and rightly recognising a genuine problem — that women who want to breastfeed in this country often face barriers that mean they can't — or a new mother just blogging or tweeting about her personal experiences, speaking out puts you in the direct path of the opinion juggernaut which careers headlong into anyone who dares to take a stand on either side of the polarised infant feeding debate.

He does not have a personal fortune to direct in campaign contributions, but has decades of experience in government and relationships with many key players that date just as long.

So how to keep the catastrophist AGW bandwagon rolling when the direct and consistent personal experience of billions is that of a cooling world?

If she doesn't have direct, personal experience with a given sport, Rebecca draws upon her network of «om athlete» friends, many of whom are coaches or athletes at the highest levels of competition, for insight.

Your Personal Profile Assessment offers you a direct experience of your soul and life purpose.

What guides me is my love of food and Caribbean flavours as well as my personal belief based on my own experiences that food has a direct impact on our bodies, our health and our quality of life.

Because I connected his understanding of Santa — an elusive idea, to getting gifts — a direct sensory experience, it was more personal to him and he was able to comprehend and accept it.

Filmed without narration, subtitles, or any comprehensible dialogue, Babies is a direct encounter with four babies who stumble their predictable ways to participating in the awesome beauty of life.Needless to say, their experience of the first year of life is vastly different, yet what stands out is not how much is different but how much is universal as each in their own way attempts to conquer their physical environment.Though the language is different as well as the environment, the babies cry the same, laugh the same, and try to learn the frustrating, yet satisfying art of crawling, then walking in the same way.You will either find Babies entrancing or slow moving depending on your attitude towards babies because frankly that's all there is, yet for all it will be an immediate experience far removed from the world of cell phones and texting, exploring up close and personal the mystery of life as the individual personality of each child begins to emerge.

Written and directed by William Savage (In Lieu of Flowers is his feature film debut), the story is inspired by personal experiences, although he is coy to say just how much.

In theaters everywhere this weekend is 50/50, a comedy directed by Jonathan Levine (our interview), written by and based on the personal experiences of Will Reiser, starring Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Adam, a young man who gets cancer.

Yet one understands Towne's note of rue: Still sharp as a shiv and filled with ideas for projects, he is nevertheless weary of the way things have changed since «the old days,» and, following frustrating experiences directing his most personal projects, has apparently accepted the role of Hollywood's resident script - doctor.

Wozniak experienced inspiration from his high school electronics teacher, who provided foundational instruction that set him on a path of self - directed learning which would revolutionize personal computing.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

«Researchers at Texas A & M University, who measured changes in environmental attitudes for elementary students in gardening classrooms, support what garden - based educators have experienced for many years: that children engaged in a cross-disciplinary gardening curriculum acquire a direct, personal understanding of what living things require to thrive, and how they adapt and interact with each other.»

In the Personal Perspectives project, IT students both produce and view multimedia — which gives them direct experience of its engaging nature and cognitive challenge.

My information and scheduled visit immediately acknowledge and then directed to a service advisor who takes personal ownership of your experience and service needs at Global Auto Mall.

«This is the most advanced and user friendly device we've ever created for educational institutions» asserts David Lubinitsky, CEO of Ectaco Inc., «Our direct experience with so many schools gave us the edge to interact on a personal basis with teachers to discuss what they want to see in a device like this for the classroom.

Typically they provide clients with superior personal service and direct access to the principals of the firm, who may have exceptional expertise and experience.

Bruce often draws upon his direct experience as a lender and debt collector when speaking to journalists about matters of personal finance.

We prefer to base our review on our own personal experience of the hotel and our direct communication with the staff.

The newly developed welcome concept guarantees guests an even more personal experience, with our Plaza Hosts acting as direct point of contact from arrival to departure.»

Linda Nochlin equates the feminists» misconception of what art is «with the naïve idea that art is the direct, personal expression of individual emotional experience...» Then she goes on to say what «great art» is — «The making of art involves a self - consistent language of form...»

The problem lies not so much with the feminists» concept of what femininity is, but rather with their misconception — shared with the public at large — of what art is: with the naíve idea that art is the direct, personal expression of individual emotional experience, a translation of personal life into visual terms.

Throughout the exhibition, artists test the limits of timeworn structures and protocols, claim space for direct experience and personal agency, and create alternate zones or worlds.

Inspired by her personal experiences as the eldest of nine children and as a mother, these moments of chaos reflect her concern with the conflicting values of society directing parents to be both child - centred and self - obsessed at the same time.

Investigating the political, geographical and social aspects of war, the works on display respond to the theme from various outlooks, presenting direct testimonials, personal experiences or references to historical moments.

In order to capture an immediate and direct imprint of her experience, she turned the room in which she lived into a large pinhole camera — transforming the space that contained her personal experience into the apparatus that would capture an image of it.

These artists rejected the prevailing working methods of American artists, surrealism, geometric abstraction, regionalism, and representation, and created a new kind of experience of art based on personal gesture, immediacy, painting according to sensation, and direct («existential») engagement with subject matter.

Their work has a directness that short circuits concept and fashion, and encourages an engagement with the materiality of the work and the felt experience of it; they are John Eaves RWA, from Bath; Frank Bowling RA, OBE, who works in London and New York; Patrick Jones, based in the Exmouth area, and John Bunker, from London Curated by Nick Moore, Bristol - based painter, musician and writer, the title of the exhibition derives from associations such as deep, profound, personal, direct, close; all words one could use to describe the qualities of these small abstract paintings.

Since most of our knowledge of global warming is obtained in the form of abstract scientific knowledge, most individuals in the U.S. lack direct unambiguous personal experience with this problem.

I meant to point out that the simple act of pointing out a mistake to some people can be experienced as a very direct personal attack to which they can (and sometimes do) respond in an over-the-top fashion and can lash out and attempt to utterly destroy the source of criticism.