A Personal Narrative Conveying Human Flourishing

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Wise ◽  
Keith Barney
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Therapeutic Recreation ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Narrative Method

Human flourishing is gaining recognition and support as a central aim of therapeutic recreation (TR) services. However, missing from the extant scholarly literature are concrete, extensive depictions of people with disabilities who are living well. This is a critical omission because people need to be aware there are a multitude of avenues that lead to flourishing and that what flourishing looks like can differ from person to person. Furnishing portrayals of living well helps people grasp the diversity associated with flourishing and enables them to select and pursue a particular portrayal or meld multiple portrayals into a composite best suited to them and their environments. This article begins addressing the deficit by presenting a detailed portrait of human flourishing via a personal narrative. The text also discusses practical applications associated with using the personal narrative method and concludes with future objectives.

Theory of human flourishing for therapeutic recreation

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
James B. Wise, PhD, CTRS
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narrative ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Therapeutic Recreation ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Constituent Elements

The purpose of this article is to present an overview of a theory of human flourishing and to outline how the theory can guide therapeutic recreation specialists as they strive to improve the lives of people with disabilities and illnesses. According to the theory, a flourishing life is marked by excelling in one or more leisure practices, authoring a coherent personal narrative, formulating and pursuing a meaningful telos, negotiating traditions, and acting virtuously. These constituent elements are described and then quad rugby is used to illustrate how a particular leisure practice contributes to flourish through its effects on each element. The article concludes with tasks that therapeutic recreation specialists should undertake to promote flourishing in people with disabilities and illnesses.

Virtue and the “Good Life” in the Book of Job

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Patricia L. Vesely
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
Human Happiness ◽  
External Goods

Abstract In this article, I argue that Job 29 provides an eudaimonic depiction of human happiness whereby virtue, combined with a number of “external goods” is held up as the best possible life for human beings. I compare Job’s vision of the “good life” with an Aristotelian conception of εὐδαιμονία and conclude that there are numerous parallels between Job and Aristotle with respect to their understanding of the “good life.” While the intimate presence of God distinguishes Job’s expectation of happiness with that of Aristotle, Job is unique among other eudaimonic texts in the Hebrew Bible in that expectations of living well are expressed in terms of virtue, rather than Torah piety. In the second portion of the article, I assess Job’s conception of human flourishing from the perspective of the divine speeches, which enlarge Job’s vision of the “good life” by bringing Job face-to-face with the “wild inhabitants” of the cosmos.

Holding the Future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Freitag
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Adults With Disabilities ◽  
The Future ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Long wait lists for services and a dearth of people willing to work as caregivers ensure that many people, particularly with intellectual disabilities, continue to live with their aging parents. Informed by a personal narrative of a successful future for a person with intellectual disabilities, this chapter proposes three components that are essential for success. Adults with disabilities can benefit from establishing a life outside their parents’ home. They also need place to work and inclusion in the community. The communities created by L’Arche and the Brothers of Charity, where caregivers live and work together with people with intellectual disabilities, provide one model for care. The extent of current need makes it impossible to provide this for everyone, but some of the lessons learned from “living with” people with disabilities can perhaps be carried over into existing group homes or even institutional care settings.

Living well: Histories of well‐being and human flourishing

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-280
Author(s):  
Mark Solovey ◽  
Deborah Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Living Well

Addressing the Needs of Lesbian and Gay Clients with Disabilities

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie C. McAllan ◽  
Deb Ditillo
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Learning Skills ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Rehabilitation Professionals ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Comprehensive Rehabilitation ◽  
Practical Information

Practical information is presented to assist rehabilitation practitioners to work more effectively with clients who are gay or lesbian with disabilities. The authors address the question, “Are we evolving into a profession which truly embraces diversity in the broadest sense and responds with sincere compassion and understanding to all who request services?” Rehabilitation professionals have a body of knowledge and experience that helps to reduce stigma for people with disabilities which can be applied to working with persons who are gay or lesbian. Practical applications addressed in this article include 1) understanding and countering myths, 2) understanding the reality of what it means to be gay or lesbian, 3) learning about ourselves and our biases, 4) learning skills and resources available, and 5) returning to the roots of comprehensive rehabilitation practice. Rehabilitation counselors are reminded of the basic philosophical roots of what they learned as counselors.

Welcoming the Unexpected

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Genetic Traits ◽  
Moral Personhood ◽  
The World

This chapter proposes that recognizing the lived experience of disability as an informing principle of full moral personhood is essential to understanding what is required for human flourishing, which is a concept that ultimately supports a wide spectrum of human embodied existence. An attitude of humility and welcome toward the human experience of disability can serve to guide practice, policy, world building, and technology making in the world, all of which will enable individuals to flourish in their full distinctiveness rather than within narrowly conceived definitions of physical and genetic traits thought to be advantageous. A bioethics that intentionally and ethically shapes society, instead of shaping bodies, can urge us to create a shared world inhabitable by the widest range of human users, thus also a world that promotes the cultural, political, institutional, and material climate in which people with disabilities can most effectively flourish.

scholarly journals Buen Vivir: A Path to Reimagining Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico after COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6451
Author(s):  
Bryan W. Husted
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Corporate Social

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the unsustainable relations between business, society, and the natural environment in Mexico and around the world. Given these unsustainable relations, this essay asks the question: How can Mexican and multinational corporations enable human flourishing both at work and in the communities where they operate? It answers the question by examining how the Indigenous concept of Buen Vivir (living well) can serve as a basis for reimagining corporate social responsibility (CSR). Methodologically, it draws on ancient and contemporary Nahua poets as sources of ancestral Indigenous knowledge. Using these poets, the paper first establishes the applicability of Buen Vivir for Mexico. Relevant concepts include the quality of life, the relationship of humans to nature, the goal of economic growth, and the value of Indigenous knowledge. Using Buen Vivir as a framework for rethinking CSR, the paper integrates business within nature and dialogues with ancestral knowledge. It also focuses on localism and particularism, on quality in addition to quantity, on alternatives to economic growth, and on community. It ends by examining the implications of Buen Vivir for CSR theory and practice by incorporating Indigenous practices of communal work and conceptualizing the firm as a member of the community.

scholarly journals CHANGING NEEDS AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN THE TRANSITION BETWEEN DISABILITY AND OLD AGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S353-S353
Author(s):  
Tine Rostgaard ◽  
Lea Graff
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Frail Older People ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Level Of Living ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Danish Study ◽  
The Welfare State

Abstract As our societies age, we see more people with disabilities living well into old age. However, there are different societal, systemic and individual assumptions about needs, rights and obligations associated with frail older people and people with disabilities. The paper presents quantitative results from a Danish study investigating what challenges ageing of society pose for the individual as well as for the welfare state in regards to meeting the needs of those who either age into disability or age with disability. Using panel data from the Danish Level of Living Survey from 1997-2017, we investigate how ADL related needs for care have changed for the 52+ year olds and we project how needs will change in the near future. Finally, we show how different systemic approaches to need assessment for those under or above 65, but with otherwise identical and socio-economic backgrounds, result in a very different service utility.

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