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| Welcome to Dawn Cove Abbey Empowerment Outreach - Online Providing "Roadside Assistance" on Life's Healing Journeys Since 1982 - Online since 1992 Re-visioning the Human Behaviour Spectrum In A New Key |
- Dawn Cove Abbey has become a place and site that is conducive to people's growth and
healing journeys: and in this format, an online retreat an study centre, that will help empower
those in search of improving their lives, or who are looking for information to help loved ones,
and others. That process involves envisioning human behaviour in brand-new ways.
To truly understand human behaviour, the first important thing to understand is that there
are no special "spectrums" within the vast continuum of human behaviour: that continuum of
human behaviour IS a spectrum - one with great variations. This shift of the approach to a better
understanding not only human behaviour in general, but also in the understanding of oneself.
One way of looking at this is to think of it approaching it like a new key: same music, but now
playing out in a more suitable, "correct" key.
The site is dynamic and new material is added regularly. It provides Emotional, Mental and
Spiritual Health Teaching, Support and Information: Along with this part of my activities,
my desire also is to help people regain and maintain emotional and spiritual health (these two
also assist in physical healing). All of this is supported by my workshops, seminars, and
one-on-one guidance, facilitation and support to help promote this: see Services.
A positive healing journey requires at least two things: "Set" and "Setting". And this is an ideal
setting, in common with other situations where intense experiences may occur, or which are
hoped for; that includes "Peak Experiences". See the introduction to "About Healing" for more
on these, here on the site.
You will find self-help, support, inspirational, and informational pages: information that
is knowledgeable, factually correct, and helpful. It is here to provide informative assistance
for whatever it is that brought you here, whether you're working on improving, re-visioning,
or repurposing your life: or to understand a person in your life who is in emotional, spiritual
or mental distress. Counselling, mentoring, coaching and guidance are also available.
Thoughts, feelings and emotions are the food we feed our mind and spirit with. Good food
produces wholesome wellness: this site is full of "good food" - mind and spirit food. We live
in a magnificent world teeming with natural beauty, with thousands of vibrant cultures, and
billions of decent people, all of whom simply wish to live a happy, decent life. But among
that great diversity are two small, but powerful sub-cultures: the "shaming-blaming" one,
and the "fear-based" one - these are active in all main cultures.
They have achieved prominence totally out of all proportion to the actual reality, because of
the way media, and mental health professionals who should know better, have jumped on
their negative band-wagon and portray them as powerful. They really are not dominant, they
are SUB-cultures. When we see and treat them for what they are; 'SUBcultures', we take
that power away from them.
This site is here to help folks to overcome their negative "conditioning". I have nothing to
sell. My name is Klaas Tuinman site webmaster, and the "staff" - here's my career summary
and credentials. I simply provide "Roadside Assistance"; you'll find many encouraging
examples of many, many exceptions to the dysfunctional cultures. All the information
and articles are FREE - for you to use and hopefully, share.
Life is meant to be celebrated, see the full meaning of celebration HERE and Celebrate-Life.
It is my wish that through this site I can assist you in bringing the joy back to your life, and
help you to be able to celebrate life again. Among other things, you will rediscover an
essential truth as you browse the site: that People (Others and YOU) are not their "Label",
their "Disorder", "Complex", "Syndrome", Spectrum", or their "Disease", and etc. For example,
we all know of people (perhaps even ourselves as well, who have set "routines" that are
reminiscent of being O-C (Obsessive Compulsive), but that is NOT a "disorder" or whatever,
it is a behaviour - a way of organizing and patterning their day, their Life. These are the
"rituals" and "rites" basically all humans have - with each person having established their
own variations - as well, people change these "on the go" so to speak, from time to time. It
is very common, to the point of basically being in the range of "Normal" (see Culture)
behaviour: and thus it is not a disorder, complex, etc, etc.
You will also begin to remember that You are not beginning, or going on a journey; you are
already ON one, and have been since you were born. It's been a constant learning one - see
more here. And oh yes, You are Normal! See "About Healing" and "Culture".
The Help and Information here are not "Psychological", "Philosophical", nor "Theological":
rather it is acquired from the wisdom garnered by humans over the ages - and added-to by
what I learned from my wise elders, and my former clients and students; and through
observing people in many places and situations during a long time-frame; as well of course,
through formal and continuing post-graduate study. They are based on Life in all its
wondrous vastness, intricacies, variations and "mysteries", as I have come to understand it:
and now share that with you - through this site.
I fully believe in people's Human Potential, and their ability to achieve Peak Experiences.
Assistance is available In-person, and via Distance.
| Welcome, and enjoy your explorations General Site Content Listing: Navigation Menus The respective site "section maps" below will lead you to more detail. Please NOTE: because of changes in smartphone technology, not all pages will view well - they are being revised and optimized to eliminate this problem (a time-consuming endeavour). Please bear with me during this time. Thank you. |
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| From "One! The Journey hOMe", the eBook by Klaas Tuinman MA © 2007-2019 It is not for sale; it is Free. It's my way of Paying It Forward; and is an ongoing work in progress, like a "Never-Ending Story" book. Dawn Cove Abbey "Roadside Assistance" for your Journey through Life - Dedicated to helping people return (and maintain) sanity and decency to life - Comments and Questions are welcome |
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- More Added Regularly
"Everything in your life is there as a vehicle
for your transformation.
We're all walking each other home".
~Ram Dass
Every Journey begins with a single step. Yours
too; your First step . . .
No one can walk with you till you take that first
step, beautiful person.
- Thus, in a world with where much available information is dated, or erroneous, and inadequate to
the need, I needed to acquire not only a "library" to direct them to: one that provides up-to-date
current relevant materials, accurate reading, information, and study resources and wider ranging
selections - but also a Teaching site. The goal is to provide material that is pertinent to their needs,
their journeys, their studies, and their stories and life pursuits.
Life is a continuous flow of transition: and so it is with information. Over time, new concepts,
discoveries and insights occur, followed by revisions in "categories and definitions" regarding
behaviours, illnesses, "disorders", traits, syndromes, (all with "labels", etc - as well as approaches
to dealing and coping with them (and/or healing from them).
In the process, it becomes a place to assist people in healing, and in updating their life-skills due
to improved information: also, it is also an excursion in detoxifying the alienated conditioned mind.
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- INTRODUCTION - Site Content Map Follows:
Originally, the site was intended as an information resource for my students and clients. It's
popularity grew quickly as people spread the word, and the site was adapted to not only provide
general information on human behaviour, but a research-information centre on the changing
understanding of human behaviour and emotional, mental and spiritual issues and healing.
Knowledge, however, often spreads slowly, and in the process much misinformation and incorrect
information becomes abundant, in large part due to the field of "psychology" becoming more and
more "scientific" - applying scientific rules/methods to describing, analyzing, classifying behaviours
and behaviour patterns: an approach that has led only to more and more classifications and "labels",
yet no improvement in truly helping people dealing with issues in their lives. Instead, medication
became a popular "tool", with the aim of "reprogramming" people to compliantly "fit-back-in",
and become "well-adjusted" to the "norms" of their socio-cultural environments whose ways were
what contributed to their need for healing in the first place. In many cases, the medication is a
chemical restraint, and if that is insufficient to the goal, "institutionalizing" (physical restraint) is
employed: all in order to serve "society" - not with the individual's best interests in mind.
