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| Welcome to Dawn Cove Abbey Online: HOME Providing "Roadside Assistance" on Life's Healing Journeys (Online since 1992) Re-visioning the Human Behaviour Spectrum In A New Key Excursions in Detoxifying the Alienated Conditioned Mind |
- People have all sorts of questions regarding their circumstances, and/or Life in general, and
very few others in their lives have answers for them - and so, in this internet way of life, they
Google for the answers they need -or want. However, as it was before, often the kind of
materials they're looking for, are either not available, or are incorrect, misleading or
incomplete - or filled with technical jargon.
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.
As such, these are excursions in Detoxifying the Alienated Conditioned Mind. The site
contains many informative pages, many stories of hope and success, as well as
motivationally inspirational ones. The site is dynamic and new material is added regularly. It
provides Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Health Teaching, Support and Information: it truly
is a Learning Centre.
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 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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| "One! The Journey hOMe", 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. |
For all of my professional life, both in teaching and in
couselling/coaching, I have used the "person-centered"
approach (not to be confused with "client-centred",
although they have over-lapping similarities.
I wanted my students and clients to have accurate, up-to-
date information to help them in their respective journeys,
and it became necessary to provide them with those.
In a world with where much available information was/is
dated, or erroneous, and inadequate to the need, I needed
to acquire a "library" I could direct them to: to provide them
with up-to-date current relevant materials, accurate
reading, information, and study resources and wider
ranging selections.
Hence, I launched Dawn Cove Abbey Empowerment
Online", in the early 1990's as a BBS ("Bulletin Board
System" - which preceded the Internet as we now know
it now). It was a means of providing my students and
clients with material that was pertinent to their needs,
their journeys, their studies, and their stories and
life pursuits.
couselling/coaching, I have used the "person-centered"
approach (not to be confused with "client-centred",
although they have over-lapping similarities.
I wanted my students and clients to have accurate, up-to-
date information to help them in their respective journeys,
and it became necessary to provide them with those.
In a world with where much available information was/is
dated, or erroneous, and inadequate to the need, I needed
to acquire a "library" I could direct them to: to provide them
with up-to-date current relevant materials, accurate
reading, information, and study resources and wider
ranging selections.
Hence, I launched Dawn Cove Abbey Empowerment
Online", in the early 1990's as a BBS ("Bulletin Board
System" - which preceded the Internet as we now know
it now). It was a means of providing my students and
clients with material that was pertinent to their needs,
their journeys, their studies, and their stories and
life pursuits.
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- Students and clients were both equally enthusiastic about this resource, and it's popularity
grew - they would pass-on the information about it to others - hence when the Internet became
available, thus I modernized the project by modifying it all into web format, and acquired a
server location online. I've never looked back: it's still growing and going strong - making
differences in people's lives - which is my desired goal.
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, etc - as well as approaches to dealing and
coping with them (and/or healing from them).
Thus the time has arrived to do major updates and revisions on what is available on this site.
It is a huge project, so please bear with me during this transition.