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The COVID-pandemic has meant that we, as therapists, go through the same experiences as our patients. Bass’s paper enables us to digest these last months’ experience, not only from a professional p...

The narratives of immigrant Latinx mothers are often excluded from discourses on motherhood. This study centers on a shared experience with Child Protective Services (CPS) for two such mothers. One...

To identify the impact of upper limb spasticity on stroke survivors by linking their shared experience to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF).Ten community dwelling adults with a chronic stroke and spasticity, who had completed an upper limb rehabilitation trial participated in semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed using content analysis and linked to the ICF Comprehensive Core Set for stroke using standard linking rules.Four hundred and thirty-nine meaningful concepts eligible for linking were identified. The majority (Half of the Comprehensive Core Set categories for stroke were relevant, but to adequately capture experience an additional eight were needed. The ICF category profile may be unique to our participants or may suggest further research is needed to determine if additions to core set categories are required.Implications for rehabilitationOur ICF mapping demonstrated that the Brief Core Set for stroke was not sufficient to capture the range of experience for stroke survivors with upper limb spasticity, instead the Comprehensive Core Set for stroke supplemented with eight clinical-cohort specific second-level-categories should be used.Our findings suggest that rehabilitation may better reflect lived experience if it focuses on Body Function (Chapters 1, 2, 4, 7), Activity and Participation (Chapters 1-9), and Environment (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5) because Body Structure was rarely mentioned in this or previous post-stroke ICF mapping research.

This paper discusses the process and outcome of an innovative qualitative research approach evidencing the lived experiences of a group of academics who were confronting what they felt at the time ...

This article reviews and facilitates a better understanding of imposter syndrome, women in technical services, and minority librarians to fill gaps left by library programs. The Literature Review e...

It was not until an actor stepped out onto the makeshift stage to welcome their audience that I realised just how much I had missed the shared experience of live theatre. The gathered crowd, carefu...

Shared experience - i.e. commonality in inner states such as feelings, beliefs, or concerns - plays an important role in establishing and maintaining close relationships. Emotional Similarity (ES) can be thought of as one type of shared experience, but the exact role it plays in our responses to specific contexts (objects, events, circumstances) is not well understood. We sought to examine the day-level context-dependent roles of romantic partners' ES. We hypothesised that relational events (i.e. conflict and sexual activity) occurring on days with high ES would be more consequential. Two samples (

“Experience Based on a Study of Demand among Kolkhoz Workers” was published under the rubric of “Shared Experience” in the journal Sovetskaya Torgovlya (“Soviet Trade”) No. 3, May–June 1934. Sovets...

While an increasing body of research recognises SCI (spinal cord injury) as a life-disrupting event significantly affecting both people with SCI and their partners, little attention has been given ...

Sharing experiences with others, even without communication, can amplify those experiences. We investigated whether shared stressful experiences amplify. Participants completed the Cold Pressor Task at the same time as a confederate, or while the confederate completed another task. Importantly, participants in the shared (vs. unshared) condition experienced more sensory pain characteristics and reported more stress over time in relation to the task. Importantly, they reported thinking more about the confederate's thoughts and feelings. This mentalizing sometimes mediated effects, suggesting the task amplified when participants constructed mental representations of others' CPT experience (e.g. that it hurts) and incorporated it into their own responses.

Phone Home was a collaborative performance project between three theatre companies (Upstart Theatre, Pathos Munchen and Highway Productions), across three countries (Britain, Germany and Greece), with performances taking place simultaneously in venues in three cities (London, Munich and Athens) from 21–30 October 2016. The telematic performance examined themes of home and technology in the wake of the ongoing refugee crisis and migration across Europe. Phone Home's broadcasted and connected scenes were made possible by video-conferencing, connecting the audiences both of the simultaneous performances across three cities and its live-streamed broadcast. This article investigates the use of technology in the research and devising process of this tri-national collaboration while examining the critical role media plays in live performance. In order to explore the implications of telematics in collaborative theatre-making, the author interviewed the collaboration's practitioners, examining the use of t...

© 2017 Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand The sport participation rate has been shown to decrease with age in many countries. In Japan, however, the elderly sport participation rate has increased over the last decade and is the highest among all Japanese. This study investigated whether the cohort effect generated by the shared experience of hosting the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games during their youth can explain the increased sport participation of elderly Japanese. Data from the Japanese National Sport-Life Survey over 20 years were analyzed through regression analysis. The results show that, after controlling for demographics and other determinants of sport participation, individuals who experienced the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games participated in sport more frequently than other generations.

Dear Editor,When we read the letter by Gandia-Gonzalez et al.1 we were interested with their shared experience. Reading their letter encouraged us to add to their view the role of neurosurgeons dur...

The intergenerational program “Elderly with Children” is carried out from 2002 at a care home for the elderly in the city of Mao, Spain. All early childhood schools on the island have been invited ...

This paper proposes the concept of the ‘feral’ as a mode of thought characteristic of creative-critical writing. Reflecting upon the experience of writing a poetry collection, it draws upon the work of Paul Valery and Simon Jarvis to argue that poetry utilises a distinct way of ‘thinking-through-making’ (Jarvis, Simon. 2010a. “For a Poetics of Verse.” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 125 (4): 931–935.) that is not paraphrasable and not analogous to prose. Taking up Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the chiasm, it argues for the ferality of all creative endeavours in their shared experience of interiority’s fluidity during practice, and goes on to assert the critical validity of such an oscillating mode of thought, observing that the ‘feral’ does not so much challenge binarised conceptualisations (interior/exterior and critical/creative being the two most relevant to this enquiry) as fail completely to recognise them as relevant. This paper argues that creative work is vali...

In this qualitative study, we explored the experiences of 26 engineering student mentors and mentees in a peer mentoring program. We found that mentors and mentees exploited the mentoring p...

This paper explores ways of enhancing inter-professional skills as part of professional development during university studies. From a socio-psychological viewpoint, inter-professional teamwork can be regarded as an interface between the group and individual levels, where collective commitment, efficiency, shared processes and outcomes, as well as tensions and dilemmas, are brought together. Inter-professional skills, which are already practised in university, may enable professionals to work in inter-professional contexts during their careers. In this case study, the participants (three student-teachers, two social work students and four supervisors) reflected on their shared experience of participating in a shared practicum at a primary school. The data-set comprises two group interviews conducted separately with the students and supervisors following the practicum. The results indicate that it is possible to develop inter-professional competencies during one’s university studies and that this ha...

This article is built from the authors’ shared experience of using participatory methodology when working together on the construction of an archive of mental health recovery stories. In particular, it examines the nature of the relational dynamic between the authors which moved from a collaborative partnership towards friendship in the course of constructing the archive (practice) and critically reflecting on its development (research). The article has been constructed by interweaving the personal reflections of the two authors on the shared process, using self-reflexivity as a method for exploring the benefits and challenges of taking an emotionally engaged and personal approach to participatory research. In particular, it seeks to explore the role that our friendship played in enabling us to build affinity whilst simultaneously acknowledging and working with our differences; confronting asymmetries in our positions and privileges. The article concludes with Anna’s reflections on the benefits an...

There is a noticeable paucity of clinical resources that help clinicians of color to name and navigate the multitude of challenges in working through racial, cultural, and power differences in psychotherapy with White clients. African American therapists rarely receive adequate preparation for clinical practice in identifying, addressing, and working through transference and countertransference reactions in racially mixed dyads. The author highlights the challenges she faced early in her career with addressing racial and sociopolitical differences as an African American female clinical social worker providing individual psychotherapy to her older White male client whose traumatic experience focused on racial issues.

The current Australian public sector reforms consultations commenced in 2010. The legislative basis for the reforms—the PGPA Act—was passed in June 2013, and commenced operation on 1 July 2014. Since then, considerable time and effort has been put into implementation of the performance framework involving extensive finance regulations, instructions, guidance, and co-operation and feedback on shared experience and practice, including shared arrangements within and outside the public sector. Questions have been raised about the relationship between administrative process and outcomes, particularly about the changing relationship between the public, private and third sectors of the economy. This article examines the likelihood that the framework being put in place will achieve the reform’s objectives.

Hollaback! is an international movement seeking to end street harassment. Its website invites women to share narratives of their experience of street harassment as well as photos of the men who harassed them. We treat Hollaback! as an exemplar of feminist online activism and aim to identify lessons for other feminist online activists and organizations. In particular, we argue that the site’s narrative-image posts provide a powerful means of enacting countervisuality in public spaces. After analyzing 26 narrative-image postings on the Hollaback! website, we identify three collective rhetorical effects of countervisuality: Altering the traditional dichotomy of male/observer and female/observed, enacting feminist rhetorical agency through mobility in public spaces, and generating women’s solidarity through shared experience. We then argue that Hollaback!’s strategy of countervisuality insufficiently enacted the core principles of feminist rhetorical resilience, especially the concept of metis. We con...

This article seeks to bring together the study of death, digital media, emotion and religion, using a Christian organization as a case study. The Swedish national church (Svenska kyrkan) has a large but declining membership and uses digital media extensively. We will analyze two of its attempts to respond to grief through media: a hybrid digital-physical technology installation in Swedish cemeteries and a series of posts about death and sadness on Facebook. In both projects, the Church presents emotion as a universal shared experience that unites all humanity, using this discourse to bring together its religious and non-religious audiences.

Dialogic reading (DR) has been identified as an effective strategy for enhancing children’s literacy skills in Western and Asian contexts. Given that storytelling is a shared experience between adults and children, parent–child relationships is hypothesised to be enhanced by DR. Despite this possibility, there has been no systematic attempt to examine the possible impacts of DR on the parent–child relationship. This study bridges this gap in the literature by studying the relationship between adults and children before and after training in the practice of dialogic reading techniques. Forty-eight Cantonese-speaking parents with children aged between 3 and 12 were recruited from schools. They were assessed prior to and after undergoing a four-hour dialogic reading training programme with a two-hour follow-up session using the Parent–Child Relationship Inventory. The results of this study suggest that DR has considerable potential for improving parent–child relationships. The findings are discussed ...

The proliferation of social media offers new avenues for understanding traveler information sharing behavior. The purpose of this study was to explore the patterns of traveler food sharing ...

In his Lectures on the English Poets (1817), William Hazlitt compares the different responses of a naturalist and a poet to their shared experience of a glow-worm: Let the naturalist, if he will, c...

This paper describes peer support in mental health hospital from a service user’s first person account.

This paper explores activism enacted through Silk Road, a now defunct cryptomarket where illicit drugs were sold in the dark web. Drawing on a digital ethnography of Silk Road, we develop the notion of constructive activism to extend the lexicon of concepts available to discuss forms of online activism. Monitoring of the cryptomarket took place between June 2011 and its closure in October 2013. Just before and after the closure of the marketplace we conducted anonymous online interviews with 17 people who reported buying drugs on Silk Road (1.0). These interviews were conducted synchronously and interactively through encrypted instant messaging. Participants discussed harnessing and developing the technological tools needed to access Silk Road and engage within the Silk Road community. For participants Silk Road was not just a market for trading drugs: it facilitated a shared experience of personal freedom within a libertarian philosophical framework, where open discussions about stigmatized behav...

Hospital chaplaincy and spiritual care services are important to patients' medical care and well-being; however, little is known about healthcare providers' experiences receiving spiritual support. A phenomenological study examined the shared experience of spiritual care between hospital chaplains and hospital-based healthcare providers (HBHPs). Six distinct themes emerged from the in-depth interviews: Awareness of chaplain availability, chaplains focus on building relationships with providers and staff, chaplains are integrated in varying degrees on certain hospital units, chaplains meet providers' personal and professional needs, providers appreciate chaplains, and barriers to expanding hospital chaplains' services. While HBHPs appreciated the care received and were able to provide better patient care as a result, participants reported that administrators may not recognize the true value of the care provided. Implications from this study are applied to hospital chaplaincy clinical, research, and training opportunities.

Museums have an increasingly important role in supporting specialized groups including people with dementia. This practice-based report discusses the development, delivery and evaluation of a six-week programme for people living with dementia and their carers at Auckland Museum in 2014. The programme, delivered by specialist volunteers, was evaluated through observation during museum-based sessions followed by focus groups and interviews. Overall, the programme expanded the community opportunities available for people with dementia and their carers, and was considered a success in terms of socialization and through providing a positive and shared experience. Evaluation highlighted programme improvements for future iterations.

In classical stasis, jurisdiction questions are posed within a traditional institutional context where speakers share material proximity and a background consensus. However, in modern literate controversies, it can be difficult to assume either of these kinds of shared experience. This study shows how cultural professionals writing about the Brooklyn Museum controversy used referee design to help constitute the art world jurisdiction. Referee design can extend classical stasis frameworks to help explain jurisdiction in cases where ostensive participants are writers and readers who do not share proximity or a background consensus.

Medical educators have gained significant ground in the practical and scholarly approach to professionalism. When a lapse occurs, thoughtful remediation to address the underlying issue can have a positive impact on medical students and resident physicians, while failure to address lapses, or to do so ineffectively, can have long-term consequences for learners and potentially patients. Despite these high stakes, educators are often hesitant to address lapses in professionalism, possibly due to a lack of time and familiarity with the process. Attention must be paid to generalizable, hands-on recommendations for daily use so that clinicians and administrators feel well equipped to tackle this often difficult yet valuable task. This article reviews the literature related to addressing unprofessional behavior among trainees in medicine and connects it to the shared experience of medical educators at one institution. The framework presented aims to provide practical guidance and empowerment for educators responsible for addressing medical student and resident physician lapses in professionalism.

This paper examines citizen receptivity to green infrastructure (GI) development in three neighborhoods in Syracuse, New York. Data from 208 surveyed residents were statistically assessed to determine levels of environmental knowledge (EK) about and stated willingness to implement rain barrels, rain gardens, trees, porous pavements, and curbside extensions. Respondents had high levels of EK about GI as a measure for stormwater control and strong stated willingness to implement GI measures. There were no statistically significant relationships between either EK or stated willingness to implement, and sociodemographic variables, with the exception of age. However, there was a statistically significant positive relationship between EK and stated willingness to implement GI. This article, grounded in environmental psychology, argues that there may be nuances in the type of EK that can explain the observed relationships. Specifically, knowledge obtained from a common shared experience of combined sewer overflo...

The aim of this study was to find answers to the question of how Israeli parents who have lost their child in battle or in a terror attack reconstruct their life story, as revealed in personal commemorative films. Twenty personal documentary commemorative films were systematically and thematically analyzed. Through exposing the themes of last shared experience, death event, and notification of death, the research sheds light on the self-healing process that enables parents to build a bridge in their narrative. The commemorative films provide a framework for reconstruction work adding to the new body of research in the field of video and cinema therapy.

Impacted by a forest fire that swept through an American university’s mountain campus were 18 grandparents and 14 grandchildren participating in an intergenerational Elderhostel program. Six weeks after the fire, the grandparents were mailed a questionnaire that included questions about the fire’s short-term impact(s) on their relationships with grandchildren. Almost all of the 13 grandparents who returned completed questionnaires reported that the shared experience of the fire increased the emotional bond with grandchildren. Many grandparents reported that the quality, intensity, and frequency of conversations with grandchildren had increased, especially during the period of time immediately following the fire. Findings from this exploratory study provide tentative support for the observation that grandparents can play critical roles in the lives of grandchildren during times of stress and crisis.

The Southern food movement does far more than just celebrate a delectable cuisine; it also may provide the ingredients for gradual social change. We argue that the Southern food movement, led by the Southern Foodways Alliance, helps to craft a Southern identity based on diverse, humble, and hospitable food. This rhetorically constitutive work—the food and discussions about Southern foodways (food habits)—has the potential to open up spaces for dialogue about Southern identity and to move individuals closer to a shared experience.

This collaborative self-study uses the metaphor of a braided river to both illustrate and interpret the interwoven, interconnected professional lives of members of the Portfolio Group, a 14-year professional relationship among educators (teachers, specialists, administrators, consultants, professors, researchers) in the southwestern USA. The research is grounded in self-study methodology. Employing a transformation framework, the inquiry identifies and explores shared experiences characterized as transformative for the group or for individuals. The study draws attention to how conversations around important, unsolvable and long-standing concerns are shaped by changing experiences and shifting landscapes. It also highlights the role of shared experience and language in developing cohesion between collaborating educators from disparate contexts and in generating more meaningful interaction. Furthermore, it illustrates the way in which reflection streams continuously throughout our work together.

This article discusses the meaning and use of generation in migration studies. It argues that the term is useful to examine how migrants create linkages between their pre- and post-migration lives. The article draws on Mannheim's notions of ‘generational units’ and ‘fresh contact’ to scrutinize how Peruvians engage resources from their previous lives in Peru to achieve social mobility in the USA, Japan, Spain and Argentina. In particular, the article focuses on the role of education, ethnicity and conflict in Peruvians’ efforts to create support networks and form migrant institutions. It suggests that generational units grow out of migrants’ shared experience of mobilizing the same resource to establish fresh contact with their receiving society. The article concludes that while generational belonging can generate a strong sense of solidarity among some groups of migrants, this often happens at the cost of the unity and inclusion of the migrant community at large.

Drawing on the upper-echelons theory and diversity issues, this study examines the relationships between top management team (TMT) organizational tenure, tenure diversity, and combat performance. The study is based on of Korea Combat Training Center (KCTC) that is designed for training and evaluation of the battalion combat power. Findings indicate that battalions with higher levels of TMT tenure have a positive effect on combat performance. Tenure diversity of TMT has a negative effect on combat performance. In addition, results showed that the negative relationships between tenure diversity of TMT and combat performance are attenuated by commander’s shared experience with other TMT members.

Oax-i-fornia is an interdisciplinary academic project that, since 2005, has brought design and art students together with artisans in Oaxaca, Mexico. The project's goal has been to create a transnational collaborative space fuelled by the notion of play as a generative force, allowing the collaborators to produce meaningful cross-cultural connections not commonly associated with brief encounters between visitors and locals. The project has been based upon the concept that craft, and tradition itself, are in constant evolution through historical interventions called “generative intersections”, and that tourism also functions as an important experience within studio-abroad programs. The outcomes of the project have been measured by the quality of the shared experience, and the ways in which that experience has changed notions of difference among the participants, rather than solely through the objects resulting from the collaborations. Today, Oax-i-fornia proposes a model for transnational design ed...

In the 1800s, migrant farmers from the Italian peninsula, nicknamed golondrinas or birds of passage by Argentines, worked the alternating harvests of the northern and southern hemispheres, at home and in Argentina, respectively. Their modus operandi of mobility became a shared experience of Italian freedom fighters, intellectuals and professionals who migrated to the greater context of the Rio de la Plata Basin (including Uruguay and southern Brazil). This article reveals how the values, ideas, and aspirations of said Italian intellectual and professional golondrinas infiltrated the debates of constructing national identities in architecture in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Italy.

Many of the characters in Sherman Alexie's short story collection, Ten Little Indians, engage in confessional relationships for its ritual value as a form that creates a ceremony of shared experience. The confessors, due to this revelatory witnessing, often find themselves reoriented toward a choice or range of action that had seemed closed off. It clarifies their own harbored transgressions, burdening guilt, or acute longing for meaning amid seemingly inscrutable events.

In his elegant study of lyric address, Poetry's Touch, William Waters suggests that when speakers in poems call out to “you,” they achieve a “real atemporal interlocking” of the moment when the poem was written and the moment when the poem is being read. In effect, through the directness of its address, the poem brings together the reader who reads and the poet who has written into a single moment of mutually shared experience. This essay argues that certain poems of Victor Segalen's collection Steles bring about something very like Waters “atemporal interlocking,” but by surprisingly different means. Rather than relying on direct address to facilitate this sharing of experience, these poems dispense with address altogether and instead open themselves to the reader, paradoxically, through the force of their own speaking je. Understanding how such an opening occurs proves significant, because in showing that these poems do in fact establish an intimate connection with the reader by means of their je, this ...

Drawing upon the extensive literature on urban walking and also on almost 60 years experience of walking the streets, this article argues that there is a pressing need to re-assert the educational value of going for a walk. After a brief discussion of the social significance of the flâneur, the historic pioneer of urban walking, the article proceeds to a consideration of a variety of ways in which the walker engages with society. These are walking for religious reasons, walking as a form of political protest, walking as a shared experience with strangers and walking as a way of understanding the world around us. No attempt is made here to challenge the arguments of those who postulate the physical health benefits of walking. It is argued, however, that even if such benefits do exist, they may well be of secondary importance to the lessons that can be learned from the pedagogies of the street.

Muslim identity in South Africa has undergone a reconstruction. This article engages with this process exploring the Tablīgh Jam at, an international movement that seeks to improve the practice of Islam amongst Muslims as a source of reconstruction. This article seeks to explain how people come to identify with being Muslim in a particular way, using data gathered from in-depth interviews, observations and text from Tablīgh Jam at literature. Data is analysed using identity construction theory which argues that meaning derived from shared experience and interrelations informs identity construction. The data reveals that the Tablīgh Jam at practices are able to increase shared experience and interrelations derived from legitimate meaning. Given these findings, the success of the Tablīgh Jam at is not likely to wane.

A team composed of one student and two faculty members worked in concert to develop and evaluate a training model for personnel who work with university students in transition. This model utilizes “Bibliolinking” (a newly coined word developed during this research) which is an adaptation of bibliotherapy. The primary purpose for using Bibliolinking is to establish and nourish relationships among Resident Assistants (RAs) and student residents (SRs) via a shared experience with a text such as a novel, short story, article or self-help book. Although, RAs play an important, often counselor-like role, they receive no or little formal preparation for establishing relationships. This project involved the development of a quasi-experimental model and assessment of the Bibliolinking technique. The results indicate Bibliolinking provided increased awareness of materials relevant to the needs of young college students, especially those in transition. When applied by RAs, Bibliolinking not only appeared to meet the...

Hidden economy working can provide income and cushion the financial hardship during unemployment; can it also substitute for some latent functions of regular employment? According to Jahoda's theory, the latent functions include the time structure, regular shared experience, information about personal identity, a link with the collective purpose, and enforced regular activity. This article explores whether the undeclared working reduces the degree of deprivation of these functions during unemployment and, consequently, improves the psychological health of a person. The data were collected from a sample of unemployed persons (N = 1138) registered with the Croatian Employment Bureau. A series of questions about their day-to-day activities were used to estimate the amount of undeclared working, an ad hoc developed scale to assess the extent of their latent deprivation, and the SF-36 Health Survey to measure their psychological health. The ANCOVA revealed that the participants who were often engaged in the hi...

This essay examines the role of collective traumatic experience in William Shakespeare's history plays, with particular emphasis on the plays of the first tetralogy: Henry VI Parts 1–3 and Richard III. Drawing on twentieth-century psychoanalytic studies of rape and war and applying their terms to Shakespeare's depiction of the struggles between late medieval England and France, this essay argues that the plays of the first tetralogy rely upon a cycle of honor and shame that binds the two warring nations together in a shared experience of trauma.

My name is Alem Kelo and I really can't understand why I am here. You see, in my homeland they are fighting over a border, a border that is mainly dust and rocks. I really cannot understand why the...

The process of teaching and learning in school has a natural long-term trajectory and cannot be understood only as a series of discrete educational events. Classroom talk plays an important role in mediating this long-term process, and in this article I argue that more attention should be given to the temporal dimension of classroom dialogue, both empirically and theoretically, if we are to appreciate how children gain an education from their classroom experience. I explore this topic using data from recent applied, interventional research in United Kingdom primary schools and examine how classroom talk is used to represent past shared experience, carry ideas forward from one occasion to another, approach future activities, and achieve learning outcomes. The article ends with a discussion of the theoretical, methodological, and educational implications of making this kind of temporal analysis. The data examples used in this article are from the project Language, Thinking and ICT in the Primary Curriculum,...