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JAMPOLSKY AWARDS 2000 |
The Jampolsky Awards were established in 1992 by the John E. Fetzer Institute to recognize the work of Dr. Jerry Jampolsky and to acknowledge exemplary programs in Attitudinal Healing. The tradition was continued this year through Fetzer’s continued generosity as well as the support of The Jampolsky Outreach Foundation and other private donors. The following awards, presented at Conference 2000, honor the creativity, leadership and inspiration of the recipient centersThe 2000 Jampolsky Awards were presented by Jerry Jampolsky and Diane Cirincione, on April 15, 2000 at the International Conference for Attitudinal Healing, held in Oakland, California. This year, three outstanding projects were chosen to receive an award for their capacity to expand the field of Attitudinal Healing. Each selected project has made a significant contribution to healing and peace in the world. In addition, a new Jampolsky Award category was established this year to recognize one outstanding center for sustainability and service excellence. This new award category recognizes established Attitudinal Healing Centers that have an exemplary record of service for ten years or more. Through the generosity of the Fetzer Institute, each of the four award winning centers received $7500.
Project: Attitudinal Healing: A Spiritual Journey
CECURA (Mexico City Center)
Director: Ana Lira
Almost everyone in Mexico City has personally experienced loss as a result of a street attack, kidnapping, murder or some other form of aggression. This program supports those who have suffered such losses through violence. It offers weekly support groups, a series of workshops on Forgiveness, Loss & Grief, Healing Mind, Body & Spirit, and training in facilitating attitudinal healing at home and in the workplace. Because CECURA has recently lost the lease of their center facility, the award money will be used to secure a facility in Mexico City to continue this and other AH service programs.
Project: Reintegration Program in the “Kanjarbhats” community
ASSOCIATION FOR ATTITUDINAL HEALING (AAH)Pune India
Director: Kavita Kowshik
Since January 1999, AAH has brought healing and understanding into a community called “Kanjarbhats”, a denotified tribe branded as a criminal tribe during British rule. For more than a year, AAH has used Attitudinal Healing in their work to reintegrate this tribe into mainstream society. AAH is committed to providing these people with alternative, respectable ways of living, through a rehabilitation program which also includes education, vocational training, legal and medical aid. Men from the community who had been involved in crime for many years have responded positively to the program. In fact, none of them has been involved in criminal activity since the program began. Kavita reports that the award money is being used to start the first phase of a “goat project” for the Kanjarbhat community. Twenty-three female goats and one male goat have already been distributed to the women to attract them to an alternative source of income (rather than the traditional one of illicit liquor brewing). The basic objective of the project is developing awareness in Kanjarbhat women that economic and social development is possible, along with learning to live a peaceful life, with self respect and confidence. Self help groups meet to encourage productive animal raising programs, and provide education in health care, children’s health, primary education of children, etc. The goat raising project will also focus on planting of fodder shrubs, bushes and tree saplings. In the first year of the program, at least 200 women and girls will be selected for goat raising and other activities.
Project: “Change your Mind, Change your Life
GETTING WELL, INC., Orlando Florida
Director: Roz Brigham Penney
Medical Director: Jasper Becker, M.D.
Getting Well, Inc is an intensive, multidimensional, residential, behavioral medicine program which puts into clinical practice the adage of Attitudinal Healing, “Change Your Mind, Change your Life.” It is essentially a 28-day program of Attitudinal Healing, facilitated by licensed Mental Health counselors with the help of volunteers. A wide variety of proven psychotherapeutic techniques are used to break through the ego’s defenses and help the participant rediscover their essence and inner peace. The Getting Well model demonstrates a way that Attitudinal Healing can be practiced and taught within the existing medical Behavioral Medicine-Psychology-Psychotherapy settings. The Jampolsky Award will be used to fund scholarships for participants with financial need.
Sustainable Excellence Award
The Attitudinal Healing Connection, Oakland California
Director: Kokomon Clottey
In 1989, The Attitudinal Healing Connection was founded by Aeeshah Ababio Clottey and Kokomon Clottey in the inner city of Oakland, California. From the beginning, their mission has been to use Attitudinal Healing “to eliminate violence…in the lives of our children, our families and our communities. For more than 10 years, The Attitudinal Healing Connection has developed successful programs to accomplish its goal of providing “education and support that facilitates the shift in perception from fear to love”. Through workshops, trainings, conferences, and distribution of the Clottey’s book “Beyond Fear”, The Attitudinal Healing Connection’s Racial Healing Project applies the principles and processes of attitudinal healing to the issues of ethnic tension and racial conflict. The ArtEsteem Project, an after school cultural enrichment program for children, focuses on building self esteem through artistic expression and the Principles of Attitudinal Healing. ArtEsteem is also an early childhood violence prevention program that uses self-reflective art as a way to encourage community building and raising self-esteem. The Ghana Project led to the establishment of an Attitudinal Healing Center in Ghana in 1992. The Attitudinal Healing Connection is a model center, addressing the needs of its local and global community with the highest quality of innovative service.If you would like to share information about one of your own projects or programs, please contact Trish Ellis for assistance.
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For as long as I can remember the question of how to be happy has been a big part of my life. That question has always been there. Especially because I did not know how to do it and in one way or another, I knew it had to be possible to live a happy life.When I was 24 years old, I started attending evening school. After 4 years, I graduated and then entered law school at the University of Amsterdam. My goal was still to become happy. During the last 2 years in the university I discovered that it did not work that way. At first I thought that studying would make me happy. I started working when I was 15 years old because my parents had the common idea that studying was not necessary for a girl. Girls marry anyway, they always said, so no need to study. Well it worked out quite differently. |
My next thought was: Art! That will make me happy. I did an exam, passed it and started attending evening art school. In the daytime I finished my law studies and worked as a publisher of law books. In the evening I went to art school. After attending art school for 3 years I found out that it did not make me happy either. I liked art school, but it was not the final solution, it did not change my unhappiness to happiness.One day, thinking and talking with Anja, about what next to do to become happy, two girlfriends visited us. We had not seen each other for a few years and all of a sudden they were there. They told us about spirituality and gave us titles of books we could read. At that moment the journey started. It was the beginning of a life-changing period. A lot of things passed by ~~ Macrobiotic, Reiki and Shiatsu. One day I got a magazine that advertised A Course in Miracles. I had seen the books a year earlier, but at that time I was not interested. Reading had not brought me happiness. Now I was interested and decided to go to a workshop. During the workshop people told me several times that I would be a good facilitator. I became aware of that capability in myself. I wanted to join a Course study group in my region, but nothing was in place at that time. Fred van der Burg, (founder of Miracles in Contact, an organization that brings people together to study the Course) suggested that I start a group myself. I still remember my reaction: ‘You must be crazy, I just read lesson 4.’ He replied: 'Well, that’s no problem, is it!' Fred sent me a list of people in my region and after 5 days I phoned them. They wanted to join a group and I agreed to facilitate. The Course group started in my house the day I did lessons 28. I had the idea that I could study the lessons to keep ahead of the participants but it did not work. Some people had been reading the Course for over 8 years! Offering the groups was the only thing I could do. That was the start of what brought me to where I am now. The Course and Attitudinal Healing were very connected in Holland. I attended one facilitator training, and then another. I also started Attitudinal Healing groups in the region and facilitated these groups for several years. Then in 1996 the Board of the Center for Attitudinal Healing asked me to take over the Center and the trainings and workshops. I still like to do this work and I marvel at the wondrous ways that I was brought to this. Meeting the Course and Attitudinal Healing was automatically meeting my own concepts and ideas. There is an inner process that goes along with the outer process.
Doing the lessons of the Course and facilitating the Attitudinal Healing groups always remind me of the invitation to choose peace instead of fear. Participants always do what they do. And as long as I have ideas about their doings, they give me numerous opportunities to choose again if I forget to make the right choice. When I look back I can see the inner journey I made. Facilitating groups is a shortcut and strong opportunity to learn to choose for peace and love. There are some things I understand now.
- When I do not recognize love in a situation, I must have looked wrong. I see it as an invitation to look again and recognize love.
- We always give the best we have to offer. It does not matter what it looks like.
- We are totally innocent. And it is possibly that we do not recognize that.
- Love is what we are. No exceptions. Sometimes I can add a new understanding to this list. It is added to the list when it has become something I truly know. The inner journey is what makes me feel vivid and alive. There is a sureness and trust about life and living. About the expression of love in everything ~ and I mean everything, whatever it looks like. That gives a huge feeling of freedom and peace and makes the experience of life very joyfull and funny. Loving everyone is the best thing that happened to me in life.
And guess what? I now feel happy! Els Thissen
The Netherlands
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