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Promote Personal Transformation To Develop A Good Mind!

Promote Personal Transformation To Develop A Good Mind!

In commemoration of World Aids Day on Monday (1 December 2014), the Durban University of Technology’s HIV/AIDS Centre is hosting a five-day workshop aimed at fostering and transforming DUT into an HIV/AIDS competent community, through effective knowledge and skills.

The workshop, which was being held at the University’s Hotel School, started yesterday (Monday, 1 December 2014) and will end on Friday, 5 December 2014. The workshop was being presented by Diane Hill and Jordan Miller of the Mohawk Nation. Their topic of discussion was on ‘Ka’nikonhriyohtshera: Fostering Emergence of the Good Mind-Towards Developing Critical and Engaged Citizens.

Both Hill and Miller are Canadian representatives of Reality Education and Applied Life Skills. Hill’s work is distinguished in the fields of social work, education and cultural studies. She has written several books and articles and given lectures on ethnostress (disruption of the aboriginal spirit, oppressive conditions forced upon people in their own environment).

While Miller, is a Canadian sportsman and social worker who has been running youth programmes that promote healthy lifestyles through sports and recreation.
According to the presentation given by both Miller and Hill, the impacts of ethnostress can be life-long and deter the health of a person.

Hill believes that healing restores wholeness and human dignity for all, meaning that with ethnostress, healing one’s body is difficult to achieve. “Aboriginal ethnicity and its associated patterns stem from the disruption of the cultural beliefs that foster a positive native identity and an authentic spiritual self,” said Hill.

Her presentation also reiterates that the reaction of humans to new situations with old behaviour can pass its trauma to the next generation. Providing solutions to this dilemma, Hill said there was a need to unlearn what we have learned. “You cannot create a different reality by continually engaging in the same type of behaviour and expect a different result. A paradigm shift in thinking about thinking can go a long way,” she said.

All in all, creating a supportive and caring environment for people infected and or affected by HIV is important through promoting personal transformation and wellness using the power of quantum healing and the expansion of consciousness through choice and voice.

-Noxolo Memela

Pictured: Diane Hill during her presentation on personal transformation to develop a good mind.

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