The COVID-19 pandemic had considerable effects on the tourism industry as well as on individuals. The lockdown led to long-lasting mental health consequences. Equally, awareness of well-being increased, and consequently, demand for tourism experiences that focus on well-being rose. Concerning the tourism industry, a rethinking process was evoked through the pandemic. Tourism scholars were in consensus that a paradigm shift was needed to counteract current sociocultural and environmental challenges while responding to the need to provide tourist offers that support the mental and physical health of consumers. The regenerative tourism paradigm offers a solution as it withdraws from the pro-growth agenda of the current tourism industry and strives towards a net positive impact on nature, people, and planet. The rise in well-being for the whole system is thereby aimed.The study contributed to the understanding of the regenerative tourism paradigm from the traveler's perspective. Thereby, travelers’ well-being is conceptualized in a multidimensional way including hedonic, eudaimonic, and social well-being. The aim of this study is to understand how different dimensions of well-being are experienced in regenerative tourism. A qualitative approach is applied by using interviews and observations to gather information. The case and research setting is thereby Mahakala Retreats Center in Montenegro which aligns with the principles of a regenerative tourism space. The narrative analysis following an inductive approach leads to the identification of three core themes that represent the answer to the research question. Findings reveal that hedonic well-being is experienced through being in a safe space, surrounded by beauty and nature. The dimension of social well-being is experienced by connecting with other retreat guests and lastly, eudaimonic well-being is experienced through self-reflection. These experiences are all fostered by the regenerative tourism space. It is argued that well-being itself constitutes the regenerative tourism experience, not an activity. The study furthermore identifies three new aspects of a regenerative tourism experience that go beyond the current established principles. Hence, experiencing beauty, experiencing a safe space and the balance between solitude and connection are aspects that are of high importance in regenerative tourism from the travelers' perspective.

This study was designed with an interest for the healing of emotional distress shared by the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and spirituality. It sought to merge these disciplines into a coherent therapeutic context for human interaction that could be grounded in the shared human condition, the essential need for meaning, freedom, and relationship. This study also sought to examine the importance of spirituality across the lifespan to the practice of psychotherapy and particularly to explore the spiritual experiences of the adolescent male and discover the meaning and healing effects those experiences have for them, especially those who have experienced significant emotional or relationship difficulties in their lives. Using a phenomenological methodology for the qualitative data analysis, 10 interviews were conducted with young adult males who had participated in a unique spiritual retreat while in high school and during a particularly troubled time in their lives. An exhaustive document review took place. Two distinct phenomena emerged: Lost in Suffering, a state of life prior to the retreat and Found in Redemption: the results of a four day experience of bonding, healing, and transformation, each experience containing five distinct themes. The result is a deep understanding of the lived experience of the participants and a powerful implication regarding the place of spiritual experience in psychotherapeutic healing.

Text in Afrikaans / In this qualitative research study the landscape of the age-old tradition of contemplative spirituality within the context of the reformed tradition was investigated. An empirical study was done to determine the pastoral needs and experiences of Afrikaans speaking believers from the reformed tradition, involved in contemplative spirituality. Questionnaires and qualitative interviews were used for this purpose. The research path has been further shaped by social construction theory as a postmodern approach. This study was born out of my own discovery of the healing qualities of contemplative spirituality and secondly due to the growing demand among Afrikaans speaking reformed believers for exposure to the disciplines of contemplative spirituality. Little research is available on this topic and is it the hope of this research to open new conversations about contemplative spirituality in the Afrikaans reformed tradition. / Practical Theology / M. Th. (Praktiese Teologie)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andrea de Davide Ratto Morelli.pdf: 720847 bytes, checksum: f67ae12322be10f9bae642d62c44bd21 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-15 / This study aims to gather information on some types of pathological organizations of the personality, using psychoanalytic knowledge. Several authors underlie it, starting with Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Joan Riviere, Wilfred Bion, Herbert Rosenfeld, Hanna Segal and getting to John Steiner, Donald Meltzer, Frances Tustin, Judith Mitrani and James Grotstein, whose works in these areas are discussed more deeply. Efforts are made to understand and identify points of convergence, divergence and/or intersection among concepts like claustrum, psychic retreats, autistic capsules and adhesive pseudo-object relations. Discussion of the importance of continence and the development of schizo paranoid and depressive positions, permeate all the work and are fundamental to the approach of the clinical material presented. Analyst's psychic continence is questioned in face of difficulties as the claustrum seduction, attraction of adhesive pseudo-object relations, embarrassment of tenderness and struggles for dominate or exclusion of the analyst. Facing the difficulties of handling complex defensive systems, such as pathological organizations, confidence in the existence of unconscious need of psychic truth remains encouraging and cherishing, both to continue the trajectory of psychoanalytic exercise, and to achieve the needs of patients / Este estudo tem por objetivo recolher informações sobre alguns tipos de organizações patológicas da personalidade, utilizando conhecimentos psicanalíticos. Vários autores embasam-no partindo de Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Joan Riviere, Wilfred Bion, Herbert Rosenfeld, Hanna Segal e chegando a John Steiner, Donald Meltzer, Frances Tustin, Judith Mitrani e James Grotstein, cujos trabalhos nessas áreas são discutidos mais profundamente. Esforços são realizados para compreender e identificar pontos de convergência, divergência e/ou intersecção entre conceitos como claustros, refúgios psíquicos, cápsulas autistas e pseudorrelações objetais adesivas. Discussões da importância da continência e da elaboração das posições esquizoparanoides e depressivas perpassam todo o trabalho e são fundamentais para a abordagem do material clínico apresentado. A continência psíquica do analista é questionada em face de dificuldades como a sedução dos claustros e a atratibilidade de pseudorrelações objetais adesivas, o embaraço diante da ternura e lutas por dominar ou excluir o analista. Diante da dificuldade de manejo com sistemas defensivos complexos, como os das organizações patológicas, a confiança na existência da necessidade inconsciente da verdade psíquica permanece estimulante e acalentadora tanto para continuar a trajetória do exercício psicanalítico, quanto para alcançar as necessidades dos pacientes

Text in Afrikaans / In this qualitative research study the landscape of the age-old tradition of contemplative spirituality within the context of the reformed tradition was investigated. An empirical study was done to determine the pastoral needs and experiences of Afrikaans speaking believers from the reformed tradition, involved in contemplative spirituality. Questionnaires and qualitative interviews were used for this purpose. The research path has been further shaped by social construction theory as a postmodern approach. This study was born out of my own discovery of the healing qualities of contemplative spirituality and secondly due to the growing demand among Afrikaans speaking reformed believers for exposure to the disciplines of contemplative spirituality. Little research is available on this topic and is it the hope of this research to open new conversations about contemplative spirituality in the Afrikaans reformed tradition. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Praktiese Teologie)

Thesis (D. Min.)--Erskine Theological Seminary, 2007. / Abstract. Description based on Microfiche version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-142).