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Christina Lengyel, Teacher in Training

Mentoring through Creativity

by Christina Lengyel

I truly came to understand the impact of the Merge approach while I was at an Arts in Recovery event put on by one of their clients, a peer support center.  I had been learning about and working with Merge for a few months, and I had built up a great deal of enthusiasm for [...]

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Who’s At Risk ?

by Christina Lengyel

Before reading Venturing Together, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect.  I had familiarized myself with Merge and its mission, and I was eager to learn more.  The introductory chapters, however, described the state of our society and the dire level of need for community in our communities.  I was, of course, expecting this background, [...]

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Creativity — a light at the end of the tunnel

by Christina Lengyel

It is my belief that we are most proud of the work we do when we express our humanity.  The process of expression is deeply cathartic, and outside appreciation for our art also serves as an affirmation of our humanness.  Merge seems to be linked intrinsically to the oppression that produced some of our greatest [...]

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Mentoring as a Shared Experience

by Christina Lengyel

It is very plain that Western culture suffers some serious wounds.  In my undergraduate studies, I became much more attuned to the specific nature of our societal dysfunction.  I studied African culture heavily in my anthropology program, and I began to see that on a psychological level the advantages of living in a collective society [...]

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