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In June 2009, during the Science Festival in Zielona Góra, the authoress along with her friends and a group of students realized a project entitled the Tree of Support. It was a reference to urban games, which are continually gaining popularity in Poland, though the actual content of the project was concerned with assistance and counseling issues. The paper describes the learning process of those students who were engaged in the project. The first part contains the description of the phenomenon of urban games and outlines the way the game 'Tree of Support' is run. In the second part, the authoress analyzes successive stages of making the game. She pays particular attention to the events that might have influenced students' relations or changed the way they think about the world and about those who require or offer assistance. Eventually, having analyzed the entire creative process she participated in, the authoress describes the processes that have influence on (re)defining students' identity (personal and professional). Role-playing, group cooperation (developing partnership relations, sharing duties, decision making), working on the project (preparing prompts and scripts), and finally keeping tabs on the course of the game have turned out to be the elements that influence the development of participants' (both students and lecturers) identity more strongly and in shorter time than in the case of traditional, academic lectures and classes.
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The paper presents a part of a research project on co-addiction in mothers conducted in 2006-2007. The aim of the analysis is to present their strategy of coping with these difficult experiences. The analysis has revealed that manners in which the mothers handle this long-term, painful life situation are highly individual and can be described as remedial strategies. The authoress singles out some of them but presents in detail only one, called the attitude modification (after D.W. Johnson and R.P. Matrosse, 1995), defining it as a mental and emotional process that shows in many emotional and mental activities, as well as in actions undertaken by the mothers in question. This process concerns several areas of life at the same time, with the following three singled out in the analyzed interviews: 1) attitude to own motherhood, 2) sense of separateness and the degree of mental emancipation from her adult child and, 3) attaining life wisdom. The main subject of changes is the ongoing process of transition from the state of helplessness to regaining inner balance. This transition is related to undertaking detailed actions, presented and interpreted in the paper as the methods of coping that eventually help mothers to modify one (or all) of the presented attitudes.
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The paper has stemmed from a research-oriented street performance entitled “Our patches of life', realized during the Zielona Gora Science Days in 2010. The authoress has analyzed the city's social space as determined by the context of the event. She creates biography of the city and its inhabitants by taking fragments of conversations with passers-by (provoked by students) and photos, and 'sewing' them together into a collage (patchwork) that symbolizes that day's events. The main goals of the street performance was to decrease the distance between the inhabitants, students and scientists, to provoke the students to establish spontaneous relations with the passers-by, and finally to use elements of biographical research in the initiated conversations. The authoress offers insight into her own and other participants' personal experiences, stressing the change they have undergone as far as perceiving (redefining) the existing city space, relations with others and personal identities are concerned.
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