companioning
- noun
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acompañamiento
- Moreover, distinguishing modes of suffering in the triune God offers different modes for relief of suffering; for example, through sympathetic companioning, through empathetic identification, or through protopathetic resistance to suffering and death in cosmic existence associated with each Person of the triune God.
- spiritual companioning
- companioning program
Examples
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Such a companioning approach has not been uncommon with Heraclitus, since he seems to be just the kind of thinker who calls forth such a response.
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It has done so much for me in my life and been such an an extraordinary poetic companion to me.
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In a companioning approach, the thinker who occasions the reflection is less an object of scholarly research and more one who brings forth connatural thinking in us as we try to understand him and the matters that engage him.
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The birthing of the work of art is as much received in the promise of inspiration and carried out in the faithful work that redeems the promise, in work that is not work, since the lifting energy of the companioning power is with it: like the runner who suddenly has the wind behind him, though were he to look he would see nothing and feel nothing there, for, in a slight shift of metaphor, the lifting wind is a second wind that is his own and never his own and that carries him into a new space of moving along the way.
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Companioning can become ventriloquizing, and then the words we have of Heraclitus function like such a medium: Rorschach blobs or indeterminate pictures onto which we project ourselves.
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After joining the community, she found joy in companioning those who needed support.
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Offering companioning services can make a significant difference for people feeling lonely.
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His role involved companioning elderly residents at the nursing home, providing them with comfort and companionship.
Synonyms
175
4.0
A person or group who goes with someone to protect them
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2.9
A pleasant feeling of being with someone and not alone
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4.4
A feeling of friendship and support among people
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4.4
Going with someone to protect or help them
Antonyms
How Supportive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Companioning comes from old parts com- meaning 'with' and panis meaning 'bread', so a companion was someone you 'share bread with'. So, companioning is the act of being with someone and sharing your time and care to support them.