Walter Logeman: Journal
Just been listening & watching an ABC video. Great story.
Talking Heads: 2009: Wendy Whiteley Podcast 26:00 10/08/2009 Wendy Whiteley: Peter Thompson talks to artist Wendy Whiteley about her extraordinary journey from swinging sixties London and New York to a tranquil garden at the edge of Sydney Harbour.
Video (mp4)
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Continue reading “Wendy Whiteley story of her life with Brett Whiteley, Australian artist”
I have kept my synchronous work and asynchronous work separate. Psychotherapy in my rooms in Christchurch, with appointments, and Psychotherapy Online – exclusively by email.
That might change!
Johnny Devlin
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Beautiful photo from Werewolf 3 article by Gordon Campbell The image is worth a click to see the large version. His story & take on this image is great reading.
One other thing : if you look at the people in this picture one by one, they go a lot way to refuting the stereotypes of dull and staid New Zealand in the 1950s. Many of these faces are flat out beautiful, and transported. Look for instance, at the woman with the large white starry ear-ring in the front of the picture, or the two young women in the centre – she in the striped shirt and (especially) the woman to her right in the picture. Meanwhile, the guy on the upper far right looks like a Toy Love fan teleported in from the 1980s. The happy mixture of young and old is also pretty wonderful.
Reflection on Creativity.
I am impressed by the philosophy of creativity Jim presented (see link to podcast in last post). He draws on a Jungian idea of the unconscious being purposeful. If we let things bubble up then something useful will emerge. Similar to Moreno, creativity is always there, the art is to find the spontaneity, the catalyst to let it emerge. There is much thinking and experimenting that has led him to this understanding. He explains how “brainstorming” brings along an agenda. The stormed material is seen as not as valuable as the material that has been refined. Makes sense to me, the unconscious images need full attention.
Maybe it is the underlying creativity philosophy in Dynamic Facilitation that draws me to it. Of course I reflect on how this all ties in with Psychodrama & Moreno’s Canon of Creativity.
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I am thinking that when a group faces a particular task, or problem, that needs an outcome, the Dynamic Facilitation approach is a tool that can be used. It is a good way to create a warm-up to creativity.
A related post on this blog:
I am still intrigued by Dynamic Facilitation. I was recently asked a question about it: What about facilitator bias? Made me think and I discussed this question in various places. Clearly there is a lot of skill needed in the facilitation, however it is a clearly prescribed process.
Several things guard against excessive dependence on the facilitator, and prevent bias.
Then as I was pondering this a podcast arrived – probably had been on the ipod for a while:
Psychologist interviews Jim Rough. Shrink Rap Radio
It is an excellent interview, it is not full of technical details, the simplicity of the method continues to impress.
And on facilitator bias, Jim at one point shows how he does not say “I hear you … ” too much “I”, we want to leave that out. ”
Jim’s presentation makes what he does seem so ordinary and invisible that it is worth looking at Rosa Zubizarreta’s Manual for Jim Rough’s Dynamic Facilitation Method.
There are some things that my iPhone does that my PC does not do. It probably can be set up to do them, but I can’t. It is interesting how I miss them when I work on the PC. Here are two, I know I have others, I’ll add them when they occur to me. (of course there are features I prefer on the PC, this is being written on a PC!!) Anyone else notice moments where you reach for an iPhone feature & its not there on the computer?
Double tap to zoom on a column.
I can’t do that in Firefox. Is there a way? It is really a nice feature. Makes up for not having Adblock plus.
Two spaces = period and a space, and a cap on the next letter.
I did not think I’d like that, but I do!
Thoughts about the Imago dialogues. It is mostly intended for people who have some experience of this couple therapy.
Monday Video: Digital Skills + Community = Digital Literacies
Published by Nancy White
Following my recent rants on skills ((Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), comes this pertinent video of Howard Rheingold at Reboot Britain. (Hat tip Will Richardson http://twitter.com/willrich45) Howard asks us to go beyond skills – which are embedded in the individual – to literacies which are embedded in communities and networks, particularly digital literacies tied to social media. The five he talks about in this video include: 1. Attention 2. Participation 3. Cooperation 4. Critical Consumption (Crap Detection) 5. Network Awareness
Video access from Nancy’s site Full Circle
It is long past due that the Congress investigate this U.S. government assassination program. The politically inconvenient truth, however, is this: An actual investigation would require the Democrats pounding Cheney over his concealment of an assassination program (that allegedly was not implemented) to focus their investigation on how President Obama actually implemented and expanded that very program.
