Brian got this for me in Vietnam.
Hand written caption came with it
Great Uncle Ho – The person found and training the party, long live in our career.
I get it & it makes sense!
Lauwdy!
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.
Dynamic Facilitation & Creativity
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:
Dynamic Facilitation
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.
- The focus on the creative output. I imagine this is facilitated by the charts.
- The equal weight given to divergent perspectives.
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.
iPhone can, PC can’t
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!
Being and Doing
Thoughts about the Imago dialogues. It is mostly intended for people who have some experience of this couple therapy.
The Intentional Dialogue and Behaviour Change.
Howard Rheingold post & video on Nancy White’s blog
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
Obama implemented and expanded Cheney assassination program
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.
Scratching the surface
I doodle quite often, more often than I post. There is usually one word for the ones I do post here. Satisfaction. It may not be a lot of satisfaction, or a feeling that lasts. But that seems to be the single criteria.
The current exhibit in my Gallery website is a selection where the satisfaction has persisted.
On the evolution of science.
I have just listened to a spectacular podcast. From 2006 – I missed it till I changed my system of managing podcasts – giving in to the iTunes default way.
Kevin Kelly – The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.
Download: iTunes — Direct download
The textual summary is here:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kelly06/kelly06_index.html
I continue to discuss the podcast and relate themes to my own writing.