Sketching again! Flower Power.
Its been a while, and I won’t have many as I’m working on some serious writing projects, but have loved doing these as I am more rested over the holiday period.
I’m on a roll here… they could be a series. The aim is to make flowers, not… I know… flower power.
New watercolour app
The app is Waterlogue .
It is not really independently creative, first you need a photo, then choose a variety of options, and then decide to save one you like. I did dozens to get the ones above. I’ll post more in the art blog .
Happy New Year
I’m looking forward to it.
Family times. Tramping trips. Psychodrama events. Writing projects. Arty stuff. Work is good too.
Time for a talk? Create a good warm up.
You are fed up. This is been on your mind for a while. You need to tell the other person. Its not fair. They are a problem. You’ve been meaning to do this but they’d never listen…
Those thoughts and feelings are your warm up. A warm up like that needs some attention. The other party is not likely to listen. When the time comes to talk you need better warm up. The six steps will create a good warm up for a productive conversation. “It is all in the warm up.”
Create a Topic
What is the title of this conversation? One that is of interest to both parties. Create a topic that is constructive. Do this well before you approach the other person. This will determine everything from here on.
Begin with the impulse for the talk, e.g. “Your careless behaviour over the years has made me resentful and bitter and it is time you changed.”
Remove blame: “I think you are careless and I resent that and I’d like you to change.” Notice the subtle difference with the words: “I think…”
Remove resentment: Resentment is something you have allowed to build up, own it. “I think you are careless and I have found this difficult to raise with you, and I’d like you to change.”
Convert judgmental words, and be specific about outcomes: “I think the jobs can be done more efficiently.”
Make it collaborative: “I think we can do this more efficiently.”
Topic: “How we can do some things more efficiently”
Make a Request
How you do that also creates a warm up. More on that soon.
Interview: Thomas Maier, Author Of ‘Masters Of Sex’ : NPR
Interview: Thomas Maier, Author Of ‘Masters Of Sex’ : NPR
I enjoyed the interview – and as I’ve been working on the Six Principles of Sociometry – Moreno’s methodology I reflected how they apply to the masters and johnson work. I found it quite challenging, and fun in a casual way to do this as I listened.
Nice photo!
Writing
I’ve been writing but not in this blog.
I’ve been working on three papers to qualify as a Trainer, Educator and Practitioner in psychodrama. Now more or less done. A paper, study on Moreno’s social science methodology, needs a lot more work and research. A book proposal, I’m doing that at the same time as the research paper, it uses a different part of my brain.
Maybe I can put more snipets here as I think about this work?
The reason I don’t is that I use Evernote – and it replaces one function of this blog, notes to myself.
Can I be more journalistic here?
Maybe.
Tiger-Walking – Google Groups
Found this rather wonderful thread in Google groups about Tiger Walking.
I strongly identified with that way of being a walker — in NSW and in Tasmania in the sixties. Now I’m content if I can do the trip in the designated track time.
The idea to Google the word came up as I’m warming up to some Tiger-Writing 🙂
How language shapes thought – All In The Mind – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
How language shapes thought – All In The Mind – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): “It’s been controversial for centuries but new empirical research suggests that language has a powerful influence over the way we think and perceive the world. Lera Boroditsky from Stanford University suggests that Japanese and Spanish speakers have a different sense of blame, and some Indigenous Australians have a different sense of space—all because of the language they speak.”
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog
Worth watching for a rundown on the era I think of as the era I grew up in. All of the people here are deeply influential in my life.
