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POWER OF NOW…
“Snakes and Ladders”-Resilience Guide
When working with the children they would often be intensifying about something that happened to them in the past or dreading something in the future and time and time again I would repeat the same words...
“please stop focusing on the past or future but focus on the now, right here right now and lets workout what we can do now, not back there or into a future we haven’t go to yet.”
Every time I visited the airport I would go and have a good look in the bookshops to see what latest self-development books had been recently published. I had often found books with really great cutting edge ideas on those book shelves.
On one of my many trips over to the east coast of Australia to visit my daughters I found the perfect book; “The Power of NOW” by Eckhart Tolle on one of those airport bookshelves.
What I read in the first half of that book was profound on many levels for me and all the adult population but how was I going to translate those concepts into child bite pieces?
AHHHH the power of asking a question.
Just by asking that question was enough and over the months to come the way to reduce and simplify those main concepts gleaned from the book The Power of Now slowly emerged into child size bits.
Getting the children to close their eyes to go into their inside world and ask their own brain what it wanted to think about as they watched it was easy. Every child loved the process and when they were asked to come back into the outside world and share what their brain wanted to think about they all would share happily.
After the children had opened their eyes and returned to the outside world I would then ask them “Who are you; the thinking brain or the watcher brain? I could see each child stop and think deeply before answering me.
Most of the time the children would reply that they were the “thinking brain” and I would then explain that they were actually the “watcher brain”.
That was easy, very easy but then I had to come up with a metaphor, some form of symbol the child’s brain could grasp onto to understand why and what this all meant for them as a child.
What grew out of that fertile creative moment was the need to explain to the child that the “thinking brain” was like a beautiful horse and the “watcher brain” was a smart and very wise rider.
Now the children could follow where ever their imaginations could take this story, this metaphor. The power of storytelling won out again and all I had to do from now on was follow where each child wanted to go with the story line/metaphor and how they could apply it in their daily lives.
Asking each child to first describe what kind of horse they were and getting them to personalise their own horse “thinking brain” as something beautiful and magical and then asking them what would happen if I brought a horse into the library or classroom?
A horse running free in their school or their own house would cause chaos in one way or another and that’s what their “thinking brain” without a rider was doing when they were fighting or having a rage attack or swearing.
The children now could make sense of why they behaved the way they were without being shamed, blamed, made to feel hopelessness and could own their own actions without fear.
As each individual child was grasping their “thinking brain” horse reality I could then gently describe the role of their rider “watcher brain”.
The “watcher brains” roles and what each unique individual child’s rider brain needed to learn to be able to develop and embrace their own higher potentials could be slowly shared over the weeks to come every time their horse would be running free and causing chaos.
Their own unique inner nobility could finally find a way to start to shine and strengthen.
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Same sex ballroom and latin dancing competition. Run by Jacky Logan and Ralf Schiller, held in the Rivoli Ballroom in Brockley London in 15th Feb 2014
All images are courtesy of Oskar Marchock
@digitaloskar
Global 2000 Jugend (Young Friends of the Earth Austria) organised a reCAP picnic in the city centre of Vienna, on 19th September- the same day as the Good Food March.
Farmers from Lower Austria brought fruit and vegetables to the picnic, and they also offered tea, coffee, juice, break and spread for free, and gave these out to picnic attendees and the general public.
They plan to do another picnic again soon!
Photos (c) Global 2000 Jugend
The Pentax Optio S5z brotherhood! Kevin has a S3i, the old model (the one that still fits in an Altoids tin - grrr).
Same flower shown in previous photos but this one was shot after overnighting in a glass of water. The next day there was a noticeable increase of pollen at the tips of the stamens.
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when i was in elementary school, my teacher always testing me wit the same picture, it was look the same but not the same, it was similar but not similar,,,,my teacher said it trained ur left brain to think,,,,,is it???
Needed to compare photos from two different cameras, plus give you the pleasure of viewing the family cross-eyed....lol! Enjoy :) Everyone says Hi ♥
my friend wanted the table i sold to a customer in CA, so i painted a different one for her just the same!
Trying out color balance + channel mixer in GIMP; Strobist Info: 285HV shot from camera left through home-made softbox
Same picture again, but this time blurred and darkened. Perhaps a bit more natural-looking in this setting. I'll try in better lighting some other time.
Lovely Same Sex wedding with visual cues for the ASL members of the event, reception at the Powder Mills Park.
Listening to cover songs of Metallica will never feel the same, now tha I have heard them from the Masters themselves. Watching them play Master of Puppets was enough for me to feel satisfied. I was very disappointed with St.Anger Album, but they resurrected themselves with a much better album this time with Death Magnetic. I was sceptical of James's voice, but he laid all my doubts to rest. Not only can he still sing and play, but has the same energy. Lars was as usual pounding away on the drums like a maniac, Robert playing the bass like its a toy, and Kirk was his usual Mr.Cool. Concert had great sound, fantastic laser lighting, and some pyrotechnics to with it as well.