Leaning Towers of Pip Wilson dot com
Tired here. Long day.
Prius on the Motorways and still clocking an average of 57 mpg.
Sat Nav - I feel guided by Angels.
6 am start.
Fantastic day.
I was working with a Team who run two hostels for High Needs young beautiful humans.
I was impressed with their humanity.
Full of character - every one.
It was a pacey experiential day.
It was stretching for me.
They were up for the stretching.
"Growth does not reside in a place called comfortable" - this was a highlight for a number of those present.
If that is a stand out, an intrigue for them - it is a good start.
If an individual, or a team, work with behaviour that challenges daily - they are usually keen to explore 'learning'.
Not always, but usually.
I loved how they started to be open from the start.
Do you ever feel you are communicating with someone, and they are trapped in superficiality?
Do you follow the line - or do you desire to break away and try coming in at the side.
A question.
A different level of question or comment?
These workers are faced with young humans who stay in bed for as long as they can cope with, then getting out of bed to empty hours and days.
A spliff or two.
An emotional explosion or two.
A depression or two.
A relationship gone wrong .................. or two.
An expressed need in these young humans, is a yearning to belong.
Particularly their own family.
Often they have been rejected by their family.
The family cannot cope with the young human.
The young human has cocked things up and doesn't know how to sort out the mess.
Inadequacy confronting inadequacy.
Families with few resources to bring to being successful parents.
Young humans with no grip on life.
They don't know where the handles are to turn.
They don't know where the buttons are to press - to make life work for them.
My job today, in the training context, is to create learning experiences where the staff can set their own imagination free.
Free to be strategic in thinking and applying both supportive techniques and intervention. All done developmentally.
A big job.
We tried working on that today.
It was good and steps forward made.
A distinct privilege to be amongst them.
................. and just take a deep breath, in and out, slowly and deeply................ start now .........
Notice that small gap between breathing in - and starting to breath out.
In that very gap - I can hear a whisper (whispered to you) and these words are ................... "you are beautiful" ........
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