.. yes the new one ............. out next month/so/they/say
Friday, May 21, 2010
Why am I afraid to tell you who I am*
Since being 26 years old
until about 30 years later
I worked mornings
and evenings
four days a week
often five or six.
As a Youth Worker it was
admin and programme design
in the mornings
(afternoons a few hours off)
and the young humans way into the night.
I spent time off with family
and with the community -
I lived/worked in communities of sorts
for some thirty nine years.
Family was always 'away from it all'.
Different and believed that a family,
living in a residential community,
needed special family time.
I have never been good at social things.
I have never made many friends.
I am not good at those things -
seems to me.
I reckon that that is why.
I have never given priority to it.
Maybe I have become better
in the last five/ten years or so?
'Why am I afraid to tell you who I am'*
is the title of my favourite book of all time.
I strive NOT to be afraid to tell you who I am.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
*I felt alone walking into a project where I didn't know anyone.
*I felt a panic when I was lost in a big city.
*I felt like a little child, being told off by his Mother.
*I felt oppressed and down because I was dealing with finance.
I shared it with Joan
The telling helped it to go away really quickly.
All the above = me in the last week.
I felt those feelings.
They were real.
They were momentary.
I welcome those feelings.
I recognise those feelings.
I tune in.
I learn from them.
I don't consider feelings as
positive or negative.
They are signals.
I am pleased I can feel them.
I feel feelings
but I will not allow them
to clamp my soul.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Thinking ,
as you do …
…… never had a poem done
for me/about me before.
This one done by an angel.
If you don’t understand it …
.. me neither.
I think art is like that.
A song,
a painting,
a dance,
a poem ……
There to be discovered ………
………………. I understand some and that I like it …………………..
bhp
SUGAR HOOPED WEEKS
People seem to forget
Or
Chose to erase
Those
Those sugar battered priceless days
That you
So excitedly give
Pumped with familiar phrases
Which would
Exhilarate if they felt
Whilst others would scorn
My sweet
You
Sit and wonder
Why their fuck off phrases
Continue
To meet
And dampen the torment
The fear
That maybe you
My friend
Maybe you once felt
I once did wonder
If I could give
If I could touch
That trembling hand
That unheard heart
That let alone
I do
And in them
And these
Sugar hooped weeks
You
My friend
Beneath the spangled words I taketh
Are
Simply beautiful too!
By Charlie
Nothing ever comes without some kind of fight, we've got to kick the darkness untill it bleeds daylight.
Bono U2
Blob Feelings Ball
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Throw, roll, pass the ball and the recipient then chooses a blob character that best describes how they are feeling. The ball illustrates a variety of blob characters which depict various feelings such as:
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• Happiness
• Sadness
• Wary
• Fear.
The ball comes with guidance giving ideas for use including ideas for questions.
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Monday, May 17, 2010
Social and Emotional Learning.
I am writing a series of newsletters for Incentive plus who publish, amongst many educational products, the The Blob Tree tools. Here is the first one pasted in for you. If you would like to register and get one direct - and in colour, see the foot of the text.
11th May / Issue 2 Emotional LiteracyWelcomeWelcome to Issue Two of Social and Emotional Insight. Today Pip Wilson, author, trainer and social and emotional practitioner writes on Emotional Deprivation and Emotional Literacy. You can find out more about Pip on his website here: http://www.pipwilson.com/In this issue:• A Volcano / A Pickaxe / A Hammer / A Nail• Emotional Literacy• Tips & Advice• 50 Top Tips for Behaviour ManagementDictionary::literacy |ˈlitərəsē; ˈlitrə-|nounthe ability to read and write.Emotional Literacy is all about reading signals. Feelings are signals. They surge through us every mili-second when we are awake. Even when we sleep.Feelings are signals. It is the big ones that matter.The ugly ones really matter.Unless humans reach some competency in managing feelings they will be controlled.Control is bad. Like a capped volcano - they will eventually erupt.In 1979 I conducted my first study of Youth Gangs. I focused on the number one issue. The aspect of their lives which was most difficult for them. My study was titled 'Emotional Deprivation'. We now understand this as 'Emotional Literacy' - an ability in understanding and managing emotions.These young humans lived with violence. They exploded, erupted, lashed out and received in return.One day a teenager came into the Club swinging a builder's pick axe.He chased another young man around the pool table with myself in-between the two - I will never forget it!Later on that same evening they were playing football together in the sports hall.The volcano had erupted. Then behaviour returned to normal.Capped emotions, awaiting the next rumble from within.We can learn how to manage our emotions.It is possible to become more aware.It is possible to become more skilful."If we only have a HammerWe see everything as a Nail."In the weeks and months aheadI will share a few stories with you,I will share experiences with you,I will share tools for the toolbox with you.You will be able to take them and transpose them into your own life and work - because signals rise within us in every aspect of our existence.In our Toolboxes we need more than a Hammer.Just email ezines@incentiveplus.co.uk or reply to this email with any questions, advice or top tips.A Volcano/A Pickaxe/A Hammer/A Nail.IF A BUD OF A FLOWER GETS DAMAGED.FROST.Damaged.It won't open.When it ages.It will not open to the sun.When a new baby is bornbeautiful creationneeding sun and waterlike the bud of a flower -being nurtured withwarmth and encouragement.Love in wordsand every other human expression.A child grows, thrives, loves, growsGrows - a human *being* and a human *becoming*If the childreceivescoldchillabuse or rejectionor even indifference -the chill damages.FROST.Damaged creation.That person will struggleto open to the sunstruggle to relatestruggle to lovestruggle to becomestruggle reach potential.I reach out to those who have failed to love.And those who have been unable to love.Emotional Literacy is all about reading signals.Feelings are signals.- Pip WilsonThis email has been sent to you byIncentive Plus Ltd70 Alston DriveBradwell AbbeyMilton KeynesMK13 9HGCompany Registration No. 3830684You are being sent this email as you have agreed to receive relevant and informative emails from the Electric Word Group, the people who send you Behaviour Matters and SENCO Update.Unsubscribe from Incentive Plus emailsTo register online go to incentiveplus.co.ukTo change your email address contact us at ezines@incentiveplus.co.uk
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