G: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 7
“ Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. ” - Rainer Maria Rilke
F: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 6
“ Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. ” - Douglas MacArthur
Yesterday we had the sixth session of this twelve evening "Life skills" course. I wrote last week about the fifth session. A dozen slides covering material we explored are viewable/downloadable at slides 1-6, Powerpoint or slides 1-6, PDF and slides 7-12, Powerpoint or slides 7-12, PDF.
E: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 5
“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday evening was the fifth session of this 12 evening training course. I wrote about the fourth session last week. As usual, this evening, the material we were due to cover was described in a dozen Powerpoint slides which the participants received as a handout. See slides 1-6, Powerpoint or slides 1-6, PDF and slides 7-12, Powerpoint or slides 7-12, PDF.
D: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 4
“ There is a crack in everything. That's where the light gets in. ” - Leonard Cohen
So yesterday we had the fourth evening of this twelve session course. I posted on the third session last week. What we covered is illustrated on the Powerpoint handouts I gave out as two six-slides-to-a-page handouts. Click on slides 1-6, Powerpoint or slides 1-6, PDF and slides 7-12, Powerpoint or slides 7-12, PDF to see.
C: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 3
“What's in the way is the way
” - Mary O'Malley
B: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 2
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
” - Annie Dillard
So it was the second session of the group yesterday. I blogged about the first session last week. Sadly a couple of people couldn't get to this second meeting - due to a pre-planned holiday and to an unexpected crisis. It's quite common for participants to miss one or two evenings across a twelve session course like this, but I want to be careful when people miss such an early meeting. It's important that they don't lose their way and get left behind. They will get copies of the handouts and the Autogenic CD, but I also make a note to contact them myself.
A: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 1
“The earth laughs in flowers.
” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday we had the first evening of the Life Skills group. I've written in the past about the background planning behind this group. How did this first meeting go? Well there were nine of us - eight participants and myself. Rather demandingly I'm both running a new course and trying to get used to new technology at the same time. For years, when running small group trainings here at our house, I've used an overhead projector to shine transparencies up onto the wall. For a while I've wanted to upgrade to a laptop and data projector, and this evening I went ahead to put this into practice.
Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing
“You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself.
” - Miles Davis
In the 1970's I taught yoga and several different types of meditation. In the 1980's I began teaching courses in Autogenic Training, a form of deep relaxation/meditation. I continued running Autogenic classes for about 25 years. In addition to the relaxation/meditation exercises, the teaching also covered several other life skill/stress management techniques. For a much fuller description of these eight session courses, visit the Autogenic Training section of this website.
Peer groups: Ravenstor autumn group 7 - feedback, ecology & goodbyes
Originally added on 18th November 2010
Last updated on 22nd November 2010
Last updated on 22nd November 2010
Peer groups: Ravenstor autumn group 6 - respect & friendship
Originally added on 17th November 2010
Last updated on 11th July 2011
Last updated on 11th July 2011
It's a couple of days since we drove back up to Scotland from Ravenstor. I blogged yesterday about the last morning of the group and I was thinking a bit about judgements and who we choose as closer friends. I feel a bit uncomfortable exploring this issue as I don't want to be dismissive of other human beings. However there is a valid question - do some characteristics or qualities that people have make them "better" potential friends than other characteristics or qualities do? For me the answer is a clear "yes".
