G: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 7
“The impediment to action advances the action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
” - Marcus Aurelius
F: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 6
“ Only dead fish swim with the stream. ” - Anonymous
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
“What gets managed, gets done.
” - Tom Peters
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
“The earth laughs in flowers.
” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
“Do not think less of yourself, but think of yourself less.
” - C. S. Lewis
B: Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, session 2
“People say how creative the All Blacks are, but creativity is just practice that's camouflaged. It comes from hard work.
” - Wayne Smith, All Blacks rugby coach
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 good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
” - Carl Rogers
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
“ If in your head you undertake hatha yoga as a form of exercise or body building, you will end up with just what you reached for ... a more beautiful body. On the other hand, if you undertake hatha yoga as a form of yoga then it will, in a relatively short time, bring about a profound metamorphosis in your body calmness, sensitivity, and lightness ... all of which will facilitate your sadhana. ” - Ram Dass
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".
