Active
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San Francisco Gem and Mineral Society (http://www.sfgms.org)
Next dig is in Nevada for turquoise (perhaps some rare white buffalo turquoise) and variscite.
CALPIRG (www.calpirg.org)
The Brain and Learning Society (http://www.edupr.com/):
Applying cutting-edge neuroscience research to educational practices.
The Long Now Foundation (http://www.longnow.org):
Going to their museum in the Presido and learning about their Rosetta Stone Language project is what began my process of thinking about language, as portrayed in my "Late Night on Gems TV" post a year or so ago.
Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (http://www.asianart.org):
The AsiaAlive program is interactive! Hands-on needs to happen more often in museums.
Other Avenues Co-op Food Store (http://otheravenues.coop):
Co-op run bulk goods, local products, etc. in the Sunset neighborhood.
Early Childhood Education Leaders of Today and Tomorrow:
A San Francisco grassroots society of professionals in the ECE field seeking to advocate for the work force of ECE professionals and to be involved in the process of early childhood educational practices and policies.
Connect Early Club for early childhood education professionals:
Professionals in the ECE field seeking resources for work opportunities and networking among other professionals. Meets one 1-2 days a month on the main campus of City College of San Francisco
Literacy for Environmental Justice (http://www.lej.org):
Originally focued on environmental issues in the industrial Bayview/Hunter's Point LEJ's approach expanded into a vital community supporter by empowering local youth into advocating for their community and being involved in issues concerning the BVHP neighborhood, especially for the current "redevelopment" plans looming over the community. 1-2-3 DISPLACE!
San Francisco Public Library System (reppin Ortega Branch in the Sunset, shakaaaas!)
Sloat Garden-A local garden center that I visited because I wanted to take care of my cyclamen that was given to me upon my welcome into the Early Childhood Education Leaders of Today and Tomorrow. I never had a green thumb before, but ever since this plant entered my home, it helps to remind me of my connection to the ECE field. Relationships/emotion really help with the learning!
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I find it loads of fun to learn/do something new everyday, especially if it challenges my proprioceptive sensory modality.
But then it gets challenging keeping track of all the new things i've done/am doing/will do.
Showing posts with label sensory integration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sensory integration. Show all posts
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Play is practice-"The process of doing will get you there"
I took the Creavity Workshop at California Institute of Integral Studies and wanted to share the written processes/products that I had previously shared with the individuals in my class in order to reflect on the level of vulnerability that I usually do not display in front of colleagues or otherwise. Being between half strangers, half friends, I felt a wonderful balance of risk and safety.
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A sensory experience- Five surprise bags were passed around the room, ready to open and be engaged in some olfactory-to-hippocampus goodness. Guess what was in the bag that I chose to write about!:
Drowning on my bed
Familiar angel sends me
Vapor lifesaver
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Context-Professor/facilitator asks us to start our process with, "I am from an island":
I am from an island,
from turnkey apartments and lonely TV's
I am from plumeria trees
welcoming young climbers
From, "Mr. Mayor, this is Sol's daughter,"
and, "Honey, you should get in touch with your father."
I am from school to school, 1-3 times a year
From ti leaves to redwoods
From 2nd place tiaras and singing different languages on a cruise ship
I am from the cafeteria waiting to go home and a graveyard of Hawaiian royalty turn perfect waiting/playing spot
From 20 pairs of slippahs near the doorway
From 20 cocoons of monarchs to guard
I am from ordinarily warm waters and dime-a-dozen waterfalls
From hot cookies and enriched bread
I am from, "I thought we were going to have a new boy in class."
From the smell of cardboard and sticky vinyl
From, "Hey blackjack, poker, like the card game right?"
I am from a single diamond in the rough.
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She-Who-Facilitates-One's-Creativity asked us to pick a line from a poem, to begin our process with, again, (can't remember title and author off the top of my head and citing resources is important to me!) and I picked, "There's a big stranger in town called the sun":
There's a big stranger in town called the sun.
They say he is a star, but I don't see it.
On bad days, he looks crazy
Out of control, brandishing a flame-thrower?
But on good days, he is like a father to all, being welcomed with picnic baskets and BIKINIS.
I see him all the time, even in pictures.
I like him when he wears sunglasses.
Sometimes he goes out of town, but I know he'll be back
Because I see his friend who waits around for him in the same place.
I hope someone will wait around for me like that.
It's probably just his drug dealer anyway.
Have~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Do~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Be
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Which way do you go?
My intentions after the workshop:
1. Act more on my creativity
2. Take risks OR feel safer
3. Lessen the dichotomy between artist and audience
4. Hope to spark creativity in others
5. Rid my perception of "art"
6. Continue to notice creativity in everyone, everywhere and in everything (yay i'm hella spiritual!)
7. Play more!
8. Start anywhere
9. Appreciate self more, respect (acceptance with no agenda to change) self more
10. Implement different approaches to test levels of participation in audience/artists/class dynamics.
In addition, the word "daughter" was a choice in a wordpile and after three intelligent, warm, strong, etc. women connected beautiful imagery, ideas and experiences in deeply moving ways about their love and awe of their daughters (intense), I decided to hold off on "the author's" interpretation:
What do you do when you are lonely?
Have a baby!
And if you have a daughter you can dress her up in cute dresses or a DIY style (if that's your cup of tea)
While you brush her long hair, you may find yourself dreaming about her becoming a doctor!
For the working mums, when she is still small, but big enough to know it is bad to not do everything her mum tells her to, you can tuck her in some corner of your cubicle where she can play with scraps of printouts and paper clips, all for free!
But wait, there's more!
When she is of age, she can drive you around while you make important phone calls and run important errands.
When she gets too old to be cute,
DOUBLE your fun by playing matchmaker and find her a nice professional man
So that when you are,
now old and lonely, you can
Have a baby!
I never said my shadow side wouldn't manifest itself. Of course it's equally proportional to my light side.
Sometimes I find it intense that I'm going to be ME for like, 70 more years.
--------------------------->
A sensory experience- Five surprise bags were passed around the room, ready to open and be engaged in some olfactory-to-hippocampus goodness. Guess what was in the bag that I chose to write about!:
Drowning on my bed
Familiar angel sends me
Vapor lifesaver
--------------------->
Context-Professor/facilitator asks us to start our process with, "I am from an island":
I am from an island,
from turnkey apartments and lonely TV's
I am from plumeria trees
welcoming young climbers
From, "Mr. Mayor, this is Sol's daughter,"
and, "Honey, you should get in touch with your father."
I am from school to school, 1-3 times a year
From ti leaves to redwoods
From 2nd place tiaras and singing different languages on a cruise ship
I am from the cafeteria waiting to go home and a graveyard of Hawaiian royalty turn perfect waiting/playing spot
From 20 pairs of slippahs near the doorway
From 20 cocoons of monarchs to guard
I am from ordinarily warm waters and dime-a-dozen waterfalls
From hot cookies and enriched bread
I am from, "I thought we were going to have a new boy in class."
From the smell of cardboard and sticky vinyl
From, "Hey blackjack, poker, like the card game right?"
I am from a single diamond in the rough.
--------------------------------------------------------------->
She-Who-Facilitates-One's-Creativity asked us to pick a line from a poem, to begin our process with, again, (can't remember title and author off the top of my head and citing resources is important to me!) and I picked, "There's a big stranger in town called the sun":
There's a big stranger in town called the sun.
They say he is a star, but I don't see it.
On bad days, he looks crazy
Out of control, brandishing a flame-thrower?
But on good days, he is like a father to all, being welcomed with picnic baskets and BIKINIS.
I see him all the time, even in pictures.
I like him when he wears sunglasses.
Sometimes he goes out of town, but I know he'll be back
Because I see his friend who waits around for him in the same place.
I hope someone will wait around for me like that.
It's probably just his drug dealer anyway.
Have~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Do~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Be
<------------------------------------------------------->
Which way do you go?
My intentions after the workshop:
1. Act more on my creativity
2. Take risks OR feel safer
3. Lessen the dichotomy between artist and audience
4. Hope to spark creativity in others
5. Rid my perception of "art"
6. Continue to notice creativity in everyone, everywhere and in everything (yay i'm hella spiritual!)
7. Play more!
8. Start anywhere
9. Appreciate self more, respect (acceptance with no agenda to change) self more
10. Implement different approaches to test levels of participation in audience/artists/class dynamics.
In addition, the word "daughter" was a choice in a wordpile and after three intelligent, warm, strong, etc. women connected beautiful imagery, ideas and experiences in deeply moving ways about their love and awe of their daughters (intense), I decided to hold off on "the author's" interpretation:
What do you do when you are lonely?
Have a baby!
And if you have a daughter you can dress her up in cute dresses or a DIY style (if that's your cup of tea)
While you brush her long hair, you may find yourself dreaming about her becoming a doctor!
For the working mums, when she is still small, but big enough to know it is bad to not do everything her mum tells her to, you can tuck her in some corner of your cubicle where she can play with scraps of printouts and paper clips, all for free!
But wait, there's more!
When she is of age, she can drive you around while you make important phone calls and run important errands.
When she gets too old to be cute,
DOUBLE your fun by playing matchmaker and find her a nice professional man
So that when you are,
now old and lonely, you can
Have a baby!
I never said my shadow side wouldn't manifest itself. Of course it's equally proportional to my light side.
Sometimes I find it intense that I'm going to be ME for like, 70 more years.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
affirmative pearl diving
Dearest Soloterre,
Here's that list i forwarded to you from all my relations:
You can start your story anywhere.
English is my 3rd language. Like every other person, my 1st language is body/movement and my 2nd language is tactile.
Get creative, there are infinite opportunities beyond the typical realms.
Balance is the first gate before one's path with heart.
Play is work-MOVE.
Visualize-Focus!
Organization is a stepping stone to leadership. Get it?
Everyone loses when people only know what they can't do but everyone wins when they know what they can do.
Your self is your greatest and most likely your only teacher. The ones that have claimed to have taught you have only exposed you to experiences and facilitated your environment. You give your learning meaning which adds to the continual support for past, present and future learning/meaning.
Identify needs and push appropriately.
Follow interests and when one is not as interested in an idea as much as before, one is ready to move on to another degree.
Finishing/death is part of the cycle, too many beginnings leaves too many cords entangled with heavy tension-embrace it, even tension creates a sustainable and infinte braid of cords, there's the idea of putting things back in their place.
Flirting between silliness and seriousness is "your thing"-sell it!
It is okay to experiment, it is okay to not be "perfect," it important to keep trying and to ignore previous stressful social ideas of judgement. It is okay to care that "people" think you are being yourself.
What does it mean for one who edits their words? And what does it mean for the ideas behind the words?
You can start your story anywhere.
Sell it!
Take note...
Smiling is Thoughtful,
Solitaire
P.S.
If all else fails:
10 Hail Mary's, 5 Our Father's
Here's that list i forwarded to you from all my relations:
You can start your story anywhere.
English is my 3rd language. Like every other person, my 1st language is body/movement and my 2nd language is tactile.
Get creative, there are infinite opportunities beyond the typical realms.
Balance is the first gate before one's path with heart.
Play is work-MOVE.
Visualize-Focus!
Organization is a stepping stone to leadership. Get it?
Everyone loses when people only know what they can't do but everyone wins when they know what they can do.
Your self is your greatest and most likely your only teacher. The ones that have claimed to have taught you have only exposed you to experiences and facilitated your environment. You give your learning meaning which adds to the continual support for past, present and future learning/meaning.
Identify needs and push appropriately.
Follow interests and when one is not as interested in an idea as much as before, one is ready to move on to another degree.
Finishing/death is part of the cycle, too many beginnings leaves too many cords entangled with heavy tension-embrace it, even tension creates a sustainable and infinte braid of cords, there's the idea of putting things back in their place.
Flirting between silliness and seriousness is "your thing"-sell it!
It is okay to experiment, it is okay to not be "perfect," it important to keep trying and to ignore previous stressful social ideas of judgement. It is okay to care that "people" think you are being yourself.
What does it mean for one who edits their words? And what does it mean for the ideas behind the words?
You can start your story anywhere.
Sell it!
Take note...
Smiling is Thoughtful,
Solitaire
P.S.
If all else fails:
10 Hail Mary's, 5 Our Father's
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