Opening up group, seventh session
14th October 2010
So this was the seventh - and penultimate - meeting of this "Opening up" group. I wrote about the sixth session last week. Sadly, because of family crises, a couple of people hadn't been able to get to this evening's meeting. In fact, of the five of us at this …
2 years of blogging: 5,009 website visits last month
9th October 2010
I was quietly chuffed this morning to go into Google Analytics and find that, for the first time, there had been over 5,000 visits to this website in the previous month. Very small beer compared with commercial sites, but still encouraging numbers. It's a nice coincidence that the blog went …
Opening up group, sixth session
7th October 2010
Yesterday evening was the sixth session of the "Opening up" group. It had been a longer gap than usual - ten days since our full day meeting at the fifth session. As we often do, we began with a round of "checking in"; an opportunity for all of us to …
Recent research: articles from September journals
5th October 2010
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,100 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
A quiet rant to group facilitators & would-be group facilitators
3rd October 2010
Should group facilitators & would-be group facilitators have personal experience of the skills they're teaching? Should swimming or driving instructors be able to swim or drive themselves? I'm sure it's possible to help someone learn to swim without being a swimmer oneself, but if you're an instructor you're likely to …