Posts tagged with 'personal'
Is short duration sleep a problem or is it just disturbed sleep that leads to increased mortality risk? A personal exploration.
3rd January 2012
It is clear that there is a U-shaped association between sleep duration and mortality, with both short and long sleep linked with increased death rates. This finding is underlined by two major recent research overviews - Gallicchio & Kalesan "Sleep duration and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis" and Cappuccio …
Peer groups: Scottish Mixed Group – final morning
19th October 2011
The final morning of the group. Still strong feelings settling from the evening before. Caring for each other. Re-strengthening the group "container". We wobbled a good deal later on on Sunday, but I think everyone can feel good about "keeping the show on the road". Potentially very helpful learning. And …
Peer groups: Scottish Mixed Group – second full day: bumps, maintaining the group, emotions & cognitive processing
18th October 2011
I wrote in the last blog post about the first part of the second full day at Glassie. Later on in the afternoon we moved into a more "bumpy" phase of the group. Often in these more difficult interactions there is the richest learning for everyone involved if one has …
Peer groups: Scottish Mixed Group – second full day: emotional ‘cooking’ in the group, and personal work too
17th October 2011
I wrote yesterday about the first full day of this "long weekend" residential peer group. The second day of the weekend was particularly rich - very nourishing or a bit too much depending partly on one's digestion. So after the usual walks, talks, meditations, long chatty breakfasts, we began again …
Peer groups: Scottish Mixed Group – first full day: small support & full group work, gender ‘fishbowls’
16th October 2011
Again it's a little before 6.30am. Pitch black outside. I wrote yesterday morning about the first evening of this group. We then went on to the first full day. How was it? Well it seemed to me that we've begun to find our feet well. The morning began with people …
Peer groups: Scottish Mixed Group – beginning, initial thoughts, exciting & edgy
15th October 2011
About 6.30 in the morning. The lights of Aberfeldy shining through the dark from down in the valley. We're at Glassie Farm Bunkhouse - fourteen of us staying here for three days. I've written about this kind of peer group residential on a whole series of occasions on this blog …
Peer groups: Cumbria spring group – reflection
12th May 2011
Back from the four day peer group in Cumbria. Back into the rich, busy, fascinating river of 'everyday life'. I've written already about the last full day of the group in "Vision express & where are these groups going?" and, as well, about confrontation in "Authenticity, learning & interpersonal conflict". …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group – fourth morning: 'vision express' & where are these groups going?
8th May 2011
So how was yesterday? In the blog post "Peer groups, Cumbria spring group - third morning: authenticity, learning & interpersonal conflict" I talked about conflict & confrontation. I think I jumped in too fast and too hard a couple of days ago in a small group interaction that sparked some …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group – third morning: authenticity, learning & interpersonal conflict
7th May 2011
Have I screwed up? I wrote yesterday about the first full day of this peer residential group. I woke this morning with wisps of cloud in my mind ... a flash of Lady MacBeth ("out, damned spot") ... a whisper of shame, of guilt. I was very direct with someone …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group – second morning: early stages of a group, self-disclosure, & emotional awareness
6th May 2011
I wrote yesterday about arriving at this year's Mixed Group here in Cumbria. Now it's the second morning. Yesterday was the first full day of the group. How was it? As I've written before "Process groups tend to move through a series of developmental stages. These can be described in …