tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31738018149645388002024-03-05T13:58:20.675-08:00A Quiet Place – The Visitors RoomLearning to achieve personal development, emotional intelligence and lifetime outcomesA Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-56898977300491193162013-07-15T07:43:00.000-07:002013-07-15T07:43:39.032-07:00Past my sell by date <strong>From Penny Moon, Chief Executive of <a href="http://www.aquietplace.co.uk/">www.aquietplace.co.uk</a></strong>
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Opportunities to become an ambitious international business woman are tumbling about my head. Unfortunately they exist now not only in a world ruled by a language that escapes me but represent a new experience I am reluctant to undertake. I had been looking forward to finally achieving my adolescence, a time of irresponsibility, kicking over the traces and throwing caution to the winds. Sex, drugs and rock and roll seem to have passed me by in the 60’s and now in my 60’s I was hoping to steal a moment, only a moment please, but I suspect it is not to be. <br />
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More to the point I have no interest in learning this language of computers, twitter, facebook, who is that interested in me quite frankly? I would much prefer to learn Italian with its gentle rolling expressive notes.
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‘Mama Mia, Spaghetti Bolognese, arrivederci…’ the Lord knows I am nearly there already and what is more I got my Latin ‘O’ level and can still quote from The Iliad ‘Pyrrhus rushed in with all the vigour of his father; neither the guards nor the gates themselves could withstand him…’ After all is said and done I am a language teacher, yes French actually believe it or not, ‘bonjour, ca va’ the accent rolls of my tongue, the superficial fluency screamed at my knees by my small and bitter teacher, whilst the vocabulary has disappeared into some cosmic cloud no doubt where all communication dissolves now into one big wordless grin. <br />
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This is what I would like to think anyway. It is amongst my many theories that are patently untrue like if I go out in the rain, will I shrink?
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On the other hand - truth be told - I am enjoying LinkedIn and meeting other professionals, discussing therapy, yoga, philosophy. Not many people have an interest in these matters and we can ‘therapeutically’ nerd away at the use of metaphors, the history of Mindfulness and meaning of Chi.
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What you might ask has this to do with social media, the language of communication in this day and age, useful and not useful all at once, can get you into trouble with the lack of subtle nuances, the softening of a phrase with a twinkling eye…yes all that non verbal communication...80% is unavailable in the short hand of tweets and texts which can whip up emotions in a moment, promise the earth with its set phrases and shorthand leaving the door agape for horrifying possibilities of misunderstanding. <br />
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My extraordinary variety of accounts in all these areas, doubled or trebled accidentally with an endless array of passwords makes me sob into my computer.
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And don’t get me started on my phone. It took me a year to stop calling it a blueberry. Only realised as younger folks looked politely away to avoid my ignorance, ‘done it again Pen...shape up now’ is my ancient chant to myself. The phone at present, which I can finally receive emails on, has taken to calling people (and no, not just my last call before you raise your eyebrows) without me asking (no that is a metaphor, never managed the voice thing) switching itself on and off, sometimes into SOS during conversations and it is probably right.
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I look forward to running a retreat, teaching yoga and meditation, wandering on lonely (yes lonely) beaches with the wind whipping my hair and cackling now and again. Yet I suspect the next social media course will drip into my brain and I will be a whizzerooni soon (anyone up for a bet on that?). Sooper International business woman here I come and off to John Lewis for a pin stripe suit, better get out in the rain again as they probably don’t make them my size!
A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-61888992826070690532013-07-09T15:08:00.001-07:002013-07-09T15:08:22.794-07:00Ofsted fashion challenge<strong>Special measures, poor, satisfactory, good and outstanding;
a quality assurance venture - </strong><strong>from Selena Weaver Fashion House
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There was a quiet sense of anticipation waiting for the Governor to introduce his own collection recommended by Ofsted to get an upstanding result for all schools.
The hush in the crowded hall was intense as the audience waited for the ‘Gove’s entrance. A sense of excitement as this adored and admired example of flair and style , indeed a veritable dandy of finery and taste kept his audience waiting just the right amount of time before bursting onto the walkway. The drum rolled and the audience rose as one as The Gove strode, to his signature sound of ‘Rule Brittania’, like a behemoth, cloak billowing in the draft of his own not inconsiderable wind, cap at a rakish angle across his fine features and famous profile that defined him as a leader and hero amongst men, yes indeed men and I meant men.
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Women fainted at the mere sight of him and couldn’t wait as he turned at the end of the walkway and postured. Demonstrating a towering example of manhood, he fixed them with a beady eye to inspire terror in the strongest of feminists... not to mention the secret hope that it would be they who were chosen for detention, a chance in a million to spend extra time with him, possibly alone, to gaze in adoration at their secret hero. He switched his cane as he looked around the room, daring anyone to so much as murmur, then, turning on his heel with a smart crack of the whip, he marched with his signature walk back, turned his head briefly to catch any disrespectful sign of lack of focus and concentration, seductively allowing his the gown to slip off his shoulder revealing ,yes the stone washed worn look he so embraced, leather elbows patches on grey tweed. The added touch of chalk dust (dustus chalkamus) lavishly sprinkled (available at all branches of supermarkets and service stations nationally) on his gown rose in clouds of nostalgic delight to cover the audience with an authentic taste of real education.
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We knew almost as if by magic that copies of this outfit would be available at all superstores by the following day but who could wear it like the man, our first man upstanding none other than ‘The Gove’. All canes also available sold under the ‘it never did me any harm’ brand of behaviour management resources.
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As he returned to the podiun he cracked the cane down and said “good morning”. The whole room responded ‘good morning sir’ and sat down on their chairs. There were inspectors in the room checking everyone was sitting up straight and no-one could speak or go to the toilet at all on such occasions. Of course everyone was expected to go to the toilet before they come in and check reminder flash cards were in the foyer. There is of course always one, “you boy over there...yes you. I mean you, never mind looking round behind you as if you didn’t know who I am talking to” one of the pile of board dusters on the podium like a teetering castle went flying with an astonishing accuracy to the unfortunate man in the middle. Immediately 2 burly inspectors pulled him from his seat by his ear and accompanied him out of the building whilst protesting his innocence.
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The Gove stood and respectfully, nay even humbly removed his cap with a flourish and with head bowed and a deep sense of humility he started his speech
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<em>“<strong>Floreat governa.</strong> At last it has begun. A new dawning, a move to uni form our teachers, the children must and so must we , to lead by example,in order to be authentic in the provision of a National Uniform for teachers. There maybe a ‘local’ flourish with eco friendly and organic options but it will be available in all colours and sizes from all leading supermarkets who will be permitted to brand across the front in a tasteful design.They will be assisting my own personal charity at Eton with 50% of the income of course.
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<em>Finally we begin our show with optional styles of cloaks, trimmed with fox fur from our specialist hunts which by the way offer apprenticeships for our unfortunate NEETS in the countryside arts. They are shown by example how to vandalise the countryside and trespass onto the property of the poor serfs gardens in search of the pleasure and sport of observing others torture and kill the helpless. We do need these young persons to serve us so this is a good place to start.</em>
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Clapping and sounds of ’wicked,man’ were heard on the audience and with a sly smile The Gove felt he had to be seen to silence these words of approbation. A man of charisma and charm, an exploiter of opportunity and a glorious englishman indeed in the best of traditions.
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An image appeared on the screen of johny foreigner types clad in leaves around a fire telling stories with a written comment ‘the first teachers.’ <br />
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“Who did that?” screamed The Gove spittle flying from his furiously distorted lips and showering the fortunate few on the front row with his sacred body fluids. Immediately the image was withdrawn and replaced with the image of an academy with wooden desks and a primary teacher leading a flock of little ones across the yard.
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She immediately appeared on the walkway her long skirt swishing at her ankles, beautiful buttoned up boots with a low heel for suitablity of walking in the winter weather. The skirt in a brown worsted material hung at her ankles for the sake of modesty. The pretty khaki coloured shirt was frilled (first class only otherwise no frills version) and buttoned up at the neck with a nice brooch with our motto <strong>floreat governa</strong> in a lovely times new roman font, no detail was spared.
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Polite clapping was heard as she walked humbly, head bowed in awe to the end of the walkway and back.
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“Retro bro” was the whisper around the room. The men following all had the tweed jacket and brogues of different shade and hue
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Then suddenly a terrible cackling was heard and a shadowy figure in black appeared with a pointed hat and a cat on her shoulder. A shout went up “A special vote of thanks for The Gove from women all over the world we have chosen a magical representation of the French Revolution for the finale.” The curtain went back to reveal a backdrop of the Bastille.The Gove, not wishing to appear as a bad sport, was led back to the waiting guillotine. Next to this apparently shiny object was a basket and women waiting, knitting needles at the ready for the next seasons line in knitwear.(or would that be knithair, or nit hair?)
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<em>“Rest your head here, it is very comfortble and has an apprentice here from your famous vocational courses, the 9 week apprenticeship. I would like to invite all ex members of Eton college 6th form and indeed not to exclude those ‘poor’ people who have similar intentions and ways to take part in this little tableau we have put on for your delectation”.</em>
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The room darkened and with a mighty crash of thunder and for good measure a bolt of lightening the guillotine dropped and the cheery smile of the Gove was seen for the last time. Fortunately the curtains were closed before the audience realised the embarrassing mistake, using authentic examples may not always be the best idea.
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The cackle became manic and the last to be seen of the shadowy figure was her silouette as she disappeared on her broomstick.
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Teacher styles back to basics.
A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-24289835003273364452012-11-11T09:33:00.000-08:002012-11-11T09:33:19.004-08:00Say no to 'diet ' drinksInteresting links being looked at for Gulf War Syndrome and other 'mysterious' illnesses. It has been suggested that when 'diet' canned drinks are left in excessive heat the sweetener converts rapidly into formaldehyde and does not revert on cooling... think about it! <br />
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<li>Aspartame is the most dangerous food additive on the market today, accounting for over 75 percent of adverse reactions reported to the FDA, including seizures and death </li>
<li>Even though aspartame is touted as natural it has a synthetic methyl group on one of the amino acids that rapidly breaks down to methanol (wood alcohol). The sweetness associated with aspartame is largely the result of methyl alcohol bonded to the amino acid phenylalanine </li>
<li>Methyl alcohol is metabolized differently in the human body compared to other animals, and is FAR more toxic in humans which is why studies have trouble nailing down the hazards related to aspartame, because most rely on animal not human studies </li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span>Our National Staff Training day runs twice a year. We always look
forward to meeting with everyone and sharing best practice. Most recently we had
some new friends who might be interested in the franchising aspects, so an
unusual mix. Everyone seemed to enjoy the day despite the lack of
sandwiches. Usually they make trays too many and must have decided, as we left a lot previously, this time not to
make enough! They gave us chocolate muffins instead as a healthy option. I had
already brought a birthday cake for Karen but she took it home. Karen had come
down from Children First in Scotland and was sick poor lass, not fun to have to
travel when you feel rough however at least her organisation had paid for her
and this maybe a first step in the Noo.<br /> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span>Joan showed new paperwork we have done for non-protocol children. It is so
important to focus on outcomes and include the children in their own
therapeutic process, it is not a cold thing the way we have done it and Joan is
excellent.Then I asked David to share Wild Divine, Dual Drive and Mind Wave as
some haven't seen the new bio-feedback programmes only HeartMath. It certainly
stirred an interest.I focussed on 'Best you can be' and working with adults so
we had fun with body sculpting, anchoring whole body through posture and wilfull movement. I did a relaxation - finding your own temple and cleaning and
refreshing and finished off anchoring. Nice to get back to some simple
techniques. Karen Scotland said she has used it successfully already.<br /> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span>It will be the last time at the Masonic building as we have booked training
rooms in new premises in future - bright and easy. The other training may take
place in schools perhaps, we shall see. I want to run some psychotherapy
training to get out the Domestic Violence sessions and it is too complex for
our Facilitators looking at specifics when they aren't trained properly with
qualification background.I will get myself organised on that eventually....</span></span></span></span></div>
A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-17904907260934445112012-07-22T02:04:00.002-07:002012-07-22T02:12:27.012-07:00Down from the Ivory Tower: a treatise on the dissolution of concretised belief systems<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">One might ask, ‘what is psychotherapy?’
or ‘what is the point of psychotherapy?’ or ‘what are the outcomes of
psychotherapy?’ As a traditional psychotherapist I might answer, we don't have
‘points’ or ‘outcomes’… probably! I
might simply follow my training model and work within its general fixed historical
rules as opposed to looking at the unique context of particular individual’s specific
situation.</span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Let’s consider a piece of satire –
let’s call our pretend paper ‘Research for real people’ – to help explain why!</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, but not too far away, at the topmost
top of a Tower made of the most beautiful and ancient Ivory,(on the back of
many elephants before we knew better) there lived a very, very, very clever Professor
in a room right at the top. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">So clever was he, in fact, with so much clever stuff filling his brain
that the words in his head had begun to grow like hair which he had to plait, because
the words were sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
very, verry looooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The Professor’s strange hair could not even grow out of the windows of the
Tower as they had been filled in, with only one tiny hole left to look out of –
left so he could focus very hard on the poor people way down below. But at
least his strange hair kept the walls insulated from the light and sounds below
and protected him from the heat of summer and the cold winds in winter. In fact
sp protected was he in his own little world he didn’t even notice the changes
in the seasons! He felt very warm and safe, knowing how his every word<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> –</i> and indeed, though they were not only
very long there were also very many of them<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
– </i>could protect him not only from the cold but almost anything at all! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">He also used a bendy telescope, designed by his teacher before him, and
indeed the one or two before that - or at any rate, a very long time ago,
before people moved to towns and when they lived in the country in harmony with
the seasons and weather and the turning of the moon. He could use the telescope,
he told himself, to follow those poor people down below and watch them - for
there was nothing he liked more than to work out what they were doing and why
he supposed they were doing it! This tiny little window helped him to
concentrate on one person at a time directly below. And as he was such a clever
chap, he had another three windows too, one in each corner of his Tower – for,
needless to say, it wasn't round but square<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
– </i>so he could follow the person all around the castle keep.</span></div>
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His servant, the faithful Acuk, brought food twice a day (though he didn't
always remember to eat it) and took away his various treatises, very clever
ones of course that no-one else could really understand as the words had become
sooooo verrrry loooonnnngggg as to the whys and wherefores of his learned
observations on the people down below. These treatises were published in
learned publications that his peers read and argued and fought about; for
indeed, each thought they had the answers to the world’s questions which they
too had written in their own ivory towers. These treatises in their turn enabled
the governors to control the poor people down below by labelling them and putting
them into boxes so they could be treated accordingly. And everyone knew that
that was what a treatise meant.</span></div>
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One day the clever man heard a muffled sound from below and felt a funny
sensation on his head as if the words were pulling on his scalp. 'Ow' he said;
'Whatever could that be?' But soon it stopped and he continued his watching and
writing, for that was all he knew.</span></div>
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Now much time had passed and he eventually noticed the land below had grown a
forest in some parts and the river had changed is path - and that as a result, it
was really quite hard to see the person he was studying so intently as well as
before. But still, he continued to write and still the world (those in power at
least) below were entranced by his clever messages and his theories as trained
by his teacher and his teacher and even his teacher before that. For he knew he
was right and that his entire world and all his life were given <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">meaning</i> via his righteous utterances on
the poor people below.</span></div>
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Then one evening when the moon was full and bright, the pulling sensation
happened again but this time it would not go away. He decided to go to look
through the window, for he expected all the poor people below should and indeed
really ought to be in their beds. But he saw nothing in the darkness through
his bendy telescope. Then suddenly there was shuffling and a muttering as if
someone was fighting their way through his plaited hair. Then to his shock, he
felt a sharp tap on his shoulder. Frantically and vaguely (if you can do both
together<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> – </i>and of course as a
professor, he could), he looked around but could see nothing through the
swathes of plaited words. Then, through the darkness, came a very squeaky
voice.</span></div>
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'Excuse me Professor, for that is who I heard you were. I have come to talk to
you and tell you about myself and my family. We live in the little village
Grassysward, way down below.’</span></div>
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The Professor peered through the hair and finally saw a very small person
peering back at him. </span></div>
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'There is no village down below', said the Professor. ‘I have been watching for
many eons and I know this to be so as my teacher and his before him and even
the one before him told me and they know best.’</span></div>
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'Oh but there is! And we all live in it. It is just round the corner, you can't
see it through those peepholes, but it is there. Do you also not know about
about the factory at the other side which is polluting our water and making our
old folks lose their minds? Or the sweet shop, so big now and so full of
goodies that many of our children are going mad with the ‘sweetie sickness’.
There is no room to play and run and many of us are sad.’</span></div>
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‘What?!’ said the Professor, ‘are you talking about, you very silly very small phenomenological
person, there are no such things. You cannot tell me anything, as I have much longer
and cleverer words than you and all those other poor people. I am here to help
you, for I know all there is to know about you from my years of observations
and the knowledge and teachings of my teacher and his before him and even one
before that, The Great Fedure, who has never had anything to do with these
invisible villages and factories. How dare you question me!!'</span></div>
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Now the Professor had surprised himself with his anger at allowing himself to
become upset by one of the poor people down below. So quickly he gathered his
decorum, which he kept of course in his back pocket and looking down from his
great height suggested that the poor person left how he had come, from one of
the word plaits which had wiggled out through a crack in the Ivory Tower and
allowed the poor person to climb up and dare to invade his sacred place of
learning.<br />
<br />
'Before I go,' said the poor person, tugging his forelock (a key identification
of poor persons). ‘We know that your research is important to help make generalised
rules for us poor folk to live a good and dutiful life. For which, much thanks!
But when these rules and labels apply to an individual they cannot be true, for
we aren't in a bottle in a laboratory, no-one can possibly know all the
multitude of effects on one person<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> –</i>
those aspects that make that individual unique, mysterious and wonderful. This
must be the case and you don't acknowledge that nobody can possibly be
completely objective with regard to the observed, the human being. Think of the
new science of physics. Stop pretending that you can be completely objective and
accept that all research with regards to human beings is going to be, at best,
flawed.'<br />
<br />
'How very dare you. What do you know of such things when I have never heard of
them?' said the Professor. 'You are making it all up. I am in power and you
must follow me and my words.'</span></div>
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'Sir Professor, please listen to me. Why don't you include us and ask us and
our friends and family what we want, then? Why do you stare at us through
windows and then say we are not good enough to even offer us your treatment. How
do you think that makes us feel? When you do give treatment we want it to work,
we don't want to be in therapy for years, we want to live our lives and to
be happy enough. Is that too much to ask? Why don't you take into account the
pollution and the unnatural diet and the fact that we don't exercise and our
society makes us too busy to spend time with those we love? Why do you have to
give us drugs so that the chemical factory which is polluting our brains can
get richer and richer?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">‘You are so deeply protected in your word-hair that you can't even look
round the corners and see how we relate to each other. There's so much in the
world and we are not rats in a maze but humans and you really should be
a-mazed-at… how extraordinary we are. Humans are not all the bad things that
you are always looking at and putting us in your forensic boxes. I am going to
put you in one of your boxes - as someone who can only concentrate on one
thing. You don't like that do you, well neither do I nor my friends. Don't you
dare try and put us in your box until you have walked a mile or two in our
boots!'</span></div>
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At this, he handed some rather worn-out boots, more holes than leather, to the shocked
Professor. </span></div>
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'Get down now from this Tower and have the decency to ask us what we want from
your illustrious help, instead of putting your teacher from the past and his
teacher before him who told you what was right on a pedestal. I am sure they
helped people in the past, but when people remember what great teachers have
said, the life has gone out of it. The idea ceases to live and breathe anymore;
it has become a structure, fossilised even in time and space, with every
person following either watering down the initial idea until it becomes so
frozen and fixed that it batters people to death<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> –</i> or so watered down it is just a wishy washy nasty-tasting mess
of meaninglessness!</span></div>
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‘Our dear Abbess in the monastery sits and listens to us every day in the
village green, rain or shine, winter or summer. She knows about the plants and
helps us at birth and death and through all the stages of our lives. She has
asked me to come and would love to talk with you about how to help us live, not
be kept as victims and 'interesting' phenomena to observe. How would you like
that?'<br />
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At the mention of the Abbess, the Professor remembered his childhood and
sitting round the fire listening to tales of the abbess, before he had become
so very, very clever. He was then all of a sudden a little afraid, for he knew
what everyone knew that when you peer into the Abbess then she will surely peer
back into you…</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">At A Quiet Place, we are tuned to the
individual, their particular needs, wants and circumstance. We also look to
nature and value the simple and universal concerns of good food, clean and
healthy environment, physical exercise and human relationships. We are aware of
excellent theories like bonding being crucial to developing relationships and
families need to work together but we don’t make people feel even worse than
they do already. In order to achieve change we have our ACE theory</span></i></div>
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<li><span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Awareness-they
need to be aware of the specific behaviour</span></i></li>
<li><span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Choices-they need
to know there are other choices and have support in trying them out</span></i><span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0f243e; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Energy to make
those changes-stress chemistry often means inertia, people can be so exhausted
they find their only choice is to do nothing-they need process and support to
finding that energy. Otherwise feeling blamed equals anger which turned inwards
is depression-no energy there at all and a waste of time for those who profess
to help.</span></i></li>
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for – and why our holistic psychotherapy is attractive and inclusive to those
who choose to enjoy it! </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Interesting talk from Rupert
Sheldrake on The Science Delusion, freeing the Spirit of Enquiry. He claims 10
dogmas of the scientific creed and I was applying it very much to the ethos and
values of A Quiet Place based on 'first do no harm' and second does it work?
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The ten
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
universe is mechanical, everything is a machine and brains are like computers.
<i>This is a useful metaphor but loses the wonder and richness of
humans</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">All
matter is unconscious, human consciousness is an illusion created by
electrical/chemical activity in the brain. <i>Can't remotely find this useful,
inner life of humans and who knows what animals and plants remains a mystery but
is demonstrated everywhere</i></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
total amount of energy and matter is always the same (except the Big Bang of
course!) <i>- that is a theory and as we move on in time other theories come out
from our new knowledge base, organic development surely must be reflected in
everything..'as above..so below'</i></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Laws of nature are fixed, a
constant. Who says?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">There
is no purpose to nature, no goal or direction, everything has evolved by
accident. <i>How can anyone still believe that when we see so many connections,
spiralling coincidences, numbers and sacred geometry all
around?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">All
biological inheritance is carried in the DNA. <i>That has been disproved since
the discovery of the genome didn't let us into every secret of mankind...hands
up in amazement!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Minds
are inside our brains and everything is inside your head. <i>Maybe our
interpretation is in our head but we don't really know that we are purely an
invention of our own figments!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Memories are stored in the brain as
material traces, <i>absolutely unproven and they have tried hard to find memory
banks..they are wiped out at death. One of the latest theories I heard was that
memory is stored in the water within our body and that is estimated between
70-85% of our makeup depending on the scientist you listen to. Sounds good to
me! Think of heart transplants and memories transferring in the blood, why is it
anathema in some belief systems not to have other people's
blood?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Unexplained phenomena are all
illusory or trickery. <i>There is so much anecdotal information as well as
scientific if any sceptics want to really look</i></span></div>
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</span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mechanistic medicine is the only
kind that really works. <i>Tell that to different cultures and people who have
used complimentary medicine successfully. Even the medics are now beginning to
use placebo effect, remembering that they are supposed to be 'healing'
practitioners, and indeed I know some very good ones but... interestingly enough
the net is helping open minds rather than be purely influenced by big
pharmaceutical companies and find days out to hear the latest pill without
connecting it to the side effects on the rest of the
body<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So open
minds, a little humility and basic common sense should be the rule knowing the
only real constant is change and new information comes on through time, I just
mention that there still is a flat earth society, probably according to some, a
CIA conspiracy that the earth is round!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Anyway
good for Rupert for challenging these laws even when it is uncomfortable, my
teacher, years ago said, ‘if you hold your hands out for truth some b..... will
knock nails into them'.</span></div>
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<br /></div>A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-39392022968152456492012-05-13T05:10:00.000-07:002012-07-22T02:08:23.682-07:00A Quiet Place reminder that according to Carl Jung “Liverpool means The Pool of Life”.<br />
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Carl
Jung dreamed he came to Liverpool and flying over the city, he saw a huge
magnolia tree growing from a pool of light in the centre. The branches
stretched across the city with fragrant flowers dropping petals onto the ground
and its roots spread deep underneath bringing creative energy from the earth
for the people of Liverpool. Looking at this
beautiful sight he realised that, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">In celebration of Jung’s vision
of Liverpool A Quiet Place<sup>®</sup> invited all Liverpool Primary Schools to
think about what The Pool of Life means to the children of Liverpool and then
create a piece of art that best represents Liverpool as The Pool of Life. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">The awards were presented by
Roger Phillips of BBC Radio Merseyside at St Anthony of Padua the winner of the 1st Prize a £20 book
token for the individual plus <u>£1,000</u> of A Quiet Place<sup>®</sup> Self
Management programme including resources and training for their school. The
second prize went to St. Paschal Baylon and 3<sup>rd</sup>
Prize to Lister Drive Infants. Well done to all the children who entered in Liverpool and their teachers who organised the art work
in a busy timetable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">We are a small not for profit company
that supports well being programmes for individuals, groups of children and
young people, their families and communities in schools and other
organisations. </span></div>
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L1 9BX Tel: 0151 708 6910 Fax: 0151 703 9207</span></div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="mailto:karen@aquietplace.co.uk"><span style="color: #000066;">karen@aquietplace.co.uk</span></a></span></div>A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-81661689331524248372012-03-04T07:28:00.002-08:002012-03-05T02:15:43.092-08:00Well Being In The Workplace<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About 500,000 people are believed to be suffering from work-related stress or depression in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> and they take 6.5 million days off sick every year. <o:p></o:p> </span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to new research by the Health and Safety Executive, nearly 150,000 workers have taken at least a month off sick because of stress-related illness, costing British industry an estimated £370m a year. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The HSE believe that "work-related stress is a huge occupational health problem, inflicting a heavy toll both in terms both of financial cost and human suffering."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Penelope is an experienced teacher and trainer who has delivered workshops in Europe, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>. She has had over 30 years<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>experience in business as well as the public sector.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She developed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘A Quiet Place®’ as a concept, initially for mainstream education in schools, Family Centres and supporting children, families and staff across the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.K.</st1:place></st1:country-region> This is now a nationally recognised programme with a very rigorous academic and qualitative evidence base. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well being in the Workplace programmes developed from this original work in schools and is designed to be educational as well as therapeutic emphasising the rights and responsibilities of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>both the employer and the employee in a partnership approach.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The environment both physical and personal is key to <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">A Quiet Place</st1:address></st1:street>’s programmes. The approach and ethos encourages employees to work to their full potential within the community of work. Staff who are confident and positive think more clearly. A workforce who feel valued and supported by an emotionally intelligent management will work positively and more efficiently thus benefitting the employer at every level. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bespoke service:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An initial consultation to identify the unique needs of an employer takes place. A plan is made and delivered according to the needs audit and budget of the organisation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They include such options as:</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<ul><li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stress awareness training</span></div></li>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></ul><ul><li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Communication skills including N.L.P. and basic counselling</span></div></li>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></ul><ul><li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Self Management bio feedback programmes including HeartMath</span></div></li>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></ul><ul><li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Staff audit with personal prescriptions</span></div></li>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></ul><ul><li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Training for in house staff to deliver some programmes and resources</span></div></li>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></ul><ul><li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mindfulness meditation</span></div></li>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></ul><ul><li><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U-Yoga– gentle stretching and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>breathing exercises for everyone</span></div></li>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Penelope Moon <o:p></o:p></span></em></div><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> CertEd, PGDHP, FNHPC, NRHP (H)<o:p></o:p></span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></em><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, BRCP Senior Therapist</em> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For further information<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>please contact: </span><a href="mailto:penny@aquietplace.co.uk"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">karen@aquietplace.co.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">A Quiet Place</st1:address></st1:street> Ltd <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">26 Hope Street</st1:street>, <st1:city w:st="on">Liverpool</st1:city>, <st1:postalcode w:st="on">L1 9BX</st1:postalcode></st1:address><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tel 0151 708 6910, Fax 0151 703 9207<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-60839198751702561952012-02-25T08:15:00.000-08:002012-02-25T08:15:47.024-08:00What Is Your Class’s Vision Of Liverpool – ‘The Pool Of Life’?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsmpJCMQojXNoofi-0PUBa7PKptaLgwHwH42kP1gwZdjyAuIsjueg0L77GflRempWxbQMQX74SXYGDIdk9Jmzm18R6_5uuHT4dihKd8dDkJhcr9WVbrBvuQ2jggd6-UsqBlX11_mGEpf8/s1600/CarlJungStatueLiverpool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsmpJCMQojXNoofi-0PUBa7PKptaLgwHwH42kP1gwZdjyAuIsjueg0L77GflRempWxbQMQX74SXYGDIdk9Jmzm18R6_5uuHT4dihKd8dDkJhcr9WVbrBvuQ2jggd6-UsqBlX11_mGEpf8/s320/CarlJungStatueLiverpool.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<em>Merseyside children compete to paint their own Jungian dream vision</em> <br />
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He felt himself flying over the city, in the centre of which appeared a bright and shimmering pool of light. From the island in the centre of the pool grew a huge magnolia tree. The branches of the tree stretched across the city, with fragrant flowers dropping petals onto the ground and the roots spread deep underneath, drawing creative energy from the earth for the people of Liverpool. <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Looking at this sight “of unearthly beauty,” he realised at once that “Liverpool was The Pool of Life.”</div><br />
In 1927, the Swiss psychologist and explorer of the unconscious Carl Jung, dreamt he went to Liverpool - an experience he summed up in his dream-diary as revealing to him that the great port was no less than “the pool of life; it makes to live”.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Now we, not-for-profit organisation A Quiet Place, an organisation that provides well-being programmes for individuals, groups and communities, has launched a competition to celebrate Jung’s vision of Liverpool – and we want your school to take part!</div><br />
We are inviting primary schools across Merseyside to enter a free artcompetition to create a piece of art inspired by Jung’s striking night vision of the city. Children are being asked to think about what ‘Liverpool is The Pool of Life’ means to them, and then create a collage, drawing, or painting, to best represent this. Each school can submit up to three individual or class entries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Winning schools will have the chance to win some valuable well-being resources and training, plus book tokens, plus attend an awards ceremony on Saturday 30th March; prizes will be presented by Roger Phillips (BBC Radio Merseyside). <br />
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A selection of 30 pieces of pupils’ work will be short-listed and displayed at a public gallery space.<br />
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The art competition is, we feel, very appropriate as a way both of responding to Jung’s dream and as expressive of the group’s aims of developing individuals’ sense of personal well being. (It’s worth remembering that Jung himself founded the whole idea that Art can be used as therapy.)<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">To enter, schools must first register their interest by sending their details to A Quiet Place by Friday 9th March 2012; please send your school’s name, name of Headteacher, telephone number, a direct email address and postal address. You can also contact us by post (26 Hope Street, L1 9BX), fax us on (0151) 703 9207 or email us at <a href="mailto:karen@aquietplace.co.uk"><span style="color: blue;">karen@aquietplace.co.uk</span></a>. </div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The competition prizes are:<br />
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</div>1st Prize A Quiet Place® Self Management Programme for your school worth £1,000, including resources and training plus a £20 book token for the individual (or class if preferred) <br />
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2nd Prize: An AQP Creative Class Workshop. plus a £15 book token <br />
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3rd Prize: An AQP relaxation kit of oils & music, plus a £10 book token<br />
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Remember completed pieces of artwork must be received no later than Friday 16th March, 2012. Good luck – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and be inspired!A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-40562793931555933422012-02-09T13:25:00.000-08:002012-02-09T13:25:43.925-08:00Do you want to improve? Find A Quiet Place<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Do you want to improve:</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Behaviour?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Attainment?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Motivation?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Increased Well-Being</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Increased Resilience</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Improvement in attainment, attendance and relationships</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #993366; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">A Quiet Place<sup>®</sup></span><span lang="EN" style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Self Management</span><span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> Programme</span><span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span lang="EN">is a value added service that supports children, young people and adults of all ages and abilities with learning and</span></span><span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> behaviour</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> techniques. The programme can run alongside and within the general curriculum to support learning by the management of the arousal system. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">What is it?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Self Management Programme techniques consist of:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN" style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Bio feedback programmes</span></b><span lang="EN" style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> (including HeartMath em-wave) that recognises and helps manage the arousal systems</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #000066; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">.</span></div>A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-43400245328095846212011-12-29T09:38:00.000-08:002011-12-29T09:41:02.790-08:00Quoting Robert Aickman<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">'I believe that at the time of the Industrial and French revolutions </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">mankind took a wrong turning. The beliefs that one day by the </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">application of reason and the scientific method everything will be known </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and every problem and unhappiness solved seems to me to have led to a </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">situation where we are either in imminent danger of destroying the </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">whole world either with a loud report or by insatiable consumption. </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Spirit is undefinable as everything that matters is undefinable but one </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">can tell the person who has it from the person who has it not'</span> </span></div>A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-87389684395139703972011-12-04T12:40:00.000-08:002011-12-04T12:40:01.003-08:00A Quiet Place - developing the potential<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #000066; font-size: 11pt;">Opportunity</span></b><b><span style="color: #000066; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #000066; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">An opportunity has arisen to become involved with an SME that is a pioneer in the field of the well being agenda. The Founder, Penelope Moon, is looking for a partner/partners to develop the programmes she has created over the last 20 years both nationally and internationally. With social impact being a priority for the government this is a chance to become involved with a well reputed ethical company that has integrity and mutuality at its heart.</span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #000066; font-size: 11pt;"> Timing</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">AQP is a private limited company wholly owned and run by Penelope Moon. Mainly based in the North West it is ripe for rolling out nationally and internationally through the development of social interest franchises or associates who would be able to take advantage of their existing local networks.</span></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There are many people at the moment who are looking to develop businesses who have been made redundant from the public sector. Government policy is encouraging business loans for franchises because statistical reviews indicate a lower risk to the investor.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #000066; font-size: 11pt;">Application</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The product has been deliberately designed to be applicable to all ages and abilities and is therefore equally applicable to:</span></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></div><ol start="1" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: justify;" type="a"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Education</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Social care, children and adults, older and disabled people </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Business well being and health in the workplace programme</span></li>
</ol><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Some of these areas have not been touched as yet.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">They could, therefore, be developed as separate products or as part of the whole</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Contact: penny@aquietplace.co.uk</span></div></div>A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-37859662868271745222011-11-13T03:57:00.000-08:002011-11-13T03:57:42.710-08:00A Quiet Place as a Healing Space<div style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">I’ve been reading a book by Esther M Steinberg on <i>Healing Spaces</i> and relating it to the work of AQP. When AQP talks to clients about creating an environment we try to convey the importance of the space being special and healing to those who visit it and those who work in it. AQP develops the space so that it appeals to all the senses and thereby lends itself to promoting a feeling of well being and calm.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;">I can remember a time when the </span><span style="font-size: small;">organisation</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;"> I worked for re-located to another building. My desk (AKA my personal space) went from overlooking a tree lined car park to facing a blank wall, no external natural light and next to a drinks machine that constantly buzzed and whirred. I was so miserable! I felt as if the </span><span style="font-size: small;">organisation</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;"> had ceased to care about me and my colleagues. I know for sure my work suffered as a result and probably my health.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sternberg ends <i>Healing Spaces</i> by considering how data on the healing effects of place might better inform the design of public buildings such as hospitals. She quotes the World Health Organization's definition of health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">‐</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" and asserts that the "built environment affects all these aspects of health." She explains that all sorts of national health and architectural design organisations, such as The Center for Health Design in California, are exploring connections between place and health. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: small;"> I couldn’t agree with her more……………………. Lets start to do it in Liverpool with the advent of the new Royal Liverpool and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.</span></div>A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-17675398474394560962011-10-18T08:37:00.000-07:002011-10-18T08:42:54.682-07:00What is meant by Inner Landscapes?<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span><span style="background-color: #073763;"></span></span><span style="color: #073763; font-size: small;">By Inner Landscapes I refer to the world of the imagination.</span></span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #073763; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">This world will be stronger in some who have a vivid imagination than others. For everyone it will be characterised by circumstances and experiences that have occurred in their life, and in particular those with a high emotional charge.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #073763; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">An emotional charge can be positive or negative. Where experiences have given rise to strong memories, for example where something particularly dreadful has happened and the visual memory can flash back very strongly when a stimulus, conscious or unconscious occurs these extreme cases can be called post traumatic stress disorder. The whole experience is highlighted. At the positive end it could be a concert or a highly emotionally charged moment e.g., the birth of a baby or wedding day.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: #073763; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">All our experiences describe our inner landscape and it is a useful metaphor to look back from the present moment and see the mountains and valleys through which you have passed in order to get to this moment in time.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">We all love to see dramatic landscapes and this may reframe the past for some people</span></div>A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173801814964538800.post-82597745225053901522011-10-18T08:16:00.000-07:002011-10-18T08:41:24.684-07:00A Quiet Place – finding funds for improvement<div class="MsoPlainText" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #073763;">AQP, like most organisations in this time of recession, realise that it's becoming more and more difficult for clients to offer any services that aren't directly funded or paid for at point of delivery, even though they offer evidence of improvement in learning, behaviour and attendance for children and young people. We want to be able to help clients think more creatively about this - so that lack of funding to set up AQP ceases to be a barrier. AQP now has access to a new funding model which uses the rules which govern corporate tax to support the development of AQP Environment. It works by linking organisations within a geographical locality, with a "sponsor" corporate company, brokered by AQP, which helps to fund the capital aspects of the AQP environment. The sponsoring company benefits by knowing the support it is giving is going directly to the families of employees, and the organisation benefitting can evidence real results with children and young people who may well be future employees. AQP now want to see if this way of working can be applied to developing Social Impact Bonds to benefit a wider community</span>. </span></div>A Quiet Placehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08106273903359975095noreply@blogger.com0