Seeing Mind Traps as Opportunities as a Director is a skillful way to affect change. In environments involving human interaction, traps and miscommunications are inevitable. We may go into an environment with the best of intention, and yet our own motives may skew our view of a common goal. Meadows (2008) defines these traps and offers the way out that … Read More
Nature is my meditation… my medicine.
Yesterday, my head was spinning from all the worry, the change, the anxiety, the uncertainty the embarrassment and the fear. Something reminded me to go outside, into the unknown, the unimpeded beauty of nature. So I went to James Bay in Victoria and walked this beach. Ocean crashing… … Read More
Compassion for Schizophrenia
Today I was reading my class readings in my Masters of Arts in Environmental Education and Communication, for EECO 504 Course, Systems with Pille Bunnell. Her website is http://www.sympoetic.net/Cognition/coordination.html and this week the topic is Cognition as Coordination Closed Nervous system Relational domains Emotioning Boy are these ever striking a painful cord in my heart. Cognition. Nervous Systems. Relation/Relating. Emotions. And then … Read More
Let’s go on a journey through the eyes of beauty
Image credits here. Let me take you on a journey through the eyes of beauty. Today, while paddling the Finlayson Arm, I began reflecting on why I am doing what I am doing. Why I choose to be connected with nature… Why I have a job in a Nature House… why I am taking my Masters in Environmental Education and … Read More
Close your eyes and keep your mind wide open
My Sacred Space has been the same for years in my mind, the same meandering trail through the trees that opens up to a beautiful field, with a mountain, waterfall and caves. This is my sancuary, I come here when I need to solve a problem, be at peace, learn, grow or simply be. It brings such adventures. I used … Read More