This month my task is to clarify my research questions and methods in greater detail. Today I mind mapped all the ideas I had and formed some questions as follows: Overall research question: Does traditional storytelling have an effect on adolescent emotional aptitude (that is emotional ability) This then breaks Read more…
Settling in Settling into Warwick University has been tough with no access to the library for one month. I’ve now officially got access to everything at Warwick. I moved here from Falmouth, Exeter University, with my supervisor Sarah Moss. And there are some great training courses I can go Read more…
‘what we are born with is what worked best for the last 50,000 human generations’ (Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence, p5) In Emotional Intelligence Goleman discusses what happens when ‘passions overwhelm reason.’ Our reactions to the world around us have evolved over time. These ‘automatic reactions’ are extremely important in Read more…
Here is a link to my ebook:- Temptation and Mozarella published by Thistleinthekiss (Edinburgh).
What is an inner library? ‘We carry with us every story we have ever heard and every story we have ever lived, filed away at some deep place in our memory. We carry most of those stories unread, as it were, until we have grown the capacity or the readiness Read more…
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am already lucky to be doing research in such an interesting subject area bringing a variety of disciplines together. The real bonus are the nice folk you come across who are equally passionate about storytelling too. Gratefulness I am extremely grateful to the Read more…
Living at the Boundary book review and thoughts. ‘It is a false question whether to repress or not to repress aggression. Since aggression is an indispensable ingredient of human makeup, we have to use it, to develop it into a valuable instrument for the management of our lives.’ (Laura Perls, Read more…
Emotional Intelligence is a word banded around a lot these days. My interest in the subject came through stories, and how we connect stories that we hear to our own emotional response. ‘We may ask what is truth in the face of centuries of retelling? The answer lies with experience: Read more…
Red and Ralph Red’s story There were certain words that Red’s mother repeated ad nauseam, ‘Don’t eat on the path. Don’t leave the path. Don’t forget your bow and arrows.’ As if any self-respecting young woman on her way to visit a sick relative would prance about picking flowers in Read more…
After months of waiting I read Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, by White and Epston, and discovered that it wasn’t particularly relevant to my research. Mainly because it focuses on individual therapy sessions and I am working with groups. However I liked how White and Epston discussed the importance of Read more…