tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post9218573819475887144..comments2024-02-27T10:23:30.029+01:00Comments on Conductor: There is none so blind as he who will not see.Susie Malletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134263396254528737noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-57157950578870639042009-07-26T20:12:48.472+02:002009-07-26T20:12:48.472+02:00I'm fussy about some things - spelling being o...I'm fussy about some things - spelling being one. And not writing "there" when I mean "their". (Last paragraph, previous comment; "their eyes".<br /><br />OK, so I used to be an English teacher in a former life!NormanPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12975341876728455496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-42610578171754225072009-07-26T20:09:56.744+02:002009-07-26T20:09:56.744+02:00Actually, I didn't know what I was looking at ...Actually, I didn't know what I was looking at in those photos on the therapy place website.<br /><br />Then I saw the furniture. And seeing the furniture put me in mind of something I once heard Andrew say (though I don't know that he will remember saying it): "It's not about the b***** furniture!".<br /><br />One of the most challenging aspects of having visitors is helping them to see something other than children-on-furniture. Or harder yet, to help them see children-on-furniture as engaging in an educative and not a therapeutic process.<br /><br />So, just as I hope most visitors to Paces are open (or can be opened) to what there eyes think they are seeing, so I must be careful when "visiting" other places - even as a guest to a blog. Nonetheless, I wonder, and many questions I would ask come to mind.NormanPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12975341876728455496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-39637516649821609222009-07-26T13:29:06.815+02:002009-07-26T13:29:06.815+02:00Andrew,
As Shakespeare said “What’s in a name?”....Andrew,<br /> <br />As Shakespeare said “What’s in a name?”.<br /> <br />I called it observing the bits and spaces in between. You mention the clichés “lateral thinking” or “thinking outside the box” , both of which I also dislike and never use.<br /> <br />I don’t use those phrases or other such clichés as I think if I did so I would be pretending to be someone I am not. For me those clichés are not part of everyday life, they are too airy fairy. I am dealing with everyday life, every day in Conductive Upbringing<br /> <br />The people I work with every day, children and adult clients, conductors, parents, carers, doctors, therapist, students, etc all seem happy with the phrases I use : “spaces in between” and “bits in between”. And of course there is also the “creativity” that emerges with “spontaneity”.<br /> <br />Andrew, as I said above in the bit about photographs, I often look aghast when looking at websites about conductive centres. Sometimes I don’t even get as far as reading aghast.<br /> <br />Pictures and their spaces in between often tell a story other than that intended.Susie Malletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05134263396254528737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-52563443857710801942009-07-26T13:25:32.647+02:002009-07-26T13:25:32.647+02:00Thank you Norman and Andrew, for your praise and c...Thank you Norman and Andrew, for your praise and comments. Thank you Judit too for your link. All especially special as it is a Sunday.<br /> <br />I am a bit bewildered by it actually, by the praise. The posting is about me and what I see and how I am. By writing it and by reading your comments I learn more about the way I am and how I learn, thanks for that too.<br /> <br />Norman<br /><br />It is at times like this that I wish I had a television so I too could watch with fascination the Tour de France. I have always found it fascinating, ever since I caught a glimpse of it on a country road as a ten-year-old on a school trip to France. It was and is amazing to see how at high speed those riders find a niche between the other competitors. They make a move in split-second timing which will certainly influence their overall performance. <br /><br />In all activities the bits in between or the spaces in between influence the overall performance. They affect the end result, either positively or negatively. Even the getting up at midnight to get a cup of tea will influence the form of my blog posting!<br /> <br />This summer I watched the Red Arrows perform, maybe you have seen the photographs I took on my other postings. It is only the spaces in between in their performances that make for such a spectacle. If they performed individually one could say “I have seen that done before”. With all off them in close formation everyone is looking at the spaces.<br /> <br />With such precision, concentrating on the narrow spaces, those bright red planes makes an overall impressive “picture”.<br /> <br />Thank you to Norman for the link to that website. You ask if it is Conductive Education. Who can tell? I didn’t really find enough on the blog to know one way or another.<br />I only know what I see; then I can make my mind up about what I have seen. What I have seen beyond any smiling faces and wooden slats. By observing the bits in between!<br /> <br />This reminded me of another blog I wanted to write. One about the importance of really looking at and seeing what is in the photographs being chosen for publication. Photographs to be included in blogs, brochures and websites are all too often telling very odd stories about Conductive Education.<br /> <br />An experiment I do when I look at a new blog or website, is to ignore any text. I just look in my way at the pictures. I ignore any smiling faces and really see what I am looking at. Then I ask myself "What message do I get?".<br /><br />I wonder always if this is this the message that the bloggers etc. really intended to give. Again these photos can have a positive or a negative influence. They can tell me the truth they can tell me something else.<br /> <br />I cringe sometimes at the photos I see, even in publications from respected Conductive centres. I have even seen myself on a website in photographs I would never have given my permission to print as being a representation of CE. Not because of what I am doing but because of the spaces in between.<br /> <br />It is so important to look at the spaces in between before putting a photo before the public eye. <br /> <br />And to look at the message the whole photograph is sending out, viewers do not only see the smiling face and wooden slats. It is important to ask "is this the message I intended?"<br /> <br />Lots of food for thought Norman, thank you again.Susie Malletthttp://www.susie-malett.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-42357626191126257322009-07-26T08:36:18.590+02:002009-07-26T08:36:18.590+02:00Nice one Norman. Two actually.
1. I hate the tarn...Nice one Norman. Two actually.<br /><br />1. I hate the tarnished cliché<br />'thinking outside the box', just as I before that I was deeply suspicious of 'lateral thinking', and still have my doubts on much of the abundant tosh served up under the rubric of 'creativity'. That said, all these (and much besides) do reflect a wider truth about rigidity and flexibility, both of which are very apparent in what Susie has raised here. I do like your cycling analogy. There is always a way through the crowd (and that is not necessarily 'the road most taken').<br /><br />2. http://thetherapyplace.blogspot.com. I have seen this too. I looked aghast. Your mentioning it here encourages me to return to it, which I will do elsewhere.<br /><br />And not to forget saying something important: yes, this is a brilliant posting Susie. <br /><br />Thanks. <br /><br />Not for the first time you have said things that are rarely expressed publicly but really do need saying all the same.<br /><br />There is more to be said here too. <br /><br />Andrew.Andrewhttp://conductive-world.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-44262130256811898402009-07-25T23:52:31.752+02:002009-07-25T23:52:31.752+02:00Brilliant posting, Susie.
The spaces in between ....Brilliant posting, Susie.<br /><br />The spaces in between ....<br /><br />"He is the man who taught me, in 1975, to look at the spaces in between."<br /><br />As a cyclist, you'll enjoy this odd parallel, I hope. I've been absorbed in the Tour de France. At the end of one packed and dangerous massed sprint finish, the expert commentator said something to this effect: 'Most riders just see the pack, shoulder-to-shoulder. The truly great sprinters see the spaces in between". <br /><br />On the other hand, make of this what you will. But is it conductive education? http://thetherapyplace.blogspot.com/NormanPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12975341876728455496noreply@blogger.com