Clive McGoun

From Heather Plett talking about how a palliative care nurse 'held space' for her and her family during the death of her mother. From the experience she abstracts the following principles:

1. Give people permission to trust their own intuition and wisdom. 
2. Give people only as much information as they can handle. 
3. Don’t take their power away. 
4. Keep your own ego out of it. 
5. Make them feel safe enough to fail. 
6. Give guidance and help with humility and thoughtfulness. 
7. Create a container for complex emotions, fear, trauma, etc. 
8. Allow them to make different decisions and to have different experiences than you would. 

http://heatherplett.com/2015/03/hold-space/

From the beginning there were two main parts to Occupy. There was the cause of economic justice — the idea that resources shouldn’t be distributed so unevenly. This idea, in its myriad forms, drove marches and injected the rhetoric of the “99 percent” into the political dialogue. This was what the press often thought Occupy was all about.

Less understood was the other part of Occupy — the part that was about the need for community. Occupiers came to the camps to care for others as much as they came to be cared for. People had to find a way to matter to each other in ways that weren’t mediated by the social services, the justice system, the institutions we stick each other into.

It was this need to serve each other, not any political message, that stocked the kitchens and filled the comfort barrels. It was that which kept volunteers up for days, taking care of drug addicts and neurotic students and old men with failing bodies.

 

Quinn Norton

http://www.wired.com/2012/12/a-eulogy-for-occupy/

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I really don't think we know. In fact, I don't know how my colleagues in the Department read. I assume they read a number of journal articles, book chapters and monographs. But what do they do with that reading? Do they highlight stuff? Annotate? Summarise and synthesise in an organised fashion in ways that they can easily retrieve what they've read and thought about what they've read? And what technologies do they use for that reading? Paper, laptop, tablet or phone? And for note-taking?

What do they read beyond what I might expect more traditionally informs their disciplinary knowledge? Web pages, blogs, social media ... and again, what do they do to incorporate such reading into an ordinary flow of work habits?

So, it might be an interesting pre-curser to exploring the possibilities of encouraging some reading skill development amongst students to examine the reading habits and routines of those in the academy that presumably in their study skills at least, students are trying to emulate. It could also be the basis for expanding some of the work published in Teaching in a Networked Classroom into a more focused inquiry.