“Allow it to be what it is….” skype chat pm

This evening skype chat was great. In both am & pm chats we were speaking to people all over the world. Today the chats have extended across UK, Europe, Australia, Canada and the Caribbean.

This evening we talked about time managing and integrating the MA work across your daily activities. Helen and I are researching methods of constructing the world as an embodied experience and in doing so we are rejecting/questioning the usefulness of the notion of ‘time’. We have been looking at Tonga culture and philosophy which helps us to see time/space in terms of Relationships and Rhythms. So when starting back it might be less about ‘time’ and more about negotiating relationships between the work of the MA and ‘other’ things and/or noticing the rhythm of your day /week so that the MA work is part of your rhythm.

We also talked about change (again rejecting the disembodied concepts certainty of measuring and objectifying, in other words embracing change and not looking for certainty), and how change from the expected route you might take can actually allow you to find a flow and sense of response that generates deeper more meaningful experiences and learning.

We talked about the data collection process and how the ethics we look at in Module Two becomes embodied when you have a ‘real’ person in front of you talking about their lives to you.

Please have a look at the different threads people are sharing from the conversation:

Maria http://mariaranden.blogspot.no is going to post about getting going once you have a moment to do some MA work. She said she has a list of things to do and that way if she has a moment she can choose something from the list and not spend too much time trying to remember where she last left off.

Sarah www.sarahsulemanji.blogspot.com is going to post thoughts about change and responding to change.

Tara http://dancetara.blogspot.co.uk is going to post on ‘allowing it to be what it is’ and starting out on Module One developing a sense of being a part of the group.

Ainsley http://ainsleymsudds.blogspot.ca is going to post on data collection thoughts.

Louise www.louisedubai.blogspot.ae is going to post on time management and thoughts for getting working on MA tasks.

Tamzin www.tamzinhoward.blogspot.co.uk is going to post on ‘finding time’.

Cathy www.cathieingram.wordpress.com is going to post on doing new things, for instance the workshop she is planning.

Looking forward to reading your comments here too.

Adesola