Ken,
Your post intrigued me, as did an earlier post by (?, sorry I don't have the
reference) on using cartoons to illustrate LO concepts. Personally, I like
stories and images, and I use them often with clients in psychotherapy (and
with friends and family, too!) I believe that stories and images have a
coherence (self-reinforcement) that helps people hold onto ideas.
One thought is to share some of the images, stories - whatever - that we use
as teaching/coaching/facillitating tools. We could also talk about
situations in which we've found them useful, what gets in the way of their
being useful, and what makes a good image, story, whatever.
I'll start with a couple of things:
First, an image of how systems work: They're like those three-dimensional
puzzles in which you have to poke and push and pull different pieces until
you finally can remove one piece. Only then is there enough freedom to move
the pieces more generally and select specific pieces to focus on. Until
then, the system constrains what moves you can make.
Second, an aphorism: "No good deed goes unpunished." This is basically a
restatement of "shifting the burden", but I think it somehow has more bite.
I'd love to hear some stories - got any you'd like to tell?
-Jeff (BrooksJeff@AOL.com)
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