This week’s 12 links:
- S’mores And Smiles: My Weekend At A Digital Detox Summer Camp For Adults on Buzzfeed – the date was 2014 and we were starting to talk about turning off and putting down our digital devices and returning to connection to self, others and nature.
Incidentally there’s a nice light hearted icebreaker game described in the article: “(…) The most intense game of rock-paper-scissors I’ve ever seen. Everyone plays with one person, then each loser becomes the cheerleader as their opponent goes head-to-head with someone else. Whoever wins that round wins the followers and the ability to continue to play. It’s amazing how quickly people get into it. Screams fill the air and everyone chants as the camp splits in two, everyone backing their opponent.”
Tags: facilitation - A facebook infographic from Action for Happiness, about using mindfulness to cope with difficult emotions. The RAIN formula is:
R – recognise the feeling
A – accept your experience
I – investigate your thoughts
N – non-identification (see the emotion as passing rather than who you are) - What If Schools Taught Kindness? on Mindful – article about a programme testing a 12-week mindfulness and kindness curriculum with young pupils. Lovely age appropriate practices for little ones, and positive results. “Students who went through the curriculum showed more empathy and kindness and a greater ability to calm themselves down when they felt upset, according to teachers’ ratings.”
- Susan Cain’s current website has replaced its previous incarnation and the link that I had saved (titles: It takes all kinds – and many kindnesses).
- Ditto another page on Susan Cain’s old website (title: The power of silence).
- Wikipedia page about learned helplessness. I can’t remember why that found its way in here – maybe I’d just learned the term and wanted to remember it!
- Survival of the Kindest on Mindful – tips and tools to cultivate kindness and compassion.
Tags: kindness - A dead Facebook link to a post by Chris Guillebeau.
- A dead Facebook link to a photo or image.
- A dead Slideshare link to a presentation about Zappos organisational culture.
- 7 Top Tips For Supporting Citizen Driven Community Building – Part 3 on the Nurture Development blog, which talks about building relationships at the speed of trust, about nurturing a community culture over decades, and about “5 types of conversations for structuring belonging according to Peter Block’s book Structure of Belonging”, which are:
* the possibility conversation
* the ownership conversation
* the dissent conversation
* the commitment conversation
* the gifts conversation
Tags: facilitation, community - A dead Animoto link to a video, title or author unknown.
My time to read: 30 minutes
Image from Uncle John’s blog – “how to win at rock, paper, scissors”