Meeting one's Inner Goddess

This is not an effective technique for me because it is directed toward sensate (vs intuitive) perception, and visual (vs kinetic) primary learning. However, 75% of the population is "sensate", and at least 50% of the population are visual learners.

Tina

Actually, I would disagree. And I shall. I am a very kinetic learner, and extremely intuitive. You find the way to put your collage together that best appeals to you. Mine is not flat, so perhaps collage is not the right word. Mine is more assemblage, things move, doors open, i touch it, i feel it, but i also "feel" it, base my writings on it and about it .

As a person who has studied both pedagogy and andragogy, I am able to adapt learning styles, labelling of people and remove those labels, open them up, and create experiences that incorporate all styles of learning.

I realize that we label so as to perhaps created common definitions, but when we label ourselves and exclude things based on those labels, we box ourselves in.

You may learn more quickly and/or easily in a certain manner, or because your psyche is more attuned to it, but to call something ineffective for you I on't agree with (told ya I was gonna disagree). It may be *less* effective, but it is not ineffective. I'll bet you saw and learned lots ,waaaay before learning styles were labeled and teachers knew about them, and someone gave them names, and renamed them and continued to label them and relabel them and call them now Creative learners, Analytical Learners and Practical Learners and Influential Learners. For me, the most effective teachers and the most effective learners are those who realize that all of the learning styles are in all of us.

Creative visualization takes many forms. We are merely discussing one aspect of the total visualization process.

Find what part works for you most effectively and efficiently and use the tool.

Lisa

A visual would work better for a person who learns visually. And a visual also works better for a sensate (like the sense of vision) person than for an "intuitive" (who sees relationships of systems better that details).

Labeling has many functions. Including working in the way that works best for you. As someone who is kinetic, almost to the point of it being a learning disability, (and as someone who has done many visualization exercises), I know that visuals just don't have that oomph for me, except for colors. Removing the label of "kinetic learner" will not make me better at learning visually, but rather would waste efforts on things I know won't work. I've worked with many sensei who show and tell you what moves to make, but I have no idea what my body is supposed to do until the tactic is used on me and I can tell the interaction of bodies.

I only wish I did label for the sake of belonging! Labeling has instead made sense of my own observations and validated me. I am not stupid because I can't catch. It's not that I'm not paying attention, or don't care. It's really what I had said all along as a child. I can't catch. I am barely normal in manual and digital dexterity. I don't drop dishes to protest that I don't like to have to do the dishes, or to be passive aggressive.

Of course, I learned a lot long before I was labeled kinetic (which was after most of my schooling). And I would have learned a lot more and better if alternates to visual/audio were more accepted.

OK, this sort of visualization may not be ineffective for me. It's simply greater effort for less return though and that is ineffective and at least inefficient. And probably stupid to *knowingly* use a method of learning that I know is more effort than help. Sticking to a plan that doesn't work well to disprove a useful definition/label doesn't make you a good advisor. Not listening to feedback, and just telling someone they're wrong is arrogant, and often harmful. Teaching someone that they can't trust their own feedback is very harmful and de-personing.

Tina

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Everclear song? I don drink no steekin Everclear.

Tina

Kalera,

Never doubt that you are loved. Even if some of the people you know in real life let you down, we here in RCB love you. We're not going anywhere, and our feelings won't change.

Kathy N-V

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 16:42:14 -0400, Kalera Stratton wrote (in message ):

YEAH, MAN!!

Unless you stop making beads. Then we have no use for you. :-P ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

That's cold! True, but cold. ;-)

Snort!!!! As if. You stop making beads you just come on over and join me in making quilts. Just keep me company. You would look right with one draped across your lap. Diana

Mad dog 20/20 was as far as I would go. Diana

That stuff was NASTY!! I was a Peach Creek girl myself.

Oooh.. Koolaid booze! I got clean and sober before those pretty drinks came out. Maybe Im lucky it worked out that way. Diana

You are. I didn't drink much and when I did, it was that sort of wine. These days I have maybe 4 drinks a year - generally a coffee with a liquor added. And only when I'm not driving.

LOL, I don't think you can drink enough of it drunk can you? I always went for the most bang for the buck, Bacardi 151 (Everclear is illeagal in CA).

.Stephanie.

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Thank you, Kathy! That means a lot to me. A LOT.

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-Kalera

You!

!!! LOL!

-Kalera

Mmmmm quilting... I love quilts. Someday when I have time to start sewing again...

-Kalera