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So far I’ve had two full Spodek Method conversations that didn’t lead to a commitment. The same people have asked me to check out their passion projects and both happen to be related to the arts and nature based, which I haven’t yet gotten around to doing yet. Tit for tat! I expect I would have a different outcome with the Spodek Method if people actually indicated they were looking to shift in their life. Yes they say they care about the environment, but it becomes clear they are on their own path about that. I’ll keep doing the climate action I love which involves several really exciting campaigns about system change (stopping airport expansion, and supporting first in the nation building electrification ordinances), and look for more opportunities to try the Spodek Method. My book club friends agreed to read Sustainability Simplified and I am looking forward to discussing it with them in January over a no package stew potluck. My goal for the next year is to continue to limit my smartphone time. I will be missing tomorrow’s workshop. Keep in touch!
AriellaParticipantExercise 3
Listened to Tony Hansen part 1 and 2. I was surprised and respected how OPEN Tony was to the entire conversation given his professional and personal exposure. I enjoyed hearing Josh discuss some of the same ideas I have been reading in his new book. I could hear that Tony has previously done a lot of personal/spiritual reflection and that seemed to prepare him for being open minded and game. He is already in the choir? I was interested that his self challenge to volunteer maintaining a trail turned out to be as much about him discovering and investing in community as sustainability. We too often silo individual/ community/ environment, pitting them at odds against each other. I hope that is false thinking. With a mind shift can we genuinely say, what’s best for me is also what’s best for the community and environment and vice versa all ways around?
Details from the interview brought up a lot of thoughts and feeling for me, and as usual I may be jumping the gun. (I’m an impatient and pragmatic person). What is our measure of sustainability? Building and maintaining trails supports a local connection to the environment which is a positive! But, if the trail network invites flying vacations and nature deprived tech professionals to move to Bend and commute to SF and Silicon Valley from the local Bend airport then… I also got hung up on his description of stewardship in Patagonia. Is long distance eco tourism and stewardship best for the individual/ community/ AND environment?
November 8, 2024 at 2:31 pm in reply to: Exercise 2: Doing Reps Evoking Emotion, Creating Meaning #20208AriellaParticipantExercise 2
Posting late on this and re-iterating what I shared in class. I spoke with 4 people and hit gold, and feel appreciative that they were willing to share deep, personal moments in nature with me. Their words:
1) AR said “euphoria, beauty, playfulness, curiosity”
2) KN said “sacred, playfulness, rejuvenation, interconnection”
3) Hayden said “exhilarating, exciting, peaceful, present, carefree, the opposite of feelings today when thinking what’s next”
4) DS described an experience in nature that was like “when the rhythm of your body matches the rhythm of everything around you”AriellaParticipantI had two conversations and wrote a lot about each convo in a journal, but the content was so personal, it seems like an invasion of privacy, a break of trust with my interviewees, to post it here.
So I am answering the questions more generally.
• How did you choose whom to practice with?
Family was calling me to wish me a happy birthday, following the first Spodek Workshop. I engaged with the first two people that happened to call me. It felt very genuine.• How did you feel before starting? Was it hard or easy?
Easy, because these family members had already set time and intention to check in with me, to give me a call on my birthday. It might not be so easy to engage with people who aren’t open to relating.• How did the experiences go overall?
Overall, it was fun and interesting. One part of one conversation brought up difficult feelings for me. Later I wrote and reflected on it and realized that people relate to nature in very different ways, and my difficult feelings were about personal bias and judgement. I did not voice them. I think the people I was interviewing enjoyed it.• Did anything go particularly wrong or right?
I find myself jumping ahead in my mind, in the Spodek Method, calculating if these experiences that people are sharing will fit the bill to be intrinsic motivators. I brought my doubts along and it didn’t seem probable. Of course, I didn’t voice any of this.• How did the other person seem to feel before you started? Did their mood change? If so, how?
I felt a little tension when I started the topic, no doubt from my own awkward intro, but then when I asked about a memory they were so quick to share it felt magical like we had time traveled together.• How did their facial expression and body language start and evolve as you led them?
By telephone. I would have liked to see it.• How did you feel hearing them describe their memory? … Their sensory experience? … Their emotions?
I enjoyed being in their shoes. I was surprised how quickly they opened up to me.• How did they react when you confirmed their emotions?
They acknowledged again the same emotions.• Did you get it right the first time or did you have to let them clarify and correct? If so, how did the process of iterating to them confirming you understood them feel?
I think I should have spent a little more time on the sensory question. I’m not sure the interviewees had a clear enough memory or could really put into words the exact sensory context. -
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