An excellent session, how wonderful to see you all!
Zoom worked so well and so simply that I will make a concerted effort to help you all to connect (so will Aileen). Go to https://zoom.us/signup
These were the session tasks:
7 minute prompt – What is well about me?
Exercise: Describe this situation to an relative who died more than 30 years ago
(20 minutes)
This situation is alien to all of us but let us attempt to zoom out and analyse what it is about our normal lives that is being violated.
Quarantino Diary ~ a scientific approach
Sheila came up with this excellent name (mine was Coronavirus Diary – yuck).
Unlike the free writing that generally fills up our journals, might I suggest that the approach here should be somewhat scientific? There may be things we are missing… Looking back on the developments of the past weeks some unimaginable facts have emerged. If we could anticipate some things perhaps we could build resilience. This also gives us a writing warm up, gets the pen on the page, and I guarantee that most days that you fill it in will find you inspired to write something at the end. Even if you don’t, you can feel good about writing something, and the data you have entered may prove to be valuable fodder at a later stage.
Here are a few suggested headings – only use the ones that feel relevant to you and discipline yourself to write just a phrase or sentence under each one. And please send more; you may will think of something important that now one else has. I will publish them here and people will then have plenty of headings to choose from:
Headings for diary entry:
(There may be points that remain the same, day to day; just write them again anyway.)
Zoom worked so well and so simply that I will make a concerted effort to help you all to connect (so will Aileen). Go to https://zoom.us/signup
These were the session tasks:
7 minute prompt – What is well about me?
Exercise: Describe this situation to an relative who died more than 30 years ago
(20 minutes)
This situation is alien to all of us but let us attempt to zoom out and analyse what it is about our normal lives that is being violated.
Quarantino Diary ~ a scientific approach
Sheila came up with this excellent name (mine was Coronavirus Diary – yuck).
Unlike the free writing that generally fills up our journals, might I suggest that the approach here should be somewhat scientific? There may be things we are missing… Looking back on the developments of the past weeks some unimaginable facts have emerged. If we could anticipate some things perhaps we could build resilience. This also gives us a writing warm up, gets the pen on the page, and I guarantee that most days that you fill it in will find you inspired to write something at the end. Even if you don’t, you can feel good about writing something, and the data you have entered may prove to be valuable fodder at a later stage.
Here are a few suggested headings – only use the ones that feel relevant to you and discipline yourself to write just a phrase or sentence under each one. And please send more; you may will think of something important that now one else has. I will publish them here and people will then have plenty of headings to choose from:
Headings for diary entry:
(There may be points that remain the same, day to day; just write them again anyway.)
- am I ok?
- are there any major developments
- what particular item has the news focused on today
- note one positive story that has come out today
- note one perception of humanity that struck you today
- one hero
- one thing you feel able to do to help the situation
- one thing you hadn’t thought of till now
- one thing you look forward to doing once this is all over
- has the thing that frightens you most changed?
- list one thing you really miss?
- list one thing you thought you would miss but don’t
Thanks to all who attended - it was an absolute tonic to see you.
Ahoy, Cap'n Bev
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