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Apr. 20th, 2007 04:01 pmA large chunk of today was subsumed by training.
It was one of the best workplace trainings I have ever attended - relaxed and friendly and funny and very insightful. I had to keep the fiction writer in check, because she kept having ideas. I had to keep the historian in check, because she kept wanting to analyse.
The longer I work on the fringes of the mental health field, the more I'm impressed by people who choose to work there. Right now I'm especially impressed with the artists who teach in the same program as me.
Writing classes can be taught in a very structured manner, which gives everyone their moment with the teacher (in order, in my class - sometimes clockwise, sometimes anticlockwise, sometimes random, but no-one gets to read a second story until everyone's had their say who wants to). I was struggling today with trying to imagine teaching a ceramic class or a sewing class or an oil painting class where everyone's needs can come at once in different parts of the room and where not everyone is articulate. The other teachers all deal admirably with problems I couldn't even imagine.
I've got some big issues to think about resulting from the course. I hope we get lots more training like this - I have a lot to learn.
It was one of the best workplace trainings I have ever attended - relaxed and friendly and funny and very insightful. I had to keep the fiction writer in check, because she kept having ideas. I had to keep the historian in check, because she kept wanting to analyse.
The longer I work on the fringes of the mental health field, the more I'm impressed by people who choose to work there. Right now I'm especially impressed with the artists who teach in the same program as me.
Writing classes can be taught in a very structured manner, which gives everyone their moment with the teacher (in order, in my class - sometimes clockwise, sometimes anticlockwise, sometimes random, but no-one gets to read a second story until everyone's had their say who wants to). I was struggling today with trying to imagine teaching a ceramic class or a sewing class or an oil painting class where everyone's needs can come at once in different parts of the room and where not everyone is articulate. The other teachers all deal admirably with problems I couldn't even imagine.
I've got some big issues to think about resulting from the course. I hope we get lots more training like this - I have a lot to learn.