• Enthusiasm in writing
• Workbook - reflection in and outside the seminars
• Writing in order to become more self-aware
  • Becoming clear of who you are and how you understand the world
• Ideas in your head are often half-baked and need more work
• Therapist
  • Describe experience back to them
  • Describe a story
  • Articulate
• Writing help you become more articulate, build up your resources, thinking/dialogue with the client
• Emphasis of this session is on the workbook, but also academic writing
• Bring yourself into the writing.
  • Not neutral
  • Is transparent writing, author clearly in the text
• Reclaim writing from the academics, soul back in the writing, less technical, creative journey from place of knowing into the unknown, beyond the familiar and habitual, step into new ways of being, vulnerable and deskilled.
• Writing is difficult because of the emotional blocks we bring to it (usually from school)
• Patience and frustration that the writing is not appearing how it should be, critic telling you that you should give up. Difficult. Step past the critic, allow it to be vague and woolly, it gets clearer over time, it’s a journey. Workbook is great opportunity to experiment.
• The not taking will help become the essay. Capture experiences. Link up to the essay.
• Write with critical thinking, referencing format,
  • Not just describe the map
  • Use tutor in prep!
• Notice experience and validate ideas
• Try to have a synthesis of body feelings and mind
  • To reflect
  • All equally important
  • Writing is the workshop/medium to do that
• Need to have a conceptual space to test out the assumptions of who you are
  • Allows you to step into your potential
  • Permission
  • Creative meaningfulness
  • Seeing the difference between thinking and imagining, not interpreting images
• Journaling - Way of listening to myself
• Write succinctly and beautifully
  • Don’t write in a couple of days
  • Make it a piece of art
• Resistance is a sign of breaking frame
  • But don’t get lost in it
• Grab people, but you are not marked on this, you are marked on how reflective it is.

Techniques

• Spontaneous writing
  • Continuing movement, no editing
  • Tap into unconscious process

Exercise

• As a spiritual person I am…

• In relation to the environment, always responding and listening and reflecting and impressing on the arena, my sprit is my connection with what I don’t see, my extended self, as part of the whole, unity with everything. Who am I, maybe the boundaries of myself becomes quite blurred, I am the culture as well as being influenced by it in a jumbled and indistinguishable boundary. Sprit includes the unknown, but only because you are more than your awareness. It still takes in the relationship of the known and unconscious self and inherited subconscious behaviours mixed with the know and unknown behaviours of culture and the general …..

• As a sexual person I am…..

• Someone who has completed his species survival task, have some body behaviour that lean toward consumption, but am also quite bored and lonely in this domain. Some thoughts come in, but there is a lot of resistance towards letting myself explore this, due to feeling of disappointment and maybe even disgust. What is the body anyway other than a tool to be in the universe, a bridge, oh quite a lot then! So why would I want to be more sexual, or is that the right question. Maybe what in this domain would be a good idea to keep in focus, what is it about the physical touch and joining of two people in a physical way going to provide that would bring with it more benefit into the world, to me as an individual and the universe

Additional uses

• Could explore subpersonalities
• As a (role) I am…

Notes

• How was your body/mind/feeling present when doing it
• Give us ‘I’ conscious and perspective

Exercise

Non-dominate hand

• Other side of your personality coming through
• Gateway into unconscious mind

Exercise - dialogue with non-dominate hand

• Say hello
• See what reply comes
• Switch back etc

Exercise - flip writing in the 1st or 3rd person

• Disidentified perspective

Workbook tips

• Carry a notebook - Be mindful that sometimes writing frames and blocks the process
• Write everyday as a goal - keeps you in the process
• Write about difficulties as well as insights and inspiration - Look at opposing processing
• If in writers block - Lower your standards! (perfectionism/procrastination)
• Keep your writing safe
• Re-theme the writing so see it with a different perspective

Learning styles

• Everyone has a different way of learning
• Figure out how you like to learn

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  • I am aware of the conflicts of group learning when people are seeking different forces

    

• Salient novel experience
• Personal essay will require description of your personal experience
• Think about analysing / experience mix-up

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• Who are you writing for? -
  • tutor know so there is assumption
  • Instead, write for your aunty
    • force you to put your description on the page

Exercise

• Context - In the Relational dynamics group - sat on the video call with 10 other people for a full day.
• My conflict
  • My annoyance of people using the group as a personal therapy session. The rules allowing for abuse.
• My reaction
  • My attention wandered, refused to allow this inefficient use of time to penetrate my feelings.
• The groups reaction
  • Offended I hadn’t provided my full attention
• What was going on?
  • I am now wondering if I am the right person for this domain of study.
    • Do I have the listening skills,
    • Do I have the empathy skills?
    • Was I right to build resilience to something I felt was destructive?
  • Was there a subpersonality coming out that was imposing on the situation and creating a false construct?
• What psychosynthesis models can I bring into play?
  • Interest in the higher conscious
  • Pace of learning
  • Group dynamics

Description Guides

• Would have had thoughts, include you thinking.
  • These are part of the experience.
  • Analytical thoughts are part of the process
    • In the dream you don’t think - that is my inner critic etc
    • When you wake up, you have the analytical thinking
• In essay, use the workbook to capture
  • Danger that the analysis gets in the way of having the experience
  • Good to have reflections, but need to give the reader the experience first.
    • Describe what was happening
• As a therapist you will what to help the client describe their experience
• When you have something reflect on its importance

Good and free articles https://www.psychosynthesiscircle.com/articles

Transparency

(This happened, therefore I conclude something)

• Need to back up/ unpack with some rational / narrative

• “I like something” is an assertion, need why/how/what way etc

• Too many assertions makes it too dense

  

  

• Maths metaphor - Show your working

• Use metaphor/image to try and convey the sensation

• Read it out aloud

  

• Vulnerability, self reflection

• Don’t represent perfect persona

  • I was innocent, then I learnt in the course, now I have understanding
  • You will get more marks talking about how you mess up, don’t understand

• Not what to do - opaque

• “Every time my wife asked me about my day I would feel terribly insecure, as though I had done something wrong. I concluded that this was because I was repeating something from my childhood. Realising this in itself helped, as well as relating it to the work I had already done with my Subpersonality ‘SuperBitch’.”

• Lacks description

  • Subper - superbitch

• Thinking process not there

• There was a journey, what was being repeated / names

• How did it help

• Rewrite so questions don’t happen.

  • Every time my wife asked me about my day I would feel terribly insecure like an unsaid expectation and disappointment to our coming together. I had learnt from my experience as a child where I… also as a dad and my expectation on my son’s performance as a participant in his class, that what appeared to dominate any conflicting relationship was what I would call a “SuperBitch” subpersonality, like a sergeant major with a strict agenda and no patience. By being able to disidentify with the situation and see the larger picture, I was able to see that this stuck behaviour served me well when I was…. But now is somewhat mismatched with the situation and therefore more destructive than beneficial. By changing …..

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• What are you interested in? What do you want to learn more about? What has been the most valuable?

• Relate to experiences Or the other way around

• Think about the experiences

• Relate to the concepts

• With confusion in guidelines

  • Focus on 1 or 2 aspects of psychosynthesis
  • Include bi-focal vision and inner relationship between b/m/f

• inner relationship between b/m/f

  • Eg subpar has belief system, be comfortable with range of feeling, hold yourself in certain way.
  • Go further than just describing, show how they are similar and join up
  • Use the word “interrelationship” in your text
  • Psychological laws - in any one feeling you find the connected thoughts and body sensations, etc

• Bi-focal vision

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    • Think about where we are going, what is trying to emerge
    • What is the gifts, where is it taking me.
  • Personality Identity past
  • Two dimensions of growth
    • Personality provides…
    • Holds me back
  • Use the expression “Bi-focal vision” in your text

• Join up the experience with the theory

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• Note alphabetical order

• Bibliography = extended reading not referenced

Harvard Referencing

https://www.open.ac.uk/library/help-and-support/quick-guide-to-harvard-referencing-cite-them-right

Read

• The marking criteria

• Essay guidelines

• Sentences

• Paragraphs

• Essay structure and planning

• Using quotes and referencing

b/m/f Interrelationship between m/b/f - make sure you talk about the interrelationship

The Marking criteria

Content argument analysis

Low mark

Be explicit with the terms Be reflective Assertions why, and how they are helpful Include different people’s point of view!

High marks

The opposite of poor

Use Calibri 11pt

Reading beyond psychosynthesis

Look for:

• Clear description
• Clear Reflection
• Reflection on concerns / doubts

• Intro - name what it is!
• Include bi-focal vision -
• Include interrelationship between bfm

Diana whitmore

This needs more focus!

• How something leads to / created by

Give some space, let it breathe, be explicit, don’t summarize Spell it out, don’t let the reader do the work

Sentences

Top tips!

The sentence above also needed what was the result.

Unit of thought

• Idea

Note tip 5

Intro - set the scene and what to expect

Literature: I am going to draw upon A,B,C ….

Intro again Leading further research

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Referencing

Personal Feedback 1

Which ideas have you found the most helpful, meaningful or challenging? Which exercises?

Covering transparent writing was very helpful. I realise I was going to struggle visualising how to write in a personal form as opposed to the academic form that I am trained to do. The exercise of filling in the gaps highlighted this as I found myself very slow to begin with. Once I discovered a pattern I was able to smash something out in time. However, further reflection from hearing other people’s examples helped me understand that I’m going to have to walk into the essay writing knowing that I will need to give it a few drafts.

What has been the high point or major learning of this course for you?

I loved mulling over the learning styles and their strengths and weaknesses. I could see myself in all of these groups, but there were some definite strong contenders. It made me laugh so see it in this way along with the weakness side effects. I look forward to further reflection on this and I dive into my writing.

What has been the quality of the conceptual content? Its organisation? Continuity? Presentation? Clarity?

I thought that plenty of good content was provided. I especially enjoyed hearing from the students that had failed the essay. It was great to hear their thought processes and self-deception. There seemed a lot of hyped confusion near the end of the course which was unnecessary and could have been managed more effectively. However, it looked like the students that required the level of accuracy to overcome their confusion seemed satisfied, so it wasn’t too bad, just a little boring.

Has there been anything missing from the course or anything you would have liked more of given the time limits? Was there anything which did not work for you or which could have worked more effectively if changed?

I would have loved some more examples of the style of writing we are to produce as I remain feeling like I will be walking into the woods with this one. However, I haven’t started yet, so I might not need it. There is plenty of time and room for checking, and it has all been laid out well, so I feel confident enough.

What comments do you have about the course trainer(s) and assistants? How was your relationship with the trainer(s)?

Fine. I believe he could have been more prepared with the handbook ready and the slides he was presenting.

Personal Feedback 2

Which ideas have you found the most helpful, meaningful or challenging? Which exercises?

It was great to look into the essay requirements in more detail so I can cross reference what I am writing with the advised method and create a further beneficial experience.

What has been the high point or major learning of this course for you?

Becoming aware of the diverse character of essay writing from the group as we examined individual essays allowed me realise my own character of writing with its strengths and weaknesses.

What has been the quality of the conceptual content? Its organisation? Continuity? Presentation? Clarity?

It was short, informative and fun.

Has there been anything missing from the course or anything you would have liked more of given the time limits? Was there anything which did not work for you or which could have worked more effectively if changed?

Everything was beneficial. I feel ready to continue with the essay and enjoy it.

What comments do you have about the course trainer(s) and assistants? How was your relationship with the trainer(s)?

All good.