Shoots

Shoot posts are mini-research projects; they are intersections where my inquiries and research begin to gather and interact. These are where I connect various sprouting ideas until it becomes a growing study.

FAQs about Shoots

What is a shoot in my garden?

A shoot is a collection of multiple sprouts together that expand or strengthen into a bundle.

How do I decide what is worth adding as a shoot?

As soon as I recognize two sprouts that are somehow related, they connect as a shoot. Ideally, overtime the shoot will grow and expand.

How do shoot in my digital garden compare to the Zettelkasten method?

Rather than having cards that are physically next to each other, my shoots use links to build up a bundle. But the idea is the same.

Shoots are kinda like mood boards, but for ideas.

1 — Creativity & Curiosity

What is curiosity? → Curiosity is about turning slightly to what interests us.

1.1

Limitations on curiosity

1.1.2

When you need a new way to work

1.5

When you need to open a portal

Limits encourage creativity.

1.0.2.1

How to be (more) creative.

1.0.2

Everyone is creative!

1.0.1

Waiting for a creative assignment.

1.0.2.2

School limits creativity/curiosity.

1.0.3

2 — Making & Art

What’s the point of making stuff?

2.1

Making stuff improves our lives.

2.1

How to get things done when motivation isn’t enough and you don’t want to use force

Making is available to everyone.

2.0

3 — Mental & Emotional Well-being

Meditation rewires our brains.

3.6

5 — Intentional Living

We can reimagine the world.

5.5

On imagining and building new worlds.

5.5.1

How do with live like THIS?

5.1

Hope

5.1.2

10 — Research

What is a digital garden?

10.3

Zettelkasten Note System

1 — Creativity & Curiosity

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Garden Tags Database

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1.0

What is creativity?

Creativity

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1.0.1

Everyone is creative!

Creativity

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1.0.2

How to be (more) creative.

Creativity

How-to

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1.0.2.1

Limits encourage creativity.

Limits

Creativity

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1.0.2.2

Waiting for a creative assignment.

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1.0.3

School limits creativity/curiosity.

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1.1

What is curiosity? → Curiosity is about turning slightly to what interests us.

Curiosity

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1.1.1

How to get & stay curious.

Curiosity

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1.1.1

How to be curious.

Curiosity

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1.1.2

Limitations on curiosity

Curiosity

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1.1.3

We can learn a lot from kids.

Kids

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1.1.4

Walking supports curiosity.

Walking

Curiosity

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1.1.5

How can we stay in the question, rather than offer answers?

Questions

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1.2

What is thinkering?

Hands

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1.2.1

What happens when we thinker.

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1.3

Process is the point.

Process-vs-Product

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1.3

Flow states open us up to new connections.

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1.4

How to have ideas

Having-Ideas

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1.5

When you need a new way to work

Innovation

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When you need to open a portal

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For when we can’t create or feel blocked.

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Hand-Mind Connection

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Cultivating conditions for good ideas & good work

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Dreams

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Tricksters vs. Martyrs

2 — Making & Art

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Garden Tags Database

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The Medium or the Message?

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How to get things done when motivation isn’t enough and you don’t want to use force

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Talking about visual art allows for activity in the body and the mind.

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If you build/write/make it, they will come.

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2.0

Making is available to everyone.

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2.0.1

Why we make stuff

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2.1

Making stuff improves our lives.

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2.1

What’s the point of making stuff?

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2.1.1

Making stuff supports our mental health.

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2.1.2

Making helps us process our emotions.

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2.1.3

Making creates a safe space.

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2.1.4

Making stuff (art) is a way to explore.

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2.2

How to make stuff.

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2.2.1

We have to make stuff that WE love.

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2.3

How to decide what to make & find creative voice

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2.3

The process of making stuff.

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2.3.1

Things to Try

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2.4

Art as...

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2.5

Collage - alchemy - modular builds

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2.5

Art can capture what words can’t.

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2.6

Sculpture

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Making something good requires something different than making some influential and lasting

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Piecing things together

3 — Mental & Emotional Well-being

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3.1

We play a big part in our mental health.

Mental-health

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3.1.1

Let’s avoid depression, m’kay?

Mental-health

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3.2

Addiction is an adaptive response.

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3.3

We make sense of our lives through stories.

Story

Making-sense

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3.3

We are all addicts.

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3.4

Joy makes life sweeter.

Published

3.5

We support ourselves through ritual.

Ritual

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3.5.1

Rituals help to ground us.

Ritual

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3.6

Meditation rewires our brains.

Meditation

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3.7

Trust and safety make our well-being possible.

Self-Care&Trust

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3.8

We can shift our nervous system.

Nervous-System

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3.8.1

Our brains revert to what is easy/safe.

Safety

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3.9

We can increase our awareness of everyday moments.

Flow

Meditation

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3.11

What is “moral injury”?

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3.12

What leads to burnout

Burnout

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3.12.1

How to recover/rebuild from bullying, burnout, and moral injury. NOURISH.

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3.13

We are wired for connection.

Connection-Relationship

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3.14

How to keep going when everything feels hopeless.

Hope

4 — Physical Health

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4.1

We play a big part in our physical health because of the mind-body connection.

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4.1.0

Exercise helps us release stress.

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4.1.1

Exercise helps us process emotions.

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4.2

How do we sleep?

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4.3

Walking is good for you.

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4.4

COVID

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4.4.1

Is it COVID? Is it nervous system dysregulation? (Both?)

5 — Intentional Living

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Garden Tags Database

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We can bring nature to us, surround ourselves with it.

Nature-Outdoors

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Altars allow us to be intentional.

Intentional

Altars

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Making sense of the world

Making-sense

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Growth is a slow process of deprogramming & integrating embodied knowledge.

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Ego keeps us from being intentional.

Intentional

Ego

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We ignore things by staying busy.

Slow

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We can cultivate gratitude.

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Gardening is practice of tending.

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We’re always facing the choice to keep things the same or innovate forward.

Innovation

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How to be a leader

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Sometimes you just have to go off the map

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Vulnerability

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Choosing to live a slow pace allows for richer experience.

Slow

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How do we deprogram perfectionism?

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5.1

How do with live like THIS?

How-to-Live

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5.1.1

Should we stay or go?

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5.1.2

Hope

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5.1.3

When everything feels hopeless.

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5.1.4

We can always witness

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5.1.5

It’s not how to play the game, but WHAT game are you playing?

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5.1.6

How do we maintain quality, while being responsive to reality?

Responsiveness

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5.1.7

How do we help when everything is designed to harm?

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5.1.8

How can we rise above other people’s bullshit and stay grounded?

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5.1.9

To be in the world now, you have to either be unaware or in denial.

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5.2

Doing things differently

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5.2.1

Disrupt the status quo

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5.2.2

How can we understand the actions of others?

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5.2.3

Conformity and capitulation

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5.3

What it means to REST.

Rest

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5.3.1

If we are going to focus on resting and slowing down—and pushing back on our capitalist, white supremacist, ableist, patriarchal world—we are going to weird. We will live as outliers.

Capitalism

Rest

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5.4

How can we find our people?

Niche-Community

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5.4.1

Building a world when you don’t fit in, when you are priced out of the market.

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5.4.2

Our milieu - our context influences us.

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5.5

We can reimagine the world.

New-world

Imagination

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5.5.1

On imagining and building new worlds.

Imagination

New-world

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5.6

What you give your attention to grows.

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5.6.1

Everything wants our attention.

Attention

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5.6.2

Why we need our attention

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5.7

We educate at home.

Unschooling

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5.7.1

Unschooling

6 — Writing & Reading

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6.1

How to write

Writing

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6.1.1

How to write about your work.

Writing

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6.1.2

How to write on the internet

Writing

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6.1.3

Adding structure to a project.

Writing

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6.1.4

How to write a bio.

Writing

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6.2

How to find/create my writing voice

Voice

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6.3

Let's make ideas accessible.

Accessibility

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6.4

Making connections

Connection-Relationship

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6.5

Writing a newsletter

Writing

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6.6

Why we read

Reading-Books

7 — Teaching

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7.1

Why teaching is important.

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7.2

Classroom environment shapes learning.

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7.2.1

Culturally responsive teaching

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7.2.2

It’s time to abandon attendance policies

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7.3

What’s necessary for learning?

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7.3.1

Let's make ideas accessible in the classroom.

Accessibility

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7.3.2

Planning/designing assignments.

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7.3.3

Give students opportunity for self-evaluation.

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7.3.4

Giving feedback, well

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7.4

Engagement matters most.

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7.5

Trust with students

Trust

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7.6

Ego in teaching

Ego

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7.7

The state of higher education.

8 — Nervous system

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8.1

About the nervous system

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8.1.1

What the ANS can do

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8.1.2

ANS determines behavior

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8.1.3

ANS as intervening variable

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8.1.4

PVT/ANS as a lens

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8.1.4

Why ANS for PA/public interactions

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8.2

What is PVT?

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8.3

Up & down the ladder

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8.3.1

What happens in safety/ventral vagal

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8.3.2

what happens in flight-flight/sympathetic mode

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8.3.3

What happens in shutdown/freeze/dorsal vagal

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8.3.4

Co-regulation fixes things.

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8.3.5

Self-regulation

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8.4

What is neuroception?

Neuroception

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8.4.1

How neuroception is shaped

Neuroception

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8.4.2

What neuroception does

Neuroception

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8.4.3

Faulty neuroception

Neuroception

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8.4.4

Cues of safety and danger

Neuroception

Safety

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8.5

Vagus Nerve

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8.6

Attunement & Misattunement

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8.7

What is trauma?

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8.7.1

Effects of trauma

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8.8

We are always looking for safety, trying to avoid being dysregulated.

9 — Interactions

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9.1

How to improve interactions

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9.1.1

We can be intentional about our interactions with others.

Intentional

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9.1.2

Accountability is the foundation for good interactions.

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9.1.3

How to infuse interactions/organizations with CARE.

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9.1.4

Complications for interactions

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9.1.5

Righting workplace wrongs. Preventing workplace trauma.

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9.1.6

ANS in supporting public interactions

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9.2

What is attunement?

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9.3

In-betweens

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9.4

What is felt experience?

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9.4.1

Understanding the impact of felt experience

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9.5

How PA explores interactions

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9.5.1

Takeaways for interactions/PA

10 — Research

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There is a focus on objective reality (outcome) vs. one on subjective experience (process).

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The dominant paradigm of research narrows our focus and options.

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10.1

Moving on from traditional research.

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10.2

What art based research can do

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10.2

How to do art-based research

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10.2

Art as a way to examine & capture experience/process/feeling.

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10.2

Exploring what is just below the surface. (3rd space, different language, inaccessible

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10.2

Examples of Art & Research

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10.2

Art as research offers unique ways of examing and communicating experience.

Published

10.2

What is art based research?

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10.3

What is a digital garden?

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How to digital garden

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Zettelkasten Note System

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How I grow sprouts

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How I collect seeds

No description

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My Note

Garden Tags Database

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Where ideas come from

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Slow the machine

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Outline #

My Note

Sub-Category

Keywords

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5.5

We can reimagine the world.

Published

Zettelkasten Note System

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When you need to open a portal

Published

5.5.1

On imagining and building new worlds.

Published

For when we can’t create or feel blocked.

Published

4.4.1

Is it COVID? Is it nervous system dysregulation? (Both?)

Published

The Medium or the Message?

Published

5.1.7

How do we help when everything is designed to harm?

Published

How to get things done when motivation isn’t enough and you don’t want to use force

Published

7.4

Engagement matters most.

Being in the classroom

Published

6.3

Let's make ideas accessible.

How to write

Published

10.2

What art based research can do

Art & research

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5.3

What it means to REST.

Being Intentional & Grounded

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5.1

How do with live like THIS?

Living with the hard stuff

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3.4

Joy makes life sweeter.

What makes us well

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8.4.3

Faulty neuroception

Neuroception

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3.2

Addiction is an adaptive response.

Living with the hard stuff

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8.4.2

What neuroception does

Neuroception

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10.2

How to do art-based research

Art & research

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Talking about visual art allows for activity in the body and the mind.

What art can offer us

Published

2.5

Collage - alchemy - modular builds

What to make

Published

8.6

Attunement & Misattunement

Published

3.5.1

Rituals help to ground us.

Being Intentional & Grounded

Published

8.1

About the nervous system

Nervous System

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11.9

There is a rhythm to the seasons.

Seasons

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8.4.1

How neuroception is shaped

Neuroception

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3.5

We support ourselves through ritual.

Support wellbeing

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10.1

Moving on from traditional research.

Alternative research

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4.1.1

Exercise helps us process emotions.

Exercise

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5.7

We educate at home.

Unschooling

Kids

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2.6

Sculpture

What to make

Published

8.5

Vagus Nerve

Vagus

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6.2

How to find/create my writing voice

How to write

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9.1.4

Complications for interactions

Published

5.2

Doing things differently

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2.1

Making stuff improves our lives.

Making stuff helps us

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8.8

We are always looking for safety, trying to avoid being dysregulated.

ANS relevance to everything else

Published

We can bring nature to us, surround ourselves with it.

Seasons

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5.3.1

If we are going to focus on resting and slowing down—and pushing back on our capitalist, white supremacist, ableist, patriarchal world—we are going to weird. We will live as outliers.

Published

9.1.1

We can be intentional about our interactions with others.

Interactions

Published

2.3

How to decide what to make & find creative voice

How to make stuff

Published

1.1.5

How can we stay in the question, rather than offer answers?

Curiosity

Questions

Published

Altars allow us to be intentional.

Being Intentional & Grounded

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8.3.5

Self-regulation

Ladder

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9.4.1

Understanding the impact of felt experience

Components of interactions.

Published

8.3.1

What happens in safety/ventral vagal

Ladder

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9.1.5

Righting workplace wrongs. Preventing workplace trauma.

Improving interactions.

Published

3.3

We make sense of our lives through stories.

What makes us well

Published

1.0.1

Everyone is creative!

General Creativity

Published

3.1

We play a big part in our mental health.

Pursuing well-being