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Sprouts are ideas that I’ve made into useable components
Sprouts are individual ideas that might at some point contribute to the growth of something else. These typically result as I work with the individual seeds I’ve collected—in reading on the internet or books, as well as in my day to day—and thrown onto my “compost pile.” My action with sprouts is akin to “turning the compost heap” to transform quotes, observations, and other ideas into useable components that I can work with in my own process.
FAQs About Sprouts
What is a sprout in my garden?
A sprout is my interpretation, context, and rephrasing of a seed idea. By restating it as a standalone idea, I prepare the idea to use in my own creative process.
How do I decide what is worth adding as a sprout?
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How do seeds in my digital garden compare to the Zettelkasten method?
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The ANS has the ability to bring calm, to spontaneosly engage with others, and to navigate threat responses through social cues.
The autonomic nervous system has 2 branches of response, but polyvagal theory expands that to 3 potential hierarchal responses.
Neuroception distinguishes safe from dangerous
Working with our hands allows for thought
Working with your hands makes things happen in your brain
When we really face the weight of our current reality, we have to begin to ask what comes next. It creates new opportunities to make a new world.
When we make art, we are exploring alternative realities.
Attuned relationships include rupture and repair
Groundwork is a way of “showing up” - even without feeling like it.
Seasons aligned with stages of maturity & creativity
Being a maker is about collaborating with reality
freedom from all the doing
To move from a defensive autonomic state to safety, the ANS must be able to determine if risk is still present and if not, be able restrain mechanisms prepped toward defensive behaviors (fight, flight, or freeze).
When safety is present the body can access clarity, growth, and restoration. It can also engage in “spontaneous social engagement behaviors and bodily states”.
Most of our literature views interactions within an S-R paradigm where the stimulus is one party and the response is the other party
Typical models focus on stimulus-response (S-R). Beyond our focus in public administration, this is prevalent in psychology, physiology, as well as other branches of inquiry. Alternatively, a S-O-R focus considers an organism, in this case the ANS, to act as an intervening variable.
Autonomic states allow for different categories of behavior. For instance, in the absence of safety behaviors are more likely to take form as fight or flight.
PVT can be considered a theory of adaptive reactions to challenge. Or maybe to cues of safety and danger.
PVT is a lens or a perspective that can help to frame our inquiry. It is not however a static theory.
PVT offers a way of understanding how autonomic function relates to behavior. In other words, it helps us understand how what happens in our bodies relates to our behaviors.
when we are with people we know and others who are warm, with kind faces and voices, the neuroception will translate to a sense of safety and likely a positive social interaction. Our autonomic states shift in response to cues of safety or danger.
The ANS acts as an intervening variable that influences our behavior and our physiological reactions to perceived threats in our bodies (pain or illness), as well as in our environment (cues of safety danger).
To consider ANS within administrative contexts, I pull from multiple disciplines, each with their histories, unique perspective, research paradigms, methods, and theoretical contexts.
I am not interested in the evolution and development of neuroanatomical structures but in what it all means for how we experience life
Neuroception triggers shifts in autonomic state.
Because neuroception is an automatic process that does not require cognitive processing, it may yield faulty results, including a misinterpretation of situations in the environment. This is because the brain can’t access rational thinking or communication skills when it is in a threat mode.
Examining interaction through the lens of felt experience that occurs in the autonomic nervous system can offer the opportunity to understand, increase regulation, and increase communication as well as decision-making.
The ANS can help us better understand others, offer tools for self-regulation, and improve both communication and decision-making.
Neuroception is at the heart of the polyvagal theory. It makes it so the nervous system can detect/assess danger in the environment. I
We make work that mirrors our own deeply held ideas about the world. What are my deeply held ideas? How do I see or experience the world? What do I want to say?
Our decision to educate our kids at home is part of our art practice. It allows for and represents the creative learning process of our family.
The goal is to find my own words to explain a tiny piece of how the world around me works
“Lateral Thinking with Seasoned Technology” is about finding new and unexpected ways to use old technologies (that have clear uses and lower costs).
Blogs are an old tool that might be repurposed for lateral thinking, where something could be planted and allowed to grow, rather than needing to be a finished/polished idea.
To survive everything trying to dull us, we need to live a curious life. Jason Reynolds encourages us to have stacks and stacks and stacks of books on the inside of our bodies. Even if the “books” are actually new conversations we are having with friends.
This is what happens- danger→autonomic response→survival mode→response/behavior
When individuals feel unsafe, they shift toward more protective mode, relying on adaptive survival responses.
Without a consideration of what happens in the body, guided by the nervous system, what happens in public service interactions are viewed as chosen or voluntary, which can then be seen as disrespectful, resisting, or non-compliant.
Interactions with government representatives often present cues of danger because of the power imbalance. Additionally, people are often in the interaction because of a need, which create even more imbalance (I could cite myself here)
Mental processing goes off line or is diminished with chronic stress or PTSD.
Joy makes ventral vagal more accessible!
Ongoing misattunement shapes our nervous system to be more sensitive to danger so that we lean more toward patterns of protection.
We are wired for connection.
We create stories about our lives and exeriences based on our physiological states.
Neuroception determines if you are “open to connection and the possibility of change or locked in a protective response and stuck in a survival story.”
Neuroception is shaped by experiences, that create patterns of connection or protection. It is much like an internal radar that is calibrated through experience.
If neuroception is shaped within safety, it adapts to monitor cues in appropriate ways and activate defense behaviors only when necessary. But when neuroception is shaped within unsafe, unpredicatable or unsupportive environments, the radar will lean toward protection. In this event, there will often be a mismatch between a person’s autonomic state and the actual enviroment or situation around them.
PVT gives us a context to understand movement “toward or away from people, places, and things”
Neuroception works before the brain can form a thought.
Neuroception listens inside, outside, and between
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