Simha/Saskia 7/1/14

Simha/Saskia 6/1/14

Simha; moved out of Metta Earth Institute.  Agreed to teach p/c course.  Left on good terms.  Set up as an immersion experience, couldn’t keep up with what was expected of other interns.  Too many other commitments.  Some misunderstandings. Tried to work through it with NVC.  Just finished teaching course which was not designed/organized.  Very complex issues.  Still decompressing.  Didn’t see eye-to-eye with main person.  Too much work and not enough time for reflection, art, personal things and school.  Tried to hear her out and work with her. Looked at it as an opportunity to practice patience. Creating a google doc of the curriculum he created to give to them for future courses.  Trying to stay neutral and objective in giving feedback.  

Was aiming to finish LIPD by July 1st, but now would like to renegotiate to Aug 1st.  Really happy the way it’s coming out so far.  A new tracking device for tracking progress.  Had a meeting with Liam who was having the same problem of not jiving with skill-flex chart.  It’s going to take him a while to settle.  Lots of mind-maps and tools in this LIPD that will be really useful.  Considering going on pause in August.  

Op2 is about pc course just completed.  Ready to write.  Going to Quebec convergence at the end of this month and plan to interview many teachers.  Will be condensing this into pattern language for teaching.  Back-up: write a small pattern language about anything that he knows really well.   Possibly reconnecting with projects in Switzerland/ India.  

One of biggest difficulties is articulating his design process.  It feels so intuitive.  Trying to make it coherent, linear is so difficult.  Working on several OPs simultaneously.  Collecting info that he needs then coming back to it after OP2.  Really happy with end-of-year review, a lot of useful feedback.  Also wants to do more guildwork.  Wants to try to do a Gaia Radio call, but not sure subject.  

Joy in discovery/sharing.  Has created Gaia Radio page for notes and further research.  interested in creating Group Guild OPs.  People get really jazzed and excited.  Activity hub was supposed to be about that, but was taken for another purpose (all Gaia Group).  Has written Andrew several times but received no response.  

Putting it off because he has so much on his plate.