Pre-conference tutorial_

Yesterday’s pre-conference tutorial was a pretty good getting to know session, mostly for us newbies. We got to know each other and gained familiarity with much of the shared vocabulary/concepts/narratives around AYE. The major stories revolve round Meyer’s Briggs indicators (I’m INTP has I’ve previously mentioned) and Virginia Satir therapy. I often hear regulars say things like “that’s typical N behaviour or well you can’t expect me to be on time: I’m a P&.

Satir Coaching – Jean McLendon

If you go to AYE do this. To be effective externally you need to be effective within. Besides, the Satir models influences much of the other sessions, so it’s worth going to the source. I won’t describe the session because it would sound ridiculous; it wasn’t. It was very intense; very emotionally powerful. It was much truer to me than NLP.

Putting your power to work – Dale Emery

An exploration of different kinds of power, though the device of negotiating a common definition of power. Interesting. A lot of things happened. To be honest, I’m not sure of the significance. I need to mull on things. Unless the writing workshop radically changes my blog habits, no doubt I will fail to write up my conclusions.

Other stuff.

• Having a four year old and a six month old with me at a conference both increases and decreases my visibility.
• I wore my Scotland on Rails T-Shirt today. A few people said “You must know Alan Francis”.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 | Permalink | 0 Comments