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Why Change?

17/10/2018

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might human change be a victim of solipsism?

7/7/2018

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One, None and a Hundred-Thousand is a thought provoking novel written by Luigi Pirandello in the 1930's. The novel depicts dramatically the impossibility of any human creature's being to others what he is to himself. If you would like to have an idea of how it is that others see you, so as no longer to have to marvel at the judgments which others pass upon your personality, read this novel which I think contains aspects of solipsism. 
Solipsism (/ˈsɒlɪpsɪzəm/ (About this sound listen); from Latin solus, meaning 'alone', and ipse, meaning 'self') is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist. A feature of the metaphysical solipsistic worldview is the denial of the existence of other minds. However, what I am exploring here is the solipsistic view that because personal experiences are private and ineffable, another being's experience can be known only by analogy. An analogy being a comparison between two things known to the one thinking mind. Should you not reflect the world view of the one thinking mind, could it be that the "real" you, the you that exists in your own thinking mind, does not exist in the minds of others?
Click the link for a free, translated into English, copy of Luigi Pirandello's 1933 novel One, None and a Hundred-thousand http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600681h.html
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Managing Change, Creativity & Innovation by Patrick Dawson and Constantine Andriopoulos

3/7/2018

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Booktopia describes this book as:-
"a fresh approach to managing organizational change by looking at it as complex, dynamic and messy as opposed to a series of neat, linear stages and processes leading to success.  Key to the approach is the idea that change, creativity and innovation all overlap and interconnect rather than being three separate areas of study" for a competitive edge when developing new technologies, products and services. 
As the editor of Chan6es and as a research post grad, I can say I have read Dr's Dawson and Andriopoulos book and I highly recommend it. Particularly if you are seeking to gain a historical overview of business change management theories, models and practices.  I found the book led me into thought provoking academic considerations about innovative ways of developing change management models. ​
Honorary Fellow of Keele University in the UK, John Edmonstone read this book during his social research into health, social and community care action learning. He reports that the Managing Change, Creativity & Innovation authors
"quite deliberately do not aim to offer over-simplified guidelines and prescriptions" for [change management] action. Indeed they "regularly disparage the ‘guru literature’ of other authors who have previously done so." However, they do "if not paradoxically", "offer a number of ‘lessons’ for managing change, creativity and innovation" that are:-
  • There are no universal prescriptions
  • Change is a political process
  • Time, planning and flexibility are essential
  • Critical reflection is central and
  • Learn from all experiences by not simply focusing on anecdotes of ‘success’".
To read more about John's book review, the following file is available for download
In overview, if you are interested in furthering a career in organisational change management, this book is more than worthy of a visit to your local university library.

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digital technology is changing the human brain

2/1/2018

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Todd Davies' review of Mind Change
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Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield, in her book Mind Change, suggests that digital technology is changing our brains and as humans we are facing an unprecedented crisis concerning our individual identity, that is, who we are, what we do and how we behave.  Greenfield expresses concern that social networking will displace the ‘true self’ with an exaggerated, ideal self.  She also warns that digital technology demonstrably increases narcissism.
In 2015, Andi Horvath of the AGE National suggested that even before digital technology, history had raised the questions about television and even machines possibly leading to the decline of civilization. Referring to Sociologist William Ogburn in 1934, who spoke about the machine age natives who had lost connection with nature and tradition, and who were divorce prone.  Andi replied that "humans have always had a symbiotic relationship with technology" and "is there a better way to work with technology?" What do you think? Do digital technologies leave their mark on our brain and what kind of mark might it be? In Mind Change, Susan Greenfield offer us her answer.



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challenging gut bacteria for mindful, hormonal changes

22/10/2017

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The following is an extract from GUT by Guilia Enders 2015, published by Scribe, Pp.129-130
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Patients with intestinal disease who also suffer from extreme anxiety or depressive disorders are often recommended anti-depressants by their doctor. However, they are rarely told why, and there is a simple reason for that: No doctor or scientists knows. It was not until they noticed the mood-enhancing effects of these drugs that scientist began to explore the mechanisms behind this phenomenon. They still have to come up with a clear answer. For decades, it was thought to be due to an enhancing effect on the 'happiness hormone' Serotonin. More recently, depression researchers have also begun investigating another possibility - that such drugs may increase the plasticity of the nerves. 
Neuroplasticity is the nerves ability to change. 
It is nerve plasticity that makes puberty such a confusing time for an adolescent brain - so  much is still being moulded into shape.  The possibilities are endless, and nerves are constantly firing off messages in all directions in a pubescent brain.  This process is not complete until we reach the age of about 25.  
95% of Serotonin we produce
is manufactured in our gut
After that, nerves react according to well-rehearsed patterns.  Patterns that have proved useful in the past are retained; others are rejected as failures. This explains the disappearance not only of the inexplicable fits of laughter and temper tantrums of our teenage years, but also the posters on our bedroom walls. After this age, we find it more difficult to deal with sudden change, but the payback is a more table, calmer disposition. This can also result in negative thought patterns taking root, such as 'I am worthless' or 'Everything I do goes wrong'. The nervous messages from a worried gut can also become embedded in a person's mind. If it is the case that anti-depressants increase neuroplasticity, they may work by loosening up such negative thought patterns. This is most beneficial when accompanied by effective psychotherapy to help patients resist slipping back into old habits. 
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The side effects of commercially available anti-depressants, such as Prozac, also provide us with important clues about the 'happiness hormone, Serotonin. A quarter of the patients will report typical side effects such as nausea, an initial phase of diarrhoea and constipation when the drug is taken over a long period of time. This is explained by the fact that our gut brain possesses the same neural receptors as the brain in our head. So, anti-depressants automatically 'treat' both brains. 
The American researcher Dr Michael Gershon, takes this line of thought one stage further. He is interested in the possibility of developing effective anti-depressants that only influence the gut and do not have an effect on the brain.
Dr. Gershon's research is not as outlandish as it might first seem. After all, 95% of the Serotonin we produce is manufactured in the cells of our gut, where it has an enormous effect on enabling the nerves to stimulate muscle movement, and acts as an important signalling molecule. If its effects on the gut can be changed, the messages sent from there to the brain would also be changed enormously. This would be particularly useful in treating the sudden onset of severe depression in people whose lives are otherwise fine. Perhaps their gut needs a session on the therapists couch, and their head is not to blame after all. 

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psychotherapy and change

3/3/2016

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A Safe Place For Change by Hugh Crago and Penny Gardner. The following review is by Elizabeth Day PhD.
" My engagement with this text, as with most texts, commenced from the back. I felt reassured to find in the index trusted thinkers such as Foucault and Rorty, and systems for working with the ‘self’ experience such as Buddhism, along with current and classic thinker-practitioners: Alice Miller, Irvin Yalom, Karen Horney, Babette Rothschild; also Ainsworth, Berg, Rogers, Wilber, White. This, I inferred, was a text that pays its dues. I was mildly disappointed, however, to find no Husserl, Heidegger, or Merleau-Ponty. This omission is not unusual in counselling and therapy texts, though (of which more, later). I enjoyed the implicit irony in index entries such as ‘complainants, see client’ and ‘there and then, see here and now’. And the fact that there were many more references in the index to ‘silence’ than to ‘minimal encouragers’ satisfied me that this was not merely a how-to guide, but a text grounded in its disciplinary roots.​
The authors declare this a text intended for first-year counselling and therapy trainees. The title signifies its emphasis (safety) on the training and therapeutic relationship, and the topic sequence takes students through the development of a holding capacity, to exploring (deepening) issues, using techniques (fix v re-parent), challenging the client, coaching, and ending.
The authors have avoided a focus on ‘model-specific skills’, opting instead for common competencies for the ‘competent helper’. They locate their work within the complex matrix of therapeutic orientations and techniques, with interpersonal awareness at the core, and work within the parameters they establish to create a developmental training model.
Right up front the text challenges the trainee to direct the enquiry inward (Ch 1: ‘So you want to help people?’), cautioning that ‘You can’t take a client where you haven’t been yourself (p 5), and it places a research-based and experience-based emphasis on the development of capacities of presence and holding (Ch 2 ‘being there: developing the capacity for holding’) as the ground for effective therapeutic work.
Rather more interpersonal than instrumentalist, the text provides a model of change based, refreshingly, on the therapist’s capacity for being rather than doing (p 10). Here we could add the importance of the client’s capacity for the same, per Beisser’s (1970) paradox: change becomes more possible when first we become how and what we are (in all its perceived unloveliness) before stepping in to how and what we want to be.
The authors make no claim to be exhaustive; rather, they situate their arguments within a broader field of research and enjoin readers to learn more about a given area, through the device of breakout boxes – ‘Read more’ and ‘Think about it’ – positioned at strategic points in the chapters.
The text progresses its argument through sometimes exquisite examples of client-therapist dialogue, exemplifying right at the point where a student may be struggling to imagine the abstract notions into applied practice. It directly addresses its reader. This is sometimes conversational: ‘at this point, some of you are probably wondering … and that’s a fair comment’ (p 153), sometimes presumptuously: ‘Relax! You’re not expected to perceive such deep-level connections…not at this stage, anyway’. In all these ways it engages readers in the learning process.
I enjoyed the confident challenges to industry assumptions around advice-giving (there’s a time and place), use of I-statements (over-emphasis on this can irritate clients, and miss the point), closed and ‘why’ questions (there’s a time and place); and a refusal to be prescriptive or to labour through the various micro-skills as though they were the alpha and the omega of therapy.
The text’s historical-consciousness around key terms is of great use to first-year students who generally struggle to make sense of the differences between counselling and psychotherapy, psychotherapy and psychology, patients and clients. Counselling and psychotherapy are here distinguished by their orientations: counselling is defined as a content orientated ‘problem-focused approach’ and psychotherapy as a process orientated ‘relational approach’, with allowance that each can include aspects of the other.
Impressed that on the very first page the authors invite critical engagement with the text – ‘We welcome questioning of the positions we have taken here’ – and in the spirit of that invitation, I make the following comments on two matters – the helper model, and the philosophical heart of therapy.

Helper
I cannot get comfortable with the ‘helper’ orientation, so usefully problematised in the first chapter but deployed throughout. The designation of therapy as a ‘helping’ profession became ingrained perhaps from the widespread adoption of Egan’s ‘Skilled Helper’ model. I find the notion reduces the therapeutic orientation to some kind of first aid, and is implicitly problem-oriented. While that may be the case sometimes, I see the therapeutic role pertaining more to an orientation of enquiry. Donna Orange’s (2012) recent coinage ‘clinical hospitality’ may yet get definitional traction in the field, though its evocation of the clinic and the hospital is still far from the philosophical roots of her own training. This relates to my next point.

Philosophy
The authors state up front that their concern is with the practical component of counsellor training, based on their perception that students ‘overwhelmingly prefer textbooks that are clear and direct in their language’, and that acknowledge difficulties faced by beginners (p vii).
Inevitably such choices have to be considered when writing texts for disciplines that blend theory with application. And inevitably one choice excludes others. At a time (now) and place (Australia) where the empirical end of the research spectrum is the current locus for what passes as evidence-based research, there is a heightened need for counselling and therapy to emerge as a discipline distinct from the science-derived systems of psychology.
Far from being the disdained bastard child of a medical model, counselling and therapy at least in their humanistic, postmodern, intersubjective incarnations, are twin inheritors of a venerable philosophical lineage: Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and its offshoots of literary, sociological and poststructural theories of self, and of discourse. Moreover the bedrock practices of presence and awareness pre-date Husserl and trace back through centuries of phenomenological enquiry. I consider it a great asset for students to be introduced to the deep intellectual and ontological roots that inform the relational and change elements of their practice. And I am confident that this can be done without frightening the horses.
In an endnote to Chapter 5 we get:  
‘Indeed it may be that all therapeutic models converge on core principles that are indistinguishable from those acknowledged within most major spiritual traditions…what …Wilber calls the ‘perennial philosophy”
(p 228).  I appreciated this and would have welcomed a chapter on it.
In the broader context of the endeavor of this text, however, and the training model it presents, my comments here are offered as engagements with its thinking mind, rather than contradictions of those choices. I would recommend the text to first-year students as a sound companion to learning how the art of therapy starts with self enquiry. "
Dr Elizabeth Day  is a contributing member of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia 
A Safe Place For Change is available in paperback from Amazon.com $299.00 (27/02/2016)

References
Beisser, A. (1970). The Paradoxical Theory of Change, in J. Fagan & I. Shepherd, eds. (1970/1971), Gestalt Therapy Now, 
New York, Harper.
Orange, D. (2012). The Suffering Stranger: Hermeneutics for Everyday Clinical Practice. New York: Routledge.
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neurological changes of a stroke and human functioning

5/12/2015

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Jill Bolte Taylor, got a research opportunity very few brain scientists would wish for:  Jill suffered a massive stroke which led to her  'observing' her damaged brain functions of motion, speech and extrinsic self-awareness.  Due to her scientific training and strength of character, Jill managed to document her journey of what it was like to suffer a stroke that changed her life.

Stroke of Insight kindle edition available from Amazon.com US$12.99 (27/02/2016) 
Paperback edition available from Booktopia AU$22.99
​#stroke
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how to change unwanted habits using behaviourism

26/6/2015

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How can you change unwanted habits? 
Charles Duhigg suggests 'by identifying what you want to achieve, identifying those habits blocking your sense of achievement, paying attention to the existing cues and rewards of identified bad habits; Then replacing and reinforcing new cues and rewards into the unwanted habits with the goal of turning them into better habits in accordance to your desired willful change.  He suggests that paying attention to why you habitually do what you do should help to give you some insight into how to change a bad habit into a better one. He is not suggesting that you get rid of habits at all, rather that you 'reform' them into something more desirable:  A habit that helps you to facilitate more willpower to achieve a desired goal like reading Mr. Duhigg's book for example.  How To Create A Habit [below] offers CUE, REWARD and ROUTINE as his model of how to consciously create human behavioural change. 

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Kaizen Changes

17/4/2015

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A peaceful and simple way of handling all the difficulties in our lives. You will breathe a sigh of relief as you read it - Susan Jeffers, PH.D., 
Author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. 
When the biggest change resister is feeling unappreciated, Robert Maurer PH.D suggests Kaizen holds the answer to changing everything from negative feelings to physical aspects of ones life.  Self-respect, curiosity and imagination are suggested as holding the key to paying attention to small changes in one's life, while trust, optimism, patience and faith are given as necessary to fulfill personal desires of change that may present as out of reach. While One Small Step Can Change Your life contains a little conflicting advice about how small changes can grow into making a huge difference, it also contains valuable leads and thoughts about how change doesn't have to be scary.  It can be a comforting and rewarding experience and Dr. Maurer shares with us how adopting the Kaizen way may help to reduce personal resistance to making a planned change.  $7.90 kindle (15/04/2015) . #comfort. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtVz99yhNPg
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Change Your Life

14/5/2014

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Throughout history people have sought to cope with a life that is often stressful and hard. We have actually known for some time that developing compassion for oneself and others can help us face up to and win through the hardship and find a sense of inner peace. However in modern societies we rarely focus on this key process that underpins successful coping and happiness and can be quick to dismiss the impact of modern living on our minds and well-being. Instead we concentrate on 'doing, achieving' and having'. Now, bestselling author and leading authority on depression, Professor Paul Gilbert explains how new research shows how we can all learn to develop compassion for ourselves and others and derive the benefits of this age-old wisdom. In this ground-breaking new book he explores how our minds have developed to be highly sensitive and quick to react to perceived threats and how this fast-acting threat-response system can be a source of anxiety, depression and aggression.
He describes how studies have also shown that developing kindness and compassion for self and others can help in calming down the threat system. In The Compassionate Mind, Professor Gilbert outlines the latest findings about the value of compassion and how it works, and takes readers through basic mind training exercises to enhance the capacity for, and use of, compassion. Not only does compassion help to soothe distressing emotions, it actually increases feelings of contentment and well-being. This title outlines the findings about the value of compassion and how it works, and takes readers through basic mind training exercises to enhance the capacity for, and use of, compassion.
http://www.derby.ac.uk/mhru/whos-who/professor-paul-gilbert
$19.00 new from Amazon.com (10/05/2014)
To participate in a compassion workshop with Dr. Paul Gilbert, click here to go to 'compassion is a change agent' on change psychology 
#compassion #mind #change

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