Thanks for the offer to help with the video...I am going to need it ...will be back to Mumbai on the 3rd Nov...will write as soooon as I am back..
Swaroop

> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:51:52 +0100
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> Subject: Re: CARN Day 14 Nov 2009/pooling energy, values and understandings
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Dear Marian and all,
>
> I'm wondering if we could find better ways of sharing what we are
> doing and thinking that help to enhance the flows of life-affirming
> energy and the values and understandings that carry hope for the
> future of humanity and our own? As I write this I've the 1:03 minute
> video-clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxJIuUVE0qA) from Marian's
> thesis in mind, of Marion and Charlie (see page 189 of Chapter 6 on
> Developing Services for People with Dementia at http://www.jackwhitehead.com/mnphd//6.pdf
> ), an Altzheimer's patient and her carer (wife and husband).
>
> What could be practical is for you (Marian) to produce with Shaun a
> visual narrative that includes clips of your presentation in Australia
> on your recent work as national lead on arts and culture for inclusion
> and well being and clips of the workshop in which you are exploring
> the relationship between creative practice and transformation. You
> could also share an account of your practitioner research with those
> involved in Singing for the Brain and with the resident dancer on the
> long stay ward for people with Dementia?
>
> I'm continuing to explore the possibility that the pooling of our
> expressions of life-affirming energy and understandings could be
> enhanced through our visual narratives where we connect, (explanatory)
> stories of what we are doing, to video-clips that show us expressing
> the values that give meaning and purpose to our lives (Marian has
> already done this in her thesis). For example, In Andy's edited
> collection Creativity|Works (http://www.jackwhitehead.com/henon/creativityworkslowah.pdf
> ) that shows his work as a socially engaged artist, Marie makes the
> following contribution:
>
> at http://www.jackwhitehead.com/huxtable/mhcreativitywork41to53jw.pdf
>
> If you move to the second page of Marie's account you will see a
> 'stickie' and a blue edged box. A click on the box should take you to
> a 1:15 minute clip of Marie working with Chris in a 'Creativity
> Workshop'. At 48 seconds I feel Marie expressing herself with Chris
> in a way that resonates for me with the values that carry hope for the
> future of humanity. Marie expresses these values in her 2009 paper in
> Research Intelligence - the newsletter of the British Educational
> Research Association, as loving recognition, respectful connectedness
> and educational responsibility (see http://www.jackwhitehead.com/huxtable/mh2009beraRI107.pdf
> ). I think this 2 page paper from Marie will repay your attention.
> It shows how video-clips can be used to communicate the meanings of
> the expression of embodied values. Marie is focusing on researching a
> way of being that can be distinguished as inclusive, collaborative,
> creative enquiry.
>
> I'm hoping to be able to share next week visual narratives from
> Sonia's work with Young Carers and Robyn's reflections on her work as
> a Health Visitor with her value of alongsidedness. Je Kan - it would
> be good to share your narratives from your practitioner-research in
> Japan, China, Tibet, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
>
> Swaroop, Geisha and all , if you would like to share some video on
> YouTube (or other streaming server) integrated with your narratives of
> what you are doing in Gujurat and Argentina, and you need help in
> doing this just let me know and I'll see what I can do. Branko has
> also shown what can be done with the reflections on the Conference on
> Creativity in Teacher Education in Pozega, Croatia, at http://ejolts.net/node/144
> and the photo album at http://ejolts.net/node/150 . Chris has also
> shown what can be accomplished with visual narratives in her masters
> dissertation on improving practice as an inclusion officer working in
> a Children's Service, at http://www.jackwhitehead.com/cjmaok/cjma.htm .
>
> (Marian and Shaun I'll also get a 'dongle' so that we can try linking
> up through SKYPE at some time on the 14th November even though I
> might not have a direct internet connection.)
>
> Love Jack

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