Body Sculptures

This is actually from Tuesday march 1 I forgot to journal yesterday but we created sculptures out of people of our network. My network included myself my family, my sorority sisters, my scholarship program, my friends, my social network, and my professional network. With people it was hard to say how they were in relation to me. For example my professional network does sometimes include my friends but I do have a barrier between work and play don't mix but how do you show that. I didn't have anyone move in mine and afterwards we kind of discussed the difficulties in doing this. Everyone will not always listen to or work in the role we may place them in our lives so even when you say this is how this person or network supports me or is involved in my life that may not go both ways or the relationship may be defined in a completely different way. This sounded really easy to do but it was really difficult to me it made me really think about my relationships and how they affect me and what role I play in other peoples or think I play. I think it was good, when Rena asked everyone to act authentically it really gave me a feel for my lifestyle unpredictable but this class made me think more than the others had and I appreciated this.

Lapham Day 1

Today was my first day at Lapham. It was excellent and I can't wait to dive in even more. Rena is focusing on peace and focusing in the prevention groups this week. In order to do so she had them stare "focus on" the ooze tube. First this was done with just watching it for a set amount of time. Then Rena acted as a distractor, prefacing that she would not get to close to anyone but just be really loud and call peoples names to try and get them to get them to pay attention to her. Even after this she said if she did draw their attention that "all was not lost!" all they had to do was "Refocus." The first run of distractions was difficult several students found themselves laughing and exclaimed how hard it was. afterwards they were 4 students chosen to act as distractors although they had the same rule of safety. They were loud, falling, calling their peers names and really trying to help attract attention the first run for the students proved a little easier. For those that it was more difficult for improvement from last time or from the first time was the goal and not perfection. The idea being that in the classroom things will never be this distracting but learning to do it in hard situations would make it easier in easier situations. It was a great group all of them. After every running around and the distractors she used Like Rena has stated in class she focused on the positive behaviors even when other children were being distracted, those who were looking and listening when directions were given was rewarded b y calling their names and caught the negative behaviors' attention.