lead more workshops and do more guest lectures/ talks/presentations

about a weekend workshop I’ll be leading in April at a local arts intitution, as well as a once-a-week-12-week course I’ll be doing independently… Have been delightedly surprised by the # and rapidity and – well – sweetness – of responses I’ve gotten. Folks are psyched! And me, too.

someone said “you’ll be doing this one day.” I don’t even know the guy…

the instructor knows the couple that flew down to see me last week… in the same biz as them, and knew them when they were much younger…

we hit it off and he showed me some of his organizational model, and I showed him some of my work…

loved it.

lm

to lead several workshops at a conference this summer. Yes!

Prompt follow-up, I might add (she said modestly).

today was my second of three days of teaching this course… it has been amazing… learning by teaching… a great class of people… a friend who grew up across the stress, another guy who is a friend of a friend who is positive and engaging, and loads of other interesting people…

2 of us brought out guitars today and sang at lunch time… he likes to play, i like to play and sing, and we had a great jam… during the “exercises” i was requested to play background music on guitar… :) instructor/entertainer… kind of an interesting title… but it works…

a woman from Italy brought pasta, side note, she owns two Italian restaurants… needless to say the food was excellent…

At the end of the day I shared my vision of analytical people and people-people, and how at our place of business they are at odds some times… a cultural thing… i realized in the middle of it that i was being really passionate about it… and later i realized that i am still angry at my father for the way he used his logic to crush my Mom’s spirit… and i have a disdain for hyper logical people who believe their logic supercedes what a people person needs no matter the context…

if it’s dealing with a dangerous situation or building a house structurally speaking, then logic rules… but if it’s a choice of color, or a conversation, or what goes in the home, then the subtler arts should have a voice…

i am still angry at those who build a tower of technical skill from which they look down on others, and use logic to negate anything which comes from anything other than a sterile, sharp cornered, precise world…

no, it’s not anger… it’s more pity… but when i see them using their logic against sweet people who are good hearted and caring, it’s anger…

and, to wrap it all up in a little bow, my anger, or their inappropriate and often malicious use of logic, is not very effective…

shifting paradigm now…

marvelous and high energy … made me happy to do… great students… the folks at the venue where this was held were really delighted… plans for another one already in process!

YAY!

Answered an email from a colleague who puts on a conference at which I have taught in the past… letting her know where I am (moved across co8ntry since last time), update her, etc.

Meanwhile, the school at which I will be teaching next weekend is THRILLED at the number of registrants. Well… me too.

I’m good at this, I love doing it, my students always are enthusiastic (several returning ones coming from long distances to local workshop), and it’s just… I need to stay on putting out feelers to do this more regularly.

for the local workshop. And have been good about getting them follow-up material whenever they needed it (“they” being the venue sponsoring the workshop.)

is yet another scattering of seeds and possibilities…

a national group that has state and regional conferences… I have spoken at many, in the area I used to live in. Today I contacted one in the new region in which I live.

Usually I wait to be asked – let’s see if nudging it aloong a little helps. If it does, look out!

I could send 1 such letter every day or two, maybe…