Tag: creativity
Reach For It
As often happens when teaching the Communication Styles Framework, someone will spontaneously say, “Oh, I just realized something I’d never thought of before.” This happened recently during a workshop with a management group. The discussion centered on how differently we organize our workspaces, which was actually a side discussion that began when one member expressed [...]
Posted: December 3rd, 2011 under Stories, Workplace.
Tags: creativity, impulsive, kinesthetic, organizational style, problem-solving, visual-spatial
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Seeing and Feeling the Dance
Derek had a ten-year dance career, and now at age thirty-two it was time for him make a change. Clearly he was in transition and wanted to find a way to include dance in his life in some form. So we explored his interests, ideas and strengths. When we talked about choreography, I asked him [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2011 under Stories, Workplace.
Tags: brain development, choreography, creativity, dance, kinesthetic, movement, visual memory
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Two Stories—Two Pictures
Ned is a very active seven year old boy—tireless and constantly in motion. His continuous imaginative play is captivating, both to himself and to anyone watching him. Within a minute of seeing a stick and a piece of crumpled up paper, for example, he has combined them with other objects to form a spaceship that [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2010 under Counseling, Kids, Parenting, Stories.
Tags: attention, creativity, kinesthetic, listening, Parenting, visual-spatial
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Communication Styles in Counseling
My early experience in counseling was primarily with children. Working with children requires flexibility and creativity, and through studying the work of Clark Moustakas and Virginia Axline, I learned that communication in play takes many forms—words, behavior, symbols, and feelings. And, of course, there is the primacy of the working relationship. This nuanced and textured [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Counseling.
Tags: behavior, cognitive-behavioral, creativity, gestalt, hypnotherapy, interventions, kinesthetic, learning style, linguistic, logical, multiple intelligences, symbols, validation
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The Thinking Out Loud blog is a natural extension of Bob Keteyian's book "Do You Know What I Mean?".