Australian General Semantics
Society
Saturday
13 August, 2006 at Gavan's
General-semantics
and Human Relationships
Your
relationships and what GS can do to help improve them
Led by David Hewson
First we looked at what problems we have in our relationships.
People talked about the problems they had at work (co workers and bosses) and with family members (eg sister and son).
We then discussed what factors cause these problems.
Then we talked about which general-semantics formulations can help. e.g. That others don't cause your emotions exclusively and that you have a lot of control over them. We considered the ABC model, and the issue of blaming others, which is not generally the best way to handle a behavioural problem.
Finally we talked about how best to apply what we know, as shown in the following diagram:
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The AGS Annual General Meeting was conducted with
appropriate aplomb.
The officers elected were:
President: Mr Robert James,
V.President: Mr Laurie Cox
Treasurer: Mr Gavan Callaghan
Secretary: Mrs Pauline Davis
Public Officer: Mr David Hewson
Membership, Media, Mapping,
Marketing, Making Money and Monitoring Manager:
Mr Dion
Wilton.
Laurie Cox reported on his visit to Spain to see Isabel Caro
(GS therapist, writer and scholar).
Laurie will be placing 3 papers by Caro in the AGS library.
The
next meeting, in August is on
August
Sun 13th at Gavan's
General-semantics and human
relationships
Your
relationships and what GS can do to help improve them.
Led by David Hewson