Sunday Seminar 20 March 2005
“How to apply GS in your Everyday life. Part II”
Methods, exercises and practice, on how to
apply relevant GS formulations,
to your every day life problems and
situations.
Presenter: David Hewson
1) Warm up (Context for learning)
a) Overview of the day and give short talk
about a problem definition –
i) Where we are. (Unsane behaviour)
ii) Where we want to be. (Sane
behaviour.)
iii) Barriers that are stopping us from
changing.
b) People write up “two
affirmations for someone” exercise.
i.e. on strips of paper provide your feedback, cover it up by folding it
over and pass it on. The results will
be read back later - after the Group Problem Solving Exercise.
2) Barriers
to Action.
a) Start with a
structure and context & GS formulations exercises,
eg: the order of
object, event, fact, evaluation and inference levels.
b)
Now apply the structuring and context method to “Thought
Control of Action: Interfering Self-Doubts” paper.
Reading and discussion
of the papers, structuring the
formulations.
c)
Discuss the results.
3) ***
Lunch ***
Another wonderful
lunch catered by Gavan.
4) Discussion on abstraction and
generalising. (Start of review method exercise.)
a)
Discussion:
The Structural
Differential and generalising.
b)
Discuss over generalising.
i) Example from Psychology book about
children’s ideas on cats/dogs.
ii) Ask for other examples from group.
iii) Talk about behaviour-person
over-generalisation. Quote
from ETC 62-1 P 5
c)
Extensional example of over generalising in the group.
d)
Do exercise on over generalising. (i.e. Evaluate after many
cases.)
e) Lessons
learnt applied to a students personal experience form a previous seminar.
f) Do the
GS exercises that include structuring and other GS formulations like –
i) Fact-inference (“I turn around and the
whole world revolves around me”) and
ii) Projection (“a rose is red” , “I’m
worthwhile if I have skills.”)
iii) GS definition method. i.e. Use
Extension and not Intension. Apply to
Consciousness.
5) Group works on sample problems
We use the Modified
6)
Conclusion
a) Summarise
what methods have been used:
i) Revision/repetition for Laurie and
us.
ii) And the structuring/context method.
b)
Positive feedback time.
Distribution of the question
slips which were completed at start of the session.
7)
Some Post-Seminar Thoughts from the Presenter …
a) AK (S&S p 406) on the natural order of abstracting
"When we introduce the ordinal language, we should
notice that under known conditions we deal with an ordered natural series;
namely, events first, object next; object first, label next; description first,
inferences next, etc."
(Also see diagram on p 445) Note that AK doesn't mention evaluation in the list order.
b) Communication
Here's some homework: what's the difference between identification and projection.
c) The paper on worry.
I congratulate the group on its ability to cope with the long academic paper. I hope you came away with some formulations from it that you may want to apply to your lives. The aim was to present you with the info. What you do with it is your decision. Also I wanted to do an exercise on structuring information.
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(Updated 29/3/05)