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Adrian Underhill
Plenary: The Web of
Relationship
The web of relationship touches
everything that happens in the classroom. It relates the attitudes
and intentions of the teacher with the quality of engagement and
confidence experienced by the learner. The web includes our relationship
to ourselves, to the task, and to others. It helps to transform
a task into a challenge. Indeed we can participate with our students
in consciously designing and weaving this web, and in being supported
by it.
Workshop 1: Self Esteem
and Accurate Empathy
A practical workshop on giving
confidence to a speaker (e.g. a student) through the quality of
the teacher's own listening and presence. Starting with the simple
act of listening with warmth, presence and attentiveness, we will
explore how that can enable the speaker to speak from another
level where she feels more herself and more able to say what she
wants to say. We will observe some very simple inner movements
for bringing trust and empathy into the transaction between two
or more people, and for allowing another to take the risk of being
who they are.
Workshop 2: Developing
Confidence in Critical Moments
We will explore some of the ways
we respond to difficult or unexpected situations in the classroom,
those critical moments when we lose our poise and our confidence,
and things go in a direction we did not choose and do not want.
We will look at how to turn such situations to everybody's advantage,
and at how to land on our feet and help others do the same, so
that whatever happens is part of the lesson. Practical, improvisatory
and liberating.
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