The Quirk on the Hill: Moodling + paying attention

The Quirk on the Hill: Moodling + paying attention: Moodle is a term I came across in Brenda Ueland's book - If you want to write . In it she says "So you see the imagination needs ha...

Book to buy!!

My friend Kate Evans' book has been published. I believe it will help many!! Will be recommending it to anyoe who passes in Academia and for our students.

https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/other-books/pathways-through-writing-blocks-in-the-academic-environment/

Oh to be in Cambridge now Spring is nearly here

I cam across this project and wish I was nearer so I could experience all of it.

http://www.thresholds.org.uk/

This blog post from Roselle Angwin made me think about the stories we share in healthcare. The press love the bad sensationalist ones.

This made me think about how my vision to integrate creative/expressive arts in healthcare has a place in the human consciousness. Roselle was one of the first practitioners of writing and well being back in 2004 when I first stumbled upon the power of poetry - her work continues to be inspirational.


http://roselle-angwin.blogspot.co.uk/

Reblogged from qualia and other wildlife: once more into the nude, dear friends, once more

qualia and other wildlife: once more into the nude, dear friends, once more: Where I'm directed to sit in the maxillo-facial corridor of the Outpatients' Department of Torbay Hospital there's a huge red and blue sign ...

Stirring up memories

Reading Annie Cooper's blog  today has surfaced memories for me about what I saw and found difficult when I was a student. Like her I remember reporting what I thought was bad practise but can't remember the detail. I appear to have forgotten what happened next - I must have been questioned and completed paperwork BUT I can't remember...
Someone once suggested I look to the War Poets as a model for writing poetry about my student days. At the time I thought this was a little dramatic and in no way was my experience that bad but thinking about it now makes me think that maybe it was. I have buried a lot of emotional responses to those 3 years and I suspect I suffered from emotional trauma that stays with me until this day. I try and keep it out of the classroom but it motivates me every single time I am with the students. Just because I had a c**p three years doesn’t mean they have to.

My group of students have just finished University and will be signing themselves over to the NMC soon as they pay for their first registration. Their collective thanks for my guidance through the last three years was very moving I was touched by their gratitude thinking it is only my job, but I care about them and make sure they don't come away spending the next 30 years trying to repair the damage. I still have work to do about that as I contemplate meeting the next cohort in 4 weeks time.

The book!!

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hj100uC2W08C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Please take a look at this and if interested and feeling flush - buy it. I am pleased to be included in this gorgeous offering. Chapter 9