Social Advocacy – Be the Solution
The end goal needs to be written first. It all comes back to a backward-design process. A process that helps professionals be able to make the best decisions. Decisions that will provide someone else with the best possible outcome for life. SOCIAL ADVOCACY Social advocacy is a process. Often, it is the humanitarian that we have to train first. We train them to be able to make meaningful referrals, and why we make them. It may take time, but by learning why, who, and when to make referrals, you may save a life. You guard your community. While my background is inconsequential, I do understand enough to know when to…
Learning Environments – Comfort Zones & The Sound Experience | Ambience Masking
Sound travels, so do ideas, thoughts, and perceptions. But are they clear? Do you know what others are hearing, or are your conversations just background ambience? It is always helpful to understand a little about the difference between environments before designing your educational or working spaces. –Offices -Cubicles -Open office -Hot desking. I would have to add one more to this list -Learning Environment, the classroom Learning Environment – a shift – moving the comfort zone I recall a trimester I filled in for a high school instructor who sailed off into oblivion, never to be seen again. A lot led up to a couple new designs that I would…
The year is 1982, and my little family was green before green was cool
The year is 1982, and my little family was green before green was cool. Fast-forward to today, I wonder if our ideas and what we learned in the early 80’s could outlast the years. I thought so. If nothing else, it would get those creative juices flowing for those who like to tinker with new ideas. We were green before green was cool. We were green before green was cool. As I have aged, I’ve been judged for a lot of things – one being that I’m not an environmentalist. I think too “locally” to ever be a true environmentalist. I’m too old school. That term environmentalist (or conservationist) unfortunately, has been…
A Gentleman’s Agreement – What ever happened to the term
A Gentleman's Agreement - What ever happened to the term
Is change a distraction to cover up disruption
Is change a distraction to cover up disruption? You can have all the systems in place that you want, but if you don’t know who to call when trouble happens, what good will your systems be? Fifteen years later and businesses still call on their past employees for help. There are some skills that cannot be easily shared, or packaged in a system. Licenses and professional trades that only a few aspire to ever learn. Hands-on crafts and design work are true pieces of wonder. You can’t systemize dreams, and you can’t bottle creativity. What makes people think they can systemize another man’s or woman’s thoughts? Processes can be systemized,…
