Frontiers Friday #66. See What You Hear, Hear What You See (Part IV)
Frontiers Friday #66. See What You Hear, Hear What You See (Part IV)
Today, we have a new blog about developing good taste, and some sketch notes.
✍️ NEW From My Desk: Develop Good Taste
Before you can develop good abilities, you’ve got to develop good taste.
If you want to develop as a musician, you’d want to develop an ear for music. You would then need to expose yourself to a wide array of different genres and different takes on different genres by different artists, as much as possible.
Unfortunately, many therapists don’t get the chance to view other therapists in a action –less than their figures can count. If you were a musician, your ears wouldn’t be seasoned enough to develop good taste if you only heard 10, 20, or even 30 artists.
In this blog, I talk about how to listen to the works of other therapists and a specific way of listening so as to encourage deep learning.🛑 Good Decision Making
Study this quadrant carefully.
Half of them makes intuitive sense. Good decision, good outcome. Bad decision, bad outcome.
Well, it's possible to make bad decisions and get a good outcome (e.g., Drive x2 of the speed limit--and drunk-- and you were unscathed).
It's also possible to make a good decision, and get a bad outcome. (e.g., You mustered the courage to approach a stranger at a party for a chat, but the person didn't want to engage).
Because of the wicked environment of therapy that operate in, it's a slippery slope in conflating outcomes and decisions.
See this related blogpost: The Music of Psychotherapy: Learning in a Wicked Environment.
(We talked about this in our Deliberate Practice Web-Based Workshop. Do check out Annie Duke's second book, How to Decide.)
☎️ From the Archives: Blackbox Thinking for Psychotherapists
First, the blackbox isn't black; it's orange.
They are 2 of these "black" boxes hooked up in planes. One stores the cockpit audio recordings, the other stores airplane instrument data. Whenever a crash occurs, the data from the black boxes is widely disseminated so everyone can learn what they need to do differently in order to avoid repeating the mistake.
I argue that every psychotherapists should develop their little own blackboxes. Here's 5 ways of how to do so, and 3 dispositions to take in order to grow something out of your very own blackbox.
Fun Fact: The black box was invented by a a young Australian scientist named Dr. David Warren in the mid 1950s. In turn, Australia became the first country in the world to make the Black Box mandatory for all commercial aircraft.
🎥 Video: Why Are These 32 symbols found all over Europe?
I was so intrigued by this video. The presenter argues that the written language was not built on a vaccum, but built upon graphic communication. Genieve vonPetzinger states that there are 32 universal symbols used across the last 30000 years across Europe.
Here it is:
So fascinating! I'm also surprised that there were no symbols for faces (no smiley?)
⏸ Words Worth Contemplating:
Good taste is an incredibly valuable skill, and you can acquire it with practice.
~ Author, Seth Godin.
We are now gearing up for the 11th cohort of Reigniting Clinical Supervision web-based course. It's going to kick off on the 20th of Dec, 2021.
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- This course is for clinical supervisors and those who want to skill up and create an impact.
- Registration has not yet opened, but if you are keen drop me an email to be on the waitlist.
EXCLUSIVE
- There is a BIG bonus. I have a "nuts and bolts" course on integrating measures into your work called Measured, that is worth $485... If you are signed up for the RCS course, I'm giving it to you FOR FREE!
Reflection:
Who are the therapists that you admire? What are the qualities that they have?
What does that say about the person that you are that admires this attributes?
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