our clan: we are the capybaras
Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth."
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin via Sea Horse“The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh. These assignments by Professor Bump do not only exist to help improve my writing skills. Through these blogs, I hope to also improve my ability to open my heart and love all sentient-beings (mankind and animal), as well as learn how to love myself better." Owl
Emotional Intelligence and Emotive Ethics
"Well, after this I should think nothing of falling down stairs."
SCHEDULE: first half of alphabet : Bee, Orca, Crab, Elephant, Sea Otter, Coyote, Milk Snake, Hummingbird:
10-22, 10-29, 11-5, 11-12, 11-26, 12-5
2nd half of alphabet: White Horse, Sea Horse, Raven, Fox, Timber Wolf, Owl, Gray Wolf, Dolphin, Black Bear:
10-17, 10-24, 10-31, 11-7, 11-19, 12-3
GOALS For "Best and Worst"
[2A2] ETHICS
[2A2] To practice the emotive ethics (compassion) that is the essence of the ethical componenet of this course; to practice listening and sharing inspired by James Pennebaker's research.*
[3] PLAN II GOALS
[3C1] To unify the self, our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.
*"Anyone who has ever entrusted a troubling secret to a journal, or mourned a broken heart with a friend, knows the feeling of relief that expressing painful emotions can bring. This book presents astonishing evidence that personal self-disclosure is not only good for our emotional health, but boosts our physical health as well.
Psychologist James W. Pennebaker has conducted controlled clinical research that sheds new light on the powerful mind body connection. This book interweaves his findings with insightful case studies on secret-keeping, confession, and the hidden price of silence. Filled with information and encouragement, Opening Up explains:
*Why suppressing inner problems takes a devastating toll on health
*How long-buried trauma affects the immune system
*How writing about your problems can improve your health
*Why it's never too late to heal old emotional wounds
*When self-disclosure may be risky--and how to know whom to trust"
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GOALS FOR FEEDBACK:
BONDING: see course description on CRUE, humane education, and the liberal arts goals of tapping and integrating entire self
Why emotional literacy, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE?
See course description on emotive ethics
Essential for appreciation of literature, especially authors such as Shakespeare, Toni Morrison, etc.
Assists our writing goals, esp. "composition" of self
Facilitates our Independent Inquiry Goals: “Know Thyself”
Essential to meet our Leadership Goals: see connection between Emotional Intelligence and Leadership
See these readings
281 Know Thyself
282-5 Leadership, EQ, and Both Sides of the Brain
286-8 Emotional Intelligence
289-91 Harmonizing Emotion and Thought
292-3 “The Man Without Feelings”
294-5 “The Roots of Empathy”
296 David Lee Powell, Plan II student
297 Molesters and Sociopaths
298 “I Am a Rock”; “Comfortably Numb”
314 Love
315 Joy
316 Peacefulness
317 “Know Thyself”
318-19 Enjoyment; Acceptance
320-2 Enthusiasm323-5 Definition of Passion
326-7 Definition of Compassion
328 Definition of Empathy
329-30 Definition of Sympathy331 Definition of Sympathetic Imagination
332-3 Companion to Ethics by Singer, Table of Contents
334-37 The Ethics of Sympathy: summary338-9 Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics ed. Donovan and Adams, Table of Contents
Definitions of Love
Children Full of Life
Learning How to Feel [this movie was made by a student especially concerned about suicide. The instructor was interviewed in his office but had not seen the movie when the interviewer asked him to hold up the television prop. All the student interviews were done without the knowledge of the instructor. It is not in any way an instructor's promotional video, nor was or is any student required to view it. ]
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On the heath, King Lear asked Gloucester: “How do you see the world?” And Gloucester, who is blind, answered:" I see it feelingly."
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REVIEW: Best and Worst sharings
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- CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY:
- Your Head and Your Heart
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