Spent Wednesday afternoon at Gatwick Airport in a regular monthly meeting with Lyz Cooper and Narayani Guibarra. Continuing our progress with forming a sound therapy association. Those of you reading this post who are interested in learning more about what we've done so far can check out our progress at our website: http://www.soundtherapynetwork.org/stassn.htm.
Since March this year we've regular meetings and we're making good headway. Our Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice have been agreed so next step are the Training Standards. Hoping tol get more input from the sound community at large by sending out a newsletter and questionnaire to those establishments we know are offering courses of one kind or another as part of our discussion process before drawing these up.
We also discussed holding a sound symposium in 2011 and agreed dates in March subject to them not clashing with Easter that year. All exciting stuff!
Saturday, 22 August 2009
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
html and beyond!
Since last year I've been learning - on and off - about web design and using css. I'm finding it quite a process of refining and developing - a definite work in progress. First I introduced color to the site to help define different areas of information. Then I realized that I needed to update how our information is presented, so I'm currently working on new styles of both presentation and content. Here's a sample of the new layout if you're interested: http://www.ardenwilken.com/categorylist.htm - let me know what you think. Does it make the content more user friendly I wonder?
Thursday, 2 July 2009
The beginning of a journey
...welcome!
Been a traveller of one kind or another most of my adult life. Left Ol' Blighty (aka England) in my mid-twenties for what I thought would be a short-lived adventure - traveling across the US - and inadvertently opened a door to so many different adventures. All of which have been enriching and nourishing for me personally.
My 'journey' with Inner Sound began when I first met Arden & Jack on that trip in the early 80's. A mutual friend introduced us. One brief but bold letter of introduction later, I found myself staying with this intriguing couple on their tiny sailboat, Lookfar.
At the time, they were at anchor off the shore of Isla Mujeres (near Cancun), an idyllic setting for any journey to begin. Later, we crossed the Gulf of Mexico and traveled up the Eastern Seaboard together, all the way from Florida to Newport, Rhode Island - a pretty amazing introduction to life on the ocean waves for any landlubber! I LOVED it.
The journey wasn't all plain sailing though (excuse the pun). Indeed, Jack and I would so frequently pass our days in heated discussions about the differences in our respective cultures (him a native of Santa Monica, me a Londoner) - that I would wonder what the hell I was doing there. We couldn't have been more different. But for reasons that were not clear to me then, I found this couple intriguing. Their life-style and philosophies were completely alien to me and because they were so different I found myself sticking around.
Being a Taurean with a penchant for determined effort (some might say stubbornness lol), I persevered in my efforts to respond to Jack's incessant enquiries about British culture, not always patiently I have to admit. Almost on a daily basis I experienced an inner mortified embarrassment that nearly every time we engaged in a conversation I'd find myself defending a way of life I had been only too happy to distance myself from a few months before. The irony was not lost on me - and somehow I felt 'trapped'!
That trip was the first of many such experiences over the years - where events conspired to demonstrate a bemusing gap between my personal perception of reality - and something else going on! My solution to my 'problems' (as I perceived them) - 'leaving it all behind' - never quite worked out how I imagined it would. Eventually, I'd come to realize that I'd only succeeded in packing those same 'problems' right along with me - as part of my 'internal' baggage - bringing them along for the ride! But that took a few years - and a few trips!!
Back then, I had no idea of the role this couple would play in my life, but that first 'journey' was the beginning of many that have transpired during our enduring friendship that has lasted half my life; and which has been instrumental in helping me learn how to resolve a great many of those so-called 'problems'.
Been a traveller of one kind or another most of my adult life. Left Ol' Blighty (aka England) in my mid-twenties for what I thought would be a short-lived adventure - traveling across the US - and inadvertently opened a door to so many different adventures. All of which have been enriching and nourishing for me personally.
My 'journey' with Inner Sound began when I first met Arden & Jack on that trip in the early 80's. A mutual friend introduced us. One brief but bold letter of introduction later, I found myself staying with this intriguing couple on their tiny sailboat, Lookfar.
At the time, they were at anchor off the shore of Isla Mujeres (near Cancun), an idyllic setting for any journey to begin. Later, we crossed the Gulf of Mexico and traveled up the Eastern Seaboard together, all the way from Florida to Newport, Rhode Island - a pretty amazing introduction to life on the ocean waves for any landlubber! I LOVED it.
The journey wasn't all plain sailing though (excuse the pun). Indeed, Jack and I would so frequently pass our days in heated discussions about the differences in our respective cultures (him a native of Santa Monica, me a Londoner) - that I would wonder what the hell I was doing there. We couldn't have been more different. But for reasons that were not clear to me then, I found this couple intriguing. Their life-style and philosophies were completely alien to me and because they were so different I found myself sticking around.
Being a Taurean with a penchant for determined effort (some might say stubbornness lol), I persevered in my efforts to respond to Jack's incessant enquiries about British culture, not always patiently I have to admit. Almost on a daily basis I experienced an inner mortified embarrassment that nearly every time we engaged in a conversation I'd find myself defending a way of life I had been only too happy to distance myself from a few months before. The irony was not lost on me - and somehow I felt 'trapped'!
That trip was the first of many such experiences over the years - where events conspired to demonstrate a bemusing gap between my personal perception of reality - and something else going on! My solution to my 'problems' (as I perceived them) - 'leaving it all behind' - never quite worked out how I imagined it would. Eventually, I'd come to realize that I'd only succeeded in packing those same 'problems' right along with me - as part of my 'internal' baggage - bringing them along for the ride! But that took a few years - and a few trips!!
Back then, I had no idea of the role this couple would play in my life, but that first 'journey' was the beginning of many that have transpired during our enduring friendship that has lasted half my life; and which has been instrumental in helping me learn how to resolve a great many of those so-called 'problems'.
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