"We can only learn to love by loving."
Iris Murdoch
Browsing category: Learning
"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons."
Jessica Lange
"Learn from your dreams what you lack."
W. H. Auden
Our family is the first groups we belong to. They teach us how to behave in other groups. Think about where you sat in your family dynamic on the scales outlined in the activity. Were you more included or excluded in activities and conversations? Did you cause chaos and drama or try to induce peace and calm? Were you the one challenging the rules and comments made by your parents / care givers and siblings or were you the one who listened and did what was told? What about leading – did you dominate conversations and events or
"Those who grow old without learning the story that is trying to live through them don't become 'old enough' or ancient enough to serve the dream of life." Michael Meade
"All learning is remembering. All teaching is reminding. All lessons are memories, recaptured." Neale D. Walsch
"Being able to go beyond the information given to figure things out is one of the few untarnishable joys of life." Jerome Bruner
In Activity 3: Identifying Your Life Script you were able to identifying which of the life script forms best represented a pattern of how you engage with the world. The key point of this activity was to increase your awareness of some of the motivations driving your behaviour. Reflecting on Life Scripts is not about judging yourself as good or bad. We share a human experience of all having underpinning stories and we each arrived at our ways of being in the world because of the events and people in our lives. We all have
Finding patterns that run through our lives can help us better understand how certain behaviours or repeating thoughts occur in our life story. If we want to consciously move into a new behaviour and a more enriched story for our lives, we need to spend some time looking at our patterns. The father of transnational analysis, Eric Berne, discovered that there are what he called life scripts that recur across the human family. The ways these scripts come into being are of course diverse, but there are similarities in the patterns
"Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world." Malala Yousafzai