Monthly Archives: November 2007
Guided Prayer Training
Attended a short course today, at Ivy House in Warminster, on running weeks of guided prayer. This was an opportunity to learn about a way of doing things that I had not encountered before (i.e. people experiencing accompaniment and extra prayer alongside the normal rhythm of their daily lives, instead of “going away on retreat”) and to gather some resources.
Scuba Training
Last night all four of us started our PADI® Open Water Diver course, taught locally by The Divezone in Melksham (formerly Aqualeisure). We'll be learning in pools in Melksham, Bath, a disused quarry at Vobster, and hopefully the sea.
You may think that this is cold time of year to be diving in UK waters, but enthusiasts say, “What does it matter!?” The tuition is good here, and the timing is governed by Steph's extensive gap year timetable, leading up to some diving she will be doing in Mexico next year!
The course got off too a good and exciting start, although it does seem strange sitting on the bottom of a swimming pool, looking up at the surface, and breathing!
SIMA
This week I enjoyed SIMATM training in Oxford with a group of new friends.
I have enjoyed being on the receiving end of this coaching and am now licensed to use the system, and in particular the Who do you think you are? programme in my own coaching work.
The probably unique method is not based on filling in a questionnaire that then describes a person as one of a number of categories (who does like to be just a number or to have to fit in a particular box?) Instead it draws out a person's motivated abilities – what they enjoy doing and are good at – through structured interviewing. This information is then fed back through conversations, or an ongoing coaching process, to develop self-understanding and good decisions to be made about career and life choices.
SIMA stands for System for Identifying Motivated Abilities and was developed by Arthur Miller in the early 1960's. It has been used extensively ever since in Europe as well as the USA.
The Dawn Treader - Richard's Cabin 