by Jerry Catt | Dec 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
While preparing a presentation on Self-Talk for the 2022 Idaho Conference on Refugees this following December 2017 post came to mind, written sometime during the Advent season nearly four years ago. When I conducted the Self-talk workshops at the University it was my... by Jerry Catt | Nov 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
I wonder about the capacity for openness and intimacy when listening. Though I’ve defined listening as the desire to be intimately present to the meaning of another, I readily admit this seems a rare occurrence. A significant factor is the impediment of will, i.e.,... by Jerry Catt | Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
A few of you may have read a bit of this content posted elsewhere sometime ago (on FB 2013) while I was still teaching at Boise State (my last semester was fall of 2015). In spite of my retirement status, now that it’s fall 2017 I can’t suppress the feeling – that I’d... by Jerry Catt | Aug 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
“The greatest secrets of our being are hidden from us, however: they lie in the secrecy of our depths.” Gaston Bachelard in Earth and Reveries of Repose: An Essay on Images of Interiority In recent months my focus has been to better understand how imagination assists... by Jerry Catt | Aug 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Try listening to another in a way that Rumi describes below — see if indeed their meanings essences are unleashed — as Bachelard reminds us “An ear that is intent is trying to see.” “Day before yesterday, fire whispered to the fragrant smoke, Aloes wood loves me,...
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