Sylvia's Journal

I have been upgraded (or downgraded) from a plaster cast to a plastic brace with a lot of padding and Velcro. The break is healing but not yet fully healed, hence the brace. My fourth and fifth digits still need to be immobilized for at least 3 weeks.  

It remains difficult to write by hand. This morning one of the members of my Music and Imagery group suggested that I do my drawings with my left hand. I did. I even wrote the titles of my drawings with my left hand. Axel mentioned that this will be good for my brain, forcing it to rewire my writing circuitry. I think my brain is generally in good condition, what with all the reading and studying I do. But I should probably have started to practice writing with my left hand several weeks ago. Right now, my left-handwriting looks a bit like the writing of my six-year-old granddaughter. In the coming weeks I will be doing several interviews over Zoom. I don’t think note taking with my left hand will be possible quite yet. I will have to record.  Luckily, technology will help me with the transcribing.

Talking about technology, a few days ago I attended a demo of a platform called Gatherly. I would like to use this with one of my clients that is embarking on a (mostly remote) strategic planning process in the coming year. I am so impressed with the young people who are creating these amazing platforms (Wonder.me is another among many) that allow us to be together-apart in ways much more interesting and fun than Zoom, Google Meet or MS Teams.

The pandemic has forced us to go inside because we could not go outside. This appears to have triggered tremendous creativity and innovation. Not just in the technology field, but also of art in its many shapes and forms. There are amazing pieces of music being composed. There is so much art rising out of pandemic despair. 

Although I am not much in pandemic despair – we are weathering the pandemic under extremely lucky conditions—and I’m not creating new things in an artsy way, my brain is very busy with sense making.  I am reading and studying a lot, absorbing other peoples’ great ideas and thoughts about teams and group processes, converting them into approaches to deal with challenges my clients are throwing in my lap. I am going a bit out on a limb, especially about team coaching. My next, more advanced, team coaching training won’t start until another two weeks from now and practicing my new craft under supervision is even further out in the future. Fake it till you make it?