by Havi Brooks | Mar 1, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Something I find both incredibly frustrating and empowering at the same time is how there is at least one exception to just about everything I think is true. So. No big surprise, but I’ve been using this thing of finding the exceptions as part of the...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 27, 2011 | my personal practice, working on patterns & habits
One of the things I’ve been messing around with lately is my relationship with piles of things. I pile. I pile a lot. This is a known thing. But it’s not just the usual Stacks of Useful Paper that I tend to think of inhabiting my pile-loving world. And...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 25, 2011 | my personal practice
We’re rallying at the Rally (Rally!), projectizing our projects. And one of the things we’re doing while we work and play is this: We’re noticing how we are what the patterns are. We’re taking notes. We’re asking WHY LIKE THIS? Yes,...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 5, 2011 | stucknesses & stuckification
Or: the difference between process and actual destuckifying. When people set off on the trail of destuckification, it often happens that they hit the Grinding Your Wheels In The Mud phase. What wheel-grinding looks and sounds like: Looping conversations in our head,...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 4, 2011 | stuff I think about
So. I was at the Playground yesterday — the center where I teach this stuff — doing what I often do: Moving things around. Figuratively too, but mostly literally. Pushing one table this way. Moving another to the Galley (because the Playground is also a...
