17.6.2010
I grew up in a small village north of Frankfurt am Main and went to school in Friedberg.
I did not go to University after graduation but trained in ornamental horticulture. After that I went to live in the USA, Texas for two years teaching English and French in a small misionary outfit. After living at home in Germany again for a year I then went to live in the UK- London working for a wholefood wholesale company. Then working in organic gardening a year in a convent in Richmond England. After that I moved to Ireland and worked there gardening organically again and attended the Organic College Dromcollogher, County Limerick. In the year 200 I returned to live in Germany to support my sister in careing for out ailing mother.
I then met my husband who is a Psychotherapist and I am training in NVC(Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg), we work from our house and are involved in creating a supportive and caring community. We live in a small town which dates back to the 15th Century and has wonderfully restored timberframed houses from that era.
Growing up in a school system that did not diagnoes dislexia as a learning disability during the 60ies I had a hard time aquiring writing and reading skills.
It all turned for me when I learned English as I somehow gave myself permission to make mistakes and this lifted the pressure off me. When I started meeting GI’s in Friedberg, Germany and realised my skills, and it was fun at the same time, it lifeted me out of the despair of feeling like a failure at school.
And up to this day I feel a sense of power and accompishment when I communicate in English. I have participated in other volunteering groups doing translation and interpretation work and this is really coming handy now as I have not done this kind of work for a while.
I am gratefull to have found it now, as I did not even notice it up to this day.
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Your passiona and how you keep in contact with yourself.
I think I live a pretty transparent life and folks know what I am good at.
Read on a friends twitter page and saw the titel of Dan Baxters "How I fell in love with a fish" I was laughing so hard my head started hurting, yet at the same time he transports such an important message that I kept going back tot TED for more talks. And I found a treasure chest and am happy to be a part of that work in making it more accessible to non-English speakers. I have friends who do speak English but Dan Barber is too fast for most of them.
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A comment on Talk: Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
I have been thinking along the lines of Steve’s talk very much myself.
I would like to share a few of my ideas of this issue.
Recently listended to a talk given by Hans-Peter Dürr, longtime co-worker of Heisenberg and co-developer of Quantum Physics and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics Munich.
He was talking about the importance of being in a "field of creativity" and talked about this very exchange of ideas among a young generation of physicist who trained under Heisenberg who were excited about his new approach to Physics.
He maintains that this very atmosphere was a “hotbed” of deveopment for the new emerging approch in Physics. Sadly he remarked that todays scientists in most fields are jealously hiding their ideas for fear of competition instead of sharing them with others and allow themselves to have the experience how shared ideas join up and grow.
A comment on Talk: Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
The Creative Commons and for example Wikipedia show that shared deveopment is the way to go. The research into Mirror Neurons* shows that positive social interactions are rewarded by the brain with “feel-good” hormones. And we all know we learn best with out fear and stress.
Another interesing view of this issue is Heinrich von Kleist's(poet and novelist) essay with the German titel "Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden" .. “the gradual creation of thinking while talking”.
Something happens when we can talk freely to another person, something of essence is manifesting. The basis of it is trust and a listening quality that needs to be cultivated in order to weave the tread of concsiousness which is wanting to express itself.
A comment on Talk: Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
Another issue of course is that there are many good ideas hidden away in some drawers, because the powers that be have no interest for them to be exposed and made known, because there is little commercially exploitation possible. And here I think we have one of the biggest challenges.
Our attitude to failure can also prevent good ideas from coming up and being shared with another person. I live in Germany and we have a very bad failure-culture, were it is almost slanderous to admitt to having erred and then it is of course difficult to trust to come out with something “crazy” and unusual.
To create a network of people who are willing to try unusual things where the commercial outcome can not be immediately identified is hard because the economic viability is often the first thing on peoples mind.
A comment on Talk: Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
There has to be an athmosphere of trust and support (love really) to create these “hotbeds” of good ideas and I think they are actually happening all over the world.
My experience of creating them in my own social sphere is to step out and be open and listen to others and be interested in them and their ideas as was mentioned earlier by somebody already, and take the first step to reach out.
*(RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation; recently recommended by TED