I'll present on this for Max's class Monday. It pushes me to get some more serious prep in mind for this spring's small group communication class. James and Vangie have their site up now, for Chaos Management. It might be one of the best resources for group relations type info on the web. I'll check out the AKRice Institute too...undoubtedly, these are the two most significant influences upon me in this area.
I'm working on an intrapersonal hypothesis (more on that later, just don't want to forget).
I saw one of my former COM250 students on Wednesday, Liz. She's doing well, asked how I was and how this semester's class is going. :-) It is So Much Better because of the feedback her class gave me! I'd also seen one of those students a couple times early in the semester, Gina. Who was also doing well then, and I assume since. (I hope!) Liz suggested that maybe one of the reasons last semester didn't go as well as I'd hoped was "because of everything [I] had going on." There is no doubt in my mind that there is a correlation - all aspects of our lives interact to some extent with the other aspects - if only in the way we generate and maintain boundaries between them.
Apparently several members of the Studente Government at UMass thought it would be amusing to fool around with KKK symbology at a party. Someone took photographs. There's a rally tomorrow at noon; I'll be on my way to a job so can't go. Trying to think about how to incorporate something about it into my class.....it crosses a line that one would think folks would understand is inappropriate to developing relationships (assuming there is a desire to make such connections to begin with). How can I integrate it into a lesson on interpersonal communication?
Between the process mediation workshop and Betty's poster session on self-regulation, I finally have a conceptual understanding of inhibiting) one's own desires.
