tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483308062363305348.post3138591869510995516..comments2024-03-21T07:24:50.120+00:00Comments on tonywarne: Climate, Differences, Conferences and ColleaguesTony Warnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04506498431920207279noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483308062363305348.post-19811404619446187832010-04-09T10:57:15.544+01:002010-04-09T10:57:15.544+01:00I have just stumbled upon your blog, and I like wh...I have just stumbled upon your blog, and I like what I read so far. I wanted to ask you a question if you don’t mind, as a future nursing student and wondered, if you could advise how you feel about students blogging themselves, totally unrelated to nursing i.e. obviously not writing about anything such as clinical placements etc.. but just in general about their everyday life. It may sound like a strange question but as someone who has kept a blog online for many years and in particular the last year has had an increased amount of followers because of good changes in there life, I have recently been led to believe that blogging may not be welcomed by the university and have written a last post which I am really rather flustered about since blogging has played such an important part in my life for so long. I guess you could say I feel like I’ve been a little misled especially when I see yourself writing a blog online which is very good by the way. Blogging is a very good way to express yourself, but in this day and age it’s also a great way to communicate with so many different people. My own blog has reached out to quite people over the years and I’ve recently picked up an award for it this year. I really would value your opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4483308062363305348.post-65394557808346571442010-04-04T13:33:26.255+01:002010-04-04T13:33:26.255+01:00I loved the first picture on the blog, it reminded...I loved the first picture on the blog, it reminded me of Freud’s Topographical Model, the iceberg analogy of the conscious, pre-conscious and unconscious, the latter being the mass accrued deep within. It was the reflection or mirroring of the icebergs that attracted my attention, how that which is exposed above the surface has a mirror image in the depths of the ocean. But is what surfaces simply [sic] a mirror image of what lies beneath? Perhaps in keeping with your notion of climate oscillation, as human beings we also oscillate between those intra-psychic places that are familiar, safe and reassuring, regardless of them being good or bad, and those inter and extra-personal spaces that can be both exhilarating and frightening. In relation to our work around knowledge and knowing, it is in the inter and extra-personal space where the not knowing is likely to occur causing us to retreat into the intra-psychic place of safety. In terms of the conference you describe, being in the exposed space of the inter and extra-personal is akin to being on the threshold of new discovery which can be troublesome and may challenge the underlying ‘mass’ of our humanness. <br /><br />Listening to the radio and enjoying some peace before embarking on a family get together to celebrate Easter the above made me go onto think about those who have recently experienced such troublesome knowledge. For those, who over the years have found reassurance and safety in their faith in Catholicism, may now be troubled by the revelations regarding child sexual abuse within the church. Whilst Pope Benedict made no direct reference to the abuse in his Easter address, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, today apologised for his comment that the ‘church had lost credibility’, the effects of exposing the abuse may have left many floundering in what was their sea of familiarity. Whilst they thrash around looking for a place to anchor themselves we need to be mindful that children were abused and in being so were denied their place of safety. As a mental health nurse who has worked with people who had experienced the devastating effects of childhood sexual abuse this is one threshold, as a moral society we need to cross regardless of how troublesome this knowledge might be.<br /><br />On a lighter note, whilst I’m sure Bolton has many attractions there is something very attractive about sitting on the harbour front, glass of Shiraz in hand watching people go by in 24C!Sue McAndrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02799295515887310457noreply@blogger.com