Nathalie Tasler, PhD, SFHEA, MPhil, PGDip CCM, PGCert LTHE
Academic Development, Faculty Development, Hochschuldidaktik, Play and Creativity in Higher Education, SoTL
and slowing things down In spring one of my wonderful colleagues Mary McQuade lent me her copy of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and while I worked my way through the twelve week self-coaching, I began writing Morning Pages. Morning pages are a fairly straight forward writing technique: First thing in the morning, usually … Continue reading Let’s talk analogue journaling
Sometimes topics keep snagging my awareness until I pause and engage with them. One such topics over the last months was: presence. Continue reading Sunday thoughts: of showing-up and being present
if the day is like wading through treacle … free writing exercise … typos included (probably) Continue reading Treacle
Some thoughts about imperfection, gardening, and acts of citizenship. Continue reading The power of imperfection
A journaling system for managing significant amounts of reading. Continue reading New Note Making System Part 01: Keep track of reading
I have been taking some time off social media–and a blogging hiatus–with occasional bouts of words. Partly, it was due to leaving Twitter* and part of it was life.
Now I am trying to find a way of being again in these public spaces. Continue reading Coming up for Air after 24 months
Biggest take away from this year: don’t let childhood beliefs hold you back! I finally got a proper asthma diagnosis and treatment, and it has changed my life! Until this year I never told my GP all the symptoms because I put them down to not being fit, not being sporty. And I had a … Continue reading Biggest Take Away from 2021: Question your Childhood beliefs of yourself
About failed adventures, resilience, and preparing for the new academic year. Last week we spend four days in the Cairngorms (Scotland), as a short break after the summer was all but relaxing. However, the weird and wonderful mechanisms of stress and being worn out saw me reaching some physical and mental boundaries. And led to … Continue reading Falling into the Heather
This is one option, ten minutes dance-off while you are waiting for the next session to begin–by the by: beginning. Over the last couple of months people have been asking for suggestions of what do you do during these newly acquired breaks between meetings. You know the ones we used to use to run from … Continue reading Zoom Break Zumba
Over the last evenings I have been playing with digital and mixed media art to reflect on all the challenges faced working in higher education at the moment. In part these are responses to the irresponsible press articles demeaning online learning and teaching–it’s all just watching some videos after all, right?– dismissing the unbelievable amount … Continue reading Friday-Artday
As a little relief from remote working and self isolation sharing some photos from the garden and my daily walk, but also house plants. There have been a couple of articles making the rounds lately that indicate the postive impact of plants and house plants on mental health: https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=949 https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/cravings/201909/11-ways-plants-enhance-your-mental-and-emotional-health But without further ado the … Continue reading GardenMoments
I won’t be writing about remote working ever day just when things emerge that might be useful to share. Plan and Accountability Buddy So the accountability buddy system is definitely worthwhile! I haven’t had much chance of planning due to ad hoc meetings. However, after the morning chat with accountability buddy. We decided to treat … Continue reading Remote Working First Insights
ADHD and the issue of context switching These last couple of weeks, a term made the rounds in our department which I had never heard before and which finally gave me a picture to an issue I had for a while. There seems to be some struggle with context switching at the moment. Which made … Continue reading Context Switching
Connecting the Dots: Culture of Vulnerability, Possibility Thinking & Resilience Friday thoughts in three dots I am currently working on a couple of projects and research ideas. Some of the conceptual considerations came (more or less) together this morning. Mind you this post is the mind-mappingly drafting of a draft in an attempted linear form. … Continue reading Vulnerability, Possibility thinking and Resilience
Nathalie Tasler, PhD, SFHEA, MPhil, PGDip CCM, PGCert LTHE 