Podcasts about communication education

In the second episode of the Communication & Education miniseries, host Elyssa Katz is joined by Marian Grant and Tony Back, two national leaders in the hospice and palliative care community and co-creators of the Serious Illness Messaging Toolkit (seriousillnessmessaging.org). Together they cover community education, a critical topic for care-at-home providers and particularly for hospice and palliative care providers who face additional challenges with common stigmas about the care and services they provide. Listeners will leave with practical, evidence-based principles and accessible resources to assist them in capturing public interest without reinforcing misconceptions.

This week on Radically Loved, Rosie Acosta and Charles Duhigg discuss the importance of communication and the lack of communication education in schools. They explore the three different types of conversations - practical, emotional, and social - and how understanding these can improve our connections with others. Charles shares the skills of asking deep questions, proving that we're listening, and showing a desire to connect. They also discuss the power of connection and the impact it has on our well-being. Charles emphasizes the importance of maintaining close relationships and weak ties. Overall, the conversation highlights the significance of effective communication in building meaningful connections. Three reasons to listen to the whole podcast:  1. Communication education is lacking in schools, leading to a lack of understanding and practice in effective communication skills. 2. Asking deep questions, proving that we're listening, and showing a desire to connect are important skills in effective communication. 3. Connection is essential for our well-being, and maintaining close relationships and weak ties can have a significant impact on our happiness and success. Timestamps (00:00:00) Introduction   (00:02:15) Importance of Communication Education in Schools (00:04:53) The Impact of Bi-cultural Backgrounds on Communication (00:10:34) Understanding the Three Types of Conversations (00:22:19) Skills for Effective Communication (00:27:55) The Power of Connection and Relationships (00:37:02) Conclusion and Taking Action Resources: Website: https://www.charlesduhigg.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charlesduhigg/  Books: https://www.charlesduhigg.com/all-books Enjoy the Podcast? Love to give us 5 stars? Help us reach more people and make them feel loved. A simple way is to share what you've learned today on social media. Don't forget to follow and message us on these platforms! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosieacosta/ Twitter: https::twitter.com/rosieacosta Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/radicallylovedrosie TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itsrosieacosta Website: https://www.radicallyloved.com/ Get You Are Radically Loved the book: https://www.radicallyloved.com/book Try Headspace for 30 days free! use code: ROSIE30  www.headspace.com Sign up for 'The Mindful Love Hub' on Substack: https://radicallyloved.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web&r=2t314w Create a daily meditation ritual in just seven days! Download BUILD YOUR DAILY MEDITATION RITUAL and other freebies at https://www.radicallyloved.com/free-stuff! Connect with Tessa Tovar: Website: https://tessatovar.com/   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessamarietovar/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHMYm-7kNZfulgaiCi2w8Cw Book of Poetry for Savasana: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Moon-Book-Poetry-Savasana/dp/1731243588

In this episode, Maria Coryell-Martin shares how her passion emerged out of collaborating with scientists to help tell their stories through art.Sponsored by ConceptsThis episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts, a perfect tool for sketchnoting, available on iOS, Windows, and Android.Concepts' infinite canvas lets you to sketchnote in a defined area while still enjoying infinite space around it — to write a quick note, scribble an idea or to keep pre-drawn visual elements handy for when you need them most.The infinite canvas lets you stretch out and work without worrying if you'll run out of space. 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Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!Episode TranscriptMike Rohde: Hey everyone, it's Mike and I'm here with my friend Maria Coryell-Martin. Maria, it's so good to have you on the show.Maria Coryell-Martin: Oh, I'm thrilled to be here, Mike. Thank you so much for having me.MR: You're so welcome. I had an opportunity to work with you on your YouTube channel, I think, was that last year or 2021? I can't remember now. It's so all a blur. We had a blast working together and you popped in mind for this season, and I said I need to have Maria on to talk about the work she's doing because she's a really interesting person. It's gonna stretch our listeners' minds a little bit further, which is always a good thing. Why don't you begin by telling us who you are and what you do?MC-M: Great. Well, my name is Maria and I'm an expeditionary artist and also the founder of Art Toolkit. I wear a lot of hats in my work.MR: Exactly.MC-M: Business owner and artist. The expeditionary art part came first. I've always been passionate about art, science, and education. And using a sketchbook is really how I've interpreted the world, and going out and just nonstop sketching ever since I was really little. I brought a few things to share so those of you who pop over to YouTube later.My father was a scientist and so I grew up really curious about his work and the scientific process. Part of his work brought him to the Arctic. He was studying the formation of sea ice. We grew up with Arctic parkas in the closet, and I remember big maps on the ceiling of my room.His work also brought him to Japan where he was invited to teach. This had a big influence on me because we lived down the street from a brush maker in Tokyo. The brush I'm holding up right now is one that he made out of my own hair before I left when I was, I think 11 years old. I would go up there and paint with him and my mom would help, but we didn't speak much of the same language, but the connecting over art was a really important part of my experience.He made this brush as becoming of age gift for me out of my own hair which he told me was a tradition in Japan. Ever since I was young, I've really known that art has this important place and who I am and how I experience the world, and how I can interact with it. That's where that idea of art as a tool started for me as a tool for communication, for education, for learning, for connecting, and haven't really stopped with that.MR: That's really great. And that's led, of course, to Art Toolkit, which is your business that sells materials that encourage that expeditionary art mindset or activity.MC-M: Yeah. With expeditionary art, I went to Carleton College. I grew up in Seattle, Carleton's in Minnesota, and really enjoyed traveling in part, maybe to get away from some of those Minnesotan winters, but had the opportunity to do some terrific study abroad programs, including the South Pacific, which was an art and printmaking program, Mali, West Africa, to study French and local culture and dialects languages. And took myself on some independent projects.Everywhere I went, the sketchbook again was such a part of what I did and how I experienced the world. After graduating Carleton, I had what's called a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel and paint for a year. The Watson basically funds dreams for unique opportunity for 50 select graduates of this consortium of colleges.My particular dream was to travel to remote regions and paint and learn about how the landscape impacted me and the artists I can meet, how the landscape was reflected through their art. Long story short, I got a lot of practice in painting and traveling, and really my passion emerged outta that of collaborating with scientists whenever possible to help tell their story through art 'cause I've always loved science.The Art Toolkit came because I had this puzzle of traveling with art supplies and needing to keep everything portable. As an artist, part of just who I am is I really like to make things and to try and make things better. I was always tinkering every trip with the tools I had.I'm holding up now my first little watercolor palette I made, which just of out of an Altoids tin. And inside it is Sculpey, which I pushed a pencil in to make little holes and spray paint it. You see, Sculpey is really heavy, and so, it's not really like a backpacking pallet, and it's a little bulky.I thought, "I want stuff to be all in one, what can I do better?" Here's another one. This pallet is out of a Lamy safari pencil box or open box. I used this time little plastic pans that I could glue inside the tin. Some of them I put on magnets and held a lot more colors. It's lighter weight than my old mint tin, but still heavy.I had a trip to Eastern Greenland in 2010 with a walrus biologist. It was just really fun trip. We did a lot of sneaking up on walruses to observe them. The scientists were taking tissue samples, which was a cool process because they basically modified a crossbow to shoot a little tiny metal plug into—like imagine the tip of a pencil, you know? That was hollow.It'd take just a little plug of tissue out of the animal to get a little DNA sample. The walrus were sleeping in the sun, and they would grumble when they got poked. And then they'd fall back asleep, like, not a big deal. But sneaking up on these animals, we'd wear these zipper suits like machinist suits over our big warm gear, and we'd be crawling into sand so we wouldn't scare them.This is where the quantity of gear I had with me was really confronting practicality because I had my camera and an audio recorder and my sketchbook and my trusty watercolor box, but it would wiggle down as I was falling in the sand and keeping track of it felt like a challenge.That was the summer that Art Toolkit really started where I came back and my final watercolor palette that set the stage was this little business card tin, I'd adapted and found, okay, now I've got a pallet that can fit inside a zipper pouch and I can take anywhere a lot easier. I started making them myself with the help of a local company that helped with the pouches and making the little pallets. That was over 10 years ago.MR: Wow. Wow. That's really cool. That's I think the best kind of tools where it's not just something you make up and hope that it fits. It's like you actually field-tested everything to get to the point of like, okay, this is really working. I'm sure you field-tested that little business card thing as well to make sure everything worked. Just your nature, right?When you buy something from that a company or a maker, you take advantage of all that fieldwork that you've done, so you know it's gonna work when you get in that situation, it's not gonna fail you.MC-M: Yeah. I try and solve problems for myself. Then there's a point at which you think, with my work as an expeditionary artist that was around my passion for art, science, and education and wanting to go out, but I kept thinking, hey, I really wanna help share this with others and wanna help inspire and empower others for their own education or their own adventures and just going out.And so, I wanted to make tools to share and then kept making them better. Since then, we've done a lot of adapting to this palette from modifying it and changing the materials. We have them in three sizes. As if that wasn't small enough, we've got this really one size because it's so cute. I really like cute little things. My daughter teases me 'cause I'm always seeing your little cute things. Then we've got one that is about twice as big, but still slim.MR: Pretty thin. Slimness. I've got one of your kits, probably your smallest kit which includes a notebook. It's got a pallet and a water brush, and then it's all inside of a nice, pretty small, like a nylon zipper case. It all fits in there. Yep. Right there.We'll have links to Art Toolkit so you can go—if you're listening and you're not looking at anything, you're in the car or something. When you get to your destination, you can pop up a link and look at the breadth of tools. I think the other thing I like about the way you approach things is, well, of course, you're making tools that are tested and purpose-built 'cause that's really cool.The other thing I like is that you really focus on education. Like, having me on to talk about sketchnoting with people that like your tools or you're always doing stuff and then sharing. I think that's a really big key. It's not just that you're making tools, but you're actually showing them in practice and how to use them. It just makes for a whole integrated way of looking at what you're doing, which is really cool.MC-M: Oh, I'm so glad you appreciate that. It's been just central to our values and then the values now of Art Toolkit, you know, it's grown much beyond just me now about, I don't know what it was now, maybe when my daughter was two or three, she's seven and a half now.I realize I needed help with shipping and assembling and brought my mother-in-law in so to be my shipper, and she's still our primary shipper. Finally, got my husband on, and now we've got a team of about eight folks who work, some full-time, some part-time in making it, but really trying to keep those core values.I just think it's so neat. I get a little thrill when I see people out in the world and I get so inspired by other people's work. I suppose it's a little bit selfish in wanting that inspiration, but then the fun of sharing it and delighting.I tell you, Mike, the words that were mantras for me through the whole pandemic was just community and creativity. It was just like nourishing. I know that was the point where we connected. It's been something that's really grounded me.Well, that's great. I know sketchnote community is in a similar place. We all care for each other and lots of sharing and support and encouragement. The same thing happened for me kinda leaning into that community when the pandemic happened, knowing that there were other people like me that needed a connection, and so, well, let's make stuff, let's provide that.It sounds like you're on a similar path. That's really cool. You talked a little bit briefly about living in Japan with your parents and getting a brush made from your hair. I'm gonna now switch into your origin story. Now, you don't have to go and tell us every detail, we talked a little bit as we prepared for this. What were the key moments in your life that led you to where you're at and maybe some that specifically, I guess, integrated visual thinking into those decisions?I'm sure that living in Japan had a huge impact on the way you thought about visual thinking and observation and the way different cultures are and probably led to your interest in travel. There's probably a bunch of things that it probably influenced. Maybe start from when you were a little girl and became aware of the world and you're traveling with your dad and take us from there.MC-M: That's a great question. A few key moments come to mind. One was, so I've been to Japan four times and the first trip I was in grade school, I think. I don't know if it was summer after third grade or first grade, I can't quite remember.But the sketchbook for me then was just such a direct communication tool because I'd be sitting around with kids and I was out there with my family, but we spent a lot of time with other families and kids of that my parents were meeting and working with. I just remember describing things like, how we got to school. And they'd draw a picture of how they got to school, and I draw a picture of how I got to school or like what we ate.It was such this means of connecting and just like you said, that visual language. That stayed with me because it's brought joy and connection, and just like having conversations through a sketchbook. In high school, I loved art and I did a lot of outdoor education, but I really vividly remember, and I wish I'd grabbed this out of my files to show you, integrating art into my other classes as much as I could.For example, I had a mythology class where we'd have to write or review stories and instead of just, typing up or writing up a report, I put together a little book out of greeting cards, which I like sewed together and drew tiny little cartoon pictures with the whole stories for the whole assignment. Then I stuck in an envelope and gave it to the teacher who really enjoyed it.For me, it was a way of storytelling through art in my own way, and it helped me learn also. Which I think really relates to like the sketch noting of just visual processing and attention. Then another really formative moment was I spent two summers with the Juneau Icefield Research Program in Southeast Alaska.Each was a full summer one as a student in high school and one later coming back to help be a staff and artisan residence. That first summer, especially the ice field was this really stunning environment of rock and ice. Living in this environment, in these little cabins and traveling with a really neat group of people, science-oriented, also learning about field safety, so doing a lot of practice around crevice rescue and skiing and being safe in this place.And I just remember really coming away with, meanwhile, I'm always sketching, that idea of just coming at a subject from different perspectives. As an artist appreciating light and shadow, shapes, this sort of visual vocabulary. Then as a scientist, thinking about the why and asking questions.For example, crevices and why they're forming where they are, these practical elements. Then from this wilderness experience of how to safely navigate it, and travel it. Then also there's this emotional experience of this space that could change dramatically from this really wide-open landscape where you're skiing 10 miles and you can see your destination, but it feels like you're moving at the snail's pace or having the fog come in and all of a sudden, you're on the inside of a ping pong ball.Emotionally can be this entirely different feeling may be from going from this vast spaciousness to just this insular world. That made me just think a lot about how much I enjoy learning all these different aspects, and that's really was brought me to this expeditionary art of art, science, and education.MR: The sense that I'm getting from you to this point is you have a real fascination with layering. It's not enough that you learn, it's not enough that you're observing scientific phenomena, it's not enough that you're experiencing something emotionally, then you're layering on this art layer to try and capture it or express it or explain it. There's all this layering going on from what I hear.MC-M: Yeah. It's really neat when you get to be around people who are experts in those other layers because people of all sorts can just be the most delightful nerds, myself included. They're so passionate about little things that they know so much about, and just find it a delight to connect with those people and try and hear what they know and understand and use art as a jumping-off point to try and share that.MR: It's gotta be interesting to be able to express their nerdery about their specific thing in art, and then they see it and like, "Yeah, you get it." That's right. Maybe you even observe something because you're doing that art that they maybe didn't make those connections or maybe it sort of became clear for them. I imagine that's probably happened.MC-M: Yeah. Yeah.MR: That's really cool. Cool. Well, let's jump into what's the project that you're working on now that you're excited about to bring us right up to the present and share some detail.MC-M: Well, all sorts of projects going on. On the art level that's been something for my personal art practice that comes in and fits and starts now. I had a really lovely residency over the summer in Norway, which was an opportunity just to sink back into some of my painting practice. And so I'm excited to take some of that Norwegian work and develop it into larger paintings.I often like to work in the field, you work really quickly or might be filling up little sketchbooks. Here's an example from little small, just playful sketchbooks. I'm holding up one from some sketches in Alaska I did with a scientist that are—MR: Oh yeah, look at that.MC-M: Very much kind of little storytelling elements of about the project. Then in my studio I like to work on a much bigger scale often to try and catch some of the emotional sense of what I feel. Then on Art Toolkit side, there's all sorts of nonstop projects there, but I really enjoy developing new products and collaborations. I'll have to just share that there's some new paint-filled pallets that we're working on. We've got some variations on—oh, I don't even know if I should say yet, but if you stay tuned to Art Toolkit.MR: You'll find out. Yeah, get on the mailing list.MC-M: This spring, there's some a few things coming out that I'm really excited about.MR: Sweet. That's really great. That's great to hear. You're like me, you got lots of irons in the fire keeping things moving, so that's pretty cool.MC-M: Yeah. Yeah. I will say will be announcing our early spring workshop soon, and that's something I'm excited about too, is getting to connect with other artists who may wanna come and help inspire our Art Toolkit audience.MR: Excellent, excellent.MC-M: We'll have those coming up soon too.MR: Great. Let's switch to tools a little bit. You probably got lots of tools you could show. I guess we do have to remember this is typically about an hour show, so I'll have to cap you a little bit. But maybe you put in the context of someone's listening and they're like, expeditionary art or visualizing nature.Maybe they're in an urban environment and they don't think about nature, but the reality is nature is all around you, birds and trees, and it would be interesting maybe the start observing like, well, what nature is in my urban environment that I could capture? Or maybe I get out of the city and I take a sketchbook or something along.Maybe talk—when we talked before you were able to provide me with a little starter kit to try. Which is really great. Maybe talk about if someone's interested in getting into it, what would be the right tools that they might consider? Maybe that's the way to go about it.MC-M: Well, I think like the sketchbook it's similar to what people say about a camera, that the best camera you have is the one you have with you. The best sketchbook is the one you're gonna be able to have with you. For me, that's where having this little all-in-one zipper pouch of the Art Toolkit, which we offer in two sizes really came in because I just wanted this like no excuses kit.My no-excuses kit is usually the small one. I carry a bigger one when I wanna head out with more goodies and more things to share. But just to be really no excuses. In this kit, one of my favorite things is a water brush. I typically use Pentel water brushes. They're really durable. I find that you don't often clog. Last a long time. If you haven't used a water brush, you untwist the caps, you can fill them with water. Really cold places, you can mix it in with some vodka or gin to help lower the freezing temperature.MR: Your paint freeze.MC-M: Paint freeze. Another perk of the pentel that I like is they're oval, so they're not gonna start rolling downhill as quickly.MR: Fall into a crevasse or something.MC-M: I always find a water brush is handy. The most fundamental, all you need is a pencil or pen and a sketchbook. But I'll show you a little just what is in my kit, I suppose. I like waterproof pen. I often sketch straight with pen because there's just the immediacy of putting your marks on paper, and I really try and embrace practice, not perfection, of not worrying about lines being in the wrong place.If I did something and I stop and measure, I just draw the line where I want it and only color and the lines I want to. It's part of the process. Practice, not perfection is a really big mantra for me. I love a waterproof pen, and depending on where I'm traveling, I might carry one that's—I don't like disposable things in general, but a little Sharpie pen. Sometimes traveling refillable pens can be a little explosive with going over mountain passes or altitude. Another waterproof pen I really enjoy is this Pentel brush pen.MR: I love those.MC-M: A little more like dynamic mark, and they're also waterproof. Then I have a little collection of fountain pens. I'll sometimes carry—this is a little Pelikano fountain pen by Pilot. That's pretty cute and not too expensive too, so if you are not gonna worry about losing it too much. Copic multiliners are another waterproof pen I like. These are kind of a in between, see if I can pop this out. Something that is disposable and reusable. It's got a very large ink cart that you can replace and you can replace the nibs.That's a little variety of pens. I've got pen, water, brush. If I do carry a pencil, I sometimes carry an automatic pencil. This is a little heavy, but—oh, I love these pencils. Mike, they're Helvetica pencils. We have the automatic ones and then we also have just wooden pencils. They're just these gorgeous pencils made in Japan. I have just a gorgeous feel and I'm a real sucker for good aesthetics and I really like their aesthetics.MR: I'm a mechanical pencil fan as well. I keep usually soft lead and like thick. I think I got Faber-Castell, it's like 1.4 millimeter, so it's really super thick. I can show you what that looks like. It's super thick lead and it's soft. If I'm gonna do pencil, I want it to be soft and feel really loosey-goosey. I dunno if that's a technical term, but I tends to like, I can flow around and I don't worry so much. It's not about perfection, so.MC-M: Yeah. Yeah. Oh, this is one I bought years ago with a big lid lead too, that I don't sketch with very much, but I picked it up 'cause it was just so beautiful with a very big lead.MR: I think that's technically called a lead holder. I think it moves beyond a mechanical pencil to lead holder.MC-M: I think that serves it right.MR: The grasping things on it, right?MC-M: A couple other things In my carry-everywhere kit, if I've got enough time, I do really enjoy travel watercolor brushes. A brand that I'm a big fan of and we carry, Art Toolkit is Rosemary and Co. These are made in England by a small family company, not terribly small, they've grown many over the years, but Rosemary still runs the company. They have a whole variety of shapes and sizes, but the big key is that when you're done painting with 'em, you can take it apart and put a cap over the point so that they won't be damaged in transit.To paint with 'em, I carry a little tiny collapsible cup that we offer on Art Toolkit website. I can pour a little water and sit down a minute. Sometimes for my water brush, I carry a little tiny no-needle syringe to squeeze out the water and pop it in my brush. I always carry little extra binder clips, sometimes rubber bands too for wind. They're really useful because you can also clip your palette to your sketchbook. So, if you're out, you can have it on one side and sketch on the other.MR: Got it.MC-M: I do that a lot, sketching standing up, or making sure something won't blow away. Finally, a paper towel to wipe my brush on. The paper towels I use, I've been using these for years and years and years. They're shop towels, blue shop towels that you can pick up at a hardware store. They're just so soft and durable that you tease them out and reuse them. I really like the feel and trying to reuse them.MR: Cool.MC-M: That's what's in my daily carry. For folks getting started, your daily carry can just be as simple as like I said, you know, a pen and a pencil. I think water-soluble pens can be fun with a little water brush just for black-and-white paintings. Just keeping things simple with what feels like you've got space for in your daily bag.MR: Well, I've got my little toolkit right here for those on video so you can see. There it's. I got a little ruler in there, my syringe, and stuff. It's been a great little kit.MC-M: Oh, I'm so glad. I love having a ruler too. Mine has slipped out at the moment, I'll need to replace it.MR: Exactly. Great. I think I've actually done some work. I can show you what I've done. You mentioned the Pentel brush pen. I was playing with this. This is in a train ride in Minneapolis along the river with my kids. Then I think I was standing at the back in the caboose and just captured the tracks rolling away from us. I gotta say, it was really fun. I was really enjoying it. I need to do more of it this summer, so thank you again.MC-M: Oh, that's wonderful. You're welcome. That brush pen is so big and bold that you can capture the shapes quickly and then the watercolor can bring it to life. I think that's something a artist friend of mine told me once was that big tools make for big ideas. That sometimes bumping up the size of your tool, you can fill something up quickly and just—MR: Loosens you up a little bit too. I think. Talking about the size, if you know what the size of a pocket Moleskine is, which I don't know what the exact size is. The kit is not much bigger. Well, maybe I'll take a picture for the show notes. It's big enough to hold it and then the tools. It's actually pretty small, all things considered. Pretty compact, and you could throw that in a bag really easily. I appreciate little things from when I was a kid as well, so I super appreciated how you packed so much in this little tiny package. It fit me. It suited me.MC-M: Oh, I'm so glad. Mine tends to get a little bloated, but the zipper holds, so I'm like, "Oh, I can just stuff one more thing in here."MR: One more thing, just one more thing. That's excellent. Now, typically with Sketch noters, they often will use iPads and pencils and stuff. Are you using any kind of digital tools for the work you do? And what are they if you do?MC-M: I'd say the biggest tool I use is my phone in just taking reference photos. I might be out somewhere and I find like being onsite and doing some sketching sort of activates my attention. It gets me into just active observation, paying attention. It doesn't matter if that's just color studies or notes, but just something to pay attention and get outta my head.But then having some sort of media, additional media, let's say I'm going and need to add more color later or wanna work on some larger paintings, having a camera with me is really helpful. I think a phone is—I just have a little iPhone mini that—I'm not always looking for the best photo, but just for the reference and the memory.Sometimes I'll even do little videos, especially if it's of birds or things that move so that I can get a sense of that motion. I can pause and maybe catch a different position. I will say, I'm curious about playing more with Procreate tools and other things. I had on my residency this summer, another artist was doing a lot of really cool development of his photos into digital images and it was good to see the potential there. But I'm a fairly analog person by nature.MR: I can imagine. The problem that I've had in the field is just when you need a thing, the battery's dead. And if you're cold weather, it's dropping faster and if it's bright and sunny, it's hard to see. There's all these considerations that paper doesn't have those issues a lot of times. I could certainly see why that might be the case.But well, that's a really great little toolkit and we'll, we'll have you send a link to all those things. We can put that in the show notes, so we've got links to all the stuff that you showed, or maybe the package of things that have them all in there. Maybe there's just one link and everything is already in there for someone so they can just buy it and they're ready to go. So cool.Well, now let's shift again. We're shifting away from tools, and this is the tips portion of the interview where I frame it that there's someone listening, a visual thinker, whatever that means to them. Maybe they feel like they've been in a bit of a rut or they're on a plateau and they just need a little encouragement or some inspiration. What would be three things that you would tell them they can be inspirational, can be practical, three things that they might do to help them just kind of shake it up a little bit?MC-M: I love that question because I'm a real process person and I already told you one of my mantras, which is practice not perfection. Another one of my mantras is trust in process. No matter how much painting I've done, I still sometimes look at a sketchbook or start a painting and I'm like, where do I begin? And I need to remember kind of, warm up again.I love having my little process to get started. One thing I love in just all parts of my life, I love timers. I am so hooked on, like, does this feel hard to do? Set a timer. In workshops with people of all ages, I love going through gesture sketches, which are really fast, energetic little sketches to get the big idea of something.Using a timer, we'll so often, start with a ten-second sketch, go to a 30-second sketch, a minute, and even up to two minutes. It's fascinating to see what can be done in just a couple of minutes. let's see if I have a little example here of some gestures. Here's some little, just tiny walrus gestures done with one project.MR: Oh yeah.MC-M: I'd recommend as one tip is, if you're feeling like you need a little prompt to get started is set yourself a timer. I'm gonna do this for three minutes, just to get yourself to sit down and get started. Another way to think about it that a scientist shared with me is the activation energy to get a chemical reaction started is bigger often than like continuing a process.I think that timer can help us have that boost to get going. then once we are in the groove, it can be easier to stay in the flow. My first tip, Mike, is use a timer and set yourself a very small amount of time to do something. Now there's the question of what to do. And that will be my next tip.Another tip I would suggest is if you're sitting somewhere and feeling like, "I need a little boost for getting going here." Would be just to play with painting the colors you see and not worry about composition. You might do this as little circles. An artist friend of ours with Art Toolkit lately has just been doing some really delightful little circle studies, in this vein of creating a little bit of a little wet circle on your paper, dropping a little bit of one color in, and adding a little bit of another color.This could be more formal or you can see this little slouch of color on the other side of just seeing how colors might mix together what you see in front of you. But take away the pressure of I have to like, paint something or, or do something more, I'm gonna put this in quotes, "Official" or "Real feeling." Just give yourself the opportunity to play with color, what you see, and don't worry about composition.Actually, there's a fun thing which I think we put on our website. I can send you a link to this, Mike. If you do this of just mixing the colors you see, sometimes you can go on top and just do a light pen drawing on top of that as well. I can send you a link to a little prompt of that.MR: Okay.MC-M: My last tip would be going the other direction from just looking at color to just starting with words. I think a lot about sense of place and palette of place is something, as an artist I pay attention to. you're building a vocabulary when you're outside of the colors you see of the environment of the stories you learn. if it feels too much to start with the drawing side of things, let yourself do some writing.I often think about, you know, the W's of who, what, where, when, why when I write. I think it can be really fun to play, this is something you do so well. you might play with your writing. This is a little exercise I did on one program where we were imagining the ocean. So let your words be fun where you might play with how you're writing.Then around those writings you might then add in little tiny thumbnail sketches or little icons and then be able to add some color to the page. with all of these tips, out of those three, it's about just simplifying your approach. setting a timer, putting a little limit on kind of your time and expectations, taking away composition, just focusing on color, and then just paying attention to the world and just letting yourself start with notes just to start that attention.MR: Those are great. Those are three great tips. I almost wanna say practice not perfection and trust in the process are almost like free extra tips. I dunno. 0.1 and 0.2, I dunno, whatever. They are also good things to remember. That's really great. Well, here we are at the end of the interview. Crazy enough, it just flows by, it seems like every time I do these.Tell us what's the best way to reach you to get to Art Toolkit to follow you. Are there social media channels where you're more active? What are the best ways to connect and explore what you're doing and what you're offering?MC-M: Art Toolkit, we're at art toolkit.com and Mike, I'll put together a little discount code that you can share with your listeners at the end. We'll put in the show notes. We have an active Art Toolkit, Instagram. Fun community there. And I've got a small team Art Toolkit who helped me with that, which is great 'cause we really enjoy featuring other artists featuring techniques.We have an Art Toolkit recommend series where we just really try and share inspiration and cool stuff to try and help inspire each other. My personal art is over@expeditionaryart.com. I'm a little quieter on the social media front these days personally, but really with the Art Toolkit newsletter is the best place to hear about what is coming up. We announce to our newsletter our new releases or special offers first. We really enjoy that community and so invite you to sign up for that on our website.MR: Great. Those are all great entry points. Everybody listening, definitely check out the code that'll be in the show notes, and then go visit and spend some money over here. We wanna encourage and support Maria and her team for the hard work they're doing and the sharing that you're doing, and you end up with good tools. Everybody wins in that case.Thanks so much, Maria, for being on the show and sharing your experience and it's so good to have you on the show. Thanks so much.MC-M: Oh, such a pleasure. Mike, thanks for everything you do and your work has long been inspiring for me too. Just really glad to share this community, so thank you.MR: You're so welcome. Thanks so much. For those who are listening, this is another episode of the "Sketchnote Army Podcast." Until the next episode, we'll talk to you soon.

Ernest (Ernie) Stevens is a published author with a #1 best-selling book on Amazon titled: Mental Health and De-escalation: A Guide for Law Enforcement Professionals. Ernie was also a contributing author for, Police MentalBarricade. Ernie was a police officer for 28 years, serving 26 of those years with the San Antonio Police Department where he was a founding member of the Mental Health Unit.Ernie has been featured on the Emmy Award Winning HBO Documentary, Ernie and Joe: Crisis Cops. He has also been featured in NBC's documentary, A Different Kind of Force. Ernie was interviewed by ABC's Nightline's Byron Pitts and featured on officers trained to respond to mental illness calls. Ernie has been featured in over 27 publications and deemed an expert in Crisis Intervention Training. He is a graduate of Wayland Baptist University and holds a B.S. degree in Criminal Justice. He is married to his wife Lisa who he attended school since elementary school. He has two incredible children, Reed and April. Ernie continues to support law enforcement agencies around the nation by providing technical assistance and best-practice approaches to mental health crisis calls. Ernie currently serves as the deputy director of law enforcement for the Council of State Governments Justice Center.Erin Craw, Ph.D. earned her doctorate in communication from Chapman University in Southern California, emphasizing in health and interpersonal communication. Her research interests are at the intersection of health and interpersonal communication as it relates to social support, stigma, and resilience. Her dissertation explored police officers' preferences for support and factors influencing mental health-related disclosure decisions.She is particularly interested in translational research that improves access to needed support for underserved populations and those who face extensive barriers to gaining assistance. As the daughter of a police officer (36 years) and granddaughter of a firefighter (40 years), she has a true passion for research that informs mental health-related interventions for first responders, enhances communication surrounding mental health, and improves access to support.Erin's research has been published in Health Communication, the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Communication Education, and the Journal of Applied Communication Research. She has also been invited to be a guest on several podcasts to discuss how her research can help enhance new approaches to improving mental health support and communication.At Youturn Health, Erin manages the public sector accounts, ensuring that clients successfully access needed support.https://erneststevens.com/https://www.amazon.com/Mental-health-escalation-enforcement-professionals/dp/B09QG55XM6https://www.hbo.com/movies/ernie-and-joe-crisis-cops

Have a press release, staff memo, parent email, or song written for you in ten seconds with stunning accuracy! Chief Technology Officer Scott Bramley, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Greg Gazanian, and Ryan discuss ChatGPT and this revolutionary AI technology and what it means for education and everyone. Private School PR Podcast Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245614517497877 Twitter: @SchoolPRpodcast and @Nicholsstrat https://nicholsstrategies.com/ 

Anna Visser: Anna, Director of Communication/Education for Right to Life of Michigan speaks about how Michigan's Proposal 3 will change the state's constitution to allow abortion up to the moment of birth.  Anna urges voters to help campaign against it and to vote NO on this dangerous proposal.

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Still not subscribed to Clinician's Brief Partner Podcast? Find out what you are missing!Returning guest Dan Carey, DVM, joins host Katie Berlin, DVM, to chat about setting clients up for long-term success with their pets' dermatologic conditions. Dr. Dan offers advice for educating pet owners while also understanding the different challenges each family will face in managing skin and ear disease. He discusses how he helps pet owners approach both initial treatment and ongoing management with optimism, support, and the best chance for success. Plus, find out what 3 derm products Dr. Dan would take with him to a deserted island!Brought to you by the Elanco® DVM Dermatology line. Elanco DVM offers a streamlined portfolio that makes choosing a treatment easy. Each formulation offered is designed to work hard for your clinic and provide support across a range of issues.CAUTION: Federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian. For topical use on dogs, cats, and horses. Avoid contact with eyes and mucous membranes. WARNING: Keep out of reach of children.Contact us:Podcast@briefmedia.comWhere to find us:Cliniciansbrief.com/podcastsFacebook.com/clinciansbriefTwitter: @cliniciansbriefInstagram: @clinicians.briefThe Team:Katie Berlin, DVM - HostAlexis Ussery - Producer & Digital Content CoordinatorRandall Stupka - Podcast Production & Sound Editing

Chris interviews Kate Efron - Ed.D candidate for Antioch University and a language tutor for Cambridge University Press. Contacts: haswell247@gmail.com, LostInCitations@gmail.com

Penn State University Men's Rugby Head Coach, Justin Hundley, joins us to explain how the rugby football club operates as a non-traditional team sport and how the coaches, alumni, Booster Club and community collaborated to support and sustain the program through the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Penn State University Men's Rugby Head Coach, Justin Hundley, joins us to explain how the rugby football club operates as a non-traditional team sport and how the coaches, alumni, Booster Club and community collaborated to support and sustain the program through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Returning guest Dan Carey, DVM, joins host Katie Berlin, DVM, to chat about setting clients up for long-term success with their pets' dermatologic conditions. Dr. Dan offers advice for educating pet owners while also understanding the different challenges each family will face in managing skin and ear disease. He discusses how he helps pet owners approach both initial treatment and ongoing management with optimism, support, and the best chance for success. Plus, find out what 3 derm products Dr. Dan would take with him to a deserted island!Brought to you by the Elanco® DVM Dermatology line. Elanco DVM offers a streamlined portfolio that makes choosing a treatment easy. Each formulation offered is designed to work hard for your clinic and provide support across a range of issues.CAUTION: Federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian. For topical use on dogs, cats, and horses. Avoid contact with eyes and mucous membranes. WARNING: Keep out of reach of children.Contact us:Podcast@briefmedia.comWhere to find us:Cliniciansbrief.com/podcastsFacebook.com/clinciansbriefTwitter: @cliniciansbriefInstagram: @clinicians.briefThe Team:Katie Berlin, DVM - HostAlexis Ussery - Producer & Digital Content CoordinatorRandall Stupka - Podcast Production & Sound Editing

This week join your patient co-hosts, Tiffany Westrich-Robertson, CEO of the International Foundation for Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Arthritis, and Kelly Conway, co-founder of AiArthritis and author of the popular blog As My Joints Turn: My Autoimmune Soap Opera, as they welcome three special guests to the table for a new episode of the Voices 360 Special Series: Rheumy Rounds. They are joined today by three practicing adult rheumatologists: Dr. Al Kim of the Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. Vibeke Strand of the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Dr. Jeff Sparks of the Harvard School of Medicine. In this special episode of Rheumy Rounds, they discuss patient and rheumatologist vaccination hesitation and key education points, while providing insights to assess benefits and risks and promote shared-decision making strategies. On February 10, 2021 the American College of Rheumatology published clinical guidance on COVID-19 vaccinations which suggests that all rheumatic disease patients should be vaccinated for COVID-19 and provided very specific recommendations regarding modifications needed - if any - to immunosuppressive therapies before and after vaccination. But most patients don’t read press releases from ACR. Not all patients will have an appointment with their rheumatologist between February 10th and the date they may be eligible or able to receive the vaccine in their specific location. This round table discussion seeks to prepare all stakeholders to participate in effective shared decision making conversations between patient and provider so that all members of the community can make the best decision for their own health, as well as the best decision for their families. So pull up a chair as these three rheumatologists answer patient-provided questions about vaccine efficacy, side-effects, availability, and much more. Then consider getting involved. The COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance is seeking participants for their survey on how the pandemic has impacted rheumatic disease patients. If you are an adult patient living with an AiArthritis disease, or the parent of a juvenile patient, you can sign up to participate in the survey here. But don’t stop there! We also want to hear from you. Reach out to us on social media (@ifAiArthritis on all platforms) or via email (to podcast@aiarthritis.org) and give us your insight on this critical question: how can we get more information to patients about the vaccine and the ACR guidance to facilitate shared decision-making? Now, if you are a patient, a parent of a juvenile patient, or any other stakeholder (doctor, nurse, researcher, industry representative, or other health services person) - are you ready to join the conversation? It's your turn to pull up a seat! Join Tiffany, Kelly, and all the other recurring Voices 360 co-hosts to continue this conversation inside our new, coordinating AiArthritis Voices online community - where patients unite with others around the world to talk, learn, and connect.    JOIN TODAY!   AiArthritis Voices 360 is produced by the International Foundation for Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Arthritis. Visit us on the web at www.aiarthritis.org/podcast. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook (@ifAiArthritis) or email us (podcast@aiarthritis.org) to have your seat at the table.     RheumyRounds is a concept developed by AiArthritis to bring rheumatology professionals & persons affected by AiArthritis diseases to the same table, as equals, to discuss important community topics that, if solved, would improve communication and positively impact outcomes.  https://www.aiarthritis.org/rheumyrounds   ________________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer: This is meant to be informative, but not to provide medical advice.  Every person living with AiArthritis diseases must make vaccination choices based on their self-education then contact their rheumatologist or practicing physician and determine a solution together (shared-decision making). It is important you determine the best course of action for YOU, based on your own individual health situation. ___________________________________________________________________________ Episode 56 - Rheumy Rounds: Vaccination Hesitation   00:53 - Tiffany welcomes listeners. 01:56 - Tiffany welcomes her fellow patient co-host and co-founder of AiArthritis, Kelly Conway, and special guests Dr. Al Kim, Dr. Vibeke Strand, and Dr. Jeff Sparks. 02:28 - Dr. Al Kim is an adult rheumatologist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO and the founder and co-director of the Lupus Clinic.  02:47 - Dr. Vibeke Strand is an adult rheumatologist and a member of the faculty at Stanford University Division of Immunology / Rheumatology, as well as a consultant in new product development in rheumatology.  03:32 - Dr. Jeff Sparks is an adult rheumatologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.  04:22 - The idea of the AiArthritis Talk Show is to bring stakeholders to the table for a roundtable discussion, not to conduct interviews. 07:46 - The American College of Rheumatology put out clinical guidance on COVID-19 vaccinations which suggests that all rheumatic patients should be vaccinated for COVID-19 and that all medications rheumatic patients take should be continued with very few exceptions (listed in the document) because controlled disease and avoidance of flares is better for the patient when receiving the vaccine. 10:32 - Some patients are stuck in a misinformation limbo where they were told not to get the vaccine by their doctor before the ACR guidance was put out, but they have not heard that the information has changed. 11:00 - Have you seen any hesitancy among rheumatologists to recommend patients receive the COVID-19 vaccine? 11:18 - Dr. Kim has not seen any of his colleagues in St. Louis tell patients not to get the vaccine, but he thinks they may be in a privileged bubble because of their proximity to the medical school. 12:05 - Rheumatologists normally have control over whether their patients receive a vaccine, but with the COVID-19 vaccine they may not even be consulted by their patients in making the decision. Dr. Sparks says most of his patients seem eager to get the vaccine. 12:53 - Patients are reaching out to their rheumatologists about when they will be able to receive the vaccine, but most states are not prioritizing rheumatic patients for vaccination which causes frustration for both patients and their physicians. 13:19 - Dr. Strand thinks that the reliance on Telehealth appointments may also be limiting the amount of information patients are getting from their rheumatologists. 13:47 - Social media is the source of news for many people, which is a blessing and a curse because it opens up access to lots of information - including misinformation. 14:24 - The weather has also caused a lot of delays in vaccine access for many patients in the US. 15:17 - What if my second dose of the vaccine is delayed beyond the due date?  16:32 - Because of the way the immune system functions, it should be fine to get the second dose a week or even two weeks late. 16:54 - If I have to miss my second dose appointment, can I just make an appointment at a different location and get a different vaccine for my second dose? 17:24 - The vaccines are shipped in paired doses, and your second dose is usually reserved for you. You need to receive your reserved dose so that it doesn’t go to waste. Also there have been no tests on patients receiving one dose each of two different vaccines. It’s very important to receive the second dose that was reserved for you. 18:20 - Data from Israel is showing that vaccinated patients may not be carrying or shedding the virus at the same rate as unvaccinated people. 18:56 - Will my rheumatologist be checking in some way to see if I have an antibody response to the vaccine? 19:10 - No, because that information is not clinically actionable. We can’t do anything with that information, so there’s no reason to subject the patient to a test. We also can’t order the ingredients from the vaccine that would be necessary to test the patient for the presence of antibodies. 20:05 - The antibody response is also not the only thing that determines if a vaccine works for a patient. So even if we could test it, the information would not tell us the whole picture. 21:18 - A lot of the hesitancy Dr. Kim has seen has been coming from patients, either because they are concerned that the vaccine will destabilize their disease; they feel like social distancing is working fine for them; or they want to wait for more information before getting the vaccine. 23:36 - Kelly reports that many patients are claiming that the Pfizer vaccine has fewer side-effects than the Moderna vaccine, which is not true. 24:35 - It is important that patients get both doses from the same type of vaccine (2 doses of Pfizer, 2 doses of Moderna, etc.). 24:56 - Because of the lack of available vaccine doses, patients may not be able to choose which brand of vaccine they get. Is this a problem? 25:18 - There are many reasons patients may be hesitant to get the vaccine, and doctors need to try to understand those reasons in order to help those patients. 26:40 - Patients around the world have access to different vaccines than people here in the US. Eventually American people may have access to more than just the mRNA vaccines, and that may impact patient choice as well. 27:12 - The two mRNA vaccines - Moderna and Pfizer - behave very similarly. Some people have reactions to the vaccine, particularly the second dose, from either brand. 27:25 - Having allergies is not likely to cause you to have an anaphylactic reaction to the vaccine because the agent that they believe is causing those reactions is a common ingredient in household substances and foods. 27:54 - It’s extremely unlikely (less than 1% chance) that you will have an anaphylactic reaction to the vaccine. 28:38 - It is very easy to view the ingredients for the vaccines and compare the list to your known allergies. 29:05 - Having a bad vaccine reaction in the past does not mean you will have a bad reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine, and you’re much more likely to have a bad reaction to the COVID-19 virus than to the vaccine. 29:25 - The mRNA vaccines are very safe. 29:44 - Does it make sense to try and wait for a specific brand vaccine with a 95% effectiveness rate instead of one with an 85% effectiveness rate? 30:18 - Most vaccines have effectiveness rates of 50-70%, so all of the COVID-19 vaccines have efficacy rates higher than that. 31:12 - Those numbers are based on antibody responses, which don’t even reflect the entire response to the vaccine. All of the vaccines approved by the FDA are effective and safe. 31:59 - The vaccines are so hard to get right now that if you are offered a COVID-19 vaccine, you should get it regardless of what brand it is. 34:08 - Is there anything else our listeners should know about getting the vaccine? 34:28 - Many people with rheumatic diseases have autoantibodies, so people were worried that an mRNA vaccine could stimulate an autoantibody response. The data with COVID-19 and the vaccine suggests that it’s still much safer for rheumatic patients to get the vaccine than to get the virus. It doesn’t matter if you have autoantibodies. We still want you to have the vaccine so that you don’t get the virus. 35:39 - The phase III clinical trials for both Moderna and Pfizer were the largest clinical trials for any vaccine ever. The results should reassure all of us that these vaccines are safe and effective. 36:44 - We will still need to wear masks after receiving the vaccination until the pandemic ends.  37:14 - How can we as a community assess barriers and benefits of getting the vaccine?  How does that impact shared decision-making? 38:25 - Patients need to discuss 3 things with their rheumies:  what are your specific risks for getting the infection? Do you have comorbidities that elevate your risk for complications from the virus? What is your risk for infecting others? All of these questions should impact your decision to get the vaccine. 39:50 - The patient’s specific concerns should really influence the conversation the physician is having. Someone who is eager to get the vaccine should be having a very different discussion compared to someone who is concerned about getting the vaccine. 40:23 - The ACR guidance document states clearly that the benefits outweigh the risks, and all rheumatic patients should get the vaccine. 41:16 - Many patients just want to hear about the basics of the vaccine, but not all of their physicians have all of the information to have informed discussions with their patients. 42:10 - What happens if some rheumatologists refuse to endorse the ACR guidelines and continue to discourage their patients from receiving the vaccine? Should patients still pursue shared decision-making with a doctor who is not complying with ACR?  42:33 - Now that there is an official guidance document from ACR, hopefully everyone can utilize that to support those conversations. 43:22 - Are the ACR guidelines useful for rheumatologists in other countries that may not even be using the mRNA vaccine? 43:47 - The ACR guidelines are very relevant because the guidance is drawn from studying previous vaccines, not the mRNA vaccines specifically. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an mRNA vaccine or where the doctor is located, the science is the same. 45:15 - There are discordances among guidances issued by different organizations. The National Psoriasis Foundation recommended that most patients should continue biologic or oral therapy when receiving their vaccines, but they did not offer any specifics. The ACR guidance did offer specific guidance for psoriatic arthritis patients about biologic usage and the vaccine.  47:04 - We don’t really know the answer for sure about what patients should do with regard to their medications and the COVID-19 vaccine, but the vaccine is so effective that whatever you decide with your doctor should be fine. 48:39 - We don’t have any lab test to measure the efficacy of the vaccine for an individual patient because we don’t know what antibody titer would convey protection against the virus. 50:00 - There are already a large population of people who reject vaccines outright, and then they see news stories that focus on misleading interpretations of data. The ACR guidelines offer clarity and impartial information to patients trying to juggle multiple opinions and information sources to decide what is best for themselves and their families. 52:23 - What can we do to get the ACR guidance information in front of the patients who need it to make the best decision for their health? 53:27 - Disenfranchised patients in particular may not want to hear from their physicians at all. That’s one benefit to operating the vaccination clinics through community health centers. 56:30 - How can patients get involved with clinical research about COVID-19 vaccines? 56:43 - Dr. Kim is expecting to report preliminary data in 2-3 weeks on the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine response in patients on immunosuppressants.  1:00:10 - Rheumatic disease patients and parents of juvenile patients can participate in a survey with the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance to help researchers understand the impact of the pandemic on rheumatic disease patients. 1:01:33 - Tiffany thanks Kelly, Dr. Kim, Dr. Strand, and Dr. Sparks for participating in this important episode. 1:02:29 - We want to hear from you on social media, especially Twitter where the rheumatologists are active. We are @IFAiArthritis on all platforms. How can we get more information to patients about the vaccine and the ACR guidance to facilitate shared decision-making? 1:02:50 - Visit aiarthritis.org/rheumyrounds to participate in a survey about your opinions on all of the topics we discussed today. 1:03:13 - If you are a practicing rheumatologist and would like to get involved in a future episode of Rheumy Rounds, there is a link where you can sign up to do that, and we would love to have your input. 1:03:32 - Find Dr. Kim on Twitter @AlHKim where he recommends that all patients receive these safe and effective vaccines. 1:04:07 - Find Dr. Sparks on Twitter @ JeffSparks where he encourages patients to discuss any concerns they may have about the vaccine with their doctor so that they will feel comfortable getting this safe and effective vaccine. 1:04:32 - Dr. Strand wants to remind everyone that the vaccinations are safe and very effective, and this is our best chance at going back to living life as we should be. 1:05:46 - Visit aiarthritis.org/vaccinations to get your questions about vaccines addressed personally. 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SHOW TOPIC2021-22 Program of Studies: Video Production/Film Courses with Mr. Dan McKosky SPECIAL GUESTMr. Dan McKosky, Seneca Valley Senior High School Video and Media Teacher Dan McKosky is in his fourteenth year at Seneca Valley. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Video Production and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Ohio University as well as a Certificate of Advanced Study in English and Communication Education from the University of Pittsburgh. He teaches various film, video and animation classes and is the co-sponsor of the SVTV club and television station.IN THIS EPISODE, WE WILL REVIEW•Giving students an outlet for their creativity •21st century skills•Authentic audiencesUSEFUL INFORMATIONwww.svsd.net/POS

Geoff Devito has been consulting in the travel, tourism, and hospitality business for many years, however, in a capacity that you would never expect.His goal is to help make the travel experience to foreign lands meaningful and educational. He basically thinks a lot like me, which is the need to travel for a purpose, not just for enjoyment. Of course it is great to just lounge on a beach somewhere or visit a historical building in a major city such as London or Paris, for example, but enriching your life and learning about foreign cultures adds that little extra to the experience.Before the pandemic hit, Geoff was spending 11 months of the year on the road, with is incomprehensible to most people. I thought I was bad.He recently hosted a conference with the "Our World Heritage"  Organization to discuss cooperation between conservation and consumption in the tourism industry, with members from around the World. Check them out at ourworldheritage.org.Find Geoff at GDSynergy.com

REALTOR® Christal Cameron joins the show today. Last week she and I worked together on a home sale in Ottawa. She was representing the Sellers and I represented the buyers, in a sale that went into multiple offers and the property sold over asking price. It's a unique opportunity to see behind the scenes of both sides of the transaction!Recorded on May 4, 2020.Christal, as you know the Real Estate sector has been deemed essential by the province during the Coronavirus pandemic, but it's certainly not business as usual. In general, what changes have you noticed among your clients, both those looking to purchase a home and looking to sell one?I definitely find there is a little more uncertainty. Of course naturally, home buying and selling is a large decision for people to act on, it takes some thought for someone to make a final decision, this has added a little more apprehension. I'm very glad to get to interview you today, since you and I actually worked together on a file earlier this week! You were representing the seller, and my buyer clients offered your sellers' home, which actually attracted a few offers. My clients gave the successful offer, so what we have here is an interesting opportunity to see both sides of the same coin, what a purchase in these times looks like for a buyer and a seller. Since the work for a listing starts long before any buyers see the home, can you tell me a bit about what that looked like to prepare the listing? Very specific research on the market, the pandemic and the property itself. I pulled up all of the sales that occurred only during the pandemic period and watched for any shifts. I reached out to the Realtors in the neighborhood who accomplished successful sales as well as those who hadn't and inquired of challenges given the pandemic, what worked, what didn't, and what they would have done differently. All of this was taken into consideration for my clients and was tailored to their listing in particular. I compiled a list for every little detail of the home, any questions I thought may come up. This way all was readily available when requested. Floor plans were created as well as a 3D walkthrough for those who were limited to a virtual viewing. How did your clients get in touch with you? Via email/text -Majority by telephone. How did you do the evaluation of the home?With a detailed list of the home and pulling up all comparables, as well as consideration of what the sale prices were looking like over the pandemic period and before. Honestly as you know, the market was so insane prior to COVID I was pleased to see that the sale prices remained very healthy. How did you complete the listing paperwork?Via electronically, I transitioned to a paperless Realtor in 2015. Of course if someone is uncomfortable, I work around it. But for the most part when clients experience online signatures they are usually thrilled. You had some great photographs and 3D tour that really helped to sell the property. How did you get that done?I did have two separate vendors for 3D/photography and video. This being that I wanted to give buyers more online. Each vendor was required to go through a questionnaire with regards to COVID as well as ensure that it was only themselves in the home. They followed the protocol that was given to them (gloves, masks, wipes) and had a very small time slot to complete the work. I was very happy with the final product. Did your clients express any concerns about listing during the pandemic?Of course! We actually had many discussions before going live -Almost daily. I would speak to them of possible options/outcomes and together we were able to come up with a plan they were most comfortable with. Once you listed the property and the sign was in the ground, the property attracted a fair bit of attention, and from our conversations, it sounded like there were pretty steady showings from the time of listing up until the evening of offers. What did that look like from the Sellers' side?My sellers were great! Before listing we decided on specific time slots daily that made most sense for them. This allowed for a clean up in between and a little rest! One of my sellers even conducted a zoom showing with me for buyers out of town and their Realtor. He did fantastic! What precautions did you choose to take to restrict the spread of Coronavirus during showings and inspections?All bookings went through me directly and anyone through the home was required to fill out and sign a COVID questionnaire. These forms were implemented by my brokerage. Not only were these forms signed by those who came into the home but were also signed by sellers. There was a limited amount of people provided access. No visitors beyond the direct purchasers and no more than 2 at a time, with their professional. Gloves, masks & lysol wipes were a must.Very small time slots to view with no overlapping options. What was your own day-to-day experience during the listing and how was that different than a typical listing?Well, as you know I was there everyday! The specified time slots were great for me to be available as well as manage the slots effectively. Typically there are no issues having Realtors in at the same time however in this case it was not an option.  I actually called each Realtor ahead of time to let them know I'd provide access and be parked from a distance, this was also to ensure all had proper gear and if needed I had on hand to provide. Each day presented new challenges, which I was flexible to navigate -I knew I would have to be available 100% at all times for this listing. If you're advising a homeowner who needs to sell at the moment, what advice would you give them to ensure that they're going to be successful? What things do you think would be easy to miss?To set out ahead of time a list of what they are comfortable with and what they are not comfortable with during this pandemic. There is definitely more physical time and effort that is invested with protocols, cleaning etc. Also a clear understanding that things are changing daily, flexibility is important. Now, this property is sold but it's not closed yet. Assuming that the state of emergency is still in effect on closing, what steps will you be taking to ensure that things go smoothly for your clients?Communication & Education!!! I am continuously keeping informed with current events, through not only my brokerage (who are amazing) but keeping open lines of communication with my Real Estate Lawyer and clients on the regular. Christal Cameron Can Be reached at https://christalcameron.yourkwagent.com/You can send your questions, episode requests or comments to me at nickfundytus.ca.   Thanks for listening and sharing with someone that can use the advice and insights! I am not just a Realtor, I also love running giveaways with local businesses! Go to  https://www.nickfundytus.ca/contest/ to see my latest giveaway contest! Make sure to check out and follow my social channels!  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nick.fundytus/Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/NickFundytusRoyalLepagePerformanceRealty/Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickFundytusLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickfundytus/ 

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Support In Situ Science on Patreon SPECIAL GUEST: Isabelle Kingsley (UNSW) From school teacher, to science communicator, to events producer, and now researcher, Isabelle Kingsley has spent her career spanning widely different areas of science education and outreach. She founded the Sydney Science Festival in 2015 which has grown into an annual festival attended by over 80,000 people. While she was running the Sydney Science Festival she began to wonder what sort of educational impact public science events actually have. This inspired her to undertake her PhD at the University of New South Wales where she is developing methods to quantify what people actually learn from public science events. Despite the proliferation of science communication and outreach across the world we actually don’t know how effective these initiatives are at increasing science literacy and comprehension. Isabelle’s work will help improve the efforts of science communicators and educators and help make science engagement more effective into the future. Visit Isabelle’s website to find out more or follow her research and outreach journey on Twitter and Instagram @isabellekingsley Find out more at www.insituscience.com Follow us on Twitter @insituscience Follow us on Instagram Like us on Facebook                Music: ‘Strange Stuff’ by Sonic Wallpaper - www.sonicwallpaper.bandcamp.com

Sean Dagony-Clark, Flatiron School's Director of Educational Development, shares his thoughts on cold calling (hint: don't do it) as well as great techniques for building an active but supportive learning environment in your classroom. Links from the episode: Positive findings Dallimore, E. J., Hertenstein, J. H., & Platt, M. B. (n.d.). Nonvoluntary class participation in graduate discussion courses: Effects of grading and cold calling. Retrieved July 25, 2019, from https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Nonvoluntary+class+participation+in+graduate+discussion+courses%3A+Effects+of+grading+and+cold+calling&btnG= Dallimore, E., H. Hertenstein, J., & Platt, M. (2013). Impact of Cold-Calling on Student Voluntary Participation. Journal of Management Education, 37, 305–341. Retrieved July 25, 2019, from https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Impact+of+Cold-Calling+on+Student+Voluntary+Participation&btnG= Negative findings Antonios, Caitlin. (2017, May 16). How Cold-Calling Hinders Student Learning Experience. Retrieved July 25, 2019, from New University website: https://www.newuniversity.org/2017/05/16/how-cold-calling-hinders-student-learning-experience/ Carstens, B. A. (2015). The Effects of Voluntary versus Cold-calling Participation on Class Discussion and Exam Performance in Multiple Sections of an Educational Psychology Undergraduate Course (PhD diss., University of Tennessee). Retrieved July 25, 2019, from https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3402 Rocca, Kelly A. “Student Participation in the College Classroom: An Extended Multidisciplinary Literature Review.” Communication Education 59, no. 2 (April 2010): 185–213. Retrieved July 25, 2019, from https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Student+Participation+in+the+College+Classroom%3A+An+Extended+Multidisciplinary+Literature+Review&btnG= Informed opinions Kohn, A. (2016, January 29). Your Hand's Not Raised? Too Bad: I'm Calling on You Anyway. Retrieved July 25, 2019, from Alfie Kohn website: https://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/hands/ Boucher, Nellie. “Tip 2: Warm Calling.” Accessed July 25, 2019. Retrieved July 25, 2019, from https://www.amherst.edu/offices/center-teaching-learning/teaching-resources/teaching-tips/amherst-college-teaching-tips/tip-2-warm-calling --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pursuing-mastery/message

In This weeks podcast Tom and Connor discuss communication between different cultures. They also discuss university; The pro's and Cons of travelling before going to university, and the importance of passion.

May I have your attention, please? Webster’s dictionary defines public speaking as the act of speaking in front of an audience. And it’s sort of terrifying…and I’m sweating just standing here talking to you. Now my PowerPoint slides have malfunctioned and I’ve dropped my notes. And I’m picturing the audience naked which is making me feel very uncomfortable. If only I’d listened to that amazing podcast about public speaking and how to improve my own abilities before agreeing to speak in front of all the best behavior analysts. Save me, ABA Inside Track! Articles discussed this episode: Friman, P.C. (2014). Behavior analysts to the front! A 15-step tutorial on public speaking. The Behavior Analyst, 37, 109-118. doi: 10.1007/s40614-014-0009-y Fawcett, S.B. & Miller, L.K. (1975). Training public-speaking behavior: An experimental analysis and social validation. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 8, 125-135. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1975.8-125 Black, E.L. & Martin. G.L. (1980). A component analysis of public-speaking behaviors across individuals and behavioral categories. Communication Education, 29, 273-282. doi: 10.1080/03634528009378425 If you're interested in ordering CEs for listening to this episode, click here to go to the store page. You'll need to enter your name, BCBA #, and the two episode secret code words to complete the purchase. Email us at abainsidetrack@gmail.com for further assistance.

Let’s talk communication pedagogy! (Pedagogy = teaching style.) A call to action to reflect upon (and IMPROVE) the learning environment you either a) subject others to, or b) subject yourself to. LET’S KEEP IT REAL, PEOPLE. We can be better when it comes to communication education.

While it might be the shortest month of the year, ABA Inside Track is running long on exciting content. Switching up our preview format a bit, we’re here to tell you everything coming up in the ENTIRE MONTH! That’s right: Three full-length episodes in a row! We’ll be talking about acceptance and commitment training with our special guest, Dr. Adam Hahs, before discussing two outside-of-the-box topics with gamification and public speaking. Rob’s hours of editing behavior analytic journal review is your gain! Also, if you’re looking for a fun conference in leadership, tickets are now available for the Behavior Analyst Leadership Conference (BALC), coming to Connecticut at the end of March! *Note: Due to a camera SNAFU, we’re audio only this month. We’ll have our video back up for the next preview. Sorry about that! Articles for February 2019: Acceptance and Commitment Training Harris, R. (2006). Embracing your demons: an Overview of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Psychotherapy in Australia, 12, 2-8. Gould, E.R., Tarbox, J., & Coyne, L. (2018). Evaluating the effects of Acceptance and Commitment Training on the overt behavior of parents of children with autism. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 7, 81-88. doi: 10.1016/j.jcbs.2017.06.003 Hahs, A.D., Dixon, M.R., & Paliliunas, D. (in press). Randomized controlled trial of a brief acceptance and commitment training for parents of individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science. doi: 10.1016/j.jcbs.2018.03.002 Gamification Morford, Z.H., Witts, B.N., Killingsworth, K.J., & Alavosius, M.P. (2014). Gamification: The intersection between behavior analysis and game design technologies. The Behavior Analyst, 37, 25-40. doi: 10.1007/s40614-014-0006-1 Sailer, M., Hense, J.U., Mayr, S.K., & Mandi, H. (2017). How gamification motivates: An experimental study of the effects of specific game design elements on psychological need satisfaction. Computers in Human Behavior, 69, 371-380. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.12.033 Hamari, J., Koivisto, & Sarsa, H. (2014). Does Gamification Work? A literature review of empirical studies on gamification. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.377 Fogel, V.A., Miltenberger, R.G., Graves, R., & Koehler, S. (2010). The effects of exergaming on physical activity among inactive children in a physical education classroom. Journal of Applied Behavior Anlaysis, 43, 591-600. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2010.43-591 Public Speaking Friman, P.C. (2014). Behavior analysts to the front! A 15-step tutorial on public speaking. The Behavior Analyst, 37, 109-118. doi: 10.1007/s40614-014-0009-y Fawcett, S.B. & Miller, L.K. (1975). Training public-speaking behavior: An experimental analysis and social validation. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 8, 125-135. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1975.8-125 Black, E.L. & Martin. G.L. (1980). A component analysis of public-speaking behaviors across individuals and behavioral categories. Communication Education, 29, 273-282. doi: 10.1080/03634528009378425

I share the abstract along with some key points made in a study that investigated the effect of teacher misbehavior on student affect for the teacher and teacher credibility. The study was published in January of 2006 in Communication Education and was done by Sara R. Banfield, Virginia P. Richmond and James C. McCroskey.

Students Brittany Whitestone and Chandler Kerr discuss how Graphic Arts Education has changed their lives and opened a viable career path for their future. Paul Foster, VP at Printing & Graphics Association MidAtlantic (PGAMA) and Judy Durham, CAE, Executive VP, Operations and Membership at the Association for Print Technologies (formerly NPES) join to share the programs offered and how you can help support them. Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation: http://www.gaerf.org / PrintED: http://gaerf.org/PrintED.aspx / SkillsUSA: https://skillsusa.org / APTech: http://printtechnologies.org  / Judy Durham: jdurham@aptech.org / PGAMA: https://pgama.com

Students have a variety of motives for communicating with their instructors over the course of a semester or term. In this episode, Dr. Scott Myers from West Virginia University discusses a recent study he published in the journal, Communication Education, titled, “A longitudinal analysis of students’ motives for communicating with their instructors.” Dr. Myers research observes that, in general, students’ motives surrounding the need for information decreases as a semester progresses, but that their motives for relational communication increases.

For hospitals and health systems, education is an important way to not only train new entrants into the field (through residencies and fellowships), but also hone existing talent (through CMEs and CNEs). In this episode, hosts Reed Smith and Chris Boyer discuss how healthcare organizations are using education and the growing role of digital in evolving and reshaping the way this training is delivered. Featuring an interview with Michael Mackert and Erin Donovan of the University of Texas - Austin's Moody College of Communication. Show Notes:: - Medical education's “digital revolution” - http://epmonthly.com/article/medical-education-s-digital-revolution/ - Seven Medical Education Apps for Doctors: https://blog.capterra.com/top-7-medical-apps-for-doctors/ - NCI Pink Book: https://www.cancer.gov/publications/health-communication/pink-book.pdf - Michael Mackart: https://advertising.utexas.edu/faculty/michael-mackert - Erin Donovan: https://commstudies.utexas.edu/faculty/erin-donovan Links: - Touchpoint podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/touchpointpcast - Reed Smith Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/reedsmith - Chris Boyer Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chrisboyer - Chris Boyer website: http://www.christopherboyer.com/ - Social Health Institute: http://www.socialhealthinstitute.com/ Sponsors: - Transparently: https://www.transparently.com/ - Influence Health: http://www.influencehealth.com/ - Binary Fountain: https://www.binaryfountain.com/

One common problem that many often complain about is the fear they feel when they have to speak in public. It goes by many names: the jitters, stage fright,communication apprehension, and even sometimes "the butterflies." Many believe we would be better off if we could be totally free from apprehension during public speaking. However, based on years of study by Professor Gerald Phillips (1977), it was found that apprehension is not necessarily negative. In fact, a little apprehension helps us to do our best job. According to Phillips, nearly all students experience nervous tension during their presentations, but most have learned to manage the apprehension. Knowing that apprehension is common to most…and listed as the number 1 fear in The Book of Lists (1977)…we will recommend ways to manage speech apprehension for our benefit…not demise! Contributor: Sheila Cuffy References Gerald M. Phillips, “Rhetoritherapy Versus the Medical Model: Dealing with Reticence,” Communication Education 26 (1977): 37 Wallace, Amy, Irving Wallace, and David Wallechinsky. The Book of Lists. New York: Morrow, 1977. Print.