To commit to a daily mindfulness practice, I am learning that my intension to practice has to have heart. It has to mean something to me.
So in a week where I have just unexpectedly applied for a new job, I have been reflecting on my intension behind this decision.
This new job involves promoting research-based practice in the social services sector. And I have just realised that the same rules apply in my decision to apply for a new job as in my mindfulness formal
practice. My intension has to have heart and meaning.
So I have been thinking about why research-based practice is important to me. I have read definitions on qualitative data and evidence based practice, however they have not connected with me. I guess they have lacked heart and meaning.
So I naturally turned to Brene. As a social worker and researcher, she describes her love of the richness and depth of qualitative research and views data as story catching. Bravo.
Outrageously inspired by this, I returned to definitions of qualitative research data, described as unstructured interviews with people. And I realised that unstructured means telling people's stories just as they are, their own lived experiences. Story catching.
And I thought of how I have only recently understood my own lived experiences through telling my own story through this blog. Therapy and inner work have helped me to understand my story, however it is the act of telling it to others that has really given my story meaning. Heart and meaning.
The data which then comes from story catching is analysed for themes, for recurring ideas, for patterns of behaviour. This then forms theories of human behaviour.
These theories, which ulimately come from story catching, then help a social worker in their decision-making processes. Decisions which affect people's lives. And with that, I have my heart and meaning #brenerockingmyworld #interconnectedness #braveasfuck.
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