Julian Treasure: Creating a conscious, listening world

Julian Treasure speaks in Edinburgh about the slow demise of listening. He offers five ways to listen.
Below are the summary titles of the five but it really does make more sense is you…. You know… listen to him.

• Silence – Just three minutes of silence a day will help reset out listening skills.
• Mixer – When you’re in a noisy environment pick out the threads of sound you hear.
• Savouring – listen for the mundane sounds and savour the rhythm it has.
• Listening position- Move your position of listening.
• RASA – You’ll just have to listen to Julian for this one.

The key message here is you must listen consciously to live fully.



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Free Registration! - IWB Solutions National Conference- Sydney

15 and 16 September 2011

Australian Technology Park, Sydney, NSW

Register before 12 August

Listen to and pick the brains of Chris Betcher and Peter Kent who are arguably two of Australia’s most knowledgeable and experienced educators when it comes to understanding the place of interactive whiteboards in teaching and learning and the pros and cons of the interactive whiteboards available on the market today. These two experienced practitioners and IT leaders know the Australian scene intimately and will significantly enhance your knowledge about interactive whiteboards.

Costs:
School community members of 2 or more: FREE REGISTRATION

Single registrations:

Full conference (single registration) - $465
One day ticket (single registration) - $255
Ticket to exhibition only (single registration) - $25

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CORE Education Breakfast: Curriculum Development

Breakfast with Julia Atkin

Reflecting on your journey with the NZ curriculum: Mapping Future direction

COST

$30 including GST

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 Hamilton 18 August 2011
 Wellington 19 August 2011
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Does a degree really mean increased job opportunities, positive and balalnced lifestyle choices and a healthy outlook on life?

Does a degree really mean increased job opportunities, positive and balalnced lifestyle choices and a healthy outlook on life? Richie Poulton hopes to find the answer to these and other questions over the next 10 years.

Final year graduates will receive a email today to determine if they are one of the selected few to participate in Richie Poulton’s longditudinal study into the impact, positive or negative of having a graduate degree in 2011.

"Participants will fill in an online survey designed to reveal how their careers develop, when they begin to have families, where they live, their finances, health and social relationships. "We want to make this the most comprehensive examination of lives and careers of a graduate population in the world," says Poulton."

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So place your bets, ladies and gentlemen. Is a degree all its cracked up to be?


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The Fry Chronicles reviewed

I have just completed the fourth interview in the “Book Corner” playlist.

Fiona discusses Stephen Fry’s second autobiography ‘ the fry chronicles’.

Stephen Fry is very much in self-reflection mode and is more than willing to pull away the veil of show business to reveal the self-doubt and excitement that seems to come in equal measure when dealing with such a fickle animal.
Now he much loved and admired across the globe that it is hard to see that there should have been any doubt in his mind.

This is, above all else, a thoughtful book. And namedroppy too, and funny, and marbled with melancholy throughout. Its camaraderie of tone lets it wear its learning lightly yet leaves you with a hoaching number of new insights, new ways of looking at things, from snobbery to reality-TV contestants.

Euan Ferguso, The Observer, Sunday 19 September 2010

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