http://jessiesutherland.ca/2008/11/15/rattlesnake-lessons-about-change.html Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:04:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://jessiesutherland.ca/2008/11/15/rattlesnake-lessons-about-change.html/comment-page-1#comment-12 The Smelling Salts For Our Times « Finding Home Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:12:59 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/?p=87#comment-12 [...] Indeed, when I looked up “smelling salts,” the definitions are: “a restorative” and “a means of restoring a person to consciousness.” Piecing these three words together shed a new light on the conference title. From this new perspective, “Fostering A Restorative Worldview” entails helping grow consciousness about our view of the world, each other and ourselves. Now we are getting somewhere interesting. At the conference this led to a rich discussion about what are the smelling salts of our times? How does growth and change happen? Perhaps, the values embedded in the definition of a fainting spell (consciousness, courage, hope, enthusiasm and energy) could be the smelling salts of our times. The next day we explored Rattlesnake Lessons About Change. [...] [...] Indeed, when I looked up “smelling salts,” the definitions are: “a restorative” and “a means of restoring a person to consciousness.” Piecing these three words together shed a new light on the conference title. From this new perspective, “Fostering A Restorative Worldview” entails helping grow consciousness about our view of the world, each other and ourselves. Now we are getting somewhere interesting. At the conference this led to a rich discussion about what are the smelling salts of our times? How does growth and change happen? Perhaps, the values embedded in the definition of a fainting spell (consciousness, courage, hope, enthusiasm and energy) could be the smelling salts of our times. The next day we explored Rattlesnake Lessons About Change. [...]

]]>