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Friday, 28 January 2011

Staring at a blank page

I'm all fired up about re-working my findings chapters, so why am I sitting here staring at a blank page? I'm starting with a theme called "Being aware of high stakes". This seems to relate to Dasein in the temporal dimension of the past.In other words, it represents the fact that mentors are already-in a world of high stakes. An alternative way of expressing it is that they are 'thrown' into this world. It is already given to them in this way, colouring their moods, and their moods also colour the way they experience the high stakes. Mood seems to be the pivot around which the lifeworlds of mentors, as a particular Dasein, are thrown.
This picture seems to represent the idea of diversely different stakeholders, vibrant use of colour that can represent mood and the tensions arising when the stakes really matter.  If mentoring can be compared to a game of cards, then everyone knows the rules, but perhaps they don't all always play by the rules, and perhaps some people feel more vulnerable than others.  At any particular time, the stakes might matter more to some than others.  One might be dealt a poor hand or a good hand. So it can be in the mentor lifeworld