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I'm a generalist in this world of specialists. Perhaps think of me as an eternal student, one who has designed and completed many courses, a bit at a time ...for the last forty years.

Or you might think of my many interests as a voyage through my ongoing fascination with "Other Worlds."

All of these that follow are related - in me!

Making art (think M.C Escher) that "congeals," "twists" or "shifts" perception as part of its experience for the viewer, as in Pareidolia: the seeing of faces and other familiar images in accidents of nature

Being fascinated by optical and auditory illusions, reflections from puddles and in windows

Dialogue in a group, because it's a forum to ask people directly exactly how they uniquely think (using David Bohm-style and also World Cafe` style processes)

Changing assumptions & sharpening physical sense perceptions using Alexander Technique

Using practice & new learning processes to undo cumulative habitual limitations of the background preparation for movements, (using Alexander Technique)

Attitude, attention & how to influence it to free up possibilities to learn and progress

Adopting out-lying, unsociable "weird" people who have only one friend in the world and are usually amazingly talented in some specialization.

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Traps to be free of such as assumptions inside point of view, the coercion or persuasion in advertising, cognitive bias & how to regard cognitive dissonance

Designing font styles; sign writing and pictures on windows

Information from brain science (how to simplify & demonstrate it to others in experiences)

Animal training and how it relates to training humans

Speaking, graphic recording and business description; presentation skills

Study of thinking skills from (Cortthinking.com;)

Study of various personality descriptions, (such as Conative Index, astrology and the Enneagram)

Hitch-hiker; Camper in varied eco-systems, armchair linguistics

Juggler of flowersticks, clubs and balls (that I used to make)

Reading and/or the Writing of science fiction of these "magical realism" worlds

How to have unlimited bright ideas and never run out

...of course, many more, before I really stretch credibility among my current culture of specialists!