Godhead is effective in the living, in the becoming and in changing – Goethe. But was the g-man right? I went searching for some comments on the process of change
Are you happy? Yes – extremely happy with my life – the shape of it. It’s more about me now and the work I have to do in the world. In the past it has been about nurturing others. It’s an exciting time for me. The one thing I’d change is that I’d like to be more disciplined in my study – I give myself such a hard time. I think though that hard time is necessary, because I can be diverted into pleasure too easily. I need that discipline to produce something meaningful in the work I do.
What is your work? Teaching – kids, parents, myself.
Do you love it? Absolutely – there’s nothing better than getting a sulky kid engaged. My work has been in the classroom, in behaviour now it is about public work to message that to others.
Over the last 20 years – what have been the defining changes? The main changes have been to do with the growth process. My own children had to be parented and nurtured. I wasn’t established in my work – and I was hung up with what others thought. There have been defining processes that have changed that. Those defining moments have been deaths in the family and close friends – they cause you to question things. To realise what is real and what isn’t. Death brings that necessary wake up call. You realise the truth about friendships and about what sustains you.
What will you be In 20 years time? I’ll be an elder stateswoman of behaviour disorder – a sort of cross between Eva Cox and Fiona Stanley or Penelope Leach. I see myself doing lots of public speaking.
What’s the single thread that has run through all of it? Playfulness. I’d like to think I was playful. I wouldn’t want to lose that. Woman G 54
