Corey's Summary of a Multiple Day (12)

Yesterday went pretty well. We had the thinking group first thing, then in the afternoon we worked on CARF.

*Chuckling* We brought in the stuffed bears we keep in a nook in our office hutch. There is a very nonstressed father, mother, brother, and sister bear. We gave the bears to different individuals and had them measuring distances from one nose to another.

Then after that, we had them place the bears in different room locations and they figured out for one bear to get to another bear, they would have to count 8 steps south, 3 steps east, etc. For the individuals who don’t understand the concepts of measuring, they had fun with the idea of father bear looking for mama bear and the babies. We had them writing down the measurements throughout. 

We always have our individual with extra needs sitting up front at "our" table.  Yesterday, he gave us his/our first hug!  We anticipate general behavioral flare ups with some of the other individuals as well, but by moving around, we find ourselves able to handle them pretty efficiently. Usually it’s a matter of moving people around so their space is not being invaded.

We did one more lesson on measuring feelings, but this one was a little muddled.  We had them measuring by arm lengths, if "Tyler" made "Jennifer" this angry ----------> because he fell asleep when she was talking, then how much more angry would she be ... I was going for displacement, but we missed our mark.

In the afternoon, we worked on CARF reports. The job is going slowly.  We're having trouble letting go of one project to concentrate on another. We’re figuring now that our core, Dear Heart, might be using the time to being out at work.  This is a transition for all of us.  We're going to have to do some more figurin in this direction.  What are the consequences and how do we make things run more smoothly?

Some of the familiar signs of Dear Heart being around is that we are more tired, we want to smoke more, and we have low abilities to do the work. We've been struggling to work from this switched position, but our writing becomes garbled. We want to commend Dear Heart for trying, but we also have to acknowledge our deadlines.  How might she contribute? We’ll talk to Dr. M. about it tonight. Oh yeah! Finally a Dr. M. Day. We’ve lots to talk about!