Playing the Changes Improvise to improve well-being in a digital age Your Story is your superpower SELLLS Change is inevitable. Improvement is not. Can we use creative expression as a life-skill to advance in times of chaos? So far, results are encouraging and joyful! Through Key Conversations, we broaden and deepen our support for well-being […]
Voices of ASCEND
Playing the Changes
Improvise to improve well-being in a digital age Welcome to Playing the Changes, a blog by Ferdi Serim, ASCEND founder. Here, we learn to improvise to overcome obstacles and achieve desired outcomes. Strengthen and deepen your creative problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration abilities by applying the improvisation strategies we as jazz musicians use every day. […]
SELLLS
Beyond SEL: Social Emotional Learning, Literacy, and Life Skills 4 ALL What is SEL, and what it isn’t. This blog will focus on SELLLS, Social-Emotional Learning, Literacy, and Life Skills. SELLLS is not a standalone attribute but a myriad of intersecting attributes. SELLLS fuels the human spirit. In this blog, we will explore the truth […]
Solo, Duo, Trio
Solo means you can play your part. On demand (live or recorded) Duo means you can play with someone else. Trio means your duo can support a soloist. On demand (live or recorded) Imagine your feelings of self-efficacy and well-earned confidence (through perseverence and resilience) that come from demonstrating such levels of high performance. You […]
Identity (Claiming Of, Claimed By)
Identity is a reciprocal, mutual relationship between the personal and the group. There is personal kinship, which is claimed. There is social kinship, which is being claimed by. Where these meet, our Identity forms. We are verbs. Who am I? Who are we? Expanded kinship is only by agreement. We are all related, but not […]
Identity (Doing, Being)
As the Buddhists say, “do-be-do-be-do” The relationship between Doing and Being defines who we are. We are verbs. When we are seen as objects, we are only partly seen. Doing is the combination of Agency and Who am I? Being is the combination of Commitment and Trust Identity only deepens over time. We become more […]
Identity (Me We)
Membership in each circle is by choice. Who I am is for me to decide. Not what others say. Who am I? is a personal question and my birthright to define. Who are we? How we Identify is the result the mutually defined choices that is the basis of the shared power of Identity. Because […]