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Free Range Thinking - A Neurodiversity Podcast with Sharon Leigh and Alex Kahl - 004 - Compressed Time, The Laboratoy of Life, gentle Catpsychology and asking questions that make you wanna talk

004 - Compressed Time, The Laboratoy of Life, gentle Catpsychology and asking questions that make you wanna talk

02/12/22 • 98 min

Free Range Thinking - A Neurodiversity Podcast with Sharon Leigh and Alex Kahl

Come in and get a front row seat in Sharon’s and Alex’s head! It is a RICH space in here! :-)

Sorry about the crackling noises sometimes. That was Sharon’s Scarf on the Mic and Alex didn’t realized tzhat while recording - they were so deep in the Conversation.

00:00:00 Intro and why we haven’t got a proper Intro (yet) :)

00:02:14 - Parking Downhill: How can we be more inclusive with Neurodiversities or: How can we as neurodivergent include more neuronormative people?

00:09:00 - What if “the others” don’t know about neurodiversity and: A (possible) solution and Sharon’s Tools of the Trade

00:12:00 - What if you don’t have Time, Conversation and Listening - so: No kind of Trust

00:16:00 - There are patterns and stuff is gonna surface... WHEN you create an environment and keep asking quesions with an open mind

00:22:00 What gave us energy when we were kids (and why Sharon phrases the question this way)

00:23:00 - Why do we like mysteries so much?

00:25:00 - Hic sunt Dracones - Here be Dragons - in ourselfs - Maturity and settling down

and:

the 3 Curiosiuties

00:36:00 - Emotional immaturity and growing up with Sharon as a sister

00:38:45 - Getting people aware of the is something like Neurodiversity

00:39:30 - Are you controlling your emotions as well?

00:41:00 - Emotional differences between being a man and a woman in controlling emotions

00:44:00 - Couple challenges between emotional and rational partners

00:46:00 - Hypersensitivity and being logical

00:49:45 - Catpsychology: How Sharon learned as a kid to reflect on her own

00:51:30 - That is SO Montessori!

00:55:00 - The Laboratory of Life ... and the right, curious questions that make you wanna talk: What do you think about today?

00:58:00 - Give people TIME to explore quesitons and: The Montessori Beads

00:59:45 - Compressed Time

01:01:00 - Derekt Sivers and his mocent recent book How to Live

01:03:00 - Inviting people into your world

01:06:00 - Share on! Sharon :-) and the explanation of Kalauers - we get Lost in Translation for a short moment :)

01:07:30 - Sharing inspite of imposter Syndrome and: Having it in my Head is ENOUGH

01:15:00 - Building a structure and storytelling for FLOW-states

01:21:00 - Behaviroual Econmoics how do we make the decisions that we make and HumanOS

01:26:00 - Renovate your Life: Midlife Crisis

01:30:00 - What are good open questions? and giving permission to challenging, negative emotions

01:35:00 - Parking Downhill: How did Sharon’s mother know all that?

and

are we going to make Shirts with: “Sharon’s Mom said ”

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Come in and get a front row seat in Sharon’s and Alex’s head! It is a RICH space in here! :-)

Sorry about the crackling noises sometimes. That was Sharon’s Scarf on the Mic and Alex didn’t realized tzhat while recording - they were so deep in the Conversation.

00:00:00 Intro and why we haven’t got a proper Intro (yet) :)

00:02:14 - Parking Downhill: How can we be more inclusive with Neurodiversities or: How can we as neurodivergent include more neuronormative people?

00:09:00 - What if “the others” don’t know about neurodiversity and: A (possible) solution and Sharon’s Tools of the Trade

00:12:00 - What if you don’t have Time, Conversation and Listening - so: No kind of Trust

00:16:00 - There are patterns and stuff is gonna surface... WHEN you create an environment and keep asking quesions with an open mind

00:22:00 What gave us energy when we were kids (and why Sharon phrases the question this way)

00:23:00 - Why do we like mysteries so much?

00:25:00 - Hic sunt Dracones - Here be Dragons - in ourselfs - Maturity and settling down

and:

the 3 Curiosiuties

00:36:00 - Emotional immaturity and growing up with Sharon as a sister

00:38:45 - Getting people aware of the is something like Neurodiversity

00:39:30 - Are you controlling your emotions as well?

00:41:00 - Emotional differences between being a man and a woman in controlling emotions

00:44:00 - Couple challenges between emotional and rational partners

00:46:00 - Hypersensitivity and being logical

00:49:45 - Catpsychology: How Sharon learned as a kid to reflect on her own

00:51:30 - That is SO Montessori!

00:55:00 - The Laboratory of Life ... and the right, curious questions that make you wanna talk: What do you think about today?

00:58:00 - Give people TIME to explore quesitons and: The Montessori Beads

00:59:45 - Compressed Time

01:01:00 - Derekt Sivers and his mocent recent book How to Live

01:03:00 - Inviting people into your world

01:06:00 - Share on! Sharon :-) and the explanation of Kalauers - we get Lost in Translation for a short moment :)

01:07:30 - Sharing inspite of imposter Syndrome and: Having it in my Head is ENOUGH

01:15:00 - Building a structure and storytelling for FLOW-states

01:21:00 - Behaviroual Econmoics how do we make the decisions that we make and HumanOS

01:26:00 - Renovate your Life: Midlife Crisis

01:30:00 - What are good open questions? and giving permission to challenging, negative emotions

01:35:00 - Parking Downhill: How did Sharon’s mother know all that?

and

are we going to make Shirts with: “Sharon’s Mom said ”

Previous Episode

undefined - 003 - How can we be more inclusive for Neurodivergents - from School to digital Tool

003 - How can we be more inclusive for Neurodivergents - from School to digital Tool

00:00:00 - Intro - The Parking Downhill Note

00:01:30 - Alex is haunted by a Washingmachineghost - live on the record!

00:03:30 - Note taking Systems, Stress and Anxiety coming from keeping a structural organization

00:09:30 - What does “work on your system” mean?

00:13:30 - How to use different times of the day for your individual energy-levels

00:16:45 - Give yourself jobs to your selfconcious

00:21:40 - Reading for calming down the mind

00:27:15 - How do you capture ideas when you are scared to forget them with ADD?

00:31:00 - Having our Tools of today as a Kid (and being ALLOWED to use them)

00:37:00 - Possibilities we now have with digital tools - without any romantic :)

00:46:00 - Fortunately the education system is adapting to ne new possibilites to learn for kids

00:51:10 - Learning from the naturally best teachers. And what it means to be a really good teacher

00:58:00 - Just imagine whar artists are capable of doing dotay

01:10:00 - How can we make digital tools more inclusive to everybody on every device but to Neuroodiverse people especially

01:20:00 - The idea for a solution: AI Translator that translate in realtime to any neurodiverse brain

01:26:00 - The fear of the unknown

01:29:00 - The reason why in Germany the police could get your kids to school and the problems with the digitalisation in modern educational systems

Next Episode

undefined - 005 - Let's have a deep conversation and find out what we can learn.

005 - Let's have a deep conversation and find out what we can learn.

The Episode where we talk about growing up as a neurodivergent person in the 60ies aka "Sharon's Mom said..." :)

In this episode we set out onto our conversational journey from a very special starting point: Sharon's mom and how she raised her kids very intuitively in the 1960ies and 70ies.

When does a mentor become a mentor?

05:45 How was Sharon's' mom educated to be a Mentor

now: collection of people

How can you be critical thinking in a NICE way

Sharon's Mom was also diagnosed with ADD

11:00 Her origin Story

Growing up on a dirt farm in Texas

In our society women are taught to sacrifice themselves

Civil Rights Movement but never an angry protestor

22:10 She could make something out of nothing

She was a great connector in DEEP connections

Typing faster than you can think

Reston (Washington DC) - Council for Exceptional Children

Bringing stuff home and test them on Sharon and her sister

Materials about feelings and emotions

  • Asking really good questions
  • Active listening
  • Decision making

You think EVERYBODY does that

No TV: Read and discuss

The Power to make other people do something

Sister extroverted

Sharon doesnt know what was natural and what was learned

Dyslexia in your 30ies - Resilient - Hack Life

Superpowers

38:15 - Having a Neurodiversity Catalogue

We can hack Life What motivates us What triggers us

Shame and Guilt as a Motivator

Gunter Dueck - Dogs and Cats

Sharon was taught to watch and listen

It was life lottery

Picture galleries in facial expressions

Exposed to a very rich environment of neuro disablements

53:30 Knowing about where to find out more e.g. Sceptic Society

How to teach children how to make decisions

Ask: Really? Tell me about it "MAKE me believe!"

Illustrating books

The once no mommy

00:58:00 - Alex: Teach your kid Sign-Language before it can speak

It does avoid sooo many conflicts

Telling your kids why

Teach the kids how to self calm

1:10:00 How to be a polymath

administration writing dancing artist - painting photography Editing photography Improv Group Acting Survival Skills

Her message: Centered on being - not doing
Anything is possible - No Limits

Every year: Family Retrospective - about family Values

Kids aren't born judgemental YES-AND-Expert Learning: THE ART OF PEOPLE

01:22:00 Sharon got her bases through her Mom's Master's degree

Being an artist Getting into the Training and Coaching field Program: First and experimental Program

01:26:30 Let's have a deep conversation and find out what we can learn

Curiosity Tap into our core selves you can train the muscle of knowing what you want

01:40:00 General Assholery and thoughtlessness

the 20ies are incredible narcicisstic and selfcentered times

no punishing voices in her head

01:45:00 - Hyperphantasia lived in a self-punishing way

Questions

complete openess and understanding we are all equal

Critical thinking and no judegement or bestrafung Trust your own judgement

  • What do YOU want?
  • What do you think is important?
  • what do you want in the family culture?
  • how might this be for other people and families?
  • what was hard about it?
  • what did that mean? (disability for example - Wheelchair, Blindfolded a weekend)

Parking Downhill: A catalogue of Neurodiversities

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