{"id":9289,"date":"2016-02-16T12:08:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=9289"},"modified":"2016-08-30T13:49:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:49:23","slug":"take-a-deep-breath-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/take-a-deep-breath-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a deep breath and…"},"content":{"rendered":"

...exhale through your mouth counting to 10.\u00a0 Gaze at the floor or ceiling during this deep breath.\u00a0 Then roll your shoulders back and look ahead.\u00a0 This one breath will do wonders to center you and prepare you to be present for the upcoming meeting or event that you're about to join.\u00a0 In her blog post<\/a>, Kate Nugent of The Ariel Group<\/a> calls this a \"doorway moment\" in that she recommends this quick vertical centering exercise before entering each meeting.\u00a0 (The Ariel Group offers corporate training in communicating and establishing relationships.\u00a0 They employ actors and acting coaches who give seminars to demonstrate the importance of good communication as well as techniques for achieving it.)<\/p>\n

The Ariel Group has also been sharing various techniques at education webinars and conferences such as Pearson's CITE 2015<\/a>.\u00a0 It was through a webinar actually conducted by Kate Nugent that I learned the benefits of taking a deep breath before taking part in meetings and such.\u00a0 Why would I, as the distance education coordinator, be writing about the \"doorway moment\"?\u00a0 Well, we can use this centering, getting to the present technique when we're going to meet our students online in a Blackboard Collaborate session, for example.\u00a0 We can also employ this technique before we record a video for our students in order to help us really focus on them and what we want to say to them.\u00a0 Finally, we can insert this deep breath technique into our online courses (I'm thinking at the beginning of the study guides for their tests maybe?) and recommend that the students take a deep breath before plunging into the module.<\/p>\n

This first step, right before we begin communicating with our students, may be the most important one in establishing our virtual presence.\u00a0 We're shaking off whatever came before and moving into the present moment, fully engaged and ready to engage the students.<\/p>\n

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...exhale through your mouth counting to 10.\u00a0 Gaze at the floor or ceiling during this deep breath.\u00a0 Then roll your shoulders back and look ahead.\u00a0 This one breath will do wonders to center you and prepare you to be present for the upcoming meeting or event that you're about to join.\u00a0 In her blog post, ...continue reading \"Take a deep breath and…\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[78,334],"class_list":{"0":"post-9289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"tag-contemplative-pedagogy","8":"tag-virtual-presence","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2pP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9428,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/after-the-deep-breath-then-what-creating-a-virtual-presence\/","url_meta":{"origin":9289,"position":0},"title":"After the deep breath, then what? 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