Comments - “Sapa sang Kinabuhi”: How the River-of-Life Toolhelped in getting behavior change in motion among people affected with injecting drug use in Cebu City - Community life competence2024-03-29T14:56:22Zhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2028109%3ABlogPost%3A90519&xn_auth=noHello Phil,
Wow!
Thanks fo…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2012-02-13:2028109:Comment:908152012-02-13T08:40:19.559ZJohn Piermont Montillahttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/JohnPiermontMontilla
<p>Hello Phil,</p>
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<p>Wow! </p>
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<p>Thanks for this insight Phil, so true...<br></br><br></br>I just remembered my discussion (that i missed to include in my blog post) about where to put the aspirations of the community in the River-of-Life.<br></br><br></br>We noticed that the goal level "zero" or the least "1" is a goal for "behavior" which is analogous to what you say about "Pain" and not for their their Aspirations which I think is analogous to your concept of "Happiness".<br></br><br></br>So when…</p>
<p>Hello Phil,</p>
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<p>Wow! </p>
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<p>Thanks for this insight Phil, so true...<br/><br/>I just remembered my discussion (that i missed to include in my blog post) about where to put the aspirations of the community in the River-of-Life.<br/><br/>We noticed that the goal level "zero" or the least "1" is a goal for "behavior" which is analogous to what you say about "Pain" and not for their their Aspirations which I think is analogous to your concept of "Happiness".<br/><br/>So when I pondered a lot on this River-of-Life, i remembered an email from Caca about the "Journey" by Richard Bach. Please see copy of it below my response.</p>
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<p>Then I realized upon too much pondering that the River-of-Life is not just a piece of paper template making maps of individual risks. Its actually a River of Life in the real sense. Wherein the Aspirations of the communities is where the river flows to a place only the Crystal River goes.</p>
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<p>So happiness not just changing their behavior from the danger side to the safer side but the reaching of aspirations they dreamed of.<br/><br/>Hmmmm... interesting....<br/><br/>So an individual river-of-life only pictures the behavior from risk to risk free and when we put all the river of life side by side starting from the initial output and the subsequent outputs, we see how the blue shades becomes wider, and wider and wider until one's river of life allows him/her to finally paved the way for his dreams and aspirations to be achieved.<br/><br/>Yes! I think the title is appropriate.</p>
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<p>Thank you Phil<br/><br/>Johnpierre <br/><br/><br/><b><font color="#000080" size="4">The journey</font></b></p>
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<div><i>"Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great, <span class="yiv686942912yshortcuts" id="yiv686942912lw_1319083023_0">crystal river</span>. The current of the river swept silently over them all – young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.</i></div>
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<div>Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the <span class="yiv686942912yshortcuts" id="yiv686942912lw_1319083023_1">river bottom</span>, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth. But one creature said at last, “I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.”</div>
<div>The other creatures laughed and said, “Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!”. But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more. And the creatures downstream to whom he was a stranger cried, “See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!”</div>
<div>And the one carried in the current said, “I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.”</div>
<div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1329180085596219">But they cried the more, “Saviour!” all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Saviour."</div>
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<div><i>– Richard Bach, Illusion</i></div>
<p><br/> </p> Hello Johnpierre,
This is a…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2012-02-13:2028109:Comment:910462012-02-13T08:10:54.867ZPhilhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/Phil
<p>Hello Johnpierre, </p>
<p>This is a thought. It is not an assertion. </p>
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<p>The title 'self assessment of risk-behaviour has the great virtues of clarity and directness. </p>
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<p>Sometimes I find that this idea helps me to think about an issue. There is a difference between 'the things that make me unhappy' and 'the things that make me happy'. So if I have a pain, I am likely to be unhappy. If that pain stops, it is likely that I will cease to be unhappy. But, that is not the…</p>
<p>Hello Johnpierre, </p>
<p>This is a thought. It is not an assertion. </p>
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<p>The title 'self assessment of risk-behaviour has the great virtues of clarity and directness. </p>
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<p>Sometimes I find that this idea helps me to think about an issue. There is a difference between 'the things that make me unhappy' and 'the things that make me happy'. So if I have a pain, I am likely to be unhappy. If that pain stops, it is likely that I will cease to be unhappy. But, that is not the same as being happy. There are a different set of things that I need to consider to give myself the chance to be happy. </p>
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<p>So, your method is indeed about the removal of risk. In a way, it is similar to the removal of the pain. It stops something that is not good, but it does not, by itself, lead to something that is good? </p>
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<p>At the moment, your title does make this distinction. I would be very careful to give a title to your method that does not make the distinction. </p>
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<p>I have one more practical suggestion. Write down a case study of the use of your approach. Take the most successful case that you know about. And look at the outcomes in that particular case. And use that reality to create a title for your method. I would like to read the case study. </p>
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<p>Phil</p> Dear Friends.
I wish to stim…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2012-02-11:2028109:Comment:910252012-02-11T07:01:46.186ZJohn Piermont Montillahttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/JohnPiermontMontilla
<p>Dear Friends.</p>
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<p>I wish to stimulate a discussion with regards the title of the "self-assessment of risk-behavior".</p>
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<p>Although we have succeeded in developing this tool that promotes self-inquiry and recognition of one's risk, the next step would be making terminologies more positive.</p>
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<p>I wish to modify the title of the tool into "self-assessment of responsible, safer and satisfying sex life". The title will guide the person assessing his/her behavior…</p>
<p>Dear Friends.</p>
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<p>I wish to stimulate a discussion with regards the title of the "self-assessment of risk-behavior".</p>
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<p>Although we have succeeded in developing this tool that promotes self-inquiry and recognition of one's risk, the next step would be making terminologies more positive.</p>
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<p>I wish to modify the title of the tool into "self-assessment of responsible, safer and satisfying sex life". The title will guide the person assessing his/her behavior towards it.</p>
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<p>What are you insights?</p>
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<p>Thanks</p>
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<p>Johnpierre</p>