Guest Lecture
The Self: Martin Hosken
Common Ground
The Self
Core Values:
What are your family values?
To love and support each other.
The advocacy of Truth and Integrity.
Demonstrating Courage, in the face of adversity.
The preservation of Well-being, within the family.
Taking Responsibility for one’s choices.
Contributing to society, for the collective good.
Tolerance and understanding of others, especially when they stand against you.
Loyalty and Duty-The importance our roles within our Family.
The provision of safety and comfort-Food, Shelter, Refuge.
The Trusting of each other and the willingness to be Selfless.
How do you know your values?
Take the time to consider your Values, albeit on a daily-basis or over a more prolonged period of time, as this will allow you to instil your values into your decision-making.
Maintain regular contact with the people in your life-Maintain Family-connections.
Use your values to form your decisions, focus on making positive choices.
Cultivate healthy and productive relationships with those around you.
Allow your environment to inform and educate your Morality.
Empathise with the people and causes that are in conflict with you-There is a good chance that you will learn more from the perspectives of those in disagreement with you, than those who share your views. By sharing a viewpoint with an individual, we are already familiar with the decision-making and moral causes behind that view, and therefore stand to learn very little.
What is a value to you?
A value is both a standard to adhere to and a criteria with which to measure ones’ worth or role.
We may apply this standard to our role within the family-unit or to our role within society, and measure our relative worth against this.
Do you Share values with those around you?
I would argue that we gravitate to those who show indications of having values similar to our own.
As a consequence of the Nurture-model, we may find that we share a myriad of Values with our family members. Does this become less relevant to our development, as we mature? Do the external-factors in our progression eliminate this shared value-system?
How are you influenced by those around you?
Through the observation and interpretation of the acts and decisions, that I perceive to be of educational, or moral-value.
I am informed and regulated by societal-constructs, such as: Law, Accepted social-practices, Professional-boundaries, Etiquette.
The Politics and Philosophies adopted by my fellow citizens-National Identity.
Expected Gender-roles, and how I am required to acknowledge my respective Gender-role, through my interactions with society.
Professional-conduct, Organised-Religion, and how it impacts the accepted mode of behaviour in societal-hierarchies, in-turn forming policy and belief-systems on which we build a society.
Where do you come from?
My origin, is rooted in the purest of emotions-born from a fleeting moment in another’s life, and to them I shall be enshrined in a memory-the product of my forebears, and the fruit of all that have laboured to give me life-one that knows love, that knows comfort, and one that knows truth.
Who are you?
I am the poetry between love and conflict, a point of consideration between two entities-raised in a world in which the spiritual walks hand-in-hand with the cold, objective truth of life.
Studio Practice
Mood-Boards
Compassion
Creativity
Authenticity
Inner-Harmony
Poise
Final Design: Inner-Harmony
Concept: Taking the Five values, I had explored the idea of my identity being constructed from a selection of multi-faceted, blocks. Each side, representing a fragment of my emotional-state, and only through the exploration of play can I discover the whole. This piece would be presented in a Gallery-space, as an interactive self-portrait-and I would encourage the viewers to play with the selection of blocks on display, in endeavouring to provoke an exercise in self-reflection.
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