In reflection about the work with Shannon Turner I recall most memorably her capacity to reframe. Objectively, one might have seen her first teaching experience as tutor following graduate as a total failure (being let go from any job is never easy!) but the way she ended the story with such an absurd position seems to have really carried forward Jo Carson’s emphasis on being able to laugh at one’s self. I carried some of this forward into my own story telling (I don’t precisely remember a pink umbrella as I reflect, though it was quite a contrasting and absurd detail that makes the conflict laughable). Nevertheless, what seems to have come from this is telling about my character. Why would I have been manipulated by this person, in spite of my friend?

I could then use these questions: 1. Have you ever had something to prove? 2. Where their other instance where I was manipulated in a way that lead me to betray or hurt someone else in the other stories detailed in my life map?