Nina`s posting really was an eye-opener for me - sorry for the pun!
I had never thought about this identification of learning styles but 
certainly for me it is the visual which influences my learning choices and 
teaching.
Not only do I enjoy learning and teaching with the help of charts, computer 
presentations, dolls and pelvis, video clips, artwork, role play  etc. but I 
am convinced that the visual cues enhance listening skills - one of the 
reasons I do not like telephone counselling unless I already know the 
client.
Maybe it is also because I work mostly in Hebrew which is fairly fluent, but 
I don`t always get every nuance of the language, so I depend a great deal on 
eye contact, facial expression  and body language. So much empathy can be 
conveyed in eye contact and/or a smile at the appropriate time. And just 
catching a changing expression one someone`s face can teach us so much about 
how that person is feeling.
It would be interesting to know how other counsellors see themselves through 
their learning styles.
Thank you Nina and Morgan  for this discussion - this is an issue that 
should be included in training courses for counsellors and teachers.
Wendy Blumfield


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nina Berry" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:07 PM
Subject: PPD, breastfeeding and learning styles


>
> Hi All
> In light of Morgan's beautiful explanation of the challenges of 
> identifying
> people's learning styles and teaching them accordingly, did anyone notice
> this in Wendy's post?
> "when it lifts, as it did with me quite suddenly, it is like the sun 
> shining
> on a foggy day, a cataract lifted from blinded eyes, a colour picture
> developed from a grey negative."
> I think she must be a visual learner.  When I describe how it felt to have 
> a
> depression suddenly lift (after quitting the mini-pill), I said, "It was
> like someone turned the treble knob up on the stereo.  The world was less
> muffled and I could hear the high notes."  Guess my preferred learning
> style??
> Nina Berry
> Australia
> (who loves a good lecture - and finds ppt distracting)
>
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