What's in a title? but at least I am still 'not a psychologist'
Today has been D-Day at my work: the start of a our new Community LD Service structure kicked in and 'went live' going forward:
- I have got my new work's smartphone - so that I can be online at all times, even if working remotely.
- I have got a new office phone number, as well as new address, as well as my new smartphone number, as well as my old proper mobile number.
- I have had my working title changed to 'Intensive Interaction Highly Specialist Practitioner' and am no longer a 'Project Leader' anymore, presumably as we as a trust no longer see the Intensive Interaction work here in terms of a general project ... so after 14 years I will have to work hard to get my head around the idea of it and me being something else with a new putative identity.
- I have, for the fist time, used my 'Outlook' calendar to tell myself what I am supposed to be doing (today - retrospectively, collecting my new phone, and then filling in my Outlook calendar, and then properly moving in to my new office space, and then doing this Blog to increase my digital footprint).
- I have properly moved in to my new office space - more or less: downsizing 14 years of accumulated stuff hasn't been easy, physically, cognitively or emotionally - but perhaps de-cluttering is a necessary, and maybe even useful thing to do at various times in our lives.
- I have used the new toilet near my new office - it didn't feel right somehow: its not just me is it, but this is a big psychological security issue!.
- My 'Outlook' calendar is now set up (at least for this week) so that all my managers can see what I am supposed to be doing.
- My new income generation targets have been activated ... Q1 & Q2 figures soon to be required, Q3 & Q4 then to be estimated and operationalized.
- I have used a new cup for my coffee/tea - again it didn't feel right somehow: but eventually this was yet another psychological security issue bravely confronted and overcome - I have now brought my 'I am not a psychologist' mug successfully into play (a recent-ish present from Secret Santa! What could he have meant by that?).
- I have manged to get through the day mainly with a smile on my face, and did so with the kind support of my most trusted and supportive colleagues.
- I have firmly resolved to come back to work tomorrow to do it all over again (well some other stuff actually), to try to help people with severe or profound communication or social impairments gain the clear psycho-social benefits from positive and affirming social interaction i.e. having access to Intensive Interaction (highly specialised or not).
I realise that this is not a particularly profound blog, so sorry for that, but sometimes the seemingly simple and mundane stuff is what really effects us the most: especially when the locus of control is somewhere external...
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