When we ask ourselves - "If I don't know the questions how will I find out the answers?

On Friday 22nd February 2019  Adesola our supervisor,  Amanda (Module 1), Ryan (Module 2), Liza (Module 2 ) and myself  (Module 3) met at the campus. I had only spoken to Ryan and Liza on Skype before so it was nice to put a fact to a name - although I kept calling Ryan, George!

I have posted on Adesola's blog regarding her comments (what we need to know about our process at University and what we will be finding out as we progress).

We set our agenda for the afternoon, overviewed our modules, talked about re-visitng the  Ken Robert's video on Adesola's blog and discussed the Writing Centre and any notions we wanted to air.

As Liza and me are both interested in women in performance art, Adesola suggested we look at archives of Matt Shepherd's play for women.

Ryan informed us of his thoughts on his inquiry "Does exercising affect performance?" (both mentally and physically) and Adesola worked through some scenarios and ideas with him. The book that his research keeps leading him back to is - "Critical Information and Problem Solving in Physical Education." We discussed building our knowledge, applying it and seeing how and why it works for us.

Amanda is on Module 1 and felt it was beneficial to see what she will be working on in the future.

Adesola asked us to think about the "Culture of our Course". We concluded that we are a community who share ideas, are not judgemental and are respectful of each other.

I added that I am a director of a theatre company who decided to write a "Mission Statement" to explain our intentions.  Our mission statement shares a similar ethos to the culture of community we were discussing. We donate a percentage of our profit to charity.  I do think it has encouraged similar minded individuals to work with us because our mission statement reminds everybody of why we are all involved and it re-enforces we are part of something.

Liza felt as a community we should "enrich each others experience and take responsibility". This seemed to sum up our thoughts of our journey with our own individual experiences of professional practice. To treat people how we want to be treated ourselves.