Z is a psychotherapist that is an expert in the field of connectivity between our adult's senses and experience we had in our childhood. She is working mostly with the creative industry. She is one of my new friends and she shows interest in my work. She gave me some interesting insight that seem like they are holistic taking into consideration her therapeutical background, her being an Israeli woman who lives in London and as my friend.
Z is also advising me on some ideas and intersections I reached during my research.
25-8-19
We met yesterday at a bar in the neighbourhood for a quick chat, I told her that I felt my question was not what I was searching, my search was how I can help women cope with hardship, and I felt it was too ambitious for my qualification and that it is irresponsible for me to to do so. I don't have the qualification, it was putting me under a lot of unnecessary pressure that I will meddle with women emotions and it is irresponsible from my side and not something that I wanted to do, definitely not as part of my project.
Z was pointing me the fact that I should not suggest that I can "help" since it's not part of my job description, and it should be so taking it off the table will take down the pressure from my side.
Another problem I had was getting more women to cooperate and interview for my project, so she said that the "helping" idea might frighten them or that there are women that don't want my help or anyone's help, or might not think they need any help.
2-11-19
We met yesterday for dinner. We had a lovely time and talked about my project as well.
We had a talk about my interventions, that I feel that I'm not sure that I can prove my point. In my intervention, I take one woman story, sensory experience, and create an artefact into my quilt. I use the new object for the intervention to search how does it make them feel.
She advised me again, to lay down the pressure of "creating an emotion", "making people feel better", I focus on creating something sustainable, a product, something functional, and in this project, and in this course, I should focus on the process and not just the product.
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