Human Aspects

In these times of what I want to call forced technology, I believe we are in danger of losing fundamental gifts that make us human. Meetings on zoom and teams, face time, texts and other ways of communication may save time and be cost effective but they remove our ability to use our important human senses. Our intuition, the ability that we all have of sensing an atmosphere in a room. The ability to be close enough in a space to intuitively know whether others are feeling comfortable. The touch of another, hand shake, hug, or simply the expression in someones eyes when ours meet thiers. The interpretation of the words others use in texts can only be met by our own mindset from within our frame of reference at that moment. In technology we can hide our humanself, project a persona that we wish to to others and when things become uncomfortable we simply switch off our screen.

Being human is to be a vessel of emotion, feelings, thoughts, experiences. It can be clumsy, awkward, lost for words at times and uncomfortable in silences.

If we disregard these fundamental skills and fall only into technical representations, then we are in danger of losing our basic need and capabilities as human beings to authentically communicate.

Isolation is, I believe, one of the greatest contrubuters to mental health issues. Families and communities breaking down, connections in person being replaced by timed meetings from the comfort of our chosen place.

Conversations with strangers no longer occuring as we travel with our headsets isolating ourselves even in public places. Mothers with babies on thier mobiles no longer cooing into prams and families,couples and friends in cafes or bars communicating on thier own phones and media appliences.

I wonder for the future. These edited versions of ourselves.

My training in human aspects isn't about anything other than being human

Re establishing our wonderful capabilities to connect, be alongside, to understand how others feel and to be brave enough to be physically present and to listen.