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I am an alum of the University of Michigan interested in offering co-working sessions for grad students.  When my partner and I were working on our dissertations, we found co-working with a group of students invaluable in helping us get our dissertations written.  I think we happened to have gotten lucky to have hit upon benefiting from co-working, and I'd like to make getting to benefit from this accessible to more students. 


Do four Teddy Bear Talk Support (TBTS) sessions interspersed with three 14-minute work sessions.  For the TBTS sessions, set a one minute timer for each person to talk out loud while the other person remains silent.  When the timer goes off, reset the timer to give them up to another minute to wrap up.
Things are so much more unstructured for grad students than for undergrads.  I'd like to offer some structure that students could benefit from, in terms of times and places where co-working can happen and in terms of how to go about these sessions.


For more information, please contact Leeann at teddybear@teddybeartalksupport.com.
The plan is to have sessions that have work periods where each student works on their own separate tasks interspersed with short [[Main_Page|Teddy Bear Talk Support]] periods where students each take a turn getting to talk out loud with the listening partner they are paired with.


In a nutshell, Teddy Bear Talk Support is about getting to think better by thinking out loud. It's about creating opportunities for having a listener along for the ride who isn't "doing" much, while you talk out loud.  Listeners operate in "teddy bear mode," where they are only listening, or where they can also do a few other limited things, like ask open, honest questions, or make guesses about what seems important.
[[Main_Page|Teddy Bear Talk Support]] is about harnessing the power of talking out loud by providing a framework for benefiting from listeners who say very little. We’ll call these listeners teddy bears. When a teddy bear does talk, it is because the talker has asked the teddy bear to do something small, like ask some open, honest questions or reflect some things back. Big changes can happen for the talker as a result of the little things the teddy bear might do or say to just “jiggle” things a bit for the talker.
 
[[Main_Page|Teddy Bear Talk Support]] is about making it more likely that the talker has plenty of room to work through what the talker is wanting to talk about without having the listener get in the way. It's about supporting the talker in harnessing the power of talking out loud.
 
[[Main_Page|Teddy Bear Talk Support]] and these co-working sessions are simple ideas that are meant to be shared widely and freely.  I don't want to be paid for offering these sessions.  Instead, I'm seeing them as a way I could give back to the University of Michigan for all the support it has given me.
 
If you have ideas for how I might go about offering something along these lines, it'd be great to get to talk to you about them.  My number is 734-649-5959, and my email address is lfu@umich.edu.  Some times when I'm available to talk include 1:30 - 8 pm on Saturday, 2:30 - 8 pm on Sunday, 3:45 - 5:15 or 7:30 - 8:30 pm on Monday, 7 - 8:30 pm on Tuesday.

Latest revision as of 11:54, 14 December 2024

I am an alum of the University of Michigan interested in offering co-working sessions for grad students. When my partner and I were working on our dissertations, we found co-working with a group of students invaluable in helping us get our dissertations written. I think we happened to have gotten lucky to have hit upon benefiting from co-working, and I'd like to make getting to benefit from this accessible to more students.

Things are so much more unstructured for grad students than for undergrads. I'd like to offer some structure that students could benefit from, in terms of times and places where co-working can happen and in terms of how to go about these sessions.

The plan is to have sessions that have work periods where each student works on their own separate tasks interspersed with short Teddy Bear Talk Support periods where students each take a turn getting to talk out loud with the listening partner they are paired with.

Teddy Bear Talk Support is about harnessing the power of talking out loud by providing a framework for benefiting from listeners who say very little. We’ll call these listeners teddy bears. When a teddy bear does talk, it is because the talker has asked the teddy bear to do something small, like ask some open, honest questions or reflect some things back. Big changes can happen for the talker as a result of the little things the teddy bear might do or say to just “jiggle” things a bit for the talker.

Teddy Bear Talk Support is about making it more likely that the talker has plenty of room to work through what the talker is wanting to talk about without having the listener get in the way. It's about supporting the talker in harnessing the power of talking out loud.

Teddy Bear Talk Support and these co-working sessions are simple ideas that are meant to be shared widely and freely. I don't want to be paid for offering these sessions. Instead, I'm seeing them as a way I could give back to the University of Michigan for all the support it has given me.

If you have ideas for how I might go about offering something along these lines, it'd be great to get to talk to you about them. My number is 734-649-5959, and my email address is lfu@umich.edu. Some times when I'm available to talk include 1:30 - 8 pm on Saturday, 2:30 - 8 pm on Sunday, 3:45 - 5:15 or 7:30 - 8:30 pm on Monday, 7 - 8:30 pm on Tuesday.

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