Session 4 - The Blue and Orange Card Metaphor
Completion requirements
Purkey saw that the '5 Ps' in people's lives either invite or disinvite them to engage in striving toward their human potential.
The activities in this section get you thinking about the various 'Ps' in your life and how they are either blue or orange - inviting or disinviting.
Activity 4.1.3 - Making disinviting inviting
There are many signs, instructions and statements all around us and the sad fact is many of them are disinviting. But, contrary to what many sign writers think (and what some of the innovative ones are realising), signs and statements do not have to be disinviting.
Click on the icon to participate in an activity to help re-word some of the disinviting signs we experience in life today.
Click the book icon to read about some other possible shades of cards. When orange cards can help and blue cards can be detrimental.
Just read to page 5.
Record your answers to the following questions in your blog.
- There are always two sides to an inviting/disinviting message - giving and receiving. How does this fit with the Perceptual Tradition and Self-Concept Theory (think back to the foundations of Invitational Education)?
- Describe an experience where you've learned or been strengthened by seemingly Orange cards?
- Describe an experience where you've given what you thought was a Blue card but it was received as Orange?