ITAP, Integrating Theory with Practice 1

Integrating Theory with Practice

 Week 1, Principle 2 : Brain

Here I can clearly demonstrate three areas within my RVJ where I have included the practice of utilising my creative brain, combining my thought processes in a constructive and more artistic way, exercising my right cortex and also the left of my cortex.
    With this process I have been able to increase my analytical skills, and form clarity and coherence whilst planning, constructing and formulating workable ideas for my own research and for the benefit of the group project.
    Despite the fact that my mind maps may not appear to have connected with my right cortex (child at play) as much as my left cortex (the accountant); I still found that I was able to be more expressive and deeper engaged with my thought process creating mind maps, considering ideas which I had not believed to have been possible, however connecting them to something relatable.
   Through using the structural shape of my mind maps, I felt that this engaged with my right cortex as I believed it to have been rather playful because of the free flowing shapes, yet connecting with my left cortex because of the flowing and surfacing of ideas throughout the process.
   I believe I should have included more visual language to engage my mind furthermore with the ideas I have considered, however, I feel comfortable now working in this manner, being consciously aware of what side of my brain I am working with, allowing myself to be consciously aware of the interchanging of the cortex, and how to adapt my “work mode” so it is more suitable for the task at hand.

Here I have used a mixture of colour and images to create variety of visuals to create accessible and memorable links to each mind map I have created.