My top seven Values
Sometimes it is fun to think about what values we want to determine how we live and how we understand them. I have listed my top seven values and how I understand them, I would value your comment and let me know what you your top lifestyle values are.
Acceptance:
Acceptance doens not mean anything goes, but it means putting understanding before judgement.
Acceptance frees people to believe in themselves and find their own creativity.
Boldness:
Boldness combines genius, creativity and courage.
Boldness is an expression of courage when you are feeling inadequate and overwhelmed
Compassion:
Compassion is an expression of caring, understanding, forgiveness and tolerance
Compassion motivates passion
Faith:
Faith is essential to starting a relationship with a God we cannot see, feel, touch, smell or hear with our natural senses.
Faith achieves the miraculous and the impossible, it is the way inwhich our love for God and for ourselves combines in
unison to result in synchrnoicity
Integrity:
Integrity is a way of thinking that accepts and respects, but not necessarily agrees with, different perspectives.
Integrity does not descriminate.
Integrity involves openess and honesty, not only with other, but first of all with yourself and God
Mindfulness:
You can only be mindful of others if you have had an in-touch parent who had the capacity to reflect back to you, like
holding up a personal mirror – just who you. A parent who is able to relate to you in this way and help you find your
unique identity because they are filled up inside, there is no a gaping hole in their hearts that absorbs your soul, your
essence, so that you have to be the jewel they wear in the crown on their heads so that to others they appear worthwhile.
Mindfulness makes a person exist and feel visible with diverse colours and nuances.
Mindlfulness makes you feel like someone
knows you.
Mindfulness is the most beautiful way of loving.
Wisdom:
God is Wisdom and Light
Wisdom comes with maturity and life experience
Wisdom is possible when you balance a connected self-knowing and a connected God-knowing that is not just academic but applicable in an ever changing world.
Wisdom is deep and wide, it walks through history acquiring handed-down knowledge like old, wrinkled grey elephants traversing time. Wisdom embraces community as the cornerstone of a healthy society.
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Dolphin Research
Do Voluntary Interspecies Interactions between Humans and Freeswimming, Wild Bottlenosed Dolphins Enhance Emotional Wellbeing and Emotional Intelligence in Humans so that they become more Ecologically Intelligent and Conserve the Cetaceans they have spent time with?
We would like to Interact with you when Mandy does her Research
The Dolphin Research is taking place in 3 areas in the world:
1. Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, South Africa:
My practical supervisor is Stephanie Plon who is linked with Bay World and the Nelson Mandela University and has personally carried out and supervised students doing Cetacean research in the area. We are not allowed to swim with dolphins in South African waters so we do pre-observation and post-observation surveys of tourists’ experiences whilst participating in a sea-viewing adventure with Raggy Charters. Lloyd. Edwards is the manager, skipper and founder of Raggy Charters.
The first survey was conducted with 19 willing professors in the Building and Survey Department of the local University. Their participation was appreciated as they were on a Departmental Christmas jaunt.
The first survey results after we had seen humpback dolphins and a humpback whale leaping exuberantly out of the water next to his mother, together with several seabird species was that everyone except one person felt that their lives had been changed and they would like to protect the whales and dolphins in this Bay.
Here my supervisor is the highly esteemed and published Professor Wurtz who is head of the Marine Biology Department of the Genova University. Read his CV.
Menkab Activities (Video)
I will be working together with fellow students from Italy, Saldinia and Iran who have formed a Marine Protection Unit called Menkab. In Italy it is not prohibited to swim with dolphins, but no-one does so, they are not used to interacting with people as there is so much shippping activity in the Mediterranean seas. I will be working together with the Menkab protaginists looking at Educating participating Tourists about the Whales and Dolphins in these seas.
A special EcoTour or Corporate Connecting experience can be arranged around these activities so that you not only have the unique experience of seeing the Whales and Dolphins in Mediterranean waters, but you are informed by those who know them well, and in addition contribute towards ongoing research and ethical ecotourism. Read here about the Romantic Trails & Dolphin Tails EcoTours and Corporate Connecting Adventures. These adventures take place not only in the Archipelago of Tuscany Islands but in the Marine Protected area of Cinque Terre. Days spent dolphin and whale spotting are alternated with walking the romantic trails the link the five fishing villages of Cinque Terre.
3. Ponto D’Ouro, Mozambique
Practical Supervisor is Angie Gullan of Dolphin Encounters. She has researched the dolphins in this area for 16 years and has been the protaginist to get this area classified as a Marine Protection Area.
Here participants will be swimming with the dolphins and can voluntarily engage with self-reflective post-dolphn swim group discussions.
My overall behavioral supervisor, Toni Frohoff is a well-published dolphin researcher who has 20 years of experience observing dolphins in their natural habitat. Read her CV
Please let me know if you would like to be a participant in this research in Italy, South Africa or Mozambiqu or whether you would like to investing in the following dolphin research expenses:
- Ongoing tuition with Toni Frohoff
- A camera to support identification of the whales and dolphins for scientific research in Algoa Bay
- Travel expenses
Dolphin Victories – let’s celebrate!
A Victory for Dolphins and Whales within the Ponta Partial Marine Reserve Mozambique.
23 November 2011
Angie Gullan
The long awaited management plan for the Reserve was approved and presented to operators on the 23rd November. DolphinCare is overjoyed to say that finally, with immediate effect, the southern most reaches of Mozambique now has regulations that protect these intelligent beings.
Dolphins swim free and protected
The use of jetskis are limited ONLY to those for fishing and all vessels are to stay 300mt from all marine mammals and whales sharks.
The amount of operators swimming and visiting the dolphins is being reduced to two for Ponta do Ouro and one for Malongane and Mamoli, with only one boat per operator. These few things alone will make it a far safer and less stressful environment for our friends.
Coupled with this was the confirmation that the area is still on the UNESCO nomination list for world heritage site status which is a huge environmental WIN that, when awarded will contradict the proposed Techobanine Port development.
We would like to give our heartfelt thanks and acknowledgment to the government of Mozambique, the Ponta Partial Marine Reserve and everyone else involved in making this happen. We know the dolphins will be very thankful.
For the Love of Dolphins!
The Dolphin Team.
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