Participant follow up

Have you been through an I SEE! Scotland course? Congratulations!

Join us on Facebook or Twitter and tell others about what you have learned. But don't forget to keep reading on this page for ideas about what to do now!

Our brains are like muscles, the more we practice something new, the stronger our capacities and skills become. Here are some suggestions for continuing to strengthen your IC muscles.

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​On your own:

• Regularly look over the Flex Your IC Muscles exercises in your Participants Handbooks (see the back pages).  
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• As you follow and contribute to your favourite social media sites, watch films or podcasts, read books and magazines, and view a television programme, decide if you think what is being said, done, or shown is low or higher IC. Why? Can anything be done to manage IC better in that context?
  
  
• When a friend or co-worker tells you about a situation they are struggling with, try to figure out a high IC response. Advise your friend or co-worker using high IC and explain why you think it would be a good way to respond to the situation.

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Invent your own IC strengthening exercises and tell us about them!

Keep a notebook with:

• your high IC successes; ask yourself what enabled you to raise your IC in that situation.
• your low IC challenges; ask yourself what would have helped you to raise your IC in that situation. ​​

With others:

• Use social media and get together in person to talk about how you are using IC and what affect it is having in your lives. Encourage one another to try new strategies for IC management.
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• Form an ‘IC Group’ that meets regularly to share experiences of using IC.
  
  
• Talk about the times when you stayed in low IC. What would have helped you? What advice would you give others?
  
  
• Celebrate a difficult situation when you raised your IC. What helped you to raise your IC? What advice would you give to others? Low IC can sometimes be appropriate in a particular situation. It is staying in low IC that can be a problem. We can be low IC on a topic but high IC on people, not reducing them to their viewpoint.
  
  
• Watch a film and identify examples of low and high IC. Each person keeps a tally and then everyone compare notes. Whoever kept the best tally gets the IC Award for that gathering.​

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• Consider someone's real life difficult situation in your school, workplace, family, or community.  The group explores the situation together and tries to identify a high IC way to go forward. Be 'spect-actors' and make sure any suggested solutions are true to life.
  
  
• Select a long-term problem in your community and brainstorm on high IC ways to help shift the problem into a more positive direction. This will take some time. To begin, each person, pair, or small group can name one IC management strategy to try. ​Next time you meet, report on how it went. If you all have the same place of work, do the same for a long-term problem in your workplace. 
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• Choose a national or international issue and come up with a high IC strategy for helping the disagreeing sides to work together. This will take even longer. Then come up with a goal and a simple action plan. Keep a diary (video, written, or both; make sure to take some photos) of your work and then share what you have done with others by posting it on an IC blog.​​

We would love to hear from you:

Tell us what you've been doing!