{"id":11751,"date":"2011-08-31T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T18:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11751"},"modified":"2015-09-25T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:33:20","slug":"the-power-of-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/08\/the-power-of-if\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of If"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11752\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11752\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?attachment_id=11752\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11752\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11752\" title=\"Nancy Doubleday\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/doubleday_nancy-cropped-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Doubleday (BSc '78)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Doubleday (BSc &#39;76)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Have you ever asked yourself \u201cwhat if\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>What if I had made a different choice? What if the situation ended differently? What if something else had happened?<\/p>\n<p>When we ask ourselves these questions, we are often interpreting a situation negatively.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday Sept. 17 during Brock Days Alumni Weekend, Nancy Doubleday (BSc \u201976) will lead a discussion on how we can change the way we ask ourselves \u201cwhat if\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Doubleday\u2019s presentation, \u201cThe Power of If\u201d, will explore the concept of \u201creframing\u201d \u2014 in other words, the act of looking at, presenting or thinking of beliefs, ideas, situations, etc. in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOften in our lives, small things have unforeseeable and significant impacts\u201d, said Doubleday. \u201cWe actually can choose our responses, but are sometimes unaware that indeed we are making choices in the process. All too often we react instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReframing is a way of altering our view of our circumstances, past and present, that allows for learning rather than reactivity, through story telling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doubleday will share a few stories that are encouraging and uplifting, and will also encourage audience members to share their own stories of struggle, and talk about how they could have been reframed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo move beyond adverse situations and redirect our lives, we can learn to use \u2018if\u2019 as a means of reshaping experience to carry us toward other outcomes in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doubleday is the Hope Chair in Peace and Health at McMaster University. In addition to an honours degree from Brock in biological sciences, Doubleday also has a PhD in biology from Queen\u2019s University and a law degree from Osgoode Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Doubleday\u2019s \u201cThe Power of If\u201d presentation takes place at 1:30 p.m. on. Sept. 17 in Academic South 216, part of Brock Days Alumni Weekend\u2019s new mini-conference format.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring several professional development and personal interest breakout sessions, the alumni \u201cLearners and Leaders\u201d presentations are an engaging experience in which Brock graduates will share innovative and creative ideas or personal pursuits in 20 minutes or less.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Doubleday\u2019s presentation, four other alumni will take the stage during sessions at 11:15 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., all in Academic South 216. Topics include \u201cLife-long learning\u201d, \u201cYoga creates leaders\u201d, \u201cThe science of happiness\u201d and \u201cFrom local to international success\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to register for presentations, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-days\/alumni-weekend-events\/learners-and-leaders\" target=\"_blank\">brocku.ca\/brock-days<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever asked yourself \u201cwhat if\u201d? On Saturday Sept. 17 during Brock Days Alumni Weekend, Nancy Doubleday (BSc \u201976) will lead a discussion on how we can change the way we ask ourselves \u201cwhat if\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[3333,237,49,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11751"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11775,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751\/revisions\/11775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}