It’s the start of a new year and I am thinking about ways in which I can lift my focus for 2014 and achieve some of the goals that I set towards the end of 2013. I don’t do resolutions. You will have seen hundreds of posts on the net in the last week or … Read more
Most weeks on Twitter, when it gets to Friday afternoon or early evening I post a string of tweets with the hash-tag #3bestthings. It’s the three best things that have happened that week. This idea developed as I was looking at ways to appreciate what is happening in my life. It’s too easy to become … Read more
A guest post from June Angela, a Tyke in Exile: The betrayal of a friend is always very hard to swallow but when it is a spiritual friend who we have trusted and invested in for many years it seems to cut right to the foundation and core of our being. We try and analyse, … Read more
This is a very short post, because I just stumbled across a quote which I captured some months ago (back in April, if you want more accuracy). I’ve kept a journal since I was in my teens. In it I put ideas, notes, thoughts, lists. Anything that will be useful. Sometimes it’s random thoughts that … Read more
This is a guest post by Ian Pettigrew. Ian runs Kingfisher Coaching and blogs at his own website where you can find out more information about the services he offers: Whenever I work with the NHS, I encounter people who care deeply about what they do, are passionate about the NHS, and are fully … Read more
I’ve just been skimming back through some of the Seth Godin books I have read in the last couple of years. I found this quote in “Poke the Box”: “Isaac Asimov wrote and published more than 400 (!) books by typing nonstop from 6 am to noon, every day for forty years.” And that helps … Read more
A sliding scale between emergence and certain outcomes – what do I mean by that? It’s an ongoing battle in my work at the moment. At one end of the extreme is the economically determined need to demonstrate clear outcomes, value for money, return on investment. At the other end of the spectrum is the … Read more
Facilitation as an Extreme Sport – Open Space Technology (OST) This is another guest post by Su Fowler-Johnson. A couple of weeks ago Su was the Facilitator for a one day event which my team ran in the North West of England. It was an amazing event – Su talks about the way it was … Read more
It begins like this, yes, a small kiss then everything comes into gentle focus each twist of the lens just a speck of dust, then we must remember why we are here, set out in previous lives Sometimes the external structures which we place on things can really help us to be more creative. … Read more
This is a guest post by Su Fowler-Johnson. You can find out more about Su here: Gravitas… How do you know if you’ve got it? Answers on a post card please. I’ve been through a really interesting process recently. When I say interesting of course what I really mean is… the kind of process or experience … Read more