This is the second in a series of posts on Mindfulness written by Taravandana (you can read the first one here). For more information about Tarvandana please follow this link: There’s a lot of talk about Mindfulness at the moment, as the answer to stress, leadership capability, maximising engagement and improving performance. But what does … Read more
“the more willing I was to hang out in the unknown and show up with a clean slate, an empty bucket, and a blank piece of paper, the more likely it was that something fresh and new would come through me and out into the world. ” Michael Neill Remarkable to realise sometimes, but just … Read more
What’s the point? Where’s the essence of all that we held Just as we stood on the balcony watching the kestrel, wings going body stopping eye sharp watching and then drop… Blue in black, clothes as a backdrop Stop what you can drop whilst you can …and that’s the point taking the essence of 28 … Read more
Sometimes we can feel as though we spend our entire lives looking for clues, looking for paths well trodden. If only we can work out the model that has worked for others who are successful, we should be able to use the same approach and come up with success. This type of thinking can make … Read more
The picture with this post is a fragment of a huge canvas produced by the team I work with from a project we did with the Manchester Camerata earlier this year. If you key in “Creative Learning” into the search box on this blog you will find a series of posts written over the last 18 months … Read more
A couple of weeks ago we went to see a temporary exhibition at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, Wirral. It was a collection of Drawings of Edward Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelite painter. I was really impressed with the collection of drawings and watercolours by Burne-Jones together with some of the paintings for which … Read more
It’s that conversation over a cup of coffee when the ideas are flowing and you are struggling to keep up taking notes of them so that they don’t vanish. Collaborating with others can be a real spark to create new ideas and open up to diverse creative approaches that might not have otherwise come to … Read more
Doing a PhD is a massive challenge regardless, but when it is carried out part-time the challenge is magnified as we try to fit the research and writing of the thesis in alongside a job, family and broader life. I did my PhD part-time between 1997 and 2004. Unlike full-time students there is little opportunity … Read more
This is a guest post from Taravandana as promised last week. Enjoy: So why am I spending this Sunday evening composing my first blog? Good question. I have been thinking about having a go for months but convinced myself that for one reason or another I wasn’t able to. Of course it’s just been unhelpful … Read more
Running out of battery on a train, but wanted to do a blog post so this will be short! Over the last few weeks on this blog there have posts from a couple of guests – June has been blogging about seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary, and Su has been blogging about the place … Read more