Earlier this week we watched the first video from the collection which documented His Holiness The Dalai Lama’s visit to Manchester last year. It was an incredible weekend. Buying the video collection at the time seemed like a good way to recapture some of the learning. So, after a break of a few months it … Read more
Here is some early thinking on plans for the next iteration of BlueWater Books. In 2004 I set up a small publishing press called BlueWater Books. The title was taken from two of my earliest poetry collections – ‘Sharp Blue Breath’ and ‘Edge of Water’. I set out to produce hand-crafted booklets of my own … Read more
In the next few weeks my working patterns will change significantly. I am seeing this as an amazing opportunity to free up time to write more. This blog has been really quiet for the last few months as a lot of my energy has gone into getting into the space for this to happen. There … Read more
I have just ordered the latest work by Richard Skelton. Richard lives in Cumbria and runs a press with his partner Autumn Richardson called Corbel Stone Press. They produce finely printed collections of poetry and prose as well as CDs and downloads of Richard’s music. The music is ambient, gentle washes of sound that build … Read more
The picture is a detail from a painting produced with my son in half term. A case of the process really being more important than the outcome. I love it because of the bold colours. Below is a poem taken from the forthcoming collection of poems with the working title of “It Begins Like This” … Read more
Seth’s Blog: Association. According to Seth Godin, we are who we associate with. Those that we spend time with create the changes in the way that we are. I would just add that we are also who we read, what we watch and what we listen to.
With any activity like running events or meetings where there is a clearly defined objective, it is really important to do a review at the end of the day. Many people use “happy” sheets as a form of evaluation to get feedback on the day from the participants, but these have limited value. People either … Read more
This is just a really quick comment on the idea of team working and encouraging discussions in a way that resembles flash mobbing. What do I mean by that? Well, in the last few years I have become increasingly impressed with techniques for facilitation that rely on the wisdom within the room and push the … Read more
I wrote in earlier posts about the work we did last year as a team to develop a Creative Learning Academy approach. This included reading a book a month, a set of workshops and other activities. This helped to inform the developments in the Releasing Potential Programme which we are now running for R&D Managers … Read more
Isn’t it just great when you have a team of people working together who are incredibly productive? Together they generate great ideas, they are full of enthusiasm and everything goes up a level. New things almost seem to be created every day and everyone is a part of it. You can see this happening if … Read more