I am in the middle of a few hours working on the ‘Archetypes at Work’ manuscript. I have pushed the word count up to 18,000 words which is really encouraging. I have just used a quote from Bartok: “What is new and significant must always be connected with old roots, the truly vital roots that … Read more
I said in mid-September that I had nearly completed the latest poetry manuscript, ‘Scrapes against the Soul’. Well, I have been stuck on the last poem for a few weeks now. It is a long piece which captures my experiences of Liverpool in the late 70s and early 80s. I’m hoping to have it finished … Read more
Archetypal Descriptors are evident in the work of Handy, Morgan and Neville & Dalmau. In most cases a formal mythological framework is used. Most commonly this tends to be Greek Mythology, since this is a symbolic structure with a wide currency. Having set out the limits to the approaches already developed in this area, the … Read more
The latest collection of poetry is nearly completed. I am in the middle of the final poem which is an extended piece called ‘seventy nine to eighty two’. Here’s a verse from it: Watching bands at Eric’s – seeing Simple Minds Keyboard player with his head between the beams Music bouncing off walls, everyone saying … Read more
I’m at St Deiniols Library writing this. For years I have dreamed of a secluded place to hide away and write. A few years ago I spent a weekend at the Manjushri Buddhist Centre in Cumbria – but that is a significant distance from where I live. St Deiniols is the only Residential Library I know … Read more
The brain works best when it has a pattern to recognise. When we are young this is how we multiply the capacity to learn. Rather than seeing everything as fresh and having to decode it, we search through our neurone connections for something that resembles what we are seeing. So, when we see a dog, … Read more
The key to great biography work as part of a process of self-development is to ask great questions. A few years ago I met Rennie Fritchie who shared with me the ideas she had about Biography Work. She published on this. I tried the exercise which focused on 9 key questions – and the results … Read more
There are two principles which have helped me to increase my productivity recently. They occurred to me during a coaching session. The inbox isn’t our work For those of us who spend a lot of time working with email it is easy to become caught up in the illusion that the inbox is the workplace. … Read more
young bird picks his way through reeds in the shallows of the river parent birds no longer haunt this stretch of water except in dreams and spirit movements finding his way through this special setting now with no thoughts for his parents in a glorious moment he catches a silvered stickleback in his beak before … Read more
Active Living Dispositions Archetypes, as they manifest themselves in organisations, are not illusory qualities; they are not some apocryphal acts of the imagination. They have a reality and substance in the greater community of the people who comprise the organisation. They are active living dispositions which impact on our everyday life. Let us stop for … Read more