So, I’ve been quiet on this blog. And that isn’t a reflection of a really busy frenzy of activity behind the scenes. It reflects a fallow period, with the fields left bare, no seeds, no crops, nothing to report! I wrote a couple of posts ago about chasing at least three rabbits across the field … Read more
A couple of paragraphs from the book I am working on about coaching: There are two big issues in many descriptions of coaching which are worth emphasising. Much of the literature about coaching emphasises that the coach doesn’t need to be highly skilled in the work of the client. Coaching practise in leadership and the … Read more
I’m a clear example of the evidence to show why we need to focus. In recent months I have mentioned several books that I am working on. The three that edge to the top of the list (there are 20 ideas in total!) are: alice reimagined – a book of poems, prose pieces, biographical sketches … Read more
I have a few different manuscripts on the go at the same time. I’ve written here about the book “The Journey to Wonder” which is half finished. This book is all about the people who have inspired my thinking and how they came to influence me. It’s a fun book to write as I write … Read more
Back in 2004 I wrote a booklet of poems called “the alice conversations“. 13 poems in a short booklet, it was a set of dialogues and conversations with Alice. When I first began working with Carl Jung’s theories of archetypes and active imagination, I developed a set of characters that would reappear frequently in my … Read more
For the past few months I have been writing the first draft of my next book. It’s called “The Journey to Wonder”. It’s about the people who have been a huge influence on my life, on how I think, how I work and what I produce. Here is the chapter about Neil Young: The wild … Read more
I want to write about experiments in poetry and poetic form. This isn’t going to be a comprehensive history of experimentation in poetic form. That would be a very long blog post, maybe a book – and not one that I want to write (just yet anyway!) Instead, this is a personal story about being … Read more
A couple of weeks ago I published my second book of the year. It is called “Blue: Experiments in Sound”. The first book, “Values Count“, is a non-fiction book about values based working. It is available on this website as well as through Amazon. Sales in the first few months have been steady – it … Read more
Yesterday morning when I blogged I was bewildered by mixed metaphors to some extent. The idea that this extended writing is like a marathon has its uses, but sometimes the metaphor stretches too far … and breaks. So, here we are at the end of the official marathon period. I set myself 4 clear goals. … Read more
The problem with working out loud, is that when it doesn’t go according to plan there is a massive temptation to either go quiet, or to avoid being honest about what is happening. That’s the truth! I wanted to write 15,000 words, 8 poems and a handful of blog posts by the end of this … Read more