Parks, pavements, buses…
I overhear many conversations about fathers, mothers, children. Illness, love, fragility, death. And how sad it is that we think our tears will burden someone else’s. So we hold it all in. We censor our own pain with fear and carefulness. And we become afraid of it. Round and round we go. A message pings…
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Honouring silence : some thinking-notes
A part-continuation from my last read: A Eye which features a visual narrative titled ‘in the silent channel’ (page-spread no.10).
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A Eye : lighting up the mirror to racism
Anti-racism : progress is progress is progress is progress is… progress happening? Originally this comic was about AI + Creativity. But the R-word* turned up, as it does, unannounced and uninvited, forcing my attention to fight/freeze/fawn… Or fLight? So here is the first A Eye comic instead : ‘lighting up the mirror to racism’. Produced…
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On creativity, surprise + disruption
Very few people will disagree about the value of creativity. But how often do we say yes to trying the uncomfortable, unfamiliar, or things we think we can’t do? How often do we say yes to the space and waste needed for it? Paradoxically, creativity relies on embracing waste while not seeing that waste as…
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Art x Facilitation
Here’s what I mean by ‘art’ and ‘facilitation’ from my entirely subjective dictionary. Art is art, however you define it. One thing I know to be true is that you don’t need to see yourself as artistic or creative to benefit from art. You don’t need to be qualified or have experience to follow your…
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What can ART teach us about facilitation?
Within this picture are 2 Chinese characters: 開 心 – romanised as hoi1 sam1 from the Cantonese pronunciation, meaning ‘happy’. In the same language, the ‘happy fruit’ is the name given to the pistachio nut – for its smiley-shaped opening in its shell. A happy brief. I was asked by a client to deliver a…
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Me&We: in pictures and captions
If I could speak to my 20-year-old self, what would I say? This is a rolling blog 🎪 that shares some fleeting impressions and some heavier droplets from my story of Me&We.
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Truth to Power: what aren’t we prepared to hear?
In March 2022, I shared this poem in Mayvin’s session on ‘Power listening to truth’. It’s a living poem that I write when encountering difficult stuff. At the time I was triggered by the war unfolding in Ukraine and specifically, the experience of refugees, past and present. It wasn’t a trigger response that showed itself in…
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What’s your next wise move?
“I feel stuck. The odds are stacked against us.” These are recent words of a team leader, whose energy is depleted from long patient lists, frayed teams, unread inboxes and unfinished interactions with colleagues – with no satisfying closure on any of it. Welcome to a typical day in health and care? “Doing a great…
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