A part-continuation from my last read: A Eye which features a visual narrative titled ‘in the silent channel’ (page-spread no.10).
Tag Archives: Dialogue
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’. ProducedContinue reading “A Eye : lighting up the mirror to racism”
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 aContinue reading “What can ART teach us about facilitation?”
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.
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 feeling cross and stirred. It was a quiet numbness… a heavier weight in my feet, a tension in my neck. I felt muted as I heard humanity plead into a hardened void. My mind observed: the carousel of ‘truth to power’ spins again…
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 greatContinue reading “What’s your next wise move?”
