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?”

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?”