Creativity • Integrity • Connection
Over the last few years, I’ve noticed some changes in the pattern of my own work, but I hadn’t realised it was part of a bigger picture for consultants in the UK voluntary sector. As part of a process of thinking about it’s own future, MDN (Management Development Network) organised a day of discussion on […]
Órla and Catherine have been commissioned to deliver a Comic Relief funded evaluation of the Fight for Peace International Gap Alumni Programme (GAP) over the next 18 months. Fight for Peace was founded in Brazil in 2000, using boxing, martial arts and personal development to encourage young people to move out of gangs and return to employment, […]
I recently had an ‘in at the deep end’ experience of facilitating webinars – three in less than a week. Two of the webinars were for Save the Children International – introducing a new course module on Partnership that I had just finished writing for them. The participants were potential course facilitators from Save the […]
We always look forward to getting together for our retreats, but this time it felt strange that there would only be three of us, with Gopal possibly joining us from Juba for a session on skype. It’s surprising how different each retreat feels, even though the basic formula is always the same. We arrive at […]
I’ve had a lot of fun learning about film making on a short course organised by my local Picturehouse cinema. Ryd Cook, our tutor, is a young film maker fizzing with ideas and enthusiasm and over a series of 10 sessions introduced us to semi-professional video cameras, sound recording, filming, and editing. I was interested […]
From time to time a piece of work comes along that allows me to pull together my thinking on a subject that really interests me. I’m fortunate to have that experience right now. Oxfam Novib have commissioned me to develop a training module on Innovation as part of their Leadership Program. Innovation is a […]
It is a new year, and I am full of good intentions. One of them is to try to communicate more about what I am working on – so here goes. The last quarter of 2012 was taken up in a number of very different types of work, some of which I will be writing […]
Robert Chambers’ guiding principle for workshops, being ‘optimally unprepared’, comes straight from his commitment to participatory learning. The paradox makes me sit up and think: where can there be room for ‘unpreparedness’ in a workshop, and how do you measure out an optimal amount of it?! I was preparing for a two-day workshop on M&E […]
In a previous post I shared some first impressions about using audio. Now Keith Ricketts and I have had more time to digest and think about what we’ve learnt, and it’s opened up more new ideas. Here’s a few: Think of internal as well as external audiences: we often think of audio as useful for […]
Just returned from the launch of my report on the Kings Hedges Family Support Project in Cambridge, with a speech by our MP Julian Huppert (pictured with the report). There was lots of birthday cake, and about 80 toddlers and parents, as well as many partners from the fire service to the NHS. It was […]
I’m delighted to share that insights from the two virtual convenings I facilitated with SARELL are now being hosted as a case study on the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Digital hub. The convenings explored the nature of mistrust in social platforms, and proposed actionable strategies for rebuilding user wellbeing and trust
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