Our Journey
Reflections, ideas, and thoughts
Lived Experience and the Importance of the Heart
Our culture requires us to sever and imprison our heart, cutting us off from vital sources of experience and learning…
The Real Cost Of A Stiff Upper Lip
I find it strange and uncomfortable to be writing those words…
Learning About Learning
Something strange came out of the recent ‘Learning about learning’ event…
How has ‘learning about learning’ changed me?
I am still trying to make sense of what I've been part of for the last two days. It feels profound in ways I don't yet understand...
How Organisations Can Learn To Learn
Recently, I delivered a talk called ‘The roles of learning and emotions in systems change’...
How "Lived Experience" fails lived experience
I find myself feeling quite uncomfortable about the way many of the discussions about ‘lived experience’ are playing out these days…
Why SMART is actually stupid
I once worked for an organization that had a pretty stringent objective setting process. It was understood that objectives may change as the year progressed. allowed, your manager could recommend you for a bonus. Sounds sensible, right?
The trouble I always found was that life simply didn’t work that way…
Is learning a luxury?
In Gateshead, we’re trying to understand how learning happens within organisations working in the field of severe and multiple disadvantage. We’ve interviewed 51 people across 33 different organisations. Our most worrying finding about how learning happens is that often it doesn’t.