In thinking about the significance of dancing, I am also reminded of Dance United, an innovative organisation who recognise the powerful force that dance can represent in unlocking the potential of individuals and communities. I met some members of their team when speaking at the recent 2gether08 event, and was deeply impressed with their work with the same kinds of marginalised individuals I used to meet in my earlier teaching work. For more information on their projects click through to their website. The above photo was taken at one of their performances in Bradford.
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Ah, Schumacher College. There's a name to conjure with... For so many of us, it summons magical memories of truly life-changing times. To this day, I remember the tingling surge of energy in my body during the fortnight of the "Life After Oil" course I took there in 2006 — as one attendee put it, I had the air about me of a man in an oasis, after wandering a desert for years. And with good... -
Last month the wonderful Kim Hare invited me to be the keynote speaker at a reunion for attendees of her freely-offered The Edge Retreat, which doubled as the launch for her book At The Edge. I decided to offer a 20 minute whistle-stop tour of my life so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY0-qhPd-1I Before opening the conversation on the theme of ‘Transforming Our Relationship with the Future’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mRJbLDiH4M It felt a potent event — and gave rise to an enjoyable impromptu evening...
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A few months back, amidst the stimulating ferment of The Deeper Dive, I literally woke one morning with the short analogy below in my head. Prompted, without doubt, by my frustrations with the burgeoning popular debate on whether there’s “still time” to avoid the worst effects of destabilising our very climate. I'm glad the climate scientists are doing their specialised work — who knows what useful insights they might unexpectedly turn up — but honestly,...
Could you please translate your website into German as I’m not so comfortable reading it in English? I’m getting tired of using Google Translate all the time, there is a cool WordPress plugin called like global translator which will render all your pages automatically- this will make reading posts on your sweet blog even more cosy. Cheers mate
I have implemented a temporary solution with the flags in the right-hand bar. Integrated URLs specific to each language may take me a while to get to – sorry!