Storytelling events
I have just heard from my friend Geoff Mead of a series of story-based events that the Centre for Narrative Leadership are involved in over the coming months. Don’t let the ‘leadership’ tag put you...
View ArticleForgotten knowledge of scurvy
I always find it fascinating to read stories of knowledge found and then lost. There is a sense of inevitability that the process of sharing in humans is not perfect and that vital clues or important...
View ArticleWhat is creativity?
A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before...
View ArticleTick, tick, tick Pomodoro
I have decided that my current lack of progress in my writing is due to not having any discipline in the Time Mangement department. I guess it all boils down to me being easily distracted and of course...
View ArticleTales to Sustainers
Just like buses, not one but two of my Tales to Sustain friends have storytelling offerings for 2011. My storyteller friend Anthony Nanson has a new book published by Awen publications entitled Words...
View ArticleCognitive Edge Annual Report 2010
Congratulations to Cognitive Edge, it is good to see in the just published Annual Report for 2010 that they are still growing stronger and stronger and that SenseMaker is becoming a much more important...
View ArticleIts January so I must lose weight
I have just watched the BBC programme on 10 things you need to know about losing weight. I was skeptical about even wasting the time to watch it but my wife watched it first and forced me to watch it...
View ArticleButlins Rock & Blues Festival – Skegness 2011
This must have been my seventh visit to Butlins Skegness for its Annual Festival. Split between two massive indoor arenas and a smallish nightclub the choice is essentially Rock or Blues and this year...
View ArticleLess is more
Planning a school workshop for next week with my co-facilitator reminded me of the wide variation of approach to facilitation. We are planning a run of Cognitive Edge Future Backwards in the school...
View ArticleCollaborative Consumption
I have just spent an amazing 24 hours in London immersing myself in Collaborative Consumption Yesterday afternoon was spent at the NESTA event ‘Collaborative Consumption in action: Building Trust...
View ArticleRandomness is good
Last Wednesday I co-facilitated what was probably my best ever workshop (and most exhausting). An entire year group of 120, 12–13 year old school children. It left me in no doubt that the next...
View Article20:50:30 A Collaborative proposal
Inspired by my induction into Collaborative Consumption last week I have been thinking: I don’t particularly like marketing. Interesting projects are becoming much harder to find these days. I would...
View ArticleDark side of the wooing
For the last few years I have attributed the emergence of collaboration and camaraderie in my workshops to the release of oxytocin in the brain during laughter. Its a lovely idea that a few smiles...
View ArticleWhat is thinking – A London Gurteen Knowledge café
I attended another entertaining and thought provoking Gurteen Knowledge Café in London last night. A good mixture of old faithfuls and newbies, KM old school and some individuals not quite sure why...
View ArticleRandomness is Good – Part 2
As a result of the recent school future backwards workshop on the environment (11 – 12 yr olds) which I summarised here I have now received feedback from some of the students who participated. It has...
View Articleecology of knowledge – new apps launch
Hibernation over and inspired by recent emergent trends I have decided to launch the first six of a series of ecology of knowledge apps, designed, not to be run on mobile devices, but live, in the...
View ArticleWords of re-enchantment
Every now and again I seem to lose my impetus and need to pause, reflect, re-fuel and be re-inspired. When I first got into all things narrative I was seduced by the potent mix of screenwriting, myths,...
View ArticleBring back the Great Egg Race
Last Thursday I met an engineer who said that the reason he became an engineer was because of the Great Egg Race on TV. I wonder how many others were attracted to the great ‘inventive problem solving’...
View ArticleKMUK 2011
This June will be the tenth anniversary of my first ever KM Conference presentation and as luck would have it (thank you Mr G and Leah) I have been invited to preside over the closing review session at...
View ArticleTRIZ away those sandals
You think you know someone after working with them for more than two years then they take your carefully nurtured image and stereotype it into a cartoon. I can accept the seventies haircut and beard...
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