About Naming Your Stuckness and Bending It What does it mean to nourish your relational tissue, especially at a time when you can be faithfully uncertain, stuck maybe, and want to notice and transform? Places of stuckness take many flavours, shapes and responses. There is a load, a drag, some…

My farewell to #MarceloYuka #poem #poetry #poesia #poesie

Down the orchard aisles, in the thick, new, wet grass, the little girl ran for the joy of running.

sometimes there's a passion that comes in its springtime to ill fate or death. And because it ends in its beauty, it's what the harpers sing of and the poets make stories of: the love that escapes the years...

Books this week Multi prong approach to tend to the absurd

FOI on The National Security Assessment on Biodiversity Loss and Ecosystem Collapse-Why Downing Street apparently blocked it: 2 reasons: - Its conclusions were “too negative”, and - It would draw attention to the government’s failure to act www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Isolation is, as it were, pretotalitarian; its hallmark is impotence insofar as power always comes from men acting together; isolated men are powerless by definition." – Hannah Arendt

#7syllablesentence #rib

If your task is to help others flourish and you’re looking to spark deeper thinking, movement and connection, check these 4 questions by Nancy Kline, which she shared in her interview with Liz Hall, in Coaching at Work magazine… #TimetoThink #THinkingEnvironment #ConsciousInnovation

In a world characterised by uncertainty, speed and ceaseless attempts to hijack our attention, The Icelandic concept of InnSæi can help us stay consciously and courageously anchored to our inner compass while adjusting to new realities. This Guide will show you how

If your task is to help others flourish and you’re looking to spark deeper thinking, movement and connection, check these 4 questions by Nancy Kline, which she shared in her interview with Liz Hall, in Coaching at Work magazine… #TimetoThink #THinkingEnvironment #ConsciousInnovation

Evergreen @leguinbot.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin

“At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize, and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization." • Erich Fromm “The Heart of Man”

& I'm looking forward to this, too! "Creative Conversations: When Trust Meets Imagination w/ Servane Mouazan" www.ticketsource.co.uk/cccibathspa/... "What kind of exquisite presence helps your imagination feel safe AND bold enough to appear?" Indeed! @servanemouazan.bsky.social @penahay.bsky.social

“We must be bilingual even in a single language, we must have a minor language inside our own language, we must create a minor use of our own language… Proust says: ‘Great literature is written in a sort of foreign language…’ That is the definition of style.” — Deleuze, Dialogues

I wish there was a way I could develop the photographs I take in my dreams. Last night I ‘captured’ a sunset in a lovely English meadow as I ran towards the dipping sun. It would’ve been a beautiful blur of green tones limned with golden light.

The notion of Blue Monday" is bullsh*t. In the meantime, The Weight of Being’ is a fab, free exhibit opening this week. It explores vulnerability, resilience & mental health in 20th century & modern art. 🗓️Sat 24th Jan-Sun 19th Apr 📍Two Temple Place, London, UK twotempleplace.org/exhibitions/...

To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world.

Oooooh what a job! Director of research at Institute for the Future! www.linkedin.com/posts/marina... @penahay.bsky.social for someone you know?

The growth of fitness monitoring devices is not only giving pub bores ammunition – it's catching the eye of governments and big business.

soak in the ebbing skin's warmth knead, strike, flex, rise, point doused, immersed, lost, on the edge of confused dreamy hours this morning the world whispered give away your belongings be ready to flee, fly, vanish and no longer long for what could have been ~ebb Servane Mouazan #Poem #poetry

Warm Data, People Need People, Relational Labs “There will be no community without first communing.” ~Nora Bateson Warm Data Labs (in person), People Need People (online) gatherings and Relational Labs, are an invitation into that communing: a meadow of conversations where fresh insights and…

💫Nominate a creative, courageous, impactful campaigner for the Sheila McKechnie Foundation National Campaigner Awards 2026. Let's celebrate big ideas, bold action, and those who make our communities fairer, stronger, and more hopeful. Champion your people by Feb 6th hubs.la/Q03-8YQY0 #SMKAwards2026

People Need People 🫀 A Warm Conversation - Monday March 23. Join a gentle gathering of care, curiosity, and connection through the #WarmData process inspired by Nora Bateson. Come as you are to explore and co-imagine new nourishing possibilities. www.systemschangeeducatorsunite.com/people-need-...

Are you aged 18-25 & looking for work? The Great Friendship Project just launched the #LaunchPadCommunity, a free prog of co-working, mentoring & fun activities to help you build momentum. You’ll also receive £100 in vouchers for taking part! friendship-project.co.uk/launchpad/

Walk through the world with care, my love And sing the things you see Let new names take and root and thrive and grow And even as you stumble through machair sands eroding Let the fern unfurl your grieving, let the heron still your breathing 1/2 youtube.com/watch?v=Hg1x...

Warm Data, People Need People, Relational Labs “There will be no community without first communing.” ~Nora Bateson Warm Data Labs (in person), People Need People (online) gatherings and Relational Labs, are an invitation into that communing: a meadow of conversations where fresh insights and…

Coach Supervision in a Thinking Environment What becomes possible when coaching super-vision becomes a generative inter-relational field, not a corrective space? This is a warm invitation to certified coaches who wish to experiment with a super-vision ritual in a Thinking Environment. In this…

Civil society groups condemn ‘dangerous’ plans for more anti-protest powers

Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds. Net migration to the UK fell by more than two-thirds to a post-pandemic low in the year ending June 2025, but 67% of the people polled thought it had increased www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

#Booksky #amreading today The Other Name- Septology I-II" by Jon Fosse Am still in the first sentence 🤣 thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... #JonFosse

"A Single Stroke" Day 8 of @64millionartists #TheJanuaryChallenge I put the pen on the wee post-it and this felt like a Thinking Session, not from the thinker's perspective but the thinking partner's, in the container of one hour, clock time, we travel and feel and see and ... (1/3)

‘Nothing grows in isolation We need each other’ #digitalcollage #artsky

TIME TO THINK-TIME TO DO - Who Is Thinking Here? What's important for us to think about before deciding what we think about AI and coaching/facilitating?” 16 MARCH 5 to 6:30 pm UK GMT, with Elisabeth Schwab, Time To Think Coach in Austria, + MSC AI in Coaching. For TTT practitioners. DM for link

TIME TO THINK-TIME TO DO - Who Is Thinking Here? What's important for us to think about before deciding what we think about AI and coaching/facilitating?” 16 MARCH 5 to 6:30 pm UK GMT, with Elisabeth Schwab, Time To Think Coach in Austria, + MSC AI in Coaching. For TTT practitioners. DM for link

"Memórias Artesanais" text by Marcelo Yuka, (Astronautas Daqui, 2012) #Collage composition by yours truly.

Wolf moon + star

Flashback: How Wolves Change Rivers When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park after being absent for nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. So, what is that, and how exactly do wolves change rivers? By @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 😍 youtu.be/ysa5OBhXz-Q

As we settle into a new year, this stunningly shot short by Mykhailo Bogdanov invites us to take a moment and enjoy the ‘avoesis’ – a term coined by the ecologist Liam Heneghan to describe a ‘form of quietness, one that is not precisely silence’. Come along for a wander in avoesis

Imagining a peaceful, compassionate world & more hopeful futures✨

Writing doesn't just help you process your thoughts. Neuroscientists have found it physically changes your brain in ways that build resilience and help you handle everyday stress and challenges. theconversation.com/writing-buil...

Brigitte Bardot n'était pas "libre" et encore moins féministe. Elle était totalement soumise au patriarcat, qu'elle n'a jamais remis en cause, ni même questionné, à qui elle devait toute sa carrière et qu'elle a défendu à nombreuses reprises, méprisant allègrement le combat féministe.

via Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

Questions for Standing Still when Conflict Arise – January Calendar Here's one question a day to knead empathetic spoken and thinking rituals when you find yourself in tension and/or conflict. At dawn, at the bus stop, in bed or just before you hop on to that meeting or before you re-enter the…

"Slow Down or Die", by Timothée Parrique, will probably be my last book this year. #Degrowth timotheeparrique.com/about/ Then... I look forward to the shuffling reading list awaiting on my #Storygraph @thestorygraph.com

Over 20 years ago, Nature Conservancy trustee Harry Groome wrote a letter to his first grandchild Hal, shortly after Hal was born. What would you write in your letter to the future?

“By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastructure that a far-right government will not hesitate to exploit” tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/labo...

“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by all the opportunists who control the fool." ~Octavia Butler "Parable of the Talents"