Sometimes this is all you need
24 November 2008After a full day of listening, questioning, processing, analysing, holding space, humouring and travelling this is just the tonic I need. Maybe you do too? Enjoy. Beautiful places on our world. View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: landscapes travel)
I love this time of year
24 September 2008We’re coming out of winter. The days are getting longer (bring on daylight saving) and it’s often sunny and warm. For a few minutes, anyway. It can also still be quite cold, windy, wet and stormy. The birds are building nests and the blue wrens are in the full breeding colours. And many of the…
Cause and effect
6 June 2008This has been playing on my mind recently, and maybe it’s gelling just enough for me to write about it. Three things happened: 1. I was researching Communities of Practice and complexity and came across a Sketchcast by Shawn at Anecdote, where he talked about the Cynefin framework and the relationship between cause and effect.…
Amazing people
26 May 2008One of the joys of my work is the opportunity to meet so many amazing people. One of them is photographer Tristan Clements. Check out his pics on flickr.
The Web’s Secrets
9 January 2008This TED talk by Jonathan Harris brings together technology, story, social science, evaluation, art and is entertaining to boot.
Surf’s Up
28 December 2007This is where I’ll spending the next couple of weeks. This beach is called Southside and it’s a stone’s throw from where I live. It’s right next to the famous surf beach Bells Beach. Bells is not really a swimming beach – it’s surf central. Southside is also a Marine National Park so there’s plenty…
A few random thoughts from Banff
18 November 2007The AIN (improv) conference in Banff was a source of many ideas and connections. Here’s just a few. • Ecoductions – introducing yourself using place as the focus; a way to avoid the trap of defining yourself based on what you do and to revisit the way the environment shapes who we are. • The…
From the artist
3 November 2007Today we were at a gallery to check out paintings by Robert Holcombe. Luckily for us, we not only saw some of his paintings but met the artist as well. This is one of Robert’s contemporary paintings, strongly influenced by Fred Williams. He described his artistic journey from realist to contemporary and now abstract. He…
Feel good
2 November 2007This week our new solar panels were switched on. We now draw about half of our electricity needs from the sun. It feels good.