Life Is Like Riding A Bicycle: To Keep Your Balance You Must Keep Moving…

Featured Image: Sao Paolo Street Artist Eduardo Kobra’s Illuminating mural of Einstein Keeping his balance Like street artist Eduardo Kobra’s fantastic image of Einstein on his bike (chasing a beam of light) promoting his dynamic search for relativity, we’re all seeking a way of connecting our lives with the environment in a meaningful and creative […]

Veronica Barnes: At The Top Of A Blue Mountain: Keeping The Conversation Going

Veronica Barnes won’t mind me telling you that she’s a senior. Still making beautiful bags and cards, she’s a mellower version of her dynamic and forceful self of her younger days. A fine figure of a woman she carries herself with energy and beauty. She’s also one of the pioneering women who set up Blue Mountain […]

Speak Up, Speak Out: The Launch Of The Philosopher’s Stone Collective December 2020

Featured Image: The Alchemist In Search of The Philosopher’s Stone: Joseph Wright of Derby 1771 It’s not a game Coaches, leaders helping professionals interested in using their science art craft to support social justice supporting and leading social change, one conversation at a time. What is the role of coaching and leading in a world […]

Rebuilding The Universities After World War 1: Ex‐Service Students, Scholarships And the Reconstruction of Student Life In England: Georgina Brewis, Sarah Hellawell, Daniel Laqua: A Great Piece Of Work And Really Relevant As We Begin To Rethink How Revaluing History, Teachers, Education, Students And Learning Can Reinvent The Economy In 2021

Featured Image: I stand with my great grandmother on the doorstep: How I write History by Hilary Mantel illustrated by Nick Higgins The research was supported by the AHRC World War One Engagement Centre at the University of Hertfordshire and the authors give special mention to Sarah Lloyd and Anna Hammerin, community partners Mike Day […]

What The Future Has To Offer: The Work Of Artists and Politicians: Molly Crabapple and Alex Orcasia Cortez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m8YACFJlMg Underpaid, Ignored, and Essential: A Coronavirus Sketchbook Drawing the workers who cannot stay home. Originally published April 3rd in The Nation funded by Economic Hardship Reporting: Molly Crabapple is the artist. Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. She is the author of Drawing Blood and co-author of Brothers of The […]

When A Nottingham Podcast Becomes Part Of Something We All Need: Charmaine Roche Life Flow Balance 2 Seasons Available Now on Apple, Spotify, Google and Castbox: Creating A Work Culture Where Life (Not Dis-Ease) Can Evolve…

Why are podcasts useful? They’re a way of listening, learning and rehearsing a better version of the world we live, work and play in, a way of connecting the local with the regional, national and international. Speak Up, Speak Out is a podcast now in Series 2 is evolving opportunities to change the way we […]

Why We Need To Understand The Stories And Detail Of The Post War Period To Transform Our Economy In 2020 and Beyond

Featured Image: Jacob Lawrence: The Prisoners From The Migration Series We have socialised prisoners to believe they’re not worthy of a vote/representation/a job even when they have served their time. We have shamed ex-prisoners into accepting that stigma as the reason why they can’t work, build skills, opportunities that will address the reasons why communities […]

One Day I’ll Write A Comic Soap: (And We Will Be Royally Entertained): Christine Hassall: Art/Design/Photography With Care…Designed With Love

Featured Image: Major Oak charm necklace: Oak theme intertwined with Tibetan Silver Flower Forest Wooden Handmade Heart: £13.00 Wow! What an economic regenerator through Small Is Beautiful prinicples. I met Christine Hassall when I temped at Logobrand. They’re a small is human brand agency in the centre of Nottingham. Christine is their marketing executive which […]

What’s The Leadership Debate About? We Need A Fair Dealing Country Insight And Reciprocity At Every Level…

Featured Image: Rory Stewart: The Man To ReConnect The Country With The Towns And Cities? He’s a damn fine bloke, Rory Stewart, the kind of guy you’d see running hard in West Bridgford, or cycling along Sustrans cycle paths. He’d have an app, maybe, Strava, and he’d be the kind of person you’d look at […]

How We Begin To Create New Kinds Of Creative Jobs And Skills (Recognising And Developing Energy, Motivation And Capacity)

Featured Image: A Stereotypical Image Of Professional, Skilled and Unskilled Jobs open source image We need better representation of who we are, what we do at work and at leisure. When we wonder about solving social problems, the divided society, we’ve got out of the habit of looking at how we learn, share and distribute […]