A couple of years ago I was working with a group of college students on a team building day. After undertaking an exercise – building a bridge from newspaper I think on this occasion – my role was to ask questions to help them understand what had happened, the impact it had on them and [...]
British actor Richard Briers – who is probably most famous for playing Tom Good in the Good Life 70s sitcom – was talking on the radio yeterday about his career as an actor. He has acted in other TV shows and in many plays and well into his 70s now he is currently appearing in a [...]
Imagine a swimming pool in front of you. You are first to arrive. You lower yourself into the pool. At first the glassy water is disrupted by some ripples. As you start to swim these become small waves right to sides of the pool. You have had quite an impact on that water!
This applies whether [...]
I am writing this at the start of the second week in 2010. Over the past week the press, blogs and online chats have been full of resolutions and advice on how to lose weight/stop smoking/ change jobs…the usual stuff.
Also in the last week in the UK we have been hit by the worst winter [...]
In the most recent Metasaga ( more info at the foot of this post) we led a group round the National Gallery of Scotland to look for metaphors in the paintings.
Lesley ( my co-guide) and I had chosen a number of stops between us for questions. The final one was mine. It is a painting by Italian [...]
