ArticlesI’m often asked: ‘Can you take me out in a Canoe? Finally, the answer is ‘YES!’
Respecting your elders is water under the bridge….
A few salmon shaped synchronicities occurred over the past week which has prompted me to write on the subject of the importance of elders in community, education and power. Allow me to explain…
[footage appears courtesy of www.earthways.co.uk]
My story begins in planning my journeys for the year
‘for my soul river runs deep…’
‘Come into the resurrection of nature… Reside in this environmental nomenclature’ Whilst i sit and contemplate river journeys to come this year; this tale from overseas fires my imagination and kindles my enthusiasm. Engaging, inspired, campfired eloquence. Bardic brilliance for 21st century resilience. I hope you enjoy it too…
‘Something about problem solving…’
‘Something about problem solving’
That’s the shortest brief i think i’ve ever received. Venture Scotland, are a successful charity who offer a 12 month personal development course for disadvantaged young people, and had called me in at short notice; i was glad to accept.
They’d asked me in to deliver a five day residential course for twelve 16-30 year olds with a team of three volunteers during the ‘problem solving’ phase of the ‘Journey’ programme. After a staffing issue a day before the trip was due to go out,I asked for the aims and objective to which a development worker replied : ‘Do something about problem solving.’
I wanted to share some reflections on fulfilling such a brief and how the experience of flow learning can positively influence the seemingly conflicting needs of safety, fun and learning for participants and volunteers…
Reasons to be Cheerful!
Sometimes we ask ourselves; whats the point? Here’s some of mine from 2012… “We are oddly constructed machines. At one moment all resolution, at the next all doubt… Today our intellect, our science, all our ‘Lieben und Treiben’ seem but a pitiful Philistinism, not worth a pipe of tobacco; tomorrow we throw ourselves heart and …
