This is brilliant. Watch and enjoy … comedians have an uncanny knack of ‘shining a light’ on the absurdity of systems that we create. Hat Tip to Chris Corrigan for reminding me about this skit. Geoff

It is amazing what generous offers you get from others when you make your own ideas and ‘work’ available for all to see. Jack Martin Leith, like me, is a blogger and Open Space Practitioner. Jack picked up my post to Twitter about a slideshow I created following a presentation I delivered to the Geelong College teaching community on Monday. Jack then viewed my slideshow at Slideshare and provided some great feedback … in fact he built on my ideas and now (after reading the links he provided) I understand my initial ideas more deeply than before! “I have two …

I am a big fan of Sir Ken Robinson’s ideas about creativity and education. Thanks to Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen, here is another interview with Sir Ken. Part 1 Part 2 Sir Ken has a new book coming out in 2009 called The Element. It’s about how we find that place where we say, “I’m in my element”. For me at the moment, my element is playing with my kids, being in my vege/fruit garden and facilitating – being ‘present’ with a group and assisting them to do their very best thinking. cheers Geoff

In the spirit of Improv and Complex change, I have started doing lots and lots of little things to help ‘enable change’ and ‘spark conversations’ about living sustainably at home. The first of these is Green Cow Solutions! A good chunk of my work is in the design and facilitation of projects that bring together people to learn from each other about tackling climate change and living sustainably. These projects have become more about community strengthening and resilience than about the ‘sustainability’ outcomes that flow from action (eg. insulating ceiling space) … I am very comfortable with that too! So …

Ok, here’s one thing we can all do to live a better life. If we all took Steve Jobs’ advice, our collective capacity to adapt and improvise would see us through any crisis. Hat Tip to Jack Martin Leith for reminding me about this talk. Here’s a clip: Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what …