I’ve been on the road lately … facilitating lots and lots of conversations with lots of lots of people. Big groups and small groups, mixed and unmixed groups. The conversations have been about learning from our past and working out ways to ‘do it better’ in the future. When you accept the offer to facilitate day after day, there is such a great opportunity to practice the art of being present … to enter a space with purpose yet being able to ‘let-go’ of how/what/when and respond to the group’s needs. With each workshop I got better and better at …

I work for myself and vowed last year to collaborate more with other people. It can get lonely and sometimes you fool yourself into thinking you can do it all! Design and art is a growing passion of mine and, through my sister (Janette Derrick who’s Organic Fabric business website is very cool), I met Kieren Tobin and Melinda Chapman of 3D Model Studios. Mel and Kieran are graphic artists with a long history in 3d art, computer games, architectural visualisations, illustration and 2D design. I approached Mel and Kieren to help me turn my ideas into a design for my website. I …

I have enjoyed collaborating with designers and a web guru to create a new design for my blog, consulting space and website. More on the design process and people who helped me later. The Home Page At it’s core this page is designed to be playful and convey a sense of ‘connectedness’ and integration. Linking people together through ideas is what I do best. This blog post over at NESTA influenced my early thoughts on this page too. This design is also about ‘keeping our eye on the ball’. The faces are interested in where you are looking. Meet the …

Garr Reynold over at Presentation Zen spotted this video called ‘Built to Last‘. “This 3-minute video presentation called Built to Last won first prize in The Congress for the New Urbanism video contest a few weeks ago. The rules for the contest were simple: “Create a 3-minute maximum video that illustrates how the principles of New Urbanism – density, design and walkability – can effectively respond to current environmental challenges that we face.” Watch the video.” Garr Reynolds. Here is another great example of creative communication. Built to Last combines a great mix of music, large/bold text, images and story …

Here’s some blog posts that stood out for me … 1. The World Wide Web in Plain English – another simple and elegant video from Lee and Sachi at Commoncraft 2. 37 Days – A reminder to anyone looking for a simply great person to follow and read. Patti Digh’s work at 37  Days and in her consulting practice is inspirational 3. Dave Snowden’s latest post on Complex Adaptive Systems and where our current mindset and culture needs to shift! 4. And from the comments in Dave’s post above comes this great video at TED (which is a call for …