by admin_tony | Sep 8, 2025 | facilitation
Your blood pressure is normal at home, but the moment that well-meaning medical professional wraps that cuff around your arm, it spikes. The act of measuring creates the very problem it’s trying to manage. This isn’t unique to medical settings. Your...
by admin_tony | Aug 15, 2025 | facilitation
For over eight centuries, roses have symbolised profound knowledge—wisdom that’s precious because it demands real effort to obtain. Persian mystic Rumi wrote of roses as divine secrets locked within “a hundred veils of petals,” each layer hiding...
by admin_tony | Aug 15, 2025 | curriculum
Picture this: you’re at a friend of a friend’s flat-warming. There’s an underwhelming selection of supermarket nibbles on paper plates and your host is stress-eating Pringles straight from the tube. There are two specific personalities at this party,...
by admin_tony | Aug 15, 2025 | facilitation
In the 1940s and 50s, Viola Spolin was transforming how we understand learning through her pioneering work in improvisational theatre. Working with the Compass Players in Chicago, Spolin developed a systematic approach to theatre training that would influence...
by admin_tony | Jun 9, 2025 | facilitation
If you work in further or higher education, you’re probably sick of hearing about the need to improve teaching excellence. The term itself has become deeply problematic, and so Phil and I thought we should take a look at it. During our discussion about how to improve...
