Good morning friends Usually I spend some of the weekend thinking of something to share on a Monday morning. I find something provocative to reflect on. I enjoy the community of sharing and occasionally receiving responses. …

I sit at my kitchen table and think of people like you, all over the world. Making Art. Teaching Art. Inspiring. Transforming. Believing. Hoping. All around the globe, Artists and Artist-Teachers doing what we do — trying to understand, explain and evolve this wounded world. Just as, ten of thousands…

Yes, we’ve all screamed it from time to time…… — Photo by Ba Tik from Pexels I reckon we all try to be generous and decent when we teach. Same when we run groups, or meetings. Any time we’re guiding the room, we want to be good people. We want to be open, considerate, encouraging. To empower! We want everyone…

How to give fit-for-purpose feedback — Have you ever had this experience? You go out for an evening with friends. You laugh a lot, maybe eat or drink. Lots of conversation. You have a great time. But, somewhere during the evening someone says something that bothers you, something that feels insulting or condescending. Maybe it’s not…

It’s not clever. It’s not ‘super-efficient’. In fact, it doesn’t even exist. — Photo by Ono Kosuki from Pexels We’re so proud of being able to multi-task! In fact, we’re so used to ‘multi-tasking’, we don’t even notice anymore that’s what we’re doing. Working on one thing, checking on another, music in the background, dashing off a response to an email, seeing what…

‘Two out of three ain’t bad’, he sang…. He was right. Two out of three is good enough. I talk about three ways to explain and justify your work: - to yourself — to your students — to gatekeepers/employers. When I say ‘justify’, I don’t mean some kind of ‘begging…

“Why are we doing this?’ I remember the moment clearly, even now, a quarter of a century later. It wasn’t a challenge, though it felt like one. It wasn’t some kid being ‘cheeky’, though I was tempted to react as if it was. I remember the sinking feeling, the anxiety…

This is what I’ve learned since. Two years ago, on this day, a sharp pain in my chest ripped the fabric of my life. On a rare night at home between one trip and another, I had a heart attack. It was unexpected. That’s obvious. No one expects catastrophic change…

Conversations I have with 30-year-olds (of any age) about making a new life. Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true. Clarissa Pinkola Estés There’s a ‘mentoring’ conversation…