Slow Journeys in the Same Direction

There are many things we love and enjoy, but some things will hold our attention more than others. A great place to begin going deeper involves the things which already catch our attention.  What is this for you? Is there something on your list of 100 Things I Love that really stands out for you and…

I remember my youngest son Luke, when he was five, following me around our garden asking one question after another. We’re born curious.  We want to know about the world we’re surrounded by and everything in it.  It’s about wonder. We’ve so many questions when we’re young but then something happens.  I’ve mentioned before that…

When we wrap curiosity around our passion and passion around our curiosity, together they are able to do more than survive, together they can thrive. Passion is simply another way of describing energy. Everything in the universe is energy.  What we are doing in identifying our passion is simply noticing a very personal energy to…

D.energise: when energy dissipates One person’s energy is another person’s d.energy. I have to admit, administration has been anything but a thrill for me.  Annual property schedules were amongst the worst of experiences.  Six pages of tightly packed questions for about fifteen properties, having to be summarised into another schedule.  I asked someone who acted…

This doodle leads us into the Alchemy Quest.  Solve et coagula is the alchemist’s mantra, meaning “to separate and bring together.” We may not be able to turn lead into gold but alchemy really happens when we see how a person’s life can be turned from unremarkable into remarkable. We look closely at our lives in…

We can find ourselves living with a need to reach conclusions quickly, what we might term reaching convergence, but the really interesting things happen when we reman open for as long as possible to as much as possible. There’s a reason why we don’t want to keep thinking about thinks for too long.  Our brain…

I saw the visitors queue trailing around Florence’s Galleria dell’Academia on a day visit back in 2012 and I knew I wouldn’t be able to get in. This gallery houses Michelangelo’s David but this wasn’t the sculpture I wanted to see.  I’d read about four unfinished statues by the great sculptor, thought to be prisoners…

Convergence is a meaningful coming together of what has been emerging for us out of our divergent exploring.  It involves our skills and talents, our passions and dreams, and the experiences in life that have shaped us significantly. It’s where we find our “crystalising intent,” as Otto Scharmer identifies it, our Element as Ken Robinson…

Zooming is the word Seth Godin gives to taking our art even further.  This journey isn’t about developing different talents but furthering those we’ve developed over so many years, awakening passions that make our hearts beat faster, but also making sense of the experiences of our lives in ways that are new for the present,…

Complicated stuff eventually makes sense and joins up somewhere.  Like a 10,000 piece jigsaw puzzle bearing the image of a sand dune. Complexity would be like having many of the pieces from a hundred different jigsaw puzzles.  Complexity doesn’t always join up. The trouble is, we are a pattern-identifying species living in a universe of…