Recently, I ventured back to Five Winds School of T’ai Chi Chuan. I was last there in February 2020 – and we all know what happened next. With physical contact off-limits, I kept up my T’ai Chi Chuan practice by doing the beautiful solo forms of this martial art. Then, in August 2022, with physical […]
When writing the final chapters of Approaching Difference Differently, I coined the phrase ‘ending with the beginning in mind’. This reflects a premise that, for conversations that take place over a series of gatherings, it’s helpful to be aware of the way each encounter starts and finishes. The opening and closing moments of a conversation
In a comment on my previous post, a reader on Linked In observed that they’d love to have my ‘courage and commitment’. I responded that I believe we all have courage – just for different things. I added that, with clear intention, we can gradually expand that courage to include the things we find harder
I started to write this post in March! I was inspired by a friend’s grandson who was applying for a place on a teacher training programme in Scotland. It’s a competitive field, and he’d recently had a ‘no’ from his preferred university. He was, of course, disappointed. However, within a couple of days, he’d regrouped