FLOURISHING EDUCATION - SAFER AND BRAVER SPACE(S) TO BE AND BECOME WELL TOGETHER

In this imperfectly perfect conversation, I connect with and talk to the wonderful Dr Eri Mountbatten O'Malley who is Senior lecturer in Education Policy at Bath Spa University . I reached out to him because his PhD is a conceptual analysis of human flourishing . As a researcher keen to understand what flourishing means and how we create flourishing communities in educational settings, I reall...

I am delighted to share this imperfectly perfect conversation with the amazing Sally Lewis . Once in a while, we meet people and it feels like we have known them for ever. My encounter with Sally was exactly like this and I am sure you will be able to hear this when you listen to this episode. Together we share our passion - children and young people's wellbeing and we explore how we can help...

I am delighted to share this imperfectly perfect conversation with the wonderful Rachel Musson , Director of Thoughtbox , Systems Thinker and Climate Activist. I invited Rachel for a second conversation on the podcast because I truly love her work. It is so aligned with my research and explorations. Our first conversation was called 'Listen to your inner salmon' She recently published a ne...

Today I am delighted to share this imperfectly perfect conversation with Michelle Blanchet who is Co-Founder as well as Change Consultant at The Educators' Lab . She is also co author of The Startup Teacher Playbook and Preventing Polarization . Michelle and I explored how to create tools to help educators turn their ideas to improve teaching and learning into ACTION. We are often told that we...

I am delighted to share this imperfectly perfect conversation with Aaron Schorn who is an amplifier of youth, co-designing education programs rooted in youth agency and entrepreneurship. Head of Community and Growth at Unrulr , as well as Program Director at the Nalukai Foundation Aaron and I first discussed the importance of co-designing education programmes rooted in youth agency and entrepreneu...

This week I share my imperfectly perfect conversation with Dr Nicolene who is the co-founder of a Learning Centre in Bali called Open Flow Learning Centre which is a nice international learning centre co-curating education for children. We explore Dr Nicolene's journey and how she co-created Open Flow and the key changes. She highlighted: - the amount of choice and voice that they bring into t...

In this imperfectly perfect conversation, I talk with the wonderful Dr Daniel Wahl , author of Designing Regenerative Cultures. We explore what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put them right. Daniel is a consultant, educator, activist, speaker, blogger , weaver, catalyst. I asked him how his work can also be applied in the world of ed...

I am delighted to share this imperfectly perfect conversation with Benjamin Freud and Charlotte Hankin who are both co-founders of Coconut Thinking . In this episode, I invited Benjamin and Charlotte to come and talk about their new venture Nature on the board which is a new collaboration between Benjamin, Charlotte,  Andy Middleton and  Michelle Blanchet We discussed how we create the conditions...

This week I am delighted to share this imperfectly perfect conversation with the wonderful Magaga Enos who is Communication and Outreach Coordinator for BEADS for Education and HundrED Country Lead Kenya. He shares his journey and passion to support and give women, in particular from vulnerable communities more compassion. I am sure you will find this episode as fascinating as I did. The book ment...

In this imperfectly perfect conversation I talk with Dr Adam R Wright and Dr Nick Holton about antifragility for a Flourishing Education. Dr Holton is a consultant, coach and educator, who serves a variety of both formal and informal roles, all of which are devoted to the study, dissemination, and application of the science of human flourishing. Feeling, behaving, and functioning as our best selve...

Today I am delighted to share with powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with Madeleen Mulder who is a Wayfinder | Warrior for the human spirit | Futurist | Regenerative Leadership | General Counsel | Purpose activator | Writer. Madeleen explains how she used to be a lawyer but left because she was bored and also she loved asking the hard questions or the critical questions, the why? We reflec...

In this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation, I talk with the wonderful Natalia Blagoeva who supports humans humans to thrive in an era dominated by AI and machines by unleashing their Human Advantage. She is also a Change Whisperer©, Educator, Constellator Systemic Constellations, Founder & Co-creator, Podcast Co-host. You can find out all about her work here: https://www.nataliablagoeva...

In this imperfectly perfect conversation, I talk with Brad Peirce who is a Living Systems Learning Experience Designer, Facilitator, Advisor, and Coach. Brad explained how he helps clients bring their sustainability strategies to life. We discuss how leaders and teams develop regenerative mindsets, skills and capabilities. And much more... I am sure you will enjoy this episode as much as I did. Th...

I am delighted to share this imperfectly perfect conversation with Edd Moore who is a Primary School Teacher, National Award Winning Eco Coordinator. During this episode he shared his amazing initiative in the primary school he works and how he empowers schools and their pupils to become Eco Ambassadors. I am sure you will love this conversation as much as I did. You can reach Edd via LinkedIn

In this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation I talk with Deborah McNelis who is a Speaker and Author of The First 60 Days & The Neuro-Nurturing® Interaction Packets Series. We cover a lot in this conversation but in particular: The first 60 days of neural nurturing. Self-perception and the brain. How to make changes in the brain. How to switch the focus. The teenage brains I am sure you w...

In this imperfectly perfect conversation I shine the light on an amazing innovator and disruptor in the field of education: Raya Bidshari CEO and Founder of School of Humanity We started with Raya's journey into education and then Raya shared all about School of Humanity and its origin, the values of that underpin the school and how as a parent whose son attends School of Humanity, I have not...

In this imperfectly perfect conversation with Stef Kuypers who is a TEDx Speaker,  PhD student in Business Economics,   Researcher in behavioural and monetary economics, Systems Thinker and Facilitator. I first discovered Stef's work through his two TEDx talks: Money, Behaviour and Society: the invisible Link Man Made Money We discussed Happonomy , an initiative originally started by Bru...

Today I talk with Matt Piercy who is  a learner, international educator, author, and an explorer. We covered so many points in this imperfectly perfect conversation. Here are some of them: A renewed sense of appreciation for place. The importance of community and nature. We all have a responsibility to choose our response. The curse of knowledge and wisdom. The scarcity mindset and the value...

Today I share this wonderful conversation with John Rainford who came to talk to me about how much he cares about Education, Health and Wellbeing. He shared how he created the Darwin Matrix and how he believes that we should all believe in ourselves. He added that we all carry a lot of baggage around but what would happen if we let go of that baggage?  We would - go on leaps and bounds - brin...

In this new episode, I am delighted to share my imperfectly perfect conversation with Dr Jayne-Louise Collins who is a Learning Designer; Researcher; Facilitator of Adult Learning. We discussed the notion of partnering to learn and lead and regenerative change. We explored other questions such as : - how do we prepare for change in a complex system? - how do we decide to partner with an organisati...

I am delighted to share this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with Esther Montmany. She now works with family and young people. She shares with me how  she has been exploring the question:  who am I?  How she worked inside so she could be happy.  And she also has put a lot a lot of energy in how to relate to others in a respectful way, that allows them to really be the...

In this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation, I spoke with the wonderful Christine Freeland who is the Founder of Boost Your Brilliance . Christine shares with MWe about Leadership in tune with life. She worked for the National Park Service in the United States for 30 years. The last 6 years of her career, she became interested in leadership, feeling there was something missing in the way wor...

I am delighted to share this new episode with the wonderful Evelien Verschroeven who is a Business Mentor as well as an Educational and L&D Innovator, Edutech focused on educational Design and Relational Cognition. Together we discussed how wisdom is born in interaction. Evelien shared how to learn sustainably, we have to respect and connect with the wholeness: with ourselves in all our differ...

In this conversation, I talk with Inez Aponte who is a Storyteller, an Educator and a Human Scale Development Consultant. She is the Founder of Growing Good Lives and Crazy Beautiful World . We discussed how Crazy Beautiful World started with a conversation between a mother and a son and how it now connects  teens and adults to explore – with open hearts and minds – the challenges of growing...

I am delighted to share another imperfectly perfect conversation with the wonderful Maggie Favretti who is an author, CoDesign Thinker, Systems Change Maker, Educator, Climate Activist, Founder of Design Ed 4 Resilience . During this episode we discuss her new book Learning in the Age of Climate Disasters which was released today - 13th December 2022 on the day we spoke. Maggie outlined the contex...