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

In this episode, I talk to Thomas Legrand who is a wisdom’s seeker, living in France next to Plum Village, the monastery of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Thomas has a PhD in economics and he works in the field of sustainability for UN agencies, NGOs and companies. We discussed his new book Politics of being  Thomas explained how he researched what wisdom traditions, in dialogue with science, ca...

In this conversation with Brandon Wetzstein who is Founder and Principle of In8 Create , I discuss the importance of play not just in the lives of our children and young people but also for us adults. Brandon designs and facilitates workshops for teams using the LEGO Serious Play method. He explained all the benefits of this approach. As a linguist, I really enjoyed exploring the tension between t...

I am delighted to share this new episode with Tim Klein who is an Educator, Writer, Researcher and Co-Founder of How To Navigate Life. In this conversation, Tim and unpack unpack his new book co-written with Dr Belle Liang called How to Navigate Life where they advocate for cultivating a purpose mindset. They tell us that purpose is about playing the long game, pursuing something meaningful, about...

I am delighted to share this imperfectly perfect conversation with Dicken Bettinger who founded Three Principles Mentoring and who is currently working to train and develop 3 Principles Practitioners, as well as running seminars on-line and for the public in cities around the world. Dicken is also co-author of ' Coming Home ' which is how I felt when I first listened to his work online and when I...

Today I am delighted to share this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with Satish Kumar . Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. We had a conversation about his amazing work but also about the recent publication of Regenerative Learning. Nurturing people and caring for the planet . We discussed how it was published...

This is round 2 of a powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with Dr Bern Nicholls . We discuss how we create conditions for ourselves and young people to flourish, to have the courage to find our way and how we can contribute to the world. How we can be of service to the world, rather than this old paradigm of getting ourselves ready for work.  To do this we also need to be asking the ques...

This week I am delighted to share my first conversation with Dr Bern Nicholls who is a passionate advocate for student empowerment and believes every student needs to be in the driver’s seat of their own learning.  Through her consultancy work in schools she is committed to providing practical, evidence-based ways for leaders and teachers to genuinely include student voice in the learning jou...

This week, I am delighted to share my conversation and interview with Annabel Jeffcoate who helps primary teachers reduce anxiety & switch off through work-life balance coaching. Through her business Balance For Teachers she shares what work-life balance for teachers is all about. Annabel shares her own personal story and provides us with some amazing tips on how to deal with our stress and an...

I am so happy to share this powerful imperfctly perfect conversation with Curtis Ogden who is Senior Associate of the Interaction Institute for Social Change . It was such a delight to be in conversation with Curtis and the hour flew by! Curtis works with multi-stakeholder networks to strengthen and transform food public health, education, and economic development systems at local, state, regional...

I am super excited to share this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with the wonderful Rachel Musson who is Director of Thoughtbox who believes the most valuable thing we can learn in life is how to care for ourselves, each other and the planet. Rachel and I discuss how as the world transforms, so must our education systems. It’s time to regenerate – to connect with the world and cultivate...

This week I am delighted to share my conversation with Dr Thom Markham who is considered one of the founding fathers of Project Based Learning, Thom Markham is an educator by trade, a positive psychologist by training, and a global entrepreneur dedicated to expanding educator mindsets in service to a positive future. n 2015, Thom established PBL Global to offer online courses and onsite profession...

This week I am delighted to share this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with Maggie Favretti . Maggie is a Co-Design Thinker, an Award-winning Educator, Mentor, and Founder of Design Ed 4 Resilience  We discussed how we can design Education and Lifelong learning to cultivate belonging and shape collaborative community responses to climate change and other complex issues. Maggie told...

I am delighted to share a conversation with Alan Williams , Director of ServiceBrand Global . This is round 2 as I spoke to Alan last year and I will be completely honest, this conversation over the summer was absolutely life altering for me. In this episode Alan explains what a values driven life: it really means consciously making choices and decisions and behaving in line with what we understan...

Today I am extremely excited to be sharing this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with Richard Barrett . Richard is Managing Director of Barrett Academy for the Advancement of Human Values . Richard shares his breakthrough work - the Barrett Model. Inspired by Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and tested over more than two decades of real-world experience with thousands of orga...

I am delighted to share this new episode with the wonderful Max Girardeau who is Director and co-founder of The Visionaries . In round 2 of our conversation, we talk about the work Max, Adrian and Nikki do. In this imperfectly perfect episode, Max shares their guiding inquiry: how to support regenerative leadership to emerge both in young people and in educators, and those working in the systems o...

Today I am beyond excited to share this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with two trailblazers in education Charlotte Hankin and Benjamin Freud . I absolutely love the work that Charlotte and Benjamin are doing with Coconut Thinking to disrupt the way we educate and parent our children and young people in order to help individuals and organizations create, develop, stress test, and implem...

With over two decades of experience at the forefront of international education, Craig Vezina is the founder & President of the Z-17 Collective (formerly ZSchool: The International School of Social Entrepreneurship) & co-founder of The Spaceship Academy. We talk about what it means to empower people to discover and find out their meaning or purpose so that they don't feel at the mercy of b...

Today I return from a truly invigorating 4 week-break and I am delighted to start again with a powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with the wonderful Jessica Cavallaro and Roslynn Jackson who are both based in Florida. They are both educators, innovators and change makers in education. In this episode, they share how they both discovered Agile as a solution to keep their students connected,...

Why are things the way the are? And how can we make them better? These are two of the questions that Gary asks himself every day and that he shared with me during this powerful imperfectly perfect new conversation on the podcast. We also talked about flourishing at the individual and organisational, community and societal level and Gary's own journey as an educator and father over the last 30 year...

I am absolutely thrilled to be sharing this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with Max Girardeau from The Visionaries . Max and I talk about his amazing work and vision - how do we help create nurturing school communities and to support young people into healthy adulthood. We also discuss the importance of self-care so that we can care for the planet and serve others. I loved every minute...

I am delighted to share this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with the wonderful Jenny Finn who is the Founder of Springhouse . Jenny and I talk about how we can create conditions for vitality to thrive in the individual and collective. What happens when an intergenerational learning community work towards a vision of regenerative culture where all people are connected to the vitality wit...

I am delighted to share this new episode with Uncle Sele - Founder, Trees and Pillars Online school for Values, character and Child mentoring.  Uncle Sele is a Values and Character Coach  Model and Mentor to Children. We discussed what values are and why they are important and what the role of parents and adults are. I am sure you will enjoy this conversation - I know I did!

In this episode I share the wonderful work of  Dr Elizabeth Lindsey , Nat Geo Explorer and UN Visionary. Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey is a global strategic advisor and the first Polynesian Explorer and female Fellow in the history of the National Geographic Society. Her keen insights are helping to reshape Western perspectives on global leadership. Her commitment to conserving traditional knowledge...

This week I am delighted to share my conversation with Dr Pauline Crawford - The conversation maker We talk about her work and how we can activate conscious leadership, lead authentic success, elevate performance through Magical Conversations. We also discuss how to expand relationship potential between #Men&Women #AuthenticHarmony#AuthenticPower You can watch the video: Bears and Birds -Tale...

I am delighted to share this powerful imperfectly perfect conversation with Dr Benjamin Freud - co founder of Coconut Thinking , which is a website where we post articles and have a podcast. They are trying to get people together to have conversations about how we can move beyond the system of education that we have today.  Benjamin explains that revolutions by definitions don't happen at the...