This is what I’m doing NOW (September 2024)

(Inspired by Graham Allcott)

• Good Leaders in Turbulent Times - How to Navigate Wild Waters at Work is printed and when I'm hoke form holiday I will have a copy in my hands for the first time. Excited and apprehensive. Publication September 2024 by Practical Inspiration Publishing. Page design and cover co-created with the wonderful Marianne Hartley. E-book to be published 23rd September and hard and paper back on 24th are available for pre-order here.
  It is dedicated for all the leaders whom I will never know who, facing the challenges of turbulent times, are courageously aspiring to be the good leaders who will sustain a decent, just and civil society, so we can all live together well for the foreseeable future.

  Special offer of the ebook for 99p/99c one day only on 23rd September. Wherever in the world you are buy any time but best between 9 and 10am.

  I have been working on the book with Jenny Berry ACEVO since the idea first popped up in 2016. Having given the first endorsement (in March 2021), Sir Nick Young has written the foreword.

  See more at https://mybook.to/GoodLeaders

• Refreshing martinfarrell.org website to be in line with current life and offer

• Preparing now to facilitate two strategic planning days in September for Care Network. Distilling purpose, planning programme and already thinking about follow through.

• Now arranging our fifth gathering of the online group sharing our responses to ‘Flowchart for navigating our climate predicament’. With incisive logic and engaging gallows humour Andrew Boyd “sets us off on a quest to learn how to live with the ‘impossible news’ of climate breakdown”. The first group was November 2023 This first group is now full (8) but please mail me if you would like to be amongst the first to start a second circle (eg Asia, Australia, N/S America)

• Convening a virtual global ‘emerging network of “us” ‘ with other CPF | Emeritus facilitators; 7th meeting due in November. Recognised by the International Association of Facilitators as a Certified™ Professional Facilitator | Emeritus (*'The IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator ǀ Emeritus is a designation granted to an IAF CPF or IAF CPF ǀ Master when the facilitator demonstrates the senior level of an IAF CPF ǀ M [...] who has made significant contributions to advancing the field of facilitation.

• As part of my life long journey inwards I am still feeling deeply enriched by my (7th) week's retreat at Plum Village in France at the end of July. Also still buzzing from 3 days at Paris Olympics (Retreat was calm, Paris crazy - and all good!).

• With Patricia, Susanne, Ramey and Scott, nourished by our deep sharing in the Live Well, Die Wise deep listening group. Meet in person in July in Germany and will resume our online gatherings 9th September.

• Coordinating monthly 'R' Word gathering with The Experience Network (R - 'retirement' rejuvenation' 're-directing' 're-tyring' etc etc). Seven of us. Started June 2021; 33rd gathering in early September.

• Still wild swimming in the Thames and elsewhere. As I did two years ago volunteered at the Allgâu Triathlon in southern Germany in August. Rained all day. Have just about dried out. .

• While my attention has been on writing 'Good Leaders... ' my efforts to learn German Spanish French have taken a back seat; planing to bring them in to the front seat in the autumn.

• Said goodbye to our trusty 21 year old Skoda diesel (was teary when it was loaded on to the truck to be taken away) and have said hello to our new hopefully as reliable Skoda electric. Working out how charging works.

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