This is what I’m doing NOW (August 2022)
(Inspired by Derek Sivers and Graham Allcott)
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Having facilitated a Workshop for UN Climate Change Secretariat and Government of Egypt Joint Organising Team which is preparing all practicalities for COP27 now in discussion about a second workshop in September or October.
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With a refreshed fresh book structure for ‘Wild Waters – good leaders in bad trouble’, extending the focus to include third sector Chairs and boards as well as CEOs. With 53,000 words, the manuscript is now nearly complete and I have included comments from beta readers. Working on it with Jenny Berry ACEVO. I am now waiting to hear from publishers so I can bring its 111 nuggets of advice to the third sector leaders who urgently need it; also considering working with a literary agent. Delighted to have received endorsements from Sir Nick Young, former CEO Macmillan and British Red Cross & Vicky Browning CEO, ACEVO, Sarah Vibert Interim CEO NCVO and Jesper Christensen, Consultant BDB Pitmans, Bernd Eiden, Co-founder and Director of the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, Amanda Falkson, Peter Leigh and more here
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Supporting (pro bono) the Kingston Society in its noble ambition of delivering 'a human-scale vision for the Kingston area' and 'promoting high standards of planning, conservation and design' in my home town.
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Supporting follow through from facilitation (pro bono) of a workshop on Cost of Living Crisis to '...explore a collaborative approach to identifying gaps and building community resilience'
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'The Generosity Tree' Now at the prototyping stage (beta site here) to test our proposition about growing generosity and gratitude; supported last year by social transformation incubator programme offered by the Presencing Institute
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Coaching and supporting of three senior charity leaders through turbulent times ('Wild waters' indeed)
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With Patricia, Susanne and Ramey , slowly expanding the Live Well, Die Wise deep listening group.
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Coordinating monthly 'R' Word gathering with The Experience Network (R - 'retirement' rejuvenation' 're-directing' 're-tyring' etc etc). Seven of us. Started June 2021, 14th gathering in August
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Still wild swimming in the Thames and elsewhere. Now a balmy and barmy 22 degrees. Also learning how to kayak properly with Minima and exploring sea kayaking.
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Still enjoying learning Spanish with Memworld, German and French and am slowly getting closer to my life-long ambition of being conversationally multilingual. During recent visits to Figueres (Spain) and Limeuil (France) found I could indeed hold fluent enough but ungrammatical conversations in Spanish and French.
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Preparing to volunteer for Allgäu Triathlon in southern Germany end of August. Will be in the Zielraum (finish line area). Yay. All the excitement of the event without having to make the effort of swimming, cycling and running.
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With sadness, selling my lovely (but unreliable) 1968 BSA Bantam D14 motorbike. Thinking of getting an electric motorbike next (have had motorbikes ever since I was 16; not ready to let go)
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Continuing on a life long Journey Inwards. The Way Out Is In Meditating most mornings. Finding a journal conversation with my father (who died in 2000) and his father (died 1927) to be revealing and discovering how much of their struggle, as Irish diaspora, I have been carrying with me; it is surprising how real our conversation feels.
