Short thought on how Associations can emerge from Animating Questions #ABCD #CuratingConnections

Coco enjoyed his walk this morning!

Just read a really good article on encountering your shadow self:

You cannot heal what you do not first acknowledge.” — Richard Rohr

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” — C.G. Jung

Met this brilliant facilitator at the #IAF conference. I’m going to go on Rachelle’s Back of the Room training as sounds fantastic with whole bunch of facilitation tools and neuro science understandings. Looking forward to seeing how this might apply in community development settings

This is such a brilliant organisation led by my good friend @sarahkedwards2017 - good governance is so important for guiding them into the future. Could you be the person passionate about how money can be used in a just way to make for a better world

I love chairing this wonderful organisation- if you’re local to Darlington here’s a chance to get involved and make a difference

Congratulations @bobmaxfieldftb @midlandsbeerblog - I’m pleased for Frank Lampard, he’s done a great job this season. What is needed now for the Premier League?

A brilliant first day at the International Facilitators conference. 130 skilled facilitators with lots of peer learning. I particular enjoyed Ripple Mapping with my good friends Sam and Cat, and session on conversational loops. Feels like a good community of practice to be part of

Loved being reconnected to the Community Treasure Core Team doing some wonderful evaluative reflection on the past 12 months together and the impact our work has had - expected and unexpected

Love working with @pwrightbham since 2007! Really relational, robust and practical conversation around future community developments. As always didn’t get chance to finish so another date out in the diary

Citizens UK in Birmingham Accountability Assembly with main party leaders. Campaign asks around housing, work and bringing people together. What would have been your asks?

Post Citizens event beer

Anyone going this year?

Great meeting today putting final touches to the plans for our Community Democracy work in our Local Election. If you want to share your priorities with our local candidates for Councillor then come and join us!

Orientation day with new accredited Change Makers cohort with @ashbarker1969, meeting with housing association and @loconomybrum on Hidden Voices project, @redletters_uk online meet with wonderful church leader and justice seeker, finishing with Al Barrett on our community democracy work

Great meeting on developing a creative arts offer around the city exploring issues of the economy and justice. Just some first steps so keep an eye out for @econjusticebrum and even join the movement!

Really good initial meeting to explore what an accredited program around faith and community development could look like. A pleasure to be invited into the conversation around delivering a series of masterclasses

Coffee, catch up and possibly a plot emerging with my good mate John from @freeatlast.brum

Community Development Trust Board meeting in my own neighbourhood as plan the start of the On Our Street project

Dinner with couple of good people planning a white water rafting trip!

Beers and food with good friends - life and politics conversations

Daughter and one of her best friends to University open day yesterday.

Back from holiday and went to hit some balls as hoping to get out a few times this Spring/Summer

Really enjoyed a paddle down the river this morning. Even Coco grew to like being in the canoe.

Loved taking a day out to facilitate the second day of this Introduction to ABCD course. So brilliant to have really grassroots citizens, community organisations and churches in the room learning and sharing stories with each other

I lost! Family game in holiday cottage

Lovely evening walk to the pub for dinner

Absolutely beautiful day so Ria and I did a 6.5 mile walk along the river with Coco spending some of the time in it!

Lovely afternoon which included one of those wonderful old fashioned sweet shops, a walk by the river and Bakewell pudding to bring home for dinner!

Today I lost the holiday cottage key. All is well as owner had a spare. Got frustrated with myself as common occurrence so took myself off by myself to go and do some reflecting in this beautiful spot. Feel much better. Lesson learnt!