Power is not pie

“Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie”

My learning about Human Learning Systems

Outcomes make us measure, manage and hold people to account…

Hierarchies of knowledge: why we don’t put what we learn into practice

I dread to think of the amount that organisations spend on learning and development. But how much of that learning actually gets transferred into practice?

Building on strengths through Appreciative Inquiry

“The more you know about what is going wrong in an individual’s life the more it makes you an expert in failure” (O’Connell, 2005)

Learning how to be restorative

I’ve recently begun a training course on restorative practice. My colleagues who have already attended…

Are services bad for people?

Why it’s good not to know everything

It’s only by challenging the limits of our understanding and admitting the constraints of our knowledge that we can improve

Why we need to change how we hold people to account

Being vulnerable enough to admit that you don’t know something is a fantastic show of strength.