The Literacy Pirates

Taking time to think about EDI in volunteering

The last few months I attended conferences, events and working groups, and my -physical- notebook is full of notes that I didn’t get time to process. As meetings and day to day slow down, I have more time to stop and reflect.

Catching learning

From a conference on Saturday:
Apparently the education gap isn’t objective?!?! I saw an interesting panel reflecting on…

Headlines of my week

I don’t feel like a big reflection this week. When we do Minister briefings government we are often asked for ‘Top Lines’ or ‘Lines to take’ on a particular topic or issue, SO here are mine from this week.

Kind recruitment

I am doing recruitment for the first time in a while. I have a lot of love for lots of parts of our process — it embodies some things that I think are really important in our organisational culture. Namely, I know that it has been deeply considered at many stages and that it works really hard to be…

Speed Weeknoting Race

Lily has set a 10 minute timer and it feels like a race!

Reasons to be cheerful

This week my (usually spectacularly terrible) green fingers have been at work. I made seed bombs with Joni at forest…

Ideation

Yesterday we had our Ideation session for the schools project and I was pleasantly surprised when loads of people a) attended and b)told me how fun it was.

I think it’s a really nice way to structure ‘brainstorming’ or ‘creative thinking’ and what I liked the most about it was that it…

Happy Volunteer’s week

1st-7th of June this year was volunteers week, and in hindsight was probably not the best week for me to take my holidays, oops. So before the door is fully shut for another year, I thought I’d reflect on why I think volunteering is one of the best things you can do.

What do you want to know?

I had a great chat with Hannah yesterday after she guested at a committee meeting. She told me a bit that the Session Leaders would be interested to hear, and honestly it hadn’t particularly occurred to me to share it yet!