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Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: Ethics

January 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the exceptionally ethical Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday February 11th, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt as usual. It will be introduced by Andy Wistreich from Essential Education, who has kindly offered to raise the topic of ‘Ethics’. [...]

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Next Brrism event: Time, Politics and Community

January 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Events

The next Brrism event looks interesting – a range of conversations from politics, time management and community. Go direct to the Brrism site for more information and booking, meanwhile, here’s the blurb:

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NEF’s bigger picture event: little write up

November 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Events

The New Economics Foundation held a ‘Bigger Picture‘ Festival on Saturday 24th October. It was a good gig. Just like salesmen who like being sold to, as an event designer, I love going to a good gig. The range of workshops, debates, discussions, talks was excellent; it was solid with attendees full of interesting ideas [...]

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Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: language and leadership

October 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Events

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the leading edge Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday November 26th, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt as usual. Introduced by Mike Zeidler, facilitator, coach and connector, driving force behind the Bristol Hub, Association of Sustainability Practitioners and more. [...]

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Media Sandbox showcase and publication launch

October 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Technology

I am a big fan of the iShed‘s ‘Media Sandbox‘ programme. I have been lucky enough to facilitate some of their big events, which have been excellent learning opportunities as well as good facilitation excercises. The launch event for Media Sandbox 2009 included an exercise we called ‘Golden rules‘ which is now providing me with [...]

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Knowledge Cafe Report: Reslience

September 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation

This is a brief report on our Bristol Knowledge Cafe on ‘Reslience’, kindly introduced by Phillipa Bayley, keenly discussed by about 30 of us, space kindly lent by the ever effervescent Pervasive Media Studio. Ciaran, Tim, Michael and Philippa kindly wrote up some of their reflections which I include along with my own. Phillipa gave [...]

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Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: Resilience: dealing with an uncertain future

August 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation

The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the uber-resilient Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday September  17th, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt as usual. Our introductory speaker is Philipa Bayley, acting head of the Centre for Public Engagement, Bristol University (and full on neuro-science doctor [...]

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Running local Transition events: some suggestions and questions

July 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Facilitation

We’re getting our local Transition initiative, Transition Montpelier, off the ground (have a look at the Transition Towns website or Rob Hopkins blog for an idea about the movement). We have had two open meetings to date, several small projects under our belts, a range of new ideas and related groups emerging; it’s all good. [...]

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Bristol Bioblitz blog: the secret was in the content

July 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Events, Technology

I recently helped out Berry Goddard and Savita Custead of the Bristol Natural History Consortium team by setting up and explaining how to use a WordPress blog, flickr id, and youtube channel for their Bristol Bioblitz event. Bioblitz is a new model; think: nature watch meets science engagement meets family fun and geeky naturalist kind [...]

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BBC Learning Unplugged: event report

July 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation, Technology

This is a report on the BBC Learning Unplugged event in Bristol, 26 June 2009. James Richards (BBC Learning Development) and Myles Runham (BBC Learning) co-hosted the event with Clare Reddington (Ished); I designed and facilitated it with help from Jack Martin Leith. There were approximately 65 attendees, made up of 15 BBC folk and [...]

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