As a theatre practitioner and educator there are many crossovers in how I work with people to facilitate and empower their learning. Whether I’m putting on a musical with a local theatre group, or training new students in the performing arts, there are five key principles I carry everywhere that inform my professional practice. PrinciplesContinue reading “The Power of Safe Spaces”
Category Archives: Learning
The Exercise-Stress Paradox: Why ‘just do it’ is not so simple…
When Saturday rolls around, Ade (my other half) and I head to our local Park Run. It’s a reasonably new thing, but since taking up running it is something that is very much a ritual to our Saturday mornings. However, (at the time I started writing this) the route was covered in ice, it wasContinue reading “The Exercise-Stress Paradox: Why ‘just do it’ is not so simple…”
No Worries: journaling and learning
Disclaimer: I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post. If you follow my Instagram or Facebook, you’ll have seen I have a recent practice in my life – journaling. I’ve dipped in and out of it in the past where I’ve just had a notebook and written a recap of my day,Continue reading “No Worries: journaling and learning”
Listening to Hear: the superpower you didn’t know you had
When was the last time you really listened to what someone had to say? I mean really listened. That is the ponder topic for today – all about listening, and the difference between listening to hear, and listening to respond. On the BA (hons) drama and production degree I teach on, there are two modulesContinue reading “Listening to Hear: the superpower you didn’t know you had”
The Journey of Learning: Oakley says ‘Focus’ and ‘Diffuse’.
Since embarking on this journey, I find my brain is constantly whirring away thinking about the ways in which we learn new things. Thinking about learning as an active process (yup – there’s that word again!) where we participate in the acquisition of new knowledge and skills. Today’s ponder is centred around that. How doContinue reading “The Journey of Learning: Oakley says ‘Focus’ and ‘Diffuse’.”
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