This Book

....... is great but out of print.

The ones below are worth considering if you want a different kind of Christmas present .........

You can buy this book .....

.... the only one still available alongside the new one called
THE BIG BOOK OF BLOBS

This Rolling Magazine Book has over 100 games and exercises with the Blob Tree and many other illustrations. Text includes the whole issue of Games and Exercises ........ how to have great fun and also create human development opportunities ........ all coming from;

MOTION CHANGES EMOTION

Just email me for details and .......... it could be a great Christmas present!!

Slowing up .....
it is late night here at the Wilson Country Estate ...

- tired in one way
- Thinking and reaching out and forward in another way.
- not un-relaxed
- a little sadness deep in the sandpapered soul - don't know why.
- Sufjan Stevens on the iPod.
- Joy my Sheila has just phoned from Manchester. Working there and then away working in the sun for two weeks.

I do have days when I need to catch up on the inbox/mail/domestic.

I have no interest at all in the routine and domestic life but certain things need to be done.

I have emotions which are also thoughts and leaking energy - totally directed towards the forthcoming Training Sessions I am about to lead.
The humans - their needs - the context - expectations and my preparations. I have designed the sessions + several items to busk with if needed - options you may say!

Have I packed the right tools to do the job?
How much will I need to busk due to the unexpected climate or failure of equipment?
How do I start the session in a way which will aid the building of a climate of trust quickly?
I yearn and aim to think of every scenario.

Sleep is boring but sometimes I just have to take some ......

.

Usually I know humans who I connect with ....

...... this one of the persons I do not know but she has such a great website/blog .....

APPRECIATION ....

..... a feel a deep sense of appreciation this morning ....... not about one thing but about you and many things ...... but mainly you - and other humans who I am in communication with .......

Sometimes I feel that my soul has been grasped firmly and sandpapered raw ........... I become sensitive and appreciative .....

Just want to say ...




..... you are appreciated ......

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‘For many years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But what I’ve discovered since is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place and that only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

We are a world in grief and it is at once intolerable and a great opportunity.

I’m pretty sure that it is only by experiencing that ocean of sadness in a naked and immediate way that we come to be healed – which is to say that we come to experience life with a real sense of presence and spaciousness and peace.

A fixation can give you the illusion that your life has not fallen apart. But since your life may indeed have fallen apart, the illusion won’t hold up forever, and if you are lucky and brave, you will be willing to bear disillusion. You begin to cry and writhe and yell and then to keep on crying; and then, finally, grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.’

It’s funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox, full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience.
But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools – friendship, prayer, conscience, honesty – and said, ‘Do the best you can with these, they will have to do.’

........... And mostly, against all odds, they’re enough.’

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This man brought some clear thinking to an art called Management.
In his beautiful imperfection he raised the issues to the fore about 'Management by Objectives' ........... I have two words on my desk - framed - and they are;

strategic
priority

..... all about thinking and deciding what to do ....... love it love it ....

I have spent many years in Management. Youth Teams, Housing Teams, Centre Management, CEO Stuff and Chairman of projects.
In my beautiful imperfection, I am aware of those imperfection in every area of my life - now and in the past.
I like Drucker's emphasis that management by objectives WHEN ALL ARE INVOLVED in making these objectives. There is a most powerful climate around when there in co-operation in making objectives. He was against imposed targets which I have always been against in practice.

Out of this philosophy comes a mad keen desire to have young humans involved. Over the years I have always had young members of staff, trainees, involved as equals in senior management. This is the most fantastic way of development. To see a young 19 year old chairing a team of ten professionals is wondrous. Many have said to me in their later years, that this was a great training experience for them.

if you have the chance - read the Drucker Obituary in The Guardian today.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Peter F. Drucker, revered as the father of modern management for his numerous books and articles stressing innovation, entrepreneurship and strategies for dealing with a changing world, died Friday, a spokesman for Claremont Graduate University said. He was 95. He died of natural causes at his home in Claremont, east of Los Angeles, said spokesman Bryan Schneider.

Drucker was considered a management visionary for his recognition that dedicated employees are key to the success of any corporation, and marketing and innovation should come before worries about finances. His motivational techniques have been used by executives at some of the biggest companies in corporate America, including Intel Corp. and Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Drucker's management books included: ``The Effective Executive,'' 1966; ``Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices,'' 1974; and ``Managing in a Time of Great Change,'' 1995. In 2004, he put out ``The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done.''

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"work like you don't need the money
dance like no-one is watching
sing like no-one is listening
and
love like you have never been hurt"

THE SHEILAS


.... you would never guess that they could be in anyway related to me could you?