INSPIRING HUMANS

feeding energy
feeding inspiration
feeding ideas
feeding soul
feeding faith
feeding Festival

Have now returned from off-line and a big country mansion in the Cotswolds.
It has been the Greenbelt Festival Trustee Residential.
We met in a big wondrous house using a big warm library as our conference room
Some of us slept in a smaller cottage on the estate.
I am tired and inspired .........

About 25/30 years ago our family and me lived and worked in a tough part of East London. Our Chairman Mark, and his wife Iona, made this family home available to us for a few times during these battered years. We stayed in the same cottage on the estate and enjoyed the peace and travelled around including visits to Cirencester and Gloucester.
Years later I drove in the dark to a Greenbelt week-end and it turned out to be the same venue from a quarter of a century before - stinking wow ....

Mark died from cancer some three years ago but Iona carries on making her home available for such gatherings as we have just held. Wonderful to speak with her again and catch up on her news.

We Greenbelters spent some great hours together looking, developing and deciding on such things as Greenbelt::
Community
Bigger Picture
Target Number
Depth
Less is more
Staffing
Year long Festival
Aiming young
Volunteers
Partners
Artistic strategy
Programme
The prophetic
Fundamentalism
Inter faith
.................... and more ...........

All the discussion and decisions will journey on in the way they guide our fantastic small team of staff and our wondrous 3000 volunteers who pull the festival together during the year hmmmmm

Amongst the gathered clan we have Trustees from the real world who do such jobs in::
Marketing
Law Lecturing
Business
Finance
Youth Work
Training
Business
Writing
Event Management
Development
Urban regeneration
IT
........ and we missed a few of our special group ......

If you have never been to Greenbelt ............. consider keeping the Bank Holiday in August 2007 FREE (that is the last week-end in August) ........... I will guarantee it will change your life - with your permission of course ........... bbbbbbbb but - it will not make you more beautiful -
100% you have
it is all you get
it could help with the 'feeling beautiful' thing tho ..........


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BLOB TRAIN**

1 Which one are you in terms of behaviour, feelings, attitude?
come on - answer - it will be good ......
2 Which one displays behaviour which most annoys you?
- can you put a 'feeling' word to that feeling?
- would you consider that attitude/feeling to be 'Parent ego-state'? (should and aught feelings)
3 Which one stimulates fear in you?
- would you consider the feelings are 'child ego-state'?
4 Do you ever hide behind a newspaper or book?
5 The one talking loud on the mobile phone - what sort of feelings do you have when this happens - can you put words to them.
Can you understand why you have those feelings?
Are they Parent Child or Adult?
6 When you feel uncomfortable - do you hide, fight or flight - or engage?
7 If you have not answered these questions - only read them ........ Why?

** This is part of a Blob Tree Tool called 'Blob Train'.
Books downloads and CDR's are available - please contact me for details.
There are over 200 tools which can be used in different contexts.
To warm up a group.
To open up a group.
To build 'Team'.
To aid growth and development.

"Growth does not reside in a place called comfortable".
© pip wilson

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..... teachers ...... Parents ....... Adults, in general, have a massive negative influence upon the youngest of humans ......... and I hate to see it going on so - how parents can brutalise their own ......... bully those who are not able to respond back or in anyway defend themselves.

I was in a training group ..........
I was introducing a method to enable all present to have an equal/participative say in things.
So often the loud speakers dominate and the quiet or not so confident often have little say.
It happens in all groups and teams.
That is why the leader must fall over themselves to be non-oppressive.
Seek maximum inclusion and involvement.

As a leader of teams over the years - I always included, in the Senior Management Team, Trainee Staff who took their turn to Chair the Senior Team Meeting. (yes - I did not always chair - I only took my turn with EVERYONE else. They were also on the rota to lead a devotion - always on the rota to lead the Bible Study which always started the meeting.

I was in a Training group ........
and one youth worker said .......... if I use these methods, of involving everyone in a participative way -
" ......... how can I keep control? ...."

I screamed..........

"My father always made me know I was fat.
I could never make him love me.
I decided nobody would love me unless I was perfect.
I felt ugly, as if I was falling down a dark hole."

Jane Fonda
The Guardian

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Today ..



met with my eye surgeon and he signed me off ...... the stitches in my nose came out ....... I am off my drugs and he only wants to see me in three months hey hey .....

It has been two weeks and two days since the operation and all seems to be working well ....

I am beautiful!!



I am beautiful imperfection!!

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Here is Ado ..
..... pictured at Greenbelt a couple of years ago ......

And the second pic is a group of volunteers who came to us from all over the world - now doing great things in their own lives and countries .......... beautiful humans ..

.... managed to see Adolfus before he sailed for Austria via his home nation India.
We met in Costa coffee and just talked and talked and talked ....... what a great man ....

Together with Anitha, his wife, and Adrian their baby son - they move to make a new life ......... it would be tough for me so - my heart goes out to them and with them .......

Many blessings you beautiful human family ......... I will forever stay in touch .....

you are beautiful ...........

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beautiful
humans

I have been out and about today and have over 50 photos to download but not this one ....

red hearts you are beautiful
Originally uploaded by Pip Wilson.

....... I will get back to you soon with some good stuff ....



..... you are beautiful


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