the tiny mindful moments podcast
Stories, meditations, reflections. Short. Because we can all make time for a tiny mindful moment.
Episodes
State change, on foot: thinking about walkshops and urban futures
In walkshops, “state change” isn’t something you design on top of the session. It’s already happening, all the time.
Participation is a futures capability, not a personality trait
In futures workshops, silence is often misread as disengagement. More often, it’s uncertainty doing what uncertainty does: slowing people down.
tiny mindful: The joy of being bi-lingual
A tiny mindful tale about how speaking another language can get you out of tricky situations!
tiny mindful: Paradise and hell
A tiny mindful tale about how paradise and hell can exist in us all.
tiny mindful: The three fish
A tiny mindful tale about how our actions and behaviours can change our lives.
tiny mindful: The bag of joy
A tiny mindful tale about the wonderful Nasreddin and his weird but effective way to help a traveller discover joy.
tiny mindful: Half a blanket
A tiny mindful tale about dealing with life’s frustrations, the value of family, and how we view aging.
tiny mindful: Empty your cup
A tiny mindful tale about how full cups and full heads.
tiny mindful: The Lion Makers
A tiny mindful tale about how too much learning can sometimes cloud common sense.
tiny mindful: Truth and Story
A tiny mindful tale about the power of story.
Why the future is plural (and why that matters)
In futures and foresight workshops, participants often talk about THE future. Practitioners tend to insist on futures, plural.
The Work That Reconnects
Interesting for my facilitation work, work with groups, and in helping people think about climate and environmental disruption. The Work that Reconnects helps people discover and experience their innate connections with each other and the self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired, collaborative action.
Look UP! That’s what I am taking from “Don’t look up”.
Some thoughts about the film, “Don’t look up”.
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Filthy cities with Dan Snow
Historian Dan Snow gets down and dirty the filthy cities of revolutionary Paris, medieval London, and industrial New York. No, not ancient, but interesting nonetheless! Episode 1: Medieval London https://vimeo.com/214645639 Episode 2: Revolutionary Paris...
What if climate change is a hoax?
What do you take away from the inimitable Joel Pett's cartoon? (© Joel Pett - for more of his work, see: https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/joel-pett/.)
The Blind Man and the Elephant
As we Walk the Tortoise today, let’s think about John Godfrey Saxe’s poem. What does an elephant look like to YOU?
How can you foster a culture of communication in your organisation?
Could an open-door policy be the answer?
How can you make sure that everyone contributes in a meeting?
Plan the meeting to make sure that you are crystal clear on the purpose. That’s one approach.
How can you diffuse drama in your team?
A quick overview of The Karpman Drama Triangle.
What if there was a process for giving kind but honest feedback?
Liz Lerman’s deceptively simple Critical Response Process or CRP.
What if it was possible to have productive, conflict-free conversations?
How we say things is just as important as what we say.
Re-naming and re-framing
A quick morning ponder on how arrogant humans are in their judgements of fish, and how quickly we change our minds when the communication changes.
Desiderata
The words in this beautiful text always make me feel hopeful. Just right for a pause to Walk the Tortoise!
A thought about small talk
Is cutting out the small talk a problem?
A recipe for cremation
Barlow Bonsall, Cook @ 1700 to 1800 degrees for 2 to 3 hours This is the text of a tattoo surrounded by a yellow and orange flame. It belongs to Army veteran and cancer survivor Russell Parsons, who was quoted in NBC News as saying, “It’s a recipe for cremation.”...
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Do you inadvertently turn your statements into questions?
Raising your pitch at the end of a statement makes that statement sound like a question. Whether you’re communicating in person, online, or over the phone, this speech pattern can make you sound less confident, less credible, and uncertain about your content. This article talks about why we do it, and how to stop.
What’s in a name? Why getting people’s names right is part of effective communication.
Remembering someone’s name and pronouncing it correctly is a key part of making a positive impression. It’s also part of being a good communicator. Not bothering to remember someone’s name or continually pronouncing it incorrectly, or worse, using a name that they dislike (nicknames they didn’t choose, for example) tells people that you don’t value or respect them. Here are 9 things that you can do to remember people’s names, along with some information about why names matter, why we mess them up, and why, in a socially-distanced world, remembering names is more important than ever,
Full-length versions of Euripides’ & Seneca’s Trojan Women
A collection of full-length free video recordings of theatre performances of Trojan Women, most based on Euripides’ text, and two based on Seneca’s. Handy for classics scholars.
A beautiful watch
Whilst everyone is diving into the world of smart watches, I’m opting for a dumb watch that does two things: it tells the time and looks gorgeous. And that’s good enough for me!
Rudyard Kipling’s “If”
As we Walk the Tortoise today, let’s enjoy the stoic words of Rudyard Kipling.