The Messy Work of Changing the World
I’ve been on the road recently, as I am each summer. I love getting invited to staff events and conferences, to talk changemaking. This year,…
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Green Changemakers – A Paradigm Shift in FE
We hope you may have heard by now about the Green Changemakers programme, a devolution initiative of the West Midlands and Warwickshire Combined Authority, funded…
Little By Little, A Little Becomes A Lot
Lou Mycroft riffs on the Stress Awareness Month hashtag #LittleByLittle, to explore new collective approaches to addressing personal and organisational accountability around ‘burnout culture’. This…
Learning From Fircroft: The Values College
Recently, at the Festival of Learning, Fircroft College won the Learning Provision Award in recognition of the “safe and welcoming environment they offer for students…
Stress – A Collective Workplace Issue
When I was asked to write an article for FE News about Stress Awareness Month, I was initially stumped. What could I add to a…
What we’ve learned about Radical Rest
Whose responsibility is it to practice rest as a lever for systems and culture change? Lou Mycroft checks back in with the progress on the…
Why FE Needs Radical Rest
In her brilliant book, ‘The Lightmakers’ Manifesto’, social activist Karen Walrond talks about listening out for the “whispers”. The premise of the book is how…
Changemaking and The Crystal Maze
In my last article, I wrote about how much energy it takes to change systems, and how FE needs systems change if we’re to have…
Systems Change(making)
When Joss Kang and I started FE Constellations back in the summer, it was with a powerful desire to help FE’s changemakers move from good…
Trust – a transmissible good
Pretty much everything to do with morale, wellbeing and performance in FE organisations can be attributed to trust, so why don’t we talk about it…