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…
Lou Mycroft
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…
FE’s Interregnum: the fightback begins
The crisis exists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born. Antonio Gramsci Whenever I encounter Gramsci’s definition…
Joy at Work: Letting Go of the ‘Stuff’
When I started working with joy as a practice principle, a few years ago now, it was very much not the Marie Kondo type of…
Potentia: FE’s Secret Sauce
Bear with me while I take you back to The Hague/Den Haag in the seventeenth century, where philosopher and lens grinder Baruch Spinoza is also…
Constellations of Practice: How FE Educated Itself
As the DfE funded national Advanced Practitioners Programme (#APConnect) comes to an end after four years, I’ve been looking back at how different FE was,…