April 16, 2008
It will be quiet here for the next week or so as I’m flying to New York on Friday. I’m looking forward to catching up with friends, bloggers and soon to be friends alike so please get in touch if you have time for a coffee. I’ll be speaking about…
October 26, 2007
I’m on the way to New York where I will be for the 10 days or so and am looking forward to another visit to my favourite city. I’ll also be attending the New York regional meeting of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations where I’ll be…
October 4, 2007
I love the idea of re-introducing scarcity into systems that lack boundaries If too much choice leads to unhappiness then does scarcity lead to something more productive? I’m inclined to think it might after the past week or so. Mayo County Enterprise Board asked me to design and deliver a…
July 19, 2007
The Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar is hosting a weekend of workshops, discussions and screenings on 28 and 29 July entitled Toys on Film. I’ll be chairing a panel discussion on Sunday 29th July between 1 and 2pm at the IFI exploring 21st Century Toys – play or dismay?…
July 16, 2007
I frequently work with boards of directors and management committees wanting to take time out to review where they are and where they are going. Sometimes this involves organising and facilitating “retreats” or “away days”. A recurring theme is often that of board composition – Who do we need? What…
June 12, 2007
Today’s workshop on Blogging, Podcasting and the Arts hosted by Poetry Ireland and delivered by myself and Conn was great fun. There were nearly 40 people in attendance in the theatre at the College of Surgeons who waited patiently while every piece of technology available failed to work for us…
May 15, 2007
This is a reprint of a post I published on 25 May 2006 and I think it has a real resonance for many of us attending the Irish Business Women Conference in Mayo later this week the theme of which is Thinking bigger – what are we waiting for? A…
April 25, 2007
Yesterday I attended a workshop on blogging and podcasting organised by Theatre Forum and presented by Susan Hallam. I was there with a couple of hats on – for a start I was the only blogger in the room and as you know, I’m an advocate of blogging for the…
March 2, 2007
Mayo County Enterprise Board are holding an event on Achieving Your Potential to mark International Womens’ Day on 8 March. The location for the event is Pontoon Bridge Hotel. I’ll be one of three keynote speakers and the focus of my presentation will be on the emotional factors that help…
December 3, 2006
I spent a great day yesterday with a group of Artists in County Tipperary. I was running a workshop on “costing and pricing your work” but that was only a ruse for the real learning which, of course, took place between the participants. I think we had some fun (I…
