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Christmas Offer: The Story Cookbook: practical recipes for change is a wonderful practical resource full of story-based processes. The book has over 80 activities collected from contributors around the world and is one of the most comprehensive collections of...

We are Homonarrans - story-telling beings.  This year the Story Conference focused on work, health and wellbeing stories. I facilitated Ebb & Flow: Creativity and Wellbeing which homed in on personal creativity and wellbeing. Participants took a dive into their...

A highlight has been attending the Applied Improvisational Conference at the Alan Alda Center for Communication at Stony Brook University Long Island. I was delighted to see the legendary Alan Alda aka Hawkeye from M*A*S*H interviewed by writer and educator Aretha...

Meetings have become a major part of organisational life.  Meetings well done can be highly productive and energising. We also know they can be inefficient, unproductive and time wasters. I’m surprised at the number of people who declare they don’t know why they are...

Why reflect, what are the benefits, and why should we value it? One major reason is to counter the affliction of busyness. The busyness badge of honour has become ubiquitous.  When people ask others “how they are?” the response is so often ‘busy’ and ‘under the pump’....

Dear Mavericks In early 2003, while at a conference, I was introduced to an emerging area of work – a new field of practice to me – in which a number of delegates called themselves coaches. Let me explain the provenance of my coaching. It was the early 2000’s and I...

Dear Mavericks It is interesting to note that when one’s attention turns to something it seems to appear everywhere. I’ve been contemplating work, the future of it, as well as the pleasure and anxiety it seems to bring.  Lo and behold there seems to be quite a lot of...

Hello Mavericks Welcome to Maverick Minds first newsletter for 2017.  While the Christmas holiday season may feel like a distant memory we can remind ourselves throughout the demands of the year to slow down, take a breath, recharge and ensure your wellbeing and those...

  I can't believe we are half way through November already! Much has happened since returning from the Art of Management and Organization conference in Europe. A couple of weeks ago I presented at the QWRRRN Queensland Rural Regional and Remote Women’s Network...

held at IEDC Bled School of Management Reflections on an arts-based conference and creative management school. I am currently immersed at the intersection of arts, business, management and organisational inquiry. Over the past 10 days Bled, Slovenia has been my home....