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Mic Mischief: Finding Humour in Facilitation
[#facilitation + #humour] At one of our Network & Learn events in #SaudiArabia last week, the ICT Manager was helping us set up the...
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This page contains many articles I've written over the years in pursuit of learning, reflection, and personal development.
Themes include productivity, wellbeing, teaching, defusing bullying, culture, heritage, facilitation & more.
You will find that some of these posts are originally published on LinkedIn.
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Jan 222 min read
The Citizens Foundation's Annual Dinner
[#wellbeing] Such joy to take some #extracurricular time out to join The Citizens Foundation annual dinner in #Dubai last night....
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Dec 28, 20232 min read
#Defusebullying - Part 5: The tiny moments
It is a tiny moment: A child takes a crayon - not the whole pack - just a crayon, from another child. (They never return it.) It is a...
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Apr 17, 20232 min read
#DefuseBullying - Part 4: Speaking Up
Yesterday I joined an #antiracism Session as part of our new Global strategy for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging. My favourite...
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Apr 13, 20232 min read
#DefuseBullying - Part 2: Name-Calling
‘Sunny Jim.' This is what my late #UncleLen, who passed away at aged 97 (#mashalla! 🤲🏼), used to keep my number saved as on his old...
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Apr 12 min read
Resist, Rest, Resist: Surviving a Distant Conflict
[#wellbeing + distant conflict] I had all these things lined up to share with you this past couple of weeks, All these learning out loud...
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Apr 11 min read
“What’s done to the children is done to society.”
[#quoteoftheday] “What’s done to the children is done to society.” - The Buddha Children, children, children. It doesn’t matter if...
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Apr 11 min read
“But what can I do, I am just one person.”
[#quoteoftheday] “But what can I do, I am just one person.” - Said 7 billion people… #ceasefirenow Image courtesy of _suhir via...
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Apr 11 min read
“Loyalty is a noble quality.”
[#quoteoftheday] “Loyalty is a noble quality, so long as it is not blind and does not exclude the higher loyalty to truth and decency.” -...
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Apr 11 min read
“If you want to know who has control over you, look at who you are not allowed to criticise.”
[#quoteoftheday] “If you want to know who has control over you, look at who you are not allowed to criticise.” - Voltaire Calling what is...
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Apr 11 min read
A Quote by Marie Beecham on Reframing Privilege
[#quoteoftheday] “Privilege is really about stewarding. Stewarding is an active task that you choose to take up.” - Marie Beecham on...
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Apr 11 min read
“Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
[#quoteoftheday] “Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” - Malcolm X I am back in Dubai this week - I didn’t post my usual...
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Apr 11 min read
Workshop at Dorat Al Khaleej School, Oman
[#CambridgeMENA + thank you Oman] Hi folks! That’s a wrap for today’s workshops specially for teachers using Cambridge University Press &...
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Apr 11 min read
“Do your best work.”
[#quoteoftheday] “Do your best work.” - Malcolm X Even if you are collapsing inside. Even if you are horrified by what you are seeing....
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Apr 11 min read
On the Road to Oman
[#ontheroad + Oman] Today I set off for Oman - one of my favourite countries. We have a training taking place there tomorrow. And even...
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Apr 11 min read
“What we are, they become.”
[#quoteoftheday] “What we are, they become.” Just a little one about how the people we raise and pour into become like us....
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Apr 11 min read
“You will never be criticised by someone doing more than you.”
[#quoteoftheday] “You will never be criticised by someone doing more than you.” For when you receive insensitive feedback that feels like...
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Apr 11 min read
“Force does not work the way its advocates think it does.”
[#quoteoftheday] Here’s the full quote, in which Baldwin explains why this is the case: “Force does not work the way its advocates think...
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Apr 11 min read
“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”
[#quoteoftheday] “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” - Mark Twain The last time the US got involved in a crisis like...
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Apr 12 min read
Defuse Bullying: The Power of Words
[#defusebullying] I once experienced toxic behaviour directed at me. At one point, I heard that someone had been calling me an ‘animal’....
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