Do you have a high horse? I must confess I do. I should call him Riin, short for righteous indignation! But I’m not sure it’s always righteous if I’m honest. One high horse in a collection of hobby horses is a repulsion of the practice of othering because it makes people feel like they don’t belong. Imagine or remember hearing when you were a child, a sentence beginning, “you’re not….” or “you’re too…” and it probably led to you being left out, excluded, othered. For me it was, “you’re not Continue Reading

Where Architecture, Dance and Process Engineering meet and kiss Where do you even start when writing about an extraordinary life? Have you ever tried to pick up noodles with a single chopstick? Each strand connects to every other strand and you find yourself faced with an impossible task. That’s where I find myself when I stand on the shore of Rudolf Laban’s life. And so, I will ask you to imagine the film I have produced about his life rolling before your eyes, capturing, I hope, the Continue Reading

If effective communication at work is the ‘it’, you may well ask this question. Dr. Gary Chapman’s wrote a book called ‘The 5 Love Languages’ some years ago. He identified 5 ways people communicate appreciation to each other in their relationships. In no particular order, they are: Words of AffirmationActs of ServiceQuality TimeTouch, andGifts I learnt about it in relation to marriage years ago, but recently, I’ve been wondering if it could help improve communication and reduce Continue Reading