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Maya Angelou

The horizon leans forward

by Joanna on August 4, 2007

In my last post we were talking about what to do at the road end – recognising that the end of something is always the start of something new. Looking back I can see that post was maybe a little starker than I intended (under-estimating the power of both visuals and headline) so I wanted [...]

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The start of a new week

by Joanna on July 23, 2007

The start of another week.  The start of another Monday. (I hear you sigh.) How many Mondays, how many days, how many weeks of our lives do we waste wishing we were anywhere but here?  Heart sinking, spirits low, forcing ourselves to do something we no longer ‘want’ to do. I often turn to some [...]

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One dinner, five powerful poets

by Joanna on June 7, 2007

If you could invite five people round to dinner, living or dead, who would it be?  That’s the question asked by Shama Hyder who’s prompted us to construct the guest list and also tease out ‘why?’ I started thinking along the usual lines of national heroes who had amazing stories to tell, of courage and [...]

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Coaching and stories: the untold story

by Joanna on April 12, 2007

I don’t know if you’ve been wondering about the connection between coaching and stories?  The more I explore this the more connections I can see but for now I’ll focus on three main ways that they go together. 1.We can make use of existing stories to gain insight into a situation.  This gives people a [...]

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