Uncharted Worlds

Thoughts on the phases of a learning journey. For a few years now, I’ve been on a learning quest related to Systemic Modelling, a.k.a. SysMod. It’s an approach to working in groups or teams: more sparking of the group’s combined intelligence, fewer conflicts or misunderstandings. I wrote about it here a while back. In this post, what I wanted to reflect on is not so much what I’ve been learning, but more the process of learning, for a field like that with many interweaving ingredient-skills.…

Only by following your own intuition can you find out what happens if you do. I was just thinking again recently about a particular section from my zine Creativity is for everyone. I thought I would share it so as to be able to link to it here. Intuition An important thing in creativity and in life is your relationship with your own intuition. Intuitive knowing isn’t the same kind of knowing as knowing a fact. Intuitions can be misleading – e.g. if they were based on insufficient information.…

Step by step explanation of a Zoom option, which can be useful if you tend to re-meet the same trusted people on an irregular schedule. Jump straight to the instructions What it is: Zoom has this option whereby you can keep re-using the same link, whenever you need to repeat a similar kind of meeting – without making the meeting be the same time every day or every week. For example, you can make a recurring meeting called something like “Jennifer and Jane confer”, and then any time you decide…

Covid and its aftermath, three years on.