In any training that aims to effect change I feel we have to start with the question, why? Why are you a teacher? Why are you a leader? Why do you believe what you do? Why do you want to change? If you look at these questions one can see the answers are essentially the start of a story - so the why gives the story and the story gives the why. In my recent work training educational leaders here in Sweden I have realised the importance of the question why. I use it at the star

My reflections of my first MOOC, Engagement in a time of Polarisation.

I feel that there is an assumption that we can create a totally new future as leaders of organisations or of ourselves. Often I am asked to facilitate a process where companies can 'vision' a future and start to develop the story of how it will be; however I never agree to work at developing a future narrative without first exploring the present one and the past one. (Of which there are often many versions.) To ask people to leap with you into a future without first acknowled