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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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Mar 241 min read

Snoopy's Wisdom: Embracing Life's Beauty

[#wellbeing + #humour] At the top of this week, I love this little (big) reminder from #Snoopy: "Some day, we will all die, Snoopy."...

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Mar 232 min read

Facilitating with Fun: Adding Humour to Learning Experiences

[#teaching + #facilitation + #fun😁] I think facilitating can be a bit like standup comedy at times. And since #learners of all ages...

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Mar 181 min read

A Little Humour

[#humour + #puns] A man attending a football match sees a member of the media wearing a uniform emblazoned with the word “PRESS” on the...

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Mar 182 min read

Reflecting on Uncle Len's Legacy

[#positivity + #UncleLen] This past month we celebrated #women. And earlier in the month I shared a post about a #legendarylady who...

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Mar 182 min read

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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Mar 122 min read

To shuffle, or not to shuffle? That is the question.

[#facilitation🙋🏻‍♀️] Have you, too, ever been met with resistance when you try to change groups up when you’re #facilitating? How do...

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Jun 5, 20231 min read

Quirky Quarks and Scrabble Laughs

[#learning + #justforfun✨] For a long while now I have been somewhat of a Scrabble trainee studying under (read: constantly losing to)...

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