Discovery and action

What a week that just went by. Wow! Feels like I lived two weeks in one.
If your new to my blog welcome and if your returning Hi! good to see you again.
My practice is one of questions...
For the last few years I have been testing and trying out ideas and developing work in the areas of enterprise, community and education. The work is getting more refined and maybe less prescriptive - processed based experiential and engaged with people. I'm showing up in a way that I hope will encourage and support others to do the same.
SO WHAT's BEEN GOING ON?

• experiment in generating sales for a newly offered product purely through social media,  Hug Tokens the shop, images and ongoing sharing has been well received benefiting in building audience and sales
• designing the moving cogs for the sun on the interactive wall in create Better Space - a multi sensory outdoor participatory project @ Gorey Youth Needs which is ongoing due to the weather 
• visualising and thinking @ Leading for a change, which is a fantastic approach and initiative with Wicklow and Kildare Community Education and 5 other tutors to develop an emergent community leadership program.
• exploring a creative approach to "self in the bigger picture' course, an introduction to social science with a community group in Wicklow via Wicklow Community Education
• developing a program of work with the Gorey public library on several things; Easter workshops for children and teens; creating space for cultural dialogue, brown bag lunchtime sessions.
• exploration work on offering my first mastermind group
• mentoring and supporting women in business; 2 clients this week
• getting a space on the MAPAMUNDI SONRISA [Smile Worldmap ] with artist JOAN BAIXAS which takes place in Waterford next week. It is described as visual theatre and I decided to apply for one of six spaces offered because I also need to grow flex my creative muscle and play. I'll be talking more about this on twitter and Facebook and expect bloging too.
• attending Theatre Forums Open Space facilitated session in Waterford on Friday. The questions that got my attention and got me there were; Do you feel like an outsider in your own profession? Do you want to help change things for the better? Are you looking for a sense of community, mentorship? Are you looking to change things? I will blog more on this but want to let the day sit with me.
  Meet some great people and I am looking forward to following up with them. And yes I have business cards and postcards which I bring with me because I am a professional this is my business - it may be a practice but it is a professional one.
  I've publicly declared #Salon_de_thing and I was delighted to see interest in the idea.

So besides work my three sons were on midterm and we have all been sick.
But life is good and my challenge to thrive is being meet head on... the work continues.

I'm looking forward to collaborating, making space and building cultural dialogue - are you?