the weather
June 17, 2025
blog
will have its way with me despite my best efforts – Helen Poynor
Seeping into the Land
April 23, 2025
practice
In the rain on the sand, a simple practice begins. It is a practice that dissolves in and through the body; a soluble body being known. It is also a
this body
February 25, 2025
practice
In January 2022 I started asking people to write short statements that began with the words “This body”. It’s now a long list that is moving,
socratic questions
February 10, 2025
blog
Various people (in very different contexts) have been asking me about critical thinking and I’ve been sharing this collection of Socratic questions
hiatus
November 20, 2024
blog
I’m taking a hiatus from blogging here for a while (until further notice). I haven’t been able to blog so regularly these last months so am going to
the end of nature
September 30, 2024
blog
In 1989, Bill McKibben wrote, “I believe that we are at the end of nature.” Then he clarified: “By this I do not mean the end of the world. The rain
thinking like a consumer
September 23, 2024
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Merely mentioning market roles can crowd out our intrinsic motivation. One online survey asked participants to imagine themselves as one among four
eliminate the friction
September 16, 2024
blog
Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public
Look and Look Again
September 11, 2024
blog
I’ve been using video as part of my artistic practice since 1997. This has often meant thinking about the nature of Screendance and how thinking
astray awkwardly
September 9, 2024
blog
An autistic politics: in losing our way, straying away from the marked tarmacs of the conventional, we might find ourselves in different,
sign on the door
September 2, 2024
blog
A link to a conversation between The Place’s Eddie Nixon and Christina Elliot and me from back in 2015. We performed it in public.
ask nature
September 1, 2024
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Ask nature: a portal to the wisdom nature holds which seeks to collaborate globally to design a world for the future of all species.
ecosytemic practice research
August 29, 2024
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I finally got round to posting a piece of writing for Dance Research called Ecosystemic Practice Research (for the benefit of others):
self portrait as time
August 28, 2024
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Linking here to Marcus Coates’ digital video Self Portrait as Time (2016). https://www.marcuscoates.co.uk/projects/154-self-portrait-as-time This is
the comfort/chaos circle
August 26, 2024
blog
A model for thinking about learning, which consists of three concentric circles: the comfort zone, the learning zone, the chaos zone. The circles
things will have to change
August 19, 2024
blog
The secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a research and policy organisation that works on behalf
ladder of inference
August 12, 2024
blog
A model developed by Chris Argyris and Peter Senge (1970) which helps you to no longer jump to premature conclusions and to reason on the basis of
physical connection
August 5, 2024
blog
This co-regulation has measurable effects. Changes in one person’s body often prompt changes in another person’s body, whether the two are
berry on minimalism
July 29, 2024
blog
The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the
stimming
July 22, 2024
blog
Stimming is the rhythmic and repetitive movements that we do to self-regulate and process sensory input. The Stimming virtual space is an
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