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In the summer of 2015 I was interviewed by          Brian Meecham of BBC Radio Wales on the Wales at Work programme. Accompanied by Helen Bartlett of Paramount Interiors  we were asked: Can anyone be creative? Does the design of an office effect creativity? Helen...

January 2015 was my month of 'Team Away Days'- I designed and facilitated four in that month alone. Each was bespoke to the organisation but with a thread of creativity running through each.       Our most 'creative' perhaps involved a morning of film making and an...

In May 2015 I was asked to help an organisation create a more customer focused culture. Together with the two Directors, of this already successful organisation, we designed a programme that took both staff and management on a journey to explore how they could become...

In the summer of 2015 I was invited by Insights HR to speak at the prestigious Wales Millennium Centre. The title of talk was 'Creativity, Connection and Flow.'     As part of the talk, their were several activities allowing people to sue their creative muscles in...

Transforming a meeting room into a creative space using a Green Umbrella Sometimes there is a need to change a physical space in order to change thinking. Many organisations have meeting rooms which are smart and functional. However, when entering the room, people...

Last April I had the opportunity to work with the Foster Carers Cooperative on their 'See Me' exhibition shown at the Senedd, Cardiff Bay ( the Parliament building of Wales).  The task was to stage an art exhibition showing something about the life of looked after...

I recently worked with a Policy and Research team of a large charity. The task was to create a half day session that was enjoyable (it's Christmas), would develop the team and offer people an opportunity to think differently about their work. The team already work...

Over the last couple of weeks I have volunteered time at Bawso- an organisation that works with women and men to combat domestic abuse and other wider global issues affecting women. The task was to work with the women in the refuge to create a banner that could be...

It may be said that the core of creativity lies in thinking differently. But how do we do this? In this series I am going to illustrate one idea per post for 'thinking differently'. The first: Toyota's 5 Whys.  You have a problem, you probably ask why it happened. You...