To deliver good enough training demands that we have good enough colleagues to travel with us.
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What they don’t know is what what they do does
What is encouraging are the stories of the difference the projects we have been working in have made in the lives of the participants and in the work of colleagues and in the lives of listeners, viewers and readers.
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Uncommon kindness
There is little worse than sickness when you are travelling and away from your normal support systems. It did, though, provide an opportunity to receive uncommon kindness shown by new friends.
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Anticipating a third-age
The third-age is that period we sometimes call retirement. Many find it as busy a time as their formal working lives – they just do different things. How we choose to engage with retirement will mark out how satisfied and fulfilled we will be. For small organisations, the retirement of a senior member of staff can mean the end of its life. So planning for the third-age is critical.
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I am the laboratory
“It’s done,” I say. “I feel exhausted. In fact I’ve had enough. I’m not sure that I can write another word.” Val is sitting across the dinner table. She has taken this journey herself. After 40 years of marriage she knows when to wait and when to speak. She is waiting. The research process demands more of us than we sometimes imagine or expect.
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Writing for our lives
When we think of research it is often numbers and statistics that come to the front of our minds. But words can flow from keyboard and pen nib and unexpected things appear on the page. Conversations speak deeply and only in the writing of the account have they emerged.
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