- What this is (start here)This is the little space on the World Wide Web where I keep my writing and things. I’ve become increasingly interested in the IndieWeb and self-hosting of content (for a bunch of reasons I have finally put into a blog post here) so for safekeeping I have moved my old posts from Medium… Read More »What this is (start here)
New stuff
Current writing and thinking lives here. A little sporadic, it goes in phases!
- Citizen voice is important (transcript)
- 2025 goals in review
- End of year housekeeping (2025)
- A round up of 2025 projects
- Archived post-its 2025
- “Forever” is a poor metric
- Simple to complex systems
- Notes from the Decelerator
- Measuring (not) relationships
- Measures and targets
- Community is strength #2
- Everything is complexity
- Community is strength #1
- Psychologically safe spaces
- I stopped annotating my books
- What is this civic mediation thing
- Choosing active hope
- A constellation of endeavours
- Coming out about grief
- Bobbio yn y môr
- Ultra processed people
- The 59 days of Janbruary
- A round up of 2024 projects
- Analog data visualisation
- Shifting my working day later
- 1 of a million Welsh speakers
- An exercise in noticing
- How to visit a friend in hospice
- Digital gardening
- Relationship-centred practice
- Making the important visible
- Accessible typeface
- An abstract icebreaker tool
- Sustainable facilitation
- Creative icebreaker questions
- Icebreaker: creative interviewing
- What is this logo?
Old stuff (archive)
Things I wrote previously have been gathered here for safekeeping.
- The audacity of helplessness
- Glossary of engagement terminology
- The Toll (2021)
- Strength in love: a community movement for Wales
- Working through the pandemic
- The three quarter point is a thing
- You will never regret being kind
- Q&A with David Snowden
- So much
- Belonging to Wales: A place worth fighting for
- Public service operating principles
- About salmons and whooping cranes
- On movement building
- What we measure is secondary to why we measure
- Trust enables magic at work
- Sharing ideas creates a learning culture
- Everything exists only in relation to everything else
- Art produces citizens
- Thoughts about adding not substracting
- Co-production in public services: a complex journey of change
Case studies
A hoard of past projects, written up to show the kind of stuff that I’ve been working on. Also an annual review of projects from time to time.
- Case study: keynote speech on citizen voice
- A round up of 2025 projects
- Case study: guesting on a sector podcast
- Case study: mentoring senior health leaders
- Case study: participative programme evaluation
- Case study: strategic service review and planning
- Case study: EDI workshop on difference
- Case study: guest lecture on systems change
- Case study: EDI strategy day
- Case study: all staff strategic away day
- Case study: cultural competence e-learning module
- Case study: Accolades 2025, “partnerships” category
- Case study: governance and strategic framework development
- Case study: cultural competence training
- Case study: co-production training for universities
- Case study: co-production masterclass
- Case study: #NotWestminster2025
- Case study: EDI and anti-racism training
- Case study: facilitation skills for chairs
- Case study: power, privilege and identity
- A round up of 2024 projects
- Case study: learning sessions on co-production
- Case study: community engagement
- Case study: how to have difficult conversations (learning session)
- Case study: co-designing a workflow through a hybrid workshop
- Case study: facilitating a strategy review
- Case study: young people’s engagement in policy consultation
- Case study: nature and mindfulness workshop
- Case study: events design and facilitation
- Case study: learning session on power and co-production
- Case study: facilitating a “kitchen table conversation”
- Case study: strategic board and team away day
- Case study: learning session on conflict and dialogue
- Case study: learning session on partnership working
- Case study: staff engagement in developing a mentoring framework
- Case study: user engagement and feedback on a draft resource
- Case study: strategic stakeholder engagement
- Case study: strategic governance workshop
- Case study: facilitating an inclusive strategic meeting
- Case study: co-designing a Future Forest Vision in the Upper Rhondda
- Case study: co-designing a staff housing policy
- Case study: facilitating a #BLM Town Talk
Weeknotes
Just me capturing what I’ve been up to each week. Of interest mainly to me as a useful self-reflection tool, but if you want to see, well it’s here.
- Weeknotes 36 (March 2026)
- Weeknotes 35 (March 2026)
- Weeknotes 34 – mini (February 2026)
- Weeknotes 33 (February 2026)
- Weeknotes 32
- Weeknotes 31
- Weeknotes 30
- Weeknotes 29
- Weeknotes 28
- Weeknotes 27
- Weeknotes 26
- Weeknotes 25
- Weeknotes 24
- Weeknotes 23
- Weeknotes 22
- Weeknotes 21
- Weeknotes 20
- Weeknotes 19
- Weeknotes 18
- Weeknotes 17
- Weeknotes 16
- Weeknotes 15
- Weeknotes 14
- Weeknotes 13
- Weeknotes 12
- Weeknotes 11 (mini)
- Weeknotes 10
- Weeknotes 9
- Weeknotes 8
- Weeknotes 7
- Weeknotes 6
- Weeknotes 5
- Weeknotes 4
- Weeknotes 3
- Weeknotes 2
- Weeknotes 1