At work:
- Studied more background documents for the EDI strategic session, and started developing a structure for the day. I’m thinking of building a flow based on the Three Horizons model, so I revisited that to make sure it’s fresh in my mind. I’ll be adapting it for our purposes as we’re honing in specifically on EDI policy and practice.
- Listening to recordings of evaluation sessions and mapping the findings for the schools programme evaluation. Also did a final reflection session with the team, and did a first pass analysis of a spreadsheet of qualitative data collected throughout the programme.
- Mapping session for the social care engagement project – we have agreed a longlist of potential audiences and have taken away actions to make contact and see who we can work with in the time we have.
Deliverables this week:
- None this week, all work in progress.
Development this week:
- May have an opportunity to design and deliver an EDI workshop with a senior leadership team – tbc, awaiting more information.
- Been researching and developing My New Idea. Discussing it with a potential partner next week, still considering options and possibilities but really hoping it will become A Thing. Have checked to see if my ideal URL is available, and it is in English, but annoyingly not in Welsh, and whoever has that one has been sitting on it since 2016 and not doing anything with it, aaaugh!
At home:
- It took me A WHOLE DAY to recover from the weekend at the Eisteddfod! Much napping. I had zero beans left.
- Welsh revision session, covering the first half of the year’s curriculum. Follow-up session next week, for the second half – I crammed the grammar and made myself some index card notes in preparation. Felt like I had forgotten everything we’d done but I can confirm it’s all in there… somewhere!
- Friend’s kiddo’s 16th birthday. They requested everyone who attended did a 5 minute presentation on a special interest topic, so I talked about the Welsh temperate rainforests.
- Found that Manda Scott (whose book Any Human Power I finished last week) has a podcast called Accidental Gods, in which she interviews all sorts of people working for social and environmental change. They’re long episodes, but full of interesting things and hopeful horizons. Episode #295 has my cool friends from Our House in it.
Three Horizons model – image credit: Leadersquest.org