Publications
Everyday Encouragement
Creativity nourishes the soul. It’s the doorway to a full life. Without it, life is drab, colourless, unfulfilling.
We all find deep joy and solace accessing other people’s creativity: listening to movies, reading books, encountering great design, enjoying cartoons, looking at paintings or photos.
It’s even more nourishing to access and develop our own creativity
We can all do it. Pick up a pen and write. Draw something. Dance. Sing. Learn to play an instrument.
It’s not that easy though, is it?
What if you mess up? What if your work feels amateur compared to the work of people you love? What if there’s ‘more important’ things to do (even if they don’t bring any joy to your life)? What if everyone laughs at you for having a dream?
In these 30 short pieces, I want to encourage you to embrace your creativity – whatever excuses your mind comes up with to discourage you!
‘En-Courage’: to ‘make brave’.
That’s what I want for you. I want you to create without fear. I want you to create without hesitation. I want you to make your creativity as central to your life as eating, drinking and sleeping.
Why?
Because when we create we nourish the soul. When the soul is nourished, we make a full contribution to creating a life that’s better for ourselves, families, communities and world.
That matters.
Whatever stage of life you’re at, whatever art form you want to explore, however you earn your living, ‘Everyday Encouragement’ is a book you’ll want to dip into again and again – every time you want to stop procrastinating and get creating.
Climbing The Mountain: A Performer’s Journey Into Presence
Encountering Ensemble
In 2013 Bloomsbury published my academic textbook on Ensemble which is now used round the world. I was editor and lead author. ‘Encountering Ensemble’ (Methuen/Bloomsbury, 2013) is still available from Amazon and other booksellers.
Presence: What it is. Why it matters. How to get it
This short book is a practical guide to developing and sustaining presence. It’s based in Self-With-Others and offers clear insight into what you can start doing today to eradicate distraction and improve focus, connection and confidence. Available by following this link or from AMAZON.
How To Teach Performance
This book offers a step-by step guide to imaging, designing, delivering, promoting and learning from performance workshops. It serves new and experienced workshop leaders, encouraging excellence and deep-level understanding of your work. Available here, or via AMAZON.
Ratdog & Boy’s Year of Adventures
Ratdog has Boy. Boy has Ratdog. They’re friends. Nothing much else mattes. Join them for 52 moments f adventure as they travel from the first flowers of spring through to the depths of winter, exploring, celebrating and thriving in their private world of kites and mountains, wild beasts and quizzical birds, long days and dark nights. Their’s is a world of curiosity, adventure and – above all – friendship. Available ONLY from AMAZON.
Humming-
Bird
Wisdom
Overwhelmed?
Constantly flitting from one thing to another?
Always distracted?
It’s the modern curse.
It’s exhausting.
It’s unhealthy.
It’s soul-destroying.
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It’s time to reclaim our power, using tools we were born with: a body, a mind and our ability to choose.
Hummingbird Wisdom is a 30-day challenge. You’ll receive 1 email a day for a month.
At the end you’ll be calmer, more focused, less distracted and massively more powerful!
The Personal Power Programme
The Teach Performance Programme
‘The Teach Performance Programme’ is a comprehensive online video course comprising over 40 videos covering all aspects of teaching performance workshops. It’s broken into 6 modules: ‘The Big Picture’; ‘The Learning Journey’; ‘Pedagogies & Paradigms’; ‘Flow & Flexibility’; ‘Feedback’; ‘Past, Present & Future’.
