A mish-mashed hodge-podge of doing.
I end up doing all sorts of things, some of which happen and many of which don’t.
Events, retreats and residencies For example, I occasionally host Reading Weekends at the old house in Spain where my wife runs an organic beef farm. For a few years I held one person retreats called ‘Parenthesis’. I have also offered artists and writers residencies in Arenas de San Pedro.
Pauses I occasionally hold online workshops focused on pause and pausing. I spent a day with a group of friends and colleagues in Oxford exploring the idea of ‘temporal intelligence’. With my friend Johnnie Moore, I ran a series of exploratory workshops under the title ‘Into Rehearsal’ exploring what it might mean to rehearse in the context of everyday life and work (for a change, we did this in Cambridge).
Olives
For years I have been promising to organise an event built around the olive harvest in Spain. In 2024, having acquired another olive grove, with close to a hundred trees that are now mostly clear of the jungle of thorns that had grown up in the decades it has been abandoned, we finally did so as a project for Yellow. We don't harvest every year but if you are interested in coming to Spain to help out (in November), let me know. We can always use another pair of hands...
Creative Tapas
The Creative Tapas was an exploration of creativity and play masquerading as a one day event. We did it twice in Spain, and learned a huge amount, whilst having a blast. It's one of the most exciting things I have ever done and would love to do it again. If you want the whole story, click here and if you are interested in taking part, let me know. I would particularly love to do one of these for an organisation. I think it would be spectacular...
There’s plenty more where these came from.
If any of these interest you, or you have an unbaked idea of your own you want to kick around, let me know. Who knows what it might be possible to cook up…