Article about the value of curiosity in care practice, with connections to experiential learning and mindfulness.
Curiosity. Are you curious enough to read on?
The science behind why hobbies can improve our mental health
Good article with lots of links for the curious, about hobbies. Don't be afraid to make and do weird stuff.
Applying the Pathways to Nature Connectedness at Societal Scale
In our latest paper we propose an approach to creating a new relationship with nature at a societal scale based on improving nature connectedness using a framework called the ‘pathways to nature connectedness’.
Arts and the New Deal. Can we learn from history?
During a Crisis, Is Art Just a Luxury? What the New Deal Has to Teach Us About the Importance of Supporting the Arts. Scholar Jody Patterson looks at how FDR’s New Deal policies, including the Federal Art Project, made art accessible in the United States.
Radio 4 Start the week May 4th – Art in an Emergency
BBC Radio 4 Start the week May 4th - Art in an Emergency
‘Zoom fatigue’ is taxing the brain. Here’s why that happens.
I am planning an online experiential learning workshop using Zoom. This is a good balanced article about how it effects your head. What struck me in the prep for the Zoom session was how you are in two places at once, online and offline, which takes some getting used to.
Quote – Unknown on darkness
Before You Snap - Yonderboi
Hidden data is revealing the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak
Satellite images, internet speed and traffic information tell a whole new story about Covid-19. Exploring the idea of cyberspace as a digital place which is an adjunct to physical, analogue space. This article shows how understanding digital space changes our perceptions of analogue space.
Music For Health – Fela Kuti’s ‘Sorrow Tears and Blood’. The greatest protest song ever.
I lived in Toxteth, Liverpool for a while. I was delivering an urban outdoor education programme. At night I listened to a pirate radio station called TCR or Toxteth Comminity Radio. One DJ was called Encosi Fly. He played Fela Kuti's 'Sorrow Tears and Blood' every night as his closing track. Like the thing about metal below, MOBO always seemed to me to provide an outlet for the grasping of the polemic and the political and render it personal. Music is a healing force in so many ways.
Heavy metal is a ‘bloodletting for the emotionally engaged’ according to a new book
The album of my 16th year was 'Who's Next' by the Who. On it was 'Baba O'Riley' and 'Won't Get Fooled Again' I am over 60 and to this day these tracks make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and John Entwhistle's air bass comes out. We also listened to 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'. This is such a true article. Metal and heavy rock generally for me is an outlet for disdain. It comes out through the music so it doesn't come out in my life. Metal is a lifesaver.