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Welcome

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The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard once said 'Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards'. 

Steve Jobs expressed the same idea in a different way 'you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.' 

This website helps me look back on my life, capture moments from the present and look forward to the future. It helps me understand my own lifelong and lifewide learning and how I develop my ecologies for learning, developing, achieving and creating.

​I record my thoughts in three blogs
scraps of life blog
​#creativeHE blog 
Garden Notes 
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I maintain profiles on three professional social networking sites

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Join me on Twitter
@lifewider1
@lifewide
@academic creator
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Lifewide Learning

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Eduard Lindeman writing over 80 years ago said, 'the whole of life is learning therefore education can have no ending'. This is what I believe too.

Lifewide Education
I founded the Lifewide Education network in 2011 to help universities, colleges and schools develop their own approaches to supporting these forms of learning and personal development. The foundation for this enterprise is based on the research and practical development undertaken at the University of Surrey and published in Learning for a Complex World: a lifewide concept of learning, education and personal development 
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-Creative Academic
I have a long standing interest and involvement in encouraging higher education to support students' creative development as well as their academic development. In January 2015 I formed Creative Academic to support universities and teachers who want to enable learners to use and develop their creativity.

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Chalk Mountain
Chalk Mountain helps people communicate in interesting, engaging and creative ways. We produce and publish magazines, books and other digital media for the higher education sector.
http://www.chalkmountain.co.uk/

Speaker

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I am an experienced and well respected speaker and have given many talks in the UK and overseas on themes like, 'Creativity in Higher Education', 'Lifewide Learning & Education', 'The Ecology of Learning and Development' and 'Change and Innovation in Universities'.
Example talks, seminars, workshops

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Facilitator

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I enjoy designing and facilitating processes that really engage people and enable them to share their understandings and imaginations to co-create ideas and solutions to the complex challenges they face. I enjoy teaming up with illustrators to integrate graphic facilitation into group working processes.

Writing, Editing
​& Publishing

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Writing and publishing are an important part of my life. My latest book 'Ecologies for Learning and Practice (co-edited with Ron Barnett) will be published in November 
With Jenny Willis I co-edit  Lifewide Magazine. 
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With Jenny Willis I co-edit Creative Academic Magazine
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​Professional writing
I offer a research and writing service. For example, I was employed by Southampton Solent University to research and write a book about their strategic change process drawing out the lessons that had been learnt.
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Professional Services
information
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RECENT WORK
​Harvard Learning Innovations Lab 
Learning Ecologies Inquiry   
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/resources/what-is-lila
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Visit my Learning Eeologies website  
​http://www.learningecologies.uk/
Published November 2019
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Second edition October 2019
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#creativeHE blog
my blog for the open learning platform

#LTHEchat
Creativity in Development
Curated conversation -over 500 posts on STORIFY
My reflections

Lifewide Magazine 
'Life Stories & Narratives'
(LWM 21 December 2018)

http://www.lifewidemagazine.co.uk/

Creative Academic Magazine 
Creativity Manifesto for Higher Education
(CAM 13 April 2019)

http://www.creativeacademic.uk/magazine.html


​     OPEN ONLINE 
​   COMMUNITIEs



FACEBOOK
Creative Academic
To encourage and support conversations about creativity in higher education 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/creativeacademic/

#CreativeHE  
An active forum set up by Chrissi Nerantzi. To encourage and support conversations about creativity   https://www.facebook.com/groups/creativeHE/


LINKED IN
Creative Academic
To encourage and support conversations about creativity in higher education 
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8755256/