Just planning the route for this walk about! Three BIG 🏔️'s & 150km walking in the Lake District for @calmzone Any support welcome! p.s. Just point your camera at the picture of the QR code bottom right. or- https://www.justgiving.com/team/150kmchallenge?utm_medium=TE&utm_source=CL #mensmentalhealth #AdventureMind #Mentalhealth #Wellbeing #WalkingandTalking
For decades we've celebrated the #entrepreneur. The person who creates economic value. But perhaps the future needs a different kind of leader. The #Communiteer. Someone who creates #socialcapital. Who connects, collaborates and contributes. Less "How can I succeed?" More "How can we flourish?" Entrepreneurs build businesses. Communiteers build the relationships that make #communities #resilient. Could … Continue reading Have we been chasing the wrong words?
Then we build community resilience, because when the systems - which we know are very fragile -fail, it will be dynamic and robust communities who will be able to survive... #Anarchist - #BenjaminZephaniah - pointed to this during his interview when talking about the #GrenfellDisaster Dynamic Teams and communities have:- + Agency - they can … Continue reading The point for Stoic Pilgrim Adventures, as a CIC, and D3R is to help organisations build Dynamic Teams in an AI 🌍
Often; when you see adverts for leadership positions, you notice this long list of skills, that nobody actually possesses constantly. In the dynamic teaming philosophy we teach, we treat leadership as a potential energy within small, complex evolving teams. Self awareness plays a big part of our work in developing these teams. As a bit … Continue reading 🌍 Leadership Development in Dynamic Teams in an AI World 🌍
The subject I'm presenting in the woods is SERE -Survival, Evasion, Resistance, & Escape 😉 What fun! Don't worry there won't be any ... 'prolonged' stress positions or waterboarding 😉 However, I will be focussed on mindset development, decision-making under pressure and stoic-like virtues of courage, compassion, curiosity and clarity. And whether you're doing some … Continue reading I’m just preparing a workshop for military cadets next week.
I was the person who got the call when a famous football player's children were threatened with being kidnapped. I'd get the call when an airline company was being fined $millions because too many drugs were being smuggled out of Jamaica on their flights. Eventually, I got bored of looking after UHNW clients and organisations … Continue reading The first half of my life was spent mainly in the military-security world.
We Evolved to Think While Moving For almost all of human history, important conversations happened while walking. Our ancestors solved problems, planned journeys, built alliances and shared stories as they travelled through landscapes together. Movement wasn't separate from thinking—it was part of thinking. Modern neuroscience increasingly supports this ancient practice. Walking increases cerebral blood flow, … Continue reading NetWalking: Why Walking Side by Side Creates a Collaborative Advantage – Netwalking for Staffs Chamber of Commerce
For generations, success followed a familiar script: work hard, get promoted, climb higher. It was a world of certainty, predictable career paths and clear milestones. That world is disappearing. Artificial intelligence, automation, economic uncertainty and changing industries mean that the old career ladder has become increasingly fragile. Many people are discovering that climbing faster doesn't … Continue reading The Future Doesn’t Belong to Ladder Climbers. It Belongs to Pilgrims.
What if you could spend a day learning practical skills that build confidence, capability and calm under pressure? This isn't about becoming a martial arts expert, survivalist or action hero. It's about understanding yourself. We'll explore how fear works, where courage comes from, and why simple skills, sound judgement and good strategy often outperform complexity … Continue reading The Stoic Pilgrim Field Skills Day – Register Your Interest
Most people still believe that if something catastrophic happens to their community, someone will come. Governments. Aid agencies. Corporations. Systems. But modern societies are sleepwalking into major shocks while depending almost entirely on fragile, centralised systems that are increasingly stretched, extractive, and unsustainable. Energy, food, medicine, communications, finance, logistics, even human connection itself — outsourced … Continue reading D3R explores a different path.
