Creative Health Consultant, Coach and The Brilliant Club member Lory Povah, reflects on her experience of participating in a Somatics and Expressive Art Intensive and finding wisdom in her body.

How could the community sector prevent, protect, and support people while mitigating trauma's consequences and developing a supportive place to live? Some design principles that shaped our work.

Explore the power of compassion with Kerry, co-director of A Brilliant Thing CIC, and The Brilliant Club members, Tik who runs Happy Me Community and Pili, inclusion project manager at Dorset Music Service.

Imagine opening your diary and seeing spacious time, portions helpfully allocated to connecting, doing and reflecting? We think we might have cracked it?!

What if your time was punctuated by thinking space, rather than endless meetings slotted in in gaps?

Ever wondered what people talk about in coaching sessions?

In 2023, we delivered 47 individual coaching sessions, 52 group coaching sessions, and 13 Reflective Practice sessions, gaining rich insights about what the VCSE sector needs now and helping us design strategies that work! Here we share the top 5 themes that have emerged this year.

In a world brimming with challenges, trauma and inequality, having an approach for innovative problem-solving helps people and organisations who are trying to change things, create a BIGGER impact.

In Japan urban planners leave parks without walkways for a few months, later adding landscaped paths that follow the natural tracks made by people.

Here is a 3 step plan to creating your own desire paths at work, that help you create meaningful and replenishing work.

Is it possible to effect lasting change in society?

Welcome to #TraumaShift, a movement dedicated to creating trauma-informed workplaces and transforming our collective approach to social challenges.

All the outstretched arms wanting change justice, equality and resilience.

There is energy feeding a movement. Complex, but possible.

In a world of trauma, inequality and injustice, making dreams a reality seems like a privilege, that only a few can access.

But you can make brilliant things and create the change you want to see in the world.

3 lessons from my week of trying out the 7 types of rest and what I would do differently next time

Quickly gather a collection of real life experiences and stories to enrich your work.

We focus on culture making because a brilliant strategy will fail unless it is rooted in in brilliant culture.

On a building site, scaffolding maintains strength and stability while the build is in progress.

At work, strategy is dream scaffolding, and its strength relies on good design.

5 ways to keep fuelling the energy and avoid the awayday slump, shaped by community, NHS, Charity and local authority leaders.

I’ve been having hypnosis for the last few weeks for pain management, I’ve also had a medical procedure in hospital. But its not the headline experience that really makes a difference, it’s the build up, how things unfold and the follow up that matter.

Kerry was interviewed for Culture Camp by Genevieve Lowles, who is brilliant at communicating the right thing at the right time - and who we knew would get to the core of Kerry’s thinking about culture!

Artefact: an object made by a human being, typically one of cultural or historical interest.

We create artefacts everyday.

They are made in the present, and left behind to guide, inform or help our future selves.

How can we use this most basic of resources, to coach a team or individual or even ourselves? Here are 5 ideas, all great in person or on zoom, that you can try with your team to get the creativity flowing and conversation started.

Workplaces with high levels of empathy, also have high levels of innovation -especially when empathy is a norm across all parts, teams and levels in an organisation.

What matters is that innovation is found in group action, rather than individual thinking, and empathy connects people to groups.