u.lab is only 1 week away! If you haven’t registered yet, you can do so here. You will notice a few changes with u.lab this year. Firstly, the team have introduced an annual cycle, linking a few of their free offerings (see diagram above). They are also streamlining the u.lab content which means that we’ve […]
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It was a bright spring afternoon last April, and here I was with Simoon Fransen from the Netherlands and Chelsea Lei from the USA in a Berlin graveyard, creating a 3D sculpture of the u.lab system out of twigs, pine cones and other stuff foraged from nearby. We were nearing the end of the Presencing Institute’s […]
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Continuing our series of blog posts shining a light on the new Scottish content of u.lab (or the SMOOC), Kuladharini shares the insights she gained from her 500 mile walk around Scotland in the summer. An unravelling is taking place in me at some level during these moments of presencing, bits of identity are falling off […]
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Today’s guest blogger is Linda Hunter. Linda is a coach, working with people and teams across the Scottish Government, sharing her experience and building other’s capability to make change centred on people and outcomes. Linda has been part of the Scottish u-lab community for 2 years and has been busy this year bringing together her […]
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u.lab opens this Thursday and hubs can be a powerful space for exploring and practising what we learn during the course. They rely on volunteers to host the space and each do so in their own unique way. There are hubs brewing across Scotland (and the world) in places like Aberdeen, Alloa, Angus, Coltness, Dundee, […]
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For the last three weeks, fellow u.labber Kuladharini and her sister Karen have been on a 500 mile and 7 cities sensing journey of Scotland. Their intention is to understand their country more deeply and make recovery from addiction even more visible in Scotland by connecting directly to the public. Kuladharini said: “With each step I am […]
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It has been a whirlwind couple of years in u.lab Scotland. As we head into the summer and begin gearing up for u.lab 2017 in Sept, we’ve had a chance to reflect a little and gather u.lab stories from a number of participants. Many of these stories were told through the impact stories blog series […]
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Last year, we invited ulabscot participants to host their own taster or intro session to u.lab to help people decide if they would like to register for it in Sept. This resulted in over 20 tasters happening across Scotland, hosted by participants themselves. This year, we would like to issue the same invitation to potential hub hosts […]
Read moreNext in our series of posts around prototyping, Allison Johnstone, the Training and Development Manager at Equate Scotland, talks about the prototype she began working on in 2015 and has continued to work on this year. Equate Scotland are an organisation working on making a positive difference for women in science engineering, technology and the […]
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The prototyping part of the U can be something that is difficult for people to recognise, with participants speaking of being unsure what a prototype is and when they are actually prototyping. Our series now moves on to looking at participants’ stories of prototyping with Brendan Rooney the Executive Director of Healthy n Happy Community Development […]
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