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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Ok I think I’ve missed the boat with wishing you all a happy u.year but things I wanted to share with you have only just aligned. And in the spirit of working out loud, other things are still at the idea stage. All of the below is open for you to get involved in though. A group […]
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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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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 […]
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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Valerie Jackman is a lecturer at Edinburgh College. In this film, Valerie talks of how she moved from feeling “stuck at the bottom of the U” to taking action on her idea. Many people we talk to also experience being stuck at the bottom of the U. It’s perhaps understandable when many of us don’t […]
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In the final of the series of four blog posts around the co-sensing element within u.lab Kuladharini, the Chief Executive of the Scottish Recovery Consortium, talks about using u.lab tools to have a “Deadly Serious Conversation” around tackling the issue of death from substance misuse. When I spoke to her she noted that this […]
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