SpeedSquad – Movie Concept

SpeedSquad – Movie Concept America has become a mess of talented criminal drivers that can allude law enforcement long enough to escape and are leaving a path of destruction behind. After a high profile death in a high speed chase police officers are no longer allowed to give chase. A special police unit is formed…

Got in a street fight – Film Short Concept

Scene captured in a news report detailing all of the steps including screen shots of stories, interviews with people on the street, interviews with experts on anonymity. an anonymous author begins to publish short stories these stories expose the problematic underpinnings of society including which companies, people and systems are at the heart of the…

the man with the chicken tattoo

I woke up on a barge loaded with sheep being driven across some stretch of water. There was a man at the tiller that I could not clearly see in the early morning light. I couldn’t remember how I ended up there and the polite farmer, who gave me a ride back to mainland, didn’t…

catalyst

you wake up and see the same pain of yesterday you drink your coffee and mourn the need you long for Sunday, for rest, for time to healĀ  you feel tired like a part of you has died but you do not bleed you have a list of all you would fix and how you…

recipes for success – professional development

After two days at a professional development forum I am reminded of yet another recipe for success, take the time to for professional development.   While we regularly have opportunities to improve our skills for our job, we also need to take the time to improve our overall person and see out opportunities to stretch…

recipes for success – what is missing?

OK,  so someone is stuck. You, or someone you are assisting, has the making of a simple problem you can’t seem to get unstuck from. You need a quick practice to assist yourself(s) to finding the answer that likely already lies within the deep reaches of your mind. This tool is another I have learned that helps you to figure…

recipes for success – relationship * possibility * action

One of the most powerful concepts of the coaching practices that I have learned is to think of our interactions with the idea of three types of conversation: relationship, possibility and action. There is no script for each of these conversations to happen but rather the practice of seeing your conversations through these lenses has…

recipes for success – an offer to share what I have found or learned

Engaging in discussion with people that are very passionate about their work (paid or otherwise) is incredibly stimulating but also at times exasperating because of the tendency not find opportunities for collaboration let along finding consensus towards some good results. With that in mind I wanted to share some ideas that I have taken in…

after effects

I wonder, in my thoughts and when I am out some where without a specific purpose in mind. The latter doesn’t happen all that often given the busy life we have, but when I do get the opportunity it is quiet amazing how the mind leaps with joy at the opportunity to not have structure…

do we need a hero?

do we need a hero to help us get through each day of our abyssmal lives? or do we need to be distracted so we can forget how abyssmal we think it is? or do we need to continuing learning, growing and building long after we have left the school system such that we come…