Blog of Susannah Quinsee about life, work, parenthood and play
My future plans will help me grow in my professional practice and develop new opportunities. It is exciting to think that there are new experiences waiting for me to discover over the next year. Those are represented by the orbs Continue reading SEDA CPD: 2021-2022: My future plans
I will use my learning from the past year to improve my leadership practice and my professional work. Each of the lovely blue orbs (my favourite lego pieces ever!) represent different insights and how I will bring these together. Use Continue reading SEDA CPD Report: 2021-2022: How I will use my learning
My leadership philosophy is that I strive to create the conditions in which others can act. This means, for me, that I wish to support others and facilitate their development. This led me to work in universities and be an Continue reading SEDA CPD Report: 2021-22: Why I did it
Last year, I wanted to the following things: Find out how I can support our parents and carers’ network (EDI objective) Continue my coaching apprenticeship Create more Lego Serious Play and playful practice opportunities Release my podcast series Seek opportunities Continue reading SEDA CPD Report 2021-2022: What I did
Last year I started a coaching apprenticeship, which I mentioned elsewhere and a couple of weeks ago we had the second of our two day workshops. The first round in August were really good, even if slightly daunting as you Continue reading Coaching frameworks
I blogged recently about Nancy Kline’s book Time to Think and what a profound impact this had made on me. I was so inspired by it that I wanted to try to create a thinking environment in the office. One Continue reading Trying out a Thinking Environment
Due to taking my coaching apprenticeship I have been reading a lot more non-fiction, work related books. One big advantage of the commute is that I can read for around 40 mins a day when I go in and always Continue reading Thinking about thinking environments
Recently, I was contacted by the Women Writers Project with regards to a piece I wrote about one of the women writers I studied for my PhD; Margaret Cavendish. I had written a short introduction many moons ago whilst as Continue reading Trip down memory lane … and finding relevance for today
I originally started this blog post in February 2020 when I wanted to restart blogging. It took a global pandemic to get me started again and I still wanted to post this as there are things in it that still Continue reading 2020 intentions – from February to October
I’ve been thinking a lot about play recently. Well ok ever since I did the Lego Serious Play (LSP) course (and before that maybe) and particularly given that my living room and most of the house is covered in Lego Continue reading Play