#ThursdayThoughts _ Last Thursday's SF24/21 Building Hope, Empowering Change 22 conference. Some attendees best hopes included, to learn 1 new thing, be inspired, learn 2 or 3 new ideas about how to use #SF in life, connections & network. From the presentations we saw, we think some or all of these were achieved!

A solution-focused conversation can create small changes which go on to create systemic revolutions. #solutionsfocus #sf #change

Fighting and competing with each other is easy, after all we have done it since time immemorial. Working together and cooperating as individuals and communities is so much harder, as it involves discussion and compromise, but ultimately far more rewarding and future building!

The building blocks of a preferred future are often hidden in plain sight. Waiting to be discovered, connected and mobilised. TheConnected.Community

The Iraq war's damage to public trust in experts has consequences right up to today theconversation.com/the-iraq-wars-… via The Conversation

Wonderful 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

That’s the tweet.

In all of the metaphors we use to describe our work as coaches, the coach is active, the client is passive: they are being rewired, changed, broken. Who in their right mind would hire a coach to do that? Read more: solutionsacademy.com/blog/change-mi…

How do you know if your therapy is any good? Here are some of the signs of good therapy. #therapythursdays #mentalhealth #counselling #muslimmentalhealth #muslimcounsellors #ethicaltherapy

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Nothing to see here.

Wearing my Family Based Solutions and Met Police Community Facilitator hat on this evening.

What an extraordinarily inapt statement. Unbelievable.

When I listen to Sunak, talking about potholes in the road & bus links I know this country is well & truly fucked! If we don’t start putting in long-term mass transit systems now and continue to pander to the driver, we are going to destroy our economy, our society & our planet.

An entire culture, history and people are disappearing under the rubble – buried by the moral cowardice of our political leaders. Artists whose work we will never know. Teachers whose lessons we will never learn. Children whose laughter we will never hear. We must

Article is based on a short term assumption that individual travel will remain a thing. Consider real viable ecological solutions such as efficient mass transit systems. EVs are an economic and political choice, not an ecological one. theguardian.com/business/2023/…

Please make this go viral. It’s never been articulated better than this.

Brilliant. And quite brave considering that if the election goes the wrong way his commander in chief won’t be able to utter a word of it

Do you have any idea how puerile and childish your comment sounds outside of the echo chamber of your head? It’s sad that you “politicians” can’t run a grown up campaign that doesn’t slag off the other parties!