The Flexible Thinking Forum is calling upon the public to get behind the idea of a ‘failure week’ (Feb 6th-11th) to encourage people to learn from mistakes – otherwise we will all be stupid if we fail to take advantage of it. A top girls’ school,WimbledonHigh School, is planning a “failure week” over the next [...]
Support is being offered to help people overcome what is labelled ‘the most depressing day of the year’ – Blue Monday on Monday January 16th – with activities to turn it into a day of ‘binge happiness’ – and also raise funds for mental health charities. The combination of general economic doom and gloom coupled [...]
Charities and social activists are being urged to help spread the word about the Twixtmas campaign to get everyone to use the time when they are ‘time rich’ to do charitable and voluntary activity? The five days of Twixtmas – between the Christmas and New Year holidays represents a great chance for everyone to do [...]
Cutting back on arts education is short sighted and damaging to flexible and creative thinking. A recent study reveals that 13% of schools have already cut arts, drama and music from the curriculum*, the Cultural Learning Alliance (CLA) demonstrates the impact of cultural learning on the lives of children and young people. Amongst the findings, [...]
We are posing the question: ‘Do we need to rebrand the working class, with the concept of ‘The UnChavs’?’ Prompted by a holiday read of Owen Jones book Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class the author has produced a good book, yet I feel misses some key points around communication, branding and memes – hence [...]
