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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · Jul 3

The 4th annual Henderson Heritage Group 'Experiences in Communities' public event: Friday 10 October 6-8pm
THE event of the autumn in the world of #democratictherapeuticcommunities and #activistresearch - tickets available now! ❤️‍🔥 #survivor #practicesofequality
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1440614559... ❤️

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 12h

For me, violent acts (or omissions) proceed from violent states (or States). What drives violent states? Tension that gets to a point where it can't be contained & must be evacuated (into an Other). Begins with the Big Bang, really. States are not static, the potential for eruption inherent (sez I)😔

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 13h

Not a tangent at all, in short! 😆🙏🙏

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks so much, Glenn, that's a really interesting point, not conscious when I wrote it. Violent states of mind, violent states of society - security and insecurity and "what does 'safe' even mean?" - creative states of mind and society in juxtaposition...I feel a book coming on! 🥰
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Violent States and Creative States (2 Volume Set): From the Global to the Individual eBook : Adlam, John, Kluttig, Tilman, Lee, Bandy, Welldon, Estela, Gilligan, James, Young, Dr John L, Lee, Grace, S...

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you very much Sue 🙏🥰🙏

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 13h

🙏 thank you 🙏

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 16h

Another one of today's poems that I have lived from both sides (in one way or another). A lovely capture 👏👏

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 16h

I second all these emotions, and have definitely lived that 'fuck off' moment from both sides. The poem itself is both cracked and concussive 👏👏👏

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 17h

Congratulations, if I may, both as to this and as to your thirteenth week 🥰

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 17h

Those elusive and precarious temperate zones and fertile crescents, outside of which, perhaps, we are mostly fated to have to operate...🤜🤛

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 17h

Another absolute - corker, shall we say? 🥰👏👏👏

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 17h

"...Plenty more Fish..." 🐟😁🐟😁🐟

roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 19h

morning Friday here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe
and a thank you to Alan @alanparrywriter.co.uk
and @thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poetry #PoetryCommunity
#BlueSkyPoets
have a great weekend everyone everywhere 🚶🏼‍➡️

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 17h

For #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe on #worldmentalhealthday, here's one of mine posted here earlier this year 🤜🤛
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk

$Insecurity alert We can argue the toss over separations and losses, but this much is for sure – I am insecurely attached. Mostly I depend upon your warmth and acclaim to scaffold the edifice of my ramshackle sense of self. But hey – no pressure! It's not like you owe me any special consideration – no need, as such, to frack my mudrock offerings for depth or distinction. I'm not proud – I can do naked and abandoned in the void every bit as easily.$

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 1d

Nice!
I only just saw this btw. Is it possible that something about the hashtag is not working? See also recent posts about the feed not being available at all yesterday...🙄

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 1d

I had something very similar yesterday. Some kind of glitch in the routing, presumably (he says, knowing not really whereof he speaks...) 🙄

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 2d

#WednesayWIPs posting the above about the delivery Chirico poem seems to have opened the sluice, if not the floodgates, to a wee ekphrastic excursion...so there you go...work in progress...🥰

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 2d

It sounds very difficult...😟

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 2d

#WednesdayWIPs
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

'The Uncertainty of the Poet' by Giorgio de Chirico (part of the open collection at Tate Modern)

Seemed apt for this space! 🥰

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 3d

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe kicks off Friday. Think fractured reflections, messy middles, scars that still speak. Draft, hold, then post from Friday. Use Alt Text. Tag properly or we won’t find it. For inbox prompts every Saturday: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my there is SO MUCH POETRY in this collection (at the Royal Festival Hall), and SO little time... 😆❤️

John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 6d

#bellends 👏👏👏

roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 7d

Afternoon Friday here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #Mannequin and hope it fits the bill and thank @alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@poetsonbluesky.bsky.social
hope everyone everywhere enjoys their weekend 🚶🏼‍♂️‍➡️🚶🏻‍♀️

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Tanya Moore @tanyamoore.bsky.social · 7d

‘To be disappointed is human. It is also human to be disappointed’; sneak preview of the 1st line of John & Chris’ BRILLIANT chapter on the creative mobilisation of disappointment. Perfectly positioned on p.101. No disappointment there 😊

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 7d

🤣🥰🤣 I am DELIGHTED to find that we are on page 101 🤜🤛

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 7d

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 7d

I am proud to have contributed a co-written chapter with Chris Scanlon to this new and essential book edited by @tanyamoore.bsky.social and Claudia Megele...due to be published 21 November...🥰
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Human Leadership

How can you lead with compassion, authenticity and success - whether you're leading a team or a complex organization?This wide-ranging collection pulls together leading innovation experts to share the...

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John Adlam 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social · 7d

Listen I definitely propose we should share the feedback among the three of us 🥰

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