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What surgery taught me about care and public systems

When I went in for my operation, I expected to feel cut off — from work, from others, from meaning.

22h ago

What surgery taught me about care and public systems

22h ago

🏛️ Reading the ruins: What ancient history taught me about the present

I didn’t expect Pax to haunt me.

1d ago

🏛️ Reading the ruins: What ancient history taught me about the present

1d ago

🍂 What the seasons teach us about change

Reflections on rhythm, rest, and renewal in public service

2d ago

🍂 What the seasons teach us about change

2d ago

🎇 Why Bastille Day matters — and what it can teach us about rebuilding society

Revolutions don’t begin with fireworks. They begin with hunger, courage, and the slow work of waking up together.

3d ago

🎇 Why Bastille Day matters — and what it can teach us about rebuilding society

3d ago

🎪 What public services can learn from the art of festivals

Insights from Transeuropa Festival — and what they offer us now

4d ago

🎪 What public services can learn from the art of festivals

4d ago

Crashing into presence: burnout, strategy and building systems that breathe

A short fictional creative writing exercise I’ve done from the 5 Minute Creative Writing Exercise. It started with a bang. I was driving…

Jul 2

Crashing into presence: burnout, strategy and building systems that breathe

Jul 2

🧭 Notes from the neighbourhood: finding cohesion in unexpected places

A few years ago, I sat in a library café in a town I’d just moved to. I was nursing a lukewarm coffee, pretending to read a book while…

Jul 1

🧭 Notes from the neighbourhood: finding cohesion in unexpected places

Jul 1

🧭 Designing how we work: team development that feels like us

During the height of the pandemic, I wrote a blog about how our team adapted to working in crisis mode. At the time, everything felt urgent…

Jun 30

🧭 Designing how we work: team development that feels like us

Jun 30

🍎 Not another apple pie: what fiction taught me about change

I’ve always loved reading. Especially non-fiction. Books about cultures and cities, people and politics, and — let’s be honest — the…

Jun 29

🍎 Not another apple pie: what fiction taught me about change

Jun 29

🌄 Smell the future: how physical imagination helps shape better systems

A few years ago, I joined the Enrol Yourself peer learning programme. One of the first exercises wasn’t what I expected. No introductions…

Jun 28

🌄 Smell the future: how physical imagination helps shape better systems

Jun 28

noelito

noelito

he/him

Assistant Director for People & Change at Adur & Worthing Councils #localgov Co-founder of #systemschange & #servicedesign progs. Inspired by @cescaalbanese

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