Moments of Hope

Guy Shennan
Extending my thinking about hope, hoping and changing the world

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  • A post about looking up – read it on your phone held above your head! Where do you like to sit when you go to the cinema? In the middle of a row, or at one end for a quick getaway maybe, or for more leg room. And towards the back, or near the front,…

  • I wondered if doing something difficult is hopeful… My friend Mark sent me a comment on one of my blog posts, out of the blue, and then subscribed to the blog. So I wrote to him that I’d better write some more posts. Since my last one in November I have been a bit preoccupied…

  • From Sussex to Nigerian Modernism After an impromptu visit to the Tate Modern this weekend, I thought I would write what will be in effect a brief addendum to my last post that was inspired by works at the Sussex Modernism exhibition at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne. The Tate is currently showing an exhibition…

  • A recent road trip holiday took us from the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne to the Turner in Margate. At the Towner we saw an exhibition of Sussex Modernism that included a number of works under the heading Anything Will Happen. A connecting theme in all of this was movement, and with movement comes possibility. Our…

  • Taking photos of buildings was a big part of 2023 for me and I have since been looking for a way to write it up. As 365 moments of hope were involved, this blog seems the perfect place. New Year’s Day 2023 was suffused with hope, not, for me at least, because it was 2023,…

  • Entering into a discussion on hope, and hopes, via some thinking about the therapy approach I specialise in for my day job – solution-focused practice. In Five Go Mad In Dorset, broadcast on the first night of Channel 4 on 2nd November 1982, Dick of the Famous Five, keen to know what was happening, exhorted…

  • Being invited to give the opening keynote at the annual UKASFP conference has led to me creating the blog I have been meaning to create for some time now – so thank you to the conference organisers. Here is the first post. One moment of hope has led to another… Last week I spoke in…