Category Archives: Creativity

Humankindness

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Jamie Jauncey

I’ve been listening to the 2025 BBC Reith Lectures, given by Rutger Bregman, the young Dutch historian who became an international sensation in 2019 after standing up at the Davos World Economic Forum and berating a room full of billionaires for … Continue reading →

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Thinking in colour

Posted on November 14, 2025 by Jamie Jauncey

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It was not until I was in my twenties that I realised that not everyone had colours for numbers, letters and some words. What I mean by that is that in my mind’s eye the number 3, for example, is … Continue reading →

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Back in the water

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Jamie Jauncey

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I’m back in a place I love. I haven’t been here for eight years and my first impression on arrival was how beautiful it is. I had forgotten. An hour north of Seville, tucked into the side of a wooded … Continue reading →

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Minds enlivened

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Jamie Jauncey

The grey shingle of Whidbey Island’s beaches is littered with driftwood, testament to the arboreal abundance of the Pacific Northwest. Whole trees, branches, fist-sized lumps lie along the tideline like the bleached bones of sea monsters. Under dull, rain-laden skies … Continue reading →

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Making sense

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Jamie Jauncey

You can now listen to each new post, including this one, as a podcast. I am also gradually adding selected posts from the archive. Click here. If we look for milestones to prompt reflection and personal stocktaking, few come better … Continue reading →

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Child leaders

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Jamie Jauncey

A friend recently sent me the link to a Guardian article published in 2014 under the title: Why boarding schools produce bad leaders. I hadn’t seen the article, but I was familiar with its author. Nick Duffell was a contemporary … Continue reading →

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Three cities

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Jamie Jauncey

Place matters. It shapes thoughts and emotions. We have always encouraged people who come on our Dark Angels courses to connect as strongly as they can with the place where the course is held. We want that heightened awareness of … Continue reading →

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Stranger at the Rodeo

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Jamie Jauncey

Lost in the hills to the south of Perth is a former schoolhouse, one of the four or five buildings in a hamlet gloriously named Path of Condie. The place feels like an eyrie, with brackeny valleys plunging away below … Continue reading →

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Come to the edge

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

Eighteen months ago I chaired an event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival with a novelist I know well, someone whose work I admire and whom I like very much as a person. Halfway through the event, in front of … Continue reading →

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In praise of footering

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

We were sitting round the dinner table in our Airbnb lakeside cabin at Mont Tremblant, Quebec, last week – Sarah and I and our two grown-up children, Anna and Jake. Anna’s reaching the end of the first year of a … Continue reading →

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