Category Archives: Kindness

Dark Angels on Writing

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Jamie Jauncey

Over the years I’ve come to believe that people are sometimes drawn to Dark Angels courses in answer to an unspoken, perhaps even unacknowledged, need. They may not know it but at the moment they hear about our programme there … Continue reading →

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Across the great divide

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Jamie Jauncey

I’m watching Debate Night, the new BBC Scotland channel’s answer to Question Time. It serves to underline a question I have been asking myself more and more frequently in recent months: how do we engage with people who hold diametrically … Continue reading →

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Acts of kindness

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Jamie Jauncey

In late January 1973 I arrived in Chile overland from Argentina. I was travelling with a group organised by the adventure company, Encounter Overland, whose regular itinerary, up until that point, had been the hippy trail from London to Kabul. … Continue reading →

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Closer to the stars

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Jamie Jauncey

The last time I posted, nearly three months ago, it was with an unfinished story. My mother was in her final hours, and I wrote about how touched I was by the loving kindness she was receiving from the staff … Continue reading →

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Kind to the end

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Jamie Jauncey

The kindness – perhaps I should call it love – that abounds at my mother’s care home is almost overwhelming. She is in her last hours. Since early yesterday morning my brother and I have been taking it in turns … Continue reading →

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The shortest distance

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Jamie Jauncey

Last week I took part in the process of interviewing for a new manager for my mother’s care home. I was one of a panel of two relatives and two residents who met the candidates for an informal chat, before … Continue reading →

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Five lessons

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

We never stop learning. A cliché, but only because it’s true, or at least should be. So I thought it might be instructive to reflect on a few personal highlights of the past year by asking myself what I have … Continue reading →

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Leaderology

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

Leadership. It’s a topic that exercises people in airless seminar rooms without number, up and down the country, every day of the week. Yet in its elevation to the status of a ‘-ship’ it becomes so far removed from the … Continue reading →

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Getting tribal

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

Gutted. This is not a word I often use. As a boy growing up in the country it’s what I did to rabbits and pigeons and occasionally trout. As a young bookworm it’s what I read, in morbid fascination, about … Continue reading →

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Magic in Bosa

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Jamie Jauncey

In the narrow alley outside his guest house, Paolo reads the words on my T-shirt. ‘En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme…’ It’s the opening paragraph of Don Quixote. I explain that I’m wearing the … Continue reading →

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