Category Archives: Scotland

Muddling through

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Jamie Jauncey

Halfway through the cross-examination stage of The Debate on Tuesday night I started to write an exasperated Tweet, then realised that Twitter had crashed. The aperçu thus denied to the world was this: can there be any more shameful way … Continue reading →

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In poor health

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Jamie Jauncey

With less than 50 days to go till the referendum I went along this week to a meeting of my local Yes group to offer support. Suddenly, a weekly blog doesn’t seem enough. Like many other people I’ve spoken to, … Continue reading →

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Scared of what?

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Jamie Jauncey

Picture a beautiful, mountainous, oil-rich country with warm, welcoming people and a distinct and vibrant culture, which one day soon will have the opportunity to choose independence. Scotland? No. Kurdistan. A couple of days ago I was asked to write … Continue reading →

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Sticky labels

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Jamie Jauncey

How diminished we are by the labels that people attach to us or we attach to ourselves. And how forcefully that has been brought home to me during the referendum campaign. Nationalist, Unionist. Yes, No. Scottish, English. None of us … Continue reading →

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96 days

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Jamie Jauncey

Sometimes an idea grips you in the guts and won’t let go. No amount of reasoning will dislodge it and in time one comes to accept it as a personal truth. So it is for me with Scottish independence. Wherever … Continue reading →

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Voice of a nation

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Jamie Jauncey

How do I explain to my English friends why I feel as I do about Scottish independence? Writing this on the day when that most unlikely of Westminster triumvirates declared that they’re closing the door on possible monetary union, the … Continue reading →

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Why not How

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Jamie Jauncey

Much of the work I do involves trying to move people beyond the normal organisational pre-occupations with process. Whether I’m helping them develop a voice for their organisation, tell its story, or explore where it might be going, the challenge … Continue reading →

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Through the wall

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Jamie Jauncey

I’m looking at a picture of the Great Wall of China. It’s on a calendar given to me by my friend and acupuncturist Wenbo Xu. There are two crane-like birds in a meadow in the foreground. Beyond them the wall … Continue reading →

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Listen to the child

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Jamie Jauncey

Last weekend we ran part two of our series of personal insight workshops, The Stories We Tell. The first looks at what we can learn about ourselves from the stories we tell about where we have come from. The second … Continue reading →

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Bearing Witness

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Jamie Jauncey

It’s the email every writer dreams of getting: ‘I would like to make a film of your book.’ It came, out of the blue, at the beginning of July. And before you ask – no, it wasn’t Dreamworks or Working … Continue reading →

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