Openness

Please see below recent freedom-related change.

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April 2019

• Freedom is often seen as key to creativity. Yet Shakespeare worked within a framework of censorship, Don Quixote was written from prison, and Leonardo argued that art “lives on constraint and dies of freedom”. The iai therefore asked whether oppression can help produce masterpieces, or whether the free always write the greatest poetry. In short, do we need rules and constraints to fuel our creativity or should ever greater freedom be our continuing goal?

February 2019

Please see below selected recent change-related content about change itself.

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March 2019

Please see recent education-related change below.

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• Halcyon Education Headlines
• What Counts? - Education

March 2019

Please see below selected recent listening-related change.

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• Halcyon Listening Headlines
• What's Changing? - Therapy

December 2018

Please see below selected recent charity-related change.

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspired by others' little secret acts of kindness, PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

In the last months of his life, a physically weakened Christopher Hitchens travelled to the Texas Freethought Convention and while there, an eight-year-old girl asked Hitchens what books she should consider reading. Intrigued, Hitchens spent 15 minutes chatting with the youngster and sketching out a reading list (below). His last words to her? "Lots of love...remember the love bit..."

Sad to read of the passing of Colin Wilson, a truly open-minded polymath, whose books, exhaustive range of interests, freedom of expression and seemingly boundless productivity I long found inspiring.

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