Thank you to everyone who used this blog to share experience and information relating to Narratives of Potential in the run up to last week’s conference.
Thank you also to those of you who shared your feedback with us on Foul Whisperings either by talking, blogging or filling in the evaluation forms (which we’ve just started to go through).
Unfortunately, time was short at the conference itself for discussing the issues/questions raised by this experiment. But perhaps this is where the blog comes into its own.
So if you have any additional comments, feelings, observations, suggestions, questions then please use this space to make them public and see what happens….
Esther Walker
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I did not get to read the installments prior to the conference, despite my good intentions. The live action was engaging and I feel took me into the story quickly. I am missing the whole Macbeth thing completely – not being familiar with the story.
I liked the questions posed to us by Esther at the end and the experimental nature of the activity – good to challenge our expectations and reality. Keeps us on our toes too – provoking a reaction is good, whatever that reaction may be.
I liked the video episodes in advance of the conference, and the idea of being able to interact via the blog. I actually preferred these to the live action stuff at the confernece itself. Keep doing what you do, though! I cherish these different approaches.
I really did enjoy the different approach and was looking forward to it coming together at the end. It did. BUT, I really think that we would have benefitted from the chance to respond to some of those questions that Esther posed – we needed something to bring together what we saw beforehand, what we saw there and also story telling in the context of our organisation and the conference itself.
Perhaps this would be have worked with Esther working with Stuart, Meriel and others who were compares throughout.
We appreciate your comments – thank you.
I agree that a greater integration of what we were trying to do with Foul Whisperings into the organisation of the conference as a whole would have been useful. There was a lot left hanging at the end and although people may have had informal conversations, we needed, as a whole group, to be able to make sense of it all in relation to Narratives.
Unfortunately, the feedback sheets have been lost in the post so I cannot summarise people’s comments in a way that I would have liked. I am still hoping that the postal service will regurgitate them some time soon!