RE-IMAGINING THE EXPERIENCE OF EDUCATION AND SCHOOLING

The MacArthur Foundation backed the Digital and Media Learning Hub (University of California Humanities Research Institute) to re-imagine the experience of education and schooling. In the last 5 years they have spent close to $100 million in research. Connected Learning is the outcome.

They’ve commissioned me for a series of films to bring some of this courageous & transformational material to life. This first one is a first cut intro to the project, and not in my usual contemplative style but should make you wonder. The films that follow will most probably take on that usual contemplative style covering subjects such as ‘the nature of play‘ and ‘the possibility of mentorship‘.

I’ll play them for my Monday FILM list, as they are made. CLICK for Connected Learning Project.

If you’d like to explore working together to bring complex world changing ideas to film, CONTACT US.

‘CURIOSITY’ | SETH GODIN

‘the safest thing you can do feels risky, and the riskiest thing you can do is to play it safe.’

A short film about the nature of curiosity starring the ever curious Seth Godin.

From my very early film days. Before Soul Biographies.

‘Is your outlook worthy of the label CURIOUS?’

VISIT SETH’S SITE

THE FILM QUESTIONS

One / ‘Is your Television ‘ON’, or is it ‘OFF’?’

Two / ‘Might you be playing it SAFE?’

Three / ‘Have you found the courage to keep your outlook wide open?’

Three / ‘Is your outlook worthy of the label CURIOUS?’

The Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment (Jim Carrey & Eckhart Tolle) have their second conference. Given the subject of ‘Only a New Seed Will Yield a New Crop. New Entertainment and Media Values for a New World‘, I wondered what I could say by way of film that would be usefully provocative. This is the result, screened as the opening to Act One of GATE TWO. I took it as as an opportunity to address Change v Transformation. PLAY THIS FULL SCREEN, as always.

‘FOR WHOM DO I ACT?’ | FILM + WORDS + GUITAR BY NIC

The force of one man’s cleverness
and ambition to succeed,
changed the world.

But in favor of one,
and not the other.

The strength of another man’s
vulnerable and
emerging soul,
transformed the world
with his every breath.

Leaving all mankind with
the possibility of
a single haunting
question.

‘For whom do I act?’

HERE IS THE FILM I MADE THAT OPENED ‘GATE ONE’

[ SWITCH OFF WORLD + FULL SCREEN | THIS VERSION FOR PERSONAL & HOME USE ONLY

Media and Entertainment have always held the capacity to engage the full attention of our minds. And therefore to shape our experience of the world. The profound effect of this encounter often slips by unnoticed. With this in mind, I set out to make this film for a movement from within Hollywood … GATE.

William Murtha asked me if I’d write 100 words for this book. And now it seems they sit alongside words from Neale Donald Walsch, Jane Goodall, Alice Walker & 196 others.

Here they are. In voice and written word. 121 words actually.

Perhaps follow the written word alongside the audio.

AUDIO | 1m 14s

‘AS THE LIGHT MAKES ITS WAY’

A man had lived in his imagination.

Ever since he was a boy.

For it was full of wonder and adventure
when set against the outer world
that housed his everyday life.

His imagination surrounded him in light.
The outer world, in a darker shade.

But as he waited for this outer world
to catch the light,
he realised that it might not.

And so he stepped out into the world,
hand in hand with his imagination.

Knowing that together they would
bring light to the darkest of corners.

—

And he is you. And me.

And together, the imagination of
our collective soul
has already begun its inevitable work.

As the light makes its way
towards the experience of the world.

’100 WORDS BOOK’ FROM WILLIAM

COMMISSIONED FILM | ‘FULL BANDWIDTH’ | KIMBERLEY HARE

Perhaps one of the most significant skills that any leader might cultivate is to enable their people to work (and live) at full bandwidth. The mind, the body, the emotions, the spirit. Perhaps this exists as the fundamental element in the transformation of any organisation’s cultural fabric.

‘How much of your (or your organisation’s) bandwidth remains unused?’, and of course ‘What are you going to DO about it?’, Really WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO about it?

VISIT KIM’S KAIZEN WEBSITE / EMAIL NIC ABOUT MAKING A FILM

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[ A 66 SECOND SEGMENT I ALSO MADE FOR KAIZEN]

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IMAGINE YOUR WEBSITE FULL OF EXTRAORDINARY VIDEO

Imagine working with Nic to fill your site with extraordinary, authentic video capturing the important key messages in a way that compels the audience to fall in love, and take action.

Might that set you a cut above the others? Might that open previously unopened doors? Might that re-ignite your purpose?

 EMAIL US if you’d like to start a conversation about the possibilities.

I’m filming in Montreal at the end of October. And in London end of November.

CONTACT me if you’re interested in making a film together. Maybe it is time.

NIC / FILM MAKER

COMMISSIONED FILM | ‘FREE SPIRIT’ | ANN MCGEE COOPER

‘When you love life, when you love your customers, when you love your business you bring a different self to it, and effective leaders have the courage to fall in love …’

At 75, Ann has worked tirelessly over five decades to ensure that free spirits have thrived at the heart of many well known organizations. Many don’t, and that seems a tragedy / Ann’s WEBSITE.

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COMMISSIONED FILM | ‘ONTPLOOIING’ | RICHARD MADDOCKS

‘might you have underestimated the commercial value of happiness?’

Ontplooiing was made as a commission. A film made to capture the essence of an organisation’s work in the world. If you’re a coach or a trainer you MUST see this. If you are neither a coach, nor a trainer you MUST see this … because positive energy is positive energy, and always has been. No matter the subject matter.

Do allow yourself to imagine how you might appear authentically on film, and how that might serve your work in the world. Perhaps it’s time for you to CONTACT NIC, and find out more.

NB/ might ONPLOOIING become the one word coaches have been looking for? Perhaps it will enter the coaches common lexicon, alongside its obvious range of mispronunciations / [RICHARD'S WEBSITE]

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COMMISSIONED FILM | ‘AMO LA VIDA’ | JULIO OLALLA

‘Gratitude in so many ways is so dramatically missing in the world today. Without gratitude nothing is enough.’ I’m not sure gratitude is something one can do but it is something one can exhibit.
And it’s exhibition is perhaps more important than we might imagine. JULIO’S NEWFIELD SITE [CLICK]

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