Roisin Markham

I’ve always liked the idea of studio notes and wondered about visibility of the work, consistency and value of the reflection.

The last 7 days are important to capture some of where I’ve been working, leaning in and participating:

• Fibershed Ireland Symposium – Reimagining textiles for an equitable future. – facilitator of writing the manifesto session.
• NESC Energy Systems Workshop – invited participant.
• SEC Leinster meet up – invited speaker.
• Bioregional Weaving Lab & Dunhill Multi-Education Centre – fractal services program development & delivery.
• Courtown Community Council – Community Circular Economy Plan – report writing and circular economy consultancy.
• Systems, doughnuts and new ways of working co-design for embodied and creative workshops, new client work.
• Sustainability literacy and applied learning in practice design workshops and learning outcomes.
• Intelligent cities EU Creative and Cultural expert.
• Fredrick Douglass Festival 2024 – participant in the Regenerative Farming and Wexford of Welcomes workshops.
• Bluesky – finally joined you’ll find me there @creativedynamix.bsky.social say hi!
• Congregation 2024 – Legacy. Congregation is an unconference in the village of Cong the end of November. My submission is #60 a poem, image and short writing on legacy.
• Family care has been significant in our home.

I was going to write a short piece on each but have changed my mind. I’ve mixed feelings on making my work and what I am attending to visible but am concious that it maybe useful to others or people looking to hire me. Part of having a blog is to maintain a digital record of my work.

My research, knowledge and skills are dimensions that may not be visible at all times blending them for busy clients is a distinctive service our business provides.

You will find BDT Consultancy on Instagram where I am sharing a little more there with some visual updates. As I let the pattern of the business emerge this year it’s been interesting to see where the energy has gone. Plus the work I’ve enjoyed most and that comes to me easily.

What I will reflect on now is that having restorative practices and rest are important. Some of you may know I maintain an ecology of practices that include daily drawing, writing, quiet time in nature, reflections and exercise. Part of that ecology is the commitment to myself to be in practice in our crazy world.

Managing my schedule to include spaciousness’s is really important. The spaciousness is a commitment to care as the cornerstone not only for my work but as a guiding value in my life. I’ve begun to notice I speak to this in very particular ways. This year has given me the gift of recognising I put care as a core tenant. I’m grateful for that.

I acknowledge the work of NWCI Femnist Communities for Climate Justice team and a Femnist eco-ecological view, the naming of a care economy and a deepening of my understanding of my own views and experience through their work. Thanks Collette and Vanessa.

But I will also own my own leadership as a regenerative practitioner that has put care centrally.

Resources

Four women’s work steer me if you’ve not encountered their work this is my invitation:

Inevitably Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics, How to think like a 21st Century Economist.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Joanna Macy, Active Hope, How to face the mess we are in with unexpected resilience and creative power.

Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, Hospicing Modernity, facing humanity’s wrongs and implications for social activism.

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