Clean language: directing your attention within the system to create sustainable change
This is a blog I wrote for Claire Bradshaw in June 2019 about why at Happen Together we use clean language. At Happen Together we base our coaching and facilitation work with individuals and with teams or organisations in a clean language approach. Clean language is where Claire and I have found with others a real sense of purpose and common ground. This inevitably means that we are often asked, “what is clean language?” Over the years I have developed a range of simple throu
Rise Voice Vote: offering young people in Greater Manchester the best political and citizenship educ
Back in April we celebrated the suffrage centenary work with schools and young people in Manchester that Happen Together delivered in 2018 with The Pankhurst Trust, Rise Voice Vote. We gathered at Federation House with young people, women’s organisations, activists, campaigners, youth workers and democracy organisations. We had stirring performances from Certain Curtain Theatre Company of Edith Rigby in Woman on Fire! and the music of Emma Mould, including an audience partici
