Marvellous friends and family 😇
Here’s your fortnightly shot of social impact finds from the past couple of weeks. Please enjoy this wide-ranging selection and, as ever, let me know your feedback.
1. What I’m sharing: 5 top tips for refugee story-telling – take a look at this new blog post I’ve written together with my wonderful friend and colleague Tanya for Comic Relief. This is a summary of learning and insights shared from a recent exhibition and panel discussion we worked on called RE-ROOTED: Stories of starting again, featuring the celebrated Hassan Akkad, among other. Check out Comic Relief’s just-published visual LinkedIn post that summarises these insights, too.
2. What I’m grateful for: CXC’s Climate Action Resources – This is a one-page Cheat Sheet full of the best articles, books, courses, documentaries, podcasts, videos and other resources for climate activism and education. Put together by the supremely organised and collaborative ChangemakerXchange. Check it out
3. What I’m using: 3 Digital Tools to Supercharge your Day – Prompted by the above bullet, which is hosted on Notion – an awesome way to create dynamic and intuitive web pages in minutes for free – here are 2 other digital tools I’ve been using for years that streamline workflow (neither are particularly ‘secret’ – but most people underuse them): Calendly: cut time going back-and-forth to organise meetings, just automate it and forget about it – also free. Things: for Apple users, this app has changed my life (no understatement!) and how I work since I started using it 3 years ago. I put absolutely everything I have to do on this, it’s intuitive, speedy and beautiful to use – one-off purchase needed.
4. Quote I’m pondering: What’s causing me existential and social angst – “’And that’, put in the Director sententiously, ‘that is the secret of happiness and virtue – liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” – Brave New World, Aldous Huxley.
5. What I’m reading: The Boys will be Boys Themselves Manual – Next Gen Men have just published a 145-page chunk of their curriculum working with boys across Canada to engage them in topics such as mental health, healthy relationships and gender equality. This is a wonderful resource and I deeply admire any group, company or organisation that makes public its ‘trade secrets’ to the end of greater shared learning and impact.
📣 Callouts from me and my network
📵 Pledge to join Phone Free February – a digital detox challenge I’m co-organising for 2024
🎓 Join the Aspen Rising Leaders Fellowship – aged 21-35 in the UK? I can nominate you!
🧡 Trustee (Fundraising Lead) at Refugee Biriyani & Bananas (where I’m also a Trustee)
📱 Honest Mobile – kudos and money-saving when you join the UK’s most sustainable mobile network (use my referral code: jacobwarn1994)
For those that have made it this far, here’s a small treat from last weekend at Kilkenny Art’s Festival involving monks, music and inflated art. As ever, please let me know your thoughts and feedback – and send anything you’d like me to include in upcoming editions this way.
