

With a background in creative education, Ian has successfully
produced and led a range of innovative experiential programmes using
music, art, dance and drama, and developed major events extending over
several days. He has fashioned activities with a wide variety of groups
including educational and social institutions, environmental agencies,
voluntary groups, churches and communities both in the UK and Eastern
Europe. His work as consultant, trainer and programme developer in
Eastern Europe has included a wide range of such groups, and includes
businesses and local authorities. Such work aims to build capacity in
new and existing organisations.
The underlying purpose of all his work has been to assist
personal ‘soft
skill’ development as a means of improving social relationships
and activity – to
discover more of ‘who and what we are and what we may be’.
Much of his work has focused on developing ‘journey’ as a
training resource and extends over 3 decades, becoming the subject of
detailed study for an MPhil degree. The results of this work have featured
in a number of publications and have inspired participants to
turn their experiences into artwork.
Ian has been described as someone who ‘takes people places’ both
externally in the physical sense and internally through the encounters
occurring during events.
His work led to the foundation of Pathways Inspirational
Development, and he is presently working with others in the network
to develop the
variety
of programmes that
the agency provides.
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