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23 Reasons to be at Do Start-Up.

1, You want to start something.

2, You want to change something.

3, You want to

disrupt something.

4, And you can’t wait anymore.

5, You don’t do conferences.

6, You don’t do name tags.

7, You don’t do conferences halls.

8, You don’t do convention.

9, The Broadband is awful. And we will do our best to keep it that way.

10, It’s hard to get to.

It will help you leave where you are.

11, The magic that happens here is not filmed.

12, The workshops are not filmed.

13, The pitches are not filmed.

14, The music is not filmed.

15, You will have conversations that will never be forgotten.

16, Yes, there are other people out there like you.

17, It gets cold. You will go home smelling of smoke. No bad thing.

18, You will swim in rivers and run on mountains.

19, You will build a company in 72 hours.

20, You will know what it’s like to be put in a food blender.

21, You will feel tired, challenged but alive.

22, This will change you.

23, Listen to that noise. It’s a starter pistol going off in your head.

Do Start-Up. April 25th-28th 2013.

Email: Anna.thomas@thedolectures.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday, 5th November, 2012

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Everyone has two films in them.

 

 

Imagine on your deathbed you were able to see two films of your life: One showed highlights of what you actually achieved. And then the other showed highlights of what you could have achieved with your ability, your talent, the opportunities that came your way etc.  

It

would probably bring you to tears to know what else you could have done. The heights you could have climbed. The people you could have met. The races you could have run. The ideas you could have made happen. The change you could have made.  If only when

you had come to the edge, you hadn’t taken that step back to safety.

If you had just kept going after failing that one time. If only you had believed in that crazy dumb idea enough to tell the world about it.  Yes, if only you hadn’t, well, played so damn small.  

The Do Lectures.  

Here To narrow the gap between the ‘Two Films’.    

The Spring Do ‘Start-Up’.  April 25-29th 2012.   

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Sunday, 4th November, 2012

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Remember who gave you your first break….

 

No one forgets that person, do they?

They saw something in you, when perhaps no one else did.

And oh boy, were you grateful to them.

That first rung on the ladder may be equally spaced with all the others, but it doesn’t feel that way when you are starting out.

So now maybe you are in a position to give someone his or her lucky break.

The ‘Giving Chair’ programme is way for you and your company to do that.

Quite simply, you buy a ticket for The Do Lectures Start-Up Event (April 25-28th) and we give that ticket to a young remarkable entrepreneurial minded person.

At the Do Start-Up they will have 3 days of listening to 20 amazing speakers talking about starting a business. They will have access to 30 Skype video mentors. And be viagra cheap a part of 10 workshops at the event. And they will be a part of team that starts a company in the 3 days they are there. There is no event like it, for sure. And there is no experience like it either. The Guardian voted it in the top ten ideas festivals in the world along with Ted and Burning Man.

As part of the ‘Giving Chair’ Programme we will get an artist to paint the chair with your name or company name on the back of the chair, so everyone knows that you paid for that young person to be at the event.

After the event is finished, the chair will go into the auction to raise money for The Do Lectures.

Then after the event the student will come to your business and do a talk about what they learned at The Do Lectures. So your people get to learn what they have learnt too. They will

show you the film that they made of their time there too.

But more than anything else, you can help someone on that first rung of a ladder.

Just as someone did for you.

If you or your company would like to be part of the Giving Chair Programme, please email: anna.thomas@thedolectures.co.uk

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Wednesday, 31st October, 2012

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Shareable: The Gen Y Guide to Collaborative Consumption

Shareable report on an undercurrent of alternatives to mass consumerism is bubbling up through the concrete of old models that are past their sell by date. Grubly, Eat With Me and Housefed are the Airbnb for meals, diners can use them to find or host a meal in their neighbourhood, connect to others and avoid the need to be home alone. Local Harvest is a directory of CSAs and other sustainable food sources, and -Neighborhood Fruit helps people find or offer free fruit to your neighbors with a website and an iPhone app.

There’s some excitement in Do-land, with significant projects to develop CSAs and horticulture skills confirmed or launching soon, as well as an ambitious project to make Cardiff a Sustainable Food City.

via Shareable: The Gen Y Guide to Collaborative Consumption.

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Saturday, 9th July, 2011

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Escape from Auschwitz

Do Lectures 2009 songsmith Katy Carr recently brought Auschwitz survivor Kazik Piechowski’s inspiring tale of comradeship, war and escape to the UK, with important messages from a time too easily forgotten. The courage, ingenuity and sheer bravado that he describes is quite remarkable.

Read the full article here I escaped from Auschwitz | World news | The Guardian.

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Wednesday, 13th April, 2011

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Earth for an hour

Home | WWF Earth Hour.

This Saturday, 26 March, at 8.30pm GMT, is WWF’s Earth Hour. With an unassailable level of logic, their call is for millions of people to switch off the lights for 60 minutes and do two things: 1. Notice that the world still works fine when its bathed in darkness not light, 2. Go somewhere dark and enjoy the changing light of an emerging night.

WWF’s Ade Cockle came along to Do 10 and heads up their digital comms team. He’s interested in a couple of actions from the Do community – ideas on how to use digital platforms to greater effect for climate and sustainability messaging – and invitations to go mountain biking (again) on Wales finest single track, swapping ideas when there’s enough time to breathe properly.

Set yourself a reminder for Earth Hour, and between now and then, work out the most fun you could have in the dark, early on a Saturday evening.

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Wednesday, 23rd March, 2011

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7 lessons for leaders in systems change

About eight years ago I had the pleasure of facilitating a course for Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life,  at Schumacher College , Dartington, UK. It was a life-changing, humbling, enlightening, maddening and inspiring week of sharing ideas on systems change with social workers, entrepreneurs, farmers, health workers and many others. Many of Fritjof’s messages gestated in grey matter for months before they emerged, dazzling bright in daylight.

Capra has dedicated his time to the Center for Ecoliteracy at Berkeley, California, developing the most powerful and effective ways to enable the next generation of leaders, doers, parents and community workers to think beyond the tramlines of traditional education. This article is a powerful taster of what you’ll fin in the Center’s resource base:

Seven Lessons for Leaders in Systems Change | Center for Ecoliteracy.

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Friday, 11th March, 2011

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it takes six seconds to fall

I went to Beachy Head today.

What is Beachy Head famous for?

Suicides.

Marathons.

Chalk.

Multiple ice cream vans.

Two lighthouses, Belle Tout on the cliff top just along a bit, and one in the sea.

(Belle Tout they keep having to move further back from the edge as the cliff is eroding)

Wind. The kind that rips your face off.

(I’ve now got the ruddiest cheeks ever)

And if you dare to look over the edge, it is a sheer 550 foot drop.

But mind how you go.

It takes six seconds to fall.

It would probably feel like an eternity.

Stay safe, and you’re laughing.

Because it takes your breath away. Not just the view, but the sheer beauty of sea below crashing into rock, and the cry of gulls as they swoop to meet the gales.

Yup, it’s a tonic for the soul.

Like you’re standing at the edge of the world.

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Sunday, 13th February, 2011

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I’m no Fat Bastard: Are personal goals the cure for the economy?

In a time of economic recession, it seems to be politically correct to table your ambitions in an effort to show gratitude for your past accomplishments and your present status in life.  It’s not uncommon for me to talk to someone here in the United States that isn’t grateful for their current job in the mist of record unemployment.  I think that is great.

On the other hand, when expressing my desire to pursue a better jobs or a bigger dream, I’m labeled ungrateful for my current position.  This is horrible.  Are we really saying that during tough times on a national level we should give up on our personal dreams of reaching our full potential?

What if we inspired more people to want more out of life during a recession?  Better relationships, better education, better family time, or a better lifestyle.  How valuable are those dream?  Think about it. If the world is already in a recession, encouraging people to dream less and be satified only creates a larger recession.  Demand for products and services are what drive the economy.  So if we lower demand on the most basic level (our dreams), aren’t we in affect pouring gasoline on the fires of recession raging in the economy?

Wanting more doesn’t mean that I’m ungrateful for what I have; it means that I want more than I already have.  I know my potential and my current accomplishments are just the result of what I could do yesterday.  And those experiences have put me in a position to improve my results going forward.  It’s important to always be seeking to have your full potential manifest itself daily, while being grateful for the opportunity go after it.

More is never a bad thing when it comes to bettering yourself, your relationships, your experiences, your knowledge, your wealth, and your impact on the world.  Quite frankly, I think that the person who says they have enough is being selfish by not sharing his full potential with the world around him.

Want more today. Do more tomorrow.

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Wild words

Jay Griffiths is the inspiring author of Wild, an amazing voice to the meaning of wild places for the people who live there, in the Amazon, the Arctic, desert and cloud. Today, she was speaking in Llangollen in mid Wales, to a group of 120 or so climate and sustainability professionals from community and government. She spoke many wise words in an eloquent presentation. Here are a few that caught my imagination:
Communities are less given to heroism than individuals, and are more susceptible to a sense of shame.
The quality of listening as a preliminary to any kind of persuasion.
There’s a need to mend, tend and restore.
Belonging is a boomerang of an idea.
The best messengers telling stories of things unimagined, so close that it leaves an eyelash on your cheek as it passes.
An edge is not the same as a limit – the difference is between freedom and a license

If you buy one book as a present at Christmas, make it Wild.

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Monday, 22nd November, 2010

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