The Build It Yourself Project
ABOUT US
We encourage people to value themselves, to value others and the world around us.
How?
Just by starting, with what we have, who we are, what we know. Recognising we are just one cog working in partnership with others.
Whatever the situation, common values hold firm - respect, integrity, humility. Being open to what we can learn from the past, from the present and from the world around us.
And value open and free communication.
We wish that more people do more of this kind of thing. We apply the 'Triple Bottom Line' in our work - which means taking into account the economic, social and environmental impacts of what we do.
And not taking ourselves too seriously - well try anyway - to play along the way.
"Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them." - Josie Bisset
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." - Gandhi
"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing,
to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life." - TS Elliot
Our work is across gender, indeed we want to move beyond gender and other labels, but we have an interest in supporting men to be in balance with themselves and those around them, click here for more information. We believe there is scope to develop these ideas further through action research as steps towards healing fractures within individuals and within society.
The BIY Project is a collaboration between Iain Dimmock and Mike Payne and is currently converting from being social enterprise in ethos to being legally constituted as a social enterprise.
Mike - works collaboratively as creative facilitator, coach and constellator; supporting the head, heart and soul together as one. Underlying Mike's approach is a curiosity about using creativity, art and humour to develop a more balanced, more inter-connected, more compassionate world.
His background ranges from therapeutic charitable environments, action research projects with The New Economics Foundation, a professional soldier, mainstream commercial settings and delivering Coach the Coaches experiential training. He is a trainer for the UN-accredited Training for Transition and a Systemic Constellator.
Iain - specialises in engaging the hard to reach, particularly children and young people, but also from those on the edge of society whatever their age. He uses the outdoor areas as a vehicle for creative self-led learning, when the outdoors are not available adapts these techniques for the indoors. He is adept at applying the coaching approach to groups and mentoring individuals and community groups to achieve their aims. More on Iain is at: www.tentcopter.co.uk
On-line articles:
Iain's paper on 'Silence and Presence'. click here
Words and Wings - is a fortnightly-ish tonic of inspiring/fun/challenging quotes, ideas and thoughts written by Mike.
Mike's article in The Green Parent; 'The Universal Fixer, a Dad's Perspective'. click here
listening - learning - valuing - random - building - challenging - growing - nurturing