Well, spent yesterday facilitating an event which involved 6 chappies of considerable IQ levels talking rubbish. Bloody brilliant.

No really, it was. Why? Well these guys really care about the future and they've got the combined brain power to be able to make a considerable difference. 3 PhDs between them and a shed-load of wisdom as well as knowledge.

A step out of my usual world as well, which is always good. The Art of Change is about embracing change in every area of life - and waste is one where we badly need to change.

It's not a 'sexy' subject - rather like old people aren't either - but boy do we need to make it one for the sake of the generations to come. Helping these clever bods to communicate with each other was my contribution towards enabling the change to happen...

So, if you need to know about LCA, LATS, MCDA or GMS, I'm now your man...well, sort of , I mean, I know a man (or 6) that can...

Well here I am posting the first blog on our new website designed by the amazing Nina Richards. Committing to this new site has been a major investment for us, but already I can see the benefits - clarity, simplicity and lots of white space!!!

Building, updating and creating the old site has been quite a challenge for me and it has been wonderful that it has served us as well it has - but The Art of Change is growing rapidly now as an ever increasing number of people are searching for more natural and holistic ways to live their lives.

We have been delighted over the last year to help steer The Mother magazine into much calmer waters and this success has brought many new friends into our lives. We are now looking forward to an exciting 2008 which will see us helping to spread the word about Veronika's new book 'The Drinks Are On Me' and for the first time we will really be getting into promoting live events.

This will start with a talk by Veronika in Bristol in Jan (see 'events' for details) and will be followed by Jean Liedloff's UK tour in April. Jean wrote The Continuum Concept and has not been back to the UK for nearly 20 years - we feel honoured to have such a great opportunity.

Oh well, time to go and cook sunday lunch...

Have fun

Barry