We bring partnerships alive to the particular risks and opportunities that they face, and help people to build the relationships they need to manage them.

Aidan Ward

One the one side are banking services that people might actually find helpful. And on the other side are wealth creation and transparent economic relationships. I was busy signalling the extreme lack of relevance of economics and banking as we know it

when the system imploded and I now have a bit of a platform to talk about what was obvious all along.

I’m also studying with Noel Cobb, author, poet and educator of a type almost vanished from the world. By studying archetypal psychology I can respond a bit better to the stultifying bias our culture has in its appreciation of reality.

How can I work on management issues in the NHS without wondering why so little of the effort is directed towards patients as people? And how to understand the billions of pounds that are wasted on wild goose chases? Nothing less than a response from the heart will do for me.

Following recent adventures in the NHS with Patrick Hoverstadt, we are jointly developing ways for people to understand organisational identity and values for themselves. We think that rather than say what values the organisation wishes to have we simply study the way values are enacted in the main external relationships that drive the evolution of the organisation: what it really deals with and how it does so. Get some representatives in a room and see what happens.