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Mike Chitty
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Leadership, management and enchantment.

https://open.substack.com/pub/freshthinking

what if beneath all the noise
there’s still a song playing
ancient, unbroken, waiting?

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If you would like to explore the potential of Relational Disobedience with us through story, theory and practice then please do join us.

Pay as you feel. Free is fine.

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An Introduction to Relational Disobedience
There are times when obedience is deadly. Relational disobedience is the choice to refuse that deadening obedience. It is the courage to respond as a living, sensing, creative human being.
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Looking for something different in the way of development this year?

Come and explore the nine parables that make up The Thread and the Listening World.

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An Invitation to The Thread and the Listening World
...a series of shared listening spaces
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January 10, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Looking for something different in the way of development this year?

Come and explore the nine parables that make up The Thread and the Listening World.

open.substack.com/pub/freshthi...
An Invitation to The Thread and the Listening World
...a series of shared listening spaces
open.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:37 PM
It seems we are offered a simple choice about a retreat back into hatred and power over or a step forward into love and power with...
January 8, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Connections
Puzzle #942
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January 8, 2026 at 8:05 AM
The removal of Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela is presented to us as an objective good.

As was the Iraq war, the removal of Saddam Hussein, and any number of other 'interventions' that looked initially like progress but became sources of immense human suffering...
January 7, 2026 at 4:57 PM
I am going to repeat The Thread and the Listening World - starting in February. It wold be wonderful if you wnated to join us: www.eventbrite.com/cc/the-threa...
The Thread and the Listening World - Sessions 1-9
The Thread is a journey in listening and relating. Through story, myth and reflection, it invites us to move beyond strategy and control, and towards presence, imagination, and care. For those ready ...
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January 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
“When the soul is neglected, it doesn’t just go away; it appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions, violence, and loss of meaning.”
Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul
January 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
The Modelling Error
A Very British Problem…

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The Modelling Error (A Problem of the Most British Kind)
The Designation: Part Eleven
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December 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Who is this ‘we’ he talks about?
It’s certainly not mainstream Republicans?
What label might we describe to a right wing group seeking to take over the institutions and rewrite the constitution to overcome its limits?
Steve Bannon: "If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included."
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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‘Christmas miracle’ as Wes’s ‘super flu’ falls away during Resident Doctors strike

The #NHS didn’t collapse & the media look like fools for going along with Wes’s, DHSC, & NHSEngland spin

Never was any ‘super flu’ & #NHS was not collapsing

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December 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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It shouldn't shock me to see a political leader speaking with moral clarity and from an evidential foundation in migration. Yet, with such an ahistorical and evidence free consensus persisting on migration, it does. Excellent as always from @zackpolanski.bsky.social and so needed.
December 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social you might enjoy this piece on Faith, Technology and the Green Party.
Come our greatest tensions become our greatest strengths?

Merry Christmas!🎅

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Faith, Technology, and the Moral Imagination of the Green Party
Facing the Tensions
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December 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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They. Kill. Them. Anyway.
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Give us all a present this Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Let's all put this out there to the Universe
December 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Tensions in the Green Party. Are they a superpower?

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Faith, Technology, and the Moral Imagination of the Green Party
Facing the Tensions
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December 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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The Wetherby Greens Step Forward (Now Unexpectedly Relevant)

Part 5 of The Designation

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The Wetherby Greens Step Forward (Now Unexpectedly Relevant)
The Designation: Part Five
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December 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Consider: the overwhelm you feel is the signature product of extractive systems that require exponential growth to continue.
December 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The Wetherby Greens Step Forward (Now Unexpectedly Relevant)

Part 5 of The Designation

talesofthewharfe.substack.com/p/the-wether...
The Wetherby Greens Step Forward (Now Unexpectedly Relevant)
The Designation: Part Five
talesofthewharfe.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Part 4 of The Designation
The Campaign that Went Viral
(But not in a good sense)

A story about the fight for a clean River Wharfe in Wetherby…

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The Campaign That Went Viral (But Not in the Good Sense)
The Designation: Part Four
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December 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Part 3 of The Designation from Tales of the Wharfe is out now - The Incident of the Wobbling Paddleboarders!
The Incident of the Wobbling Paddleboarders
The Designation: Part Three
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December 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Continuing to insist we must "earn a living" while simultaneously reducing our ability to earn anything at all is not a viable social contract and is how to get people to start building guillotines instead of resumes.

It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
December 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Realign now.
Trump is closer to Putin than Europe.
He believes in the spoils to the biggest rather than self determination and democracy.
December 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM