https://melvinjarman.co.uk/writing/Food, nature, organisations, and the ways we learn to see.en-gbSun, 08 Nov 2026 09:38:14 +0000https://melvinjarman.co.uk/living-thinking-generativity-and-the-question-of-evidence/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/living-thinking-generativity-and-the-question-of-evidence/Sun, 08 Nov 2026 09:38:14 +0000How can living thinking be evidenced? One way to approach the question is to look at the generative capacity of thinking: what it enables us to perceive, understand and do, and how it can change us and the way we relate to ourselves and the world. That also means asking what prevents thinking from staying alive, and how easily even genuine insights can become fixed and rigid.https://melvinjarman.co.uk/the-saturn-path/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/the-saturn-path/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:24:35 +0000An exploration of spirituality grounded in action within the social realmhttps://melvinjarman.co.uk/which-lenses-were-you-given/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/which-lenses-were-you-given/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000Part two of ‘What lens are you using?’https://melvinjarman.co.uk/what-lens-are-you-using/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/what-lens-are-you-using/Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:45:17 +0000Certainty is a ring of power. Steiner's twelve worldviews, Gollum's mercy, and why living thinking might be the way to let go.https://melvinjarman.co.uk/its-nice-to-be-important-but-more-important-to-be-nice/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/its-nice-to-be-important-but-more-important-to-be-nice/Sat, 09 Nov 2024 19:56:41 +0000The importance of maintaining integrity in bringing ideals to the worldhttps://melvinjarman.co.uk/cultivating-living-thinking/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/cultivating-living-thinking/Wed, 09 Oct 2024 06:37:29 +0000This is an article exploring the application of 'living thinking' as it was articulated by Goethe, and later Henri Bortoft, to the matter of developing regenerative organisational culture(s).https://melvinjarman.co.uk/what-is-dead-thinking/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/what-is-dead-thinking/Tue, 08 Oct 2024 05:40:14 +0000A short exploration of Rudolf Steiner's term for thinking that is 'dead' - thinking that can be characterised as rigid and analytical, often relying on established frameworks, rules, and categories, leading to a fixed way of understanding the world.https://melvinjarman.co.uk/squaring-the-triangle/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/squaring-the-triangle/Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:52:04 +0000This orienteering table is a working endeavour to apply ideas by Bernard Lievegoed -'squaring the triangle' and Rudolf Steiner - 'social threefolding' into the question of designing, developing and operating regenerative organisations.https://melvinjarman.co.uk/regenerative-organisational-culture/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/regenerative-organisational-culture/Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0000This post summarises recent research into regenerative organisational culture through the lens of the organisation development (OD) approach that I have been working with for a number of years.https://melvinjarman.co.uk/regenerative-kitchen-culture/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/regenerative-kitchen-culture/Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:03:19 +0000An exploratory essay on the topic of developing a regenerative working culture in commercial kitchens.https://melvinjarman.co.uk/cultivating-organisational-integrity/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/cultivating-organisational-integrity/Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:23:59 +0000Some thoughts around organisational integrity and the unavoidable implications of adopting strong or lofty ideals into an organisational mission mission - with both a moral and a business support for the notion that developing organisational integrity is one of the most important aspects of cultivating thriving organisations that can create and sustain real positive impact.https://melvinjarman.co.uk/the-importance-of-approach-in-regenerative-organisation-design-and-development/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/the-importance-of-approach-in-regenerative-organisation-design-and-development/Sun, 04 Aug 2024 06:52:28 +0000An exploration of applying Bernard Lievegoed's insights on a core aspect of Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy into the question of how to create truly regenerative organisations An orientation framework developed to help organisations with the question of how to create truly regenerative organisations - organisations that not only create positive social and environmental impacts in their operations, but that also manage to create a regenerative internal work culture that supports and is supported by the organisations, helping it to truly enact its espoused ideals as well as thrive in today's fast-changing world.https://melvinjarman.co.uk/the-practice-of-regenerative-hospitality/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/the-practice-of-regenerative-hospitality/Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0000A short study on what ingredients are needed to perform hospitality in a way that is regenerative - not only in operational environmental and social impact, but in employee/colleague resilience, growth and vibrancy.https://melvinjarman.co.uk/a-philosophical-recipe/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/a-philosophical-recipe/Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0000This is a little thought-experiment-recipe around theory, dead and living thinking, and past-static 'dead' thinking vs present-dynamic integrative and 'living' thinking and participatory awareness / self-science.https://melvinjarman.co.uk/a-thinking-path-to-spiritual-perception-exploring-living-thinking/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/a-thinking-path-to-spiritual-perception-exploring-living-thinking/Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0000This is an exploration of the thinking path to spiritual perception as described by Rudolf Steiner through the lens of my biographical life experiences.https://melvinjarman.co.uk/the-role-of-nature-in-growth-and-change/https://melvinjarman.co.uk/the-role-of-nature-in-growth-and-change/Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0000During times of change, leaders need to be present and connected in order to curate a smooth adaptation. Equally important is finding ways to enable employees to tune in to themselves and find healthy expression for their epxerience of the change process. Although there are countless approaches to developing leadership awareness, an underlying constant in change theories is the need to connect with oneself. One thing I have found for years, that I am developing into my work, is the value of nature in helping to develop self-connection and self/other-awareness.