08 Apr 2014 4 Comments
in Short Film Tags: Ade Adeniji, Francois Lubbe, Gay, Nigeria, The Quest
My talented friend Francois Lubbe made a short film about my journey with storytelling, the piece is titled ‘The Past Is A Foreign Country’.
This short film takes a brief but in-depth look at the positive impact and healing power of storytelling, and how its application and practice can transform lives.
The Past Is A Foreign Country from Little Red Shoes on Vimeo.
“Sometimes, the best way to move forward in life is by looking back—even if the story of our past is one we want to forget”
29 Oct 2013 4 Comments
A short documentary following Paul Woodward and myself as we prepared for our two separate one-man storytelling performances in “The Father+Mother Project” – ‘Killing My Mother’ and ‘Fathers & Feathers.’
This film was produced, directed and edited by Francois Lubbe (littleredshoes.me).
18 Jul 2013 2 Comments
in Courage and Vulnerability Tags: Brene Brown, Gay, LGBT, The Quest
I remember being filled with such excitement and anticipation when in early April I discovered that Brené Brown was coming to London to give a talk at The School of Life. I immediately posted the details on Facebook, and notified a few of the guys who had journeyed with us at The Quest about the event. Since discovering Brené’s work via her TED talks, Darren (Co-Founder of The Quest) and myself had often referred to her research in our work with gay men on the issue of shame, vulnerability and courage.
I got out my diary to put in the date and then noticed that I had another engagement on the same day, which I could not get out of – or could I? I was in the process of starting a monthly group coaching session in June, and our second session would clash with the Brené event. I debated whether to move the session, but everything was already in place and so I gradually settled to the possibility of the talk making its way to YouTube and seeing it there.
Few weeks later as Ernesto, (fellow collaborator at The Quest) told me that he had his ticket for The School of Life event, I silently debated whether I could take my coaching group for an outing to see Brené, but by that stage the tickets were all gone. ‘Oh well, that’s that’ I thought!’ More
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