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Another Connecting the Dots session. Another room full of people willing to go somewhere real.

Friends, partners, and clients gathered at Canoe Space for an evening hosted by the ever-brilliant Tash Willcocks, who brought her trademark energy and directness from the moment she walked in.

The things worth talking about

The session circled around feedback and creative tension. Two things most organisations claim to value, and most teams quietly avoid.

Tash doesn't do quiet avoidance. She's spent years working at the intersection of creativity, leadership, and what it actually takes to build cultures where honest exchange is the norm rather than the exception. Her perspective is sharp, warm, and grounded in real experience.

The conversations that followed were some of the most honest we've had in that room. People reflected on their own relationships with feedback. When they ask for it but don't really want it. When they give it but hold something back. When the tension in a room is the most useful thing in it, if someone's willing to let it work.

What we keep coming back to

The Connecting the Dots series exists because we believe that learning is better together than alone. Every session draws a different crowd, a different guest, a different conversation. But they all circle the same question: how do we do better work with other people?

Feedback and creative tension aren't separate topics. Feedback only lands when there's enough trust to hold the tension it creates. Building that trust takes time, practice, and people willing to be uncomfortable.

That's the work. That's what we keep coming back to.

Thank you to Tash for sharing her thinking so generously, and to everyone who came ready to engage.