News and blog archive
- Dog Days – reframing issues of mental health
- To shush or not to shush
- Changing gear – it’s all about the clutch
- Exhibition to explore how diversity works…
- Putting a bit of fun into funding?
- [Updated] Apple box or fruit bowl – the future of special education
- Rights versus competence – two very different things
- Not Performing the World now
- Swim 10,000 – Soaked in enthusiasm
- Racist filmmaker – clever or blatant?
- Diversity helps creative thinking
- Smoke free prisons and the peer mentor
- BP’s gush wreaks human havoc
- Tokio Hotel – Tom’s Blog – In case you ever wonder…
- Inclusion alone is not enough
- Thank god it’s not ok to kill disabled people in NZ
- Dreaming of better MP stories
- The language of Autism
- Prime hits the mark with NZ TV retrospective
- Brainless categorisation and creative inclusion
- Do the big thinking first
- Unique Sense launch pics
- Is common sense good enough?
- I need your help get to New York to change the world!
- How to stop communication letting (and getting) you down
- The conversation for change – are you part of it?
- I love LA
- If society were an iPad
- Mr, Ms … or both?
- School diversity rough-cut preview
- The cost of noteworthy difference
- A creative learning vision
- For crying out loud, let’s not get emotional
- Diversity and intercultural competence – nature or nurture?
- Our gig at 5th Plinth [video]
- Religion won’t help kids with diversity…but fluidity might
- The Venus Project World Tour – New Zealand
- A typewritten blog?
- There but for the grace of gays go I
- Parents – pay them or not?
- How to manage uncertainty with certainty
- Is homework taxing your Whanau Ora?
- Unique pair to fly pink to Mardi Gras
- Sir Ken Robinson on creativity in schools
- Choice to die vs right to live polarised
- Join the quest for a new name for Disabled People…
- Negative slogan gives negative outcome?
- Speaking of “beyond boxes”…
- Looking for a job with variety, where no day is quite the same?
- Interview with Zeitgeist creator Peter Joseph
- Don’t get hit by a bus today
- Burgeoning artists create exquisite exhibition
- Context is everything
- What’s wrong with this story?
- Minister affirms dysfunctionphobia in bid to appeal rights decision
- 2009 just a rev up to 2010
- Have a very Zen 2010!
- Not funny: Non-disabled actor playing a disabled person for laughs
- The arts are for everyone
- Ministry of Health funding: so close and yet so far
- Comic happy as laughs turn to tears
- Ex-comedian takes poetry to Northland
- This sent wee shivers down my spine…
- Vodafone NZ, I’m disappointed
- British first for disabled actors
- Malcolm Gladwell on how we are all prone to autism
- We’re changing in 2010…
- Music video embraces diversity
- NZ Govt compensates for circumstance over experience
- Sketched from behind
- Poetry on Music
- Majority (51%) of Workers Still Hide Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity at Work, says US report.
- Sweetness – Joe Gerstandt | Our Time To Act
- Defining complex ideas simply
- Is it a blog? Is it a tweet? No it’s a bleet.
- Ain’t this the truth?
- Empower your team by nurturing their uniqueness
- Dear Journalist…
- Snapshot of my office
- Using a wheelchair is the Key to surviving Letterman
- Do we have what it takes to ship social change?
- Malcolm Gladwell on diversity, happiness and spaghetti sauce
- Perception – what are we missing?
- Ironic cynicism trumps inspirational autism
- Australian Education Revolution Charter promising
- Does so-called “special” education DESERVE to lose funding?
- Position available: Strategic Projects and Policy Leader (Wellington, NZ)
- Peer Support Design progresses
- This is drag, Jim…but not as you know it
- Disability and the media – Media 7
- The art of words
- Flexible PA roles offered – please forward
- Request for Services — Virtual Community Development
- HIV tango takes two – let’s toughen up on responsibility and prevention
- Like This Crazy…
- Isn’t this just too cute?
- Comedy break up
- Media pinnacle
- Companions come free
- The Creative Collide: Hats off to the bees
- Diversity, labels and a ‘shit sandwich’
- Did you get a bit of what I’ve got?
- The Diverse Art of Comedy
- TVNZ asks all the right questions
- Self-invention
- The Creative Collide
- Many sizes fit one
- D3P launched
- Nice spin
- Share your experiences of physical disability/ impairment
- Diversityworks launches Creative Momentum
- Amy Szostak
- Saturday afternoon
- I have the right Attitude, it seems…
- The conversation is now a movie!
- A thought on success…
- Festival dance company offers access package
- Fundraiser supports children’s music centre
- Visa ‘flow’ TV ad 2009 starring Bill Shannon
- The “C” word – crass or creative?
- The opportunity of failure
- Synchro-irony
- Gay comic builds Creative Diversity event
- Free Night Out
- This poet knows it
- Double negative
- Why being funny makes me good at managing change
- Making way and letting it all out
- 200gr8 top moments
- Disabled People Can’t Dance
- Conversation with a Knight
- Less is more … or is it just less?
- I blame soap operas and reality TV…
- Derby and Joan hit Adelaide
- Building bonds benefit both, say Diverse Dads
- Fellow ventures
- Dad is the Word
- Future or fantasy?
- I was inspired!
- Diversity highlights future fathering trend
- Diverse Dads mull over macho mainstream
- I knew it!
- 1000 visits and a great TradeMe experience
- DiversityUpdate | Vol 8 No 2
- Living in Auckland
- The remote control of leadership revisited
- Spend a day with Philip Patston!
- Philip Patston: Your audience wants a bit of what he’s got.
- See and hear more of Philip Patston
- Square wheels of innovation
- Revenge of the fat, pink Americans?
- On the UK radio…
- SELF AWARENESS KEY TO UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY, SAYS COMIC
- From Whinger to Wise Man
- Boys on Wheels
- Can children healthily support disabled parents?
- CUSTOMER SERVICE TRAINERS NEEDED
- CUSTOMER SERVICE TRAINERS NEEDED
- Creative diversity at its best!
- Quote of the Day
- Rounding off
- The Herald explains…
- Homophobic Herald
- Farewell my minority soulmate
- The slow but necessary evolution of social technology
- Skoll World Forum – see what we saw
- The most artistic music video I’ve seen in years
- Frozen Grand Central
- The objective light of day
- Thirteen questions
- Changing the past – Part 2
- Depressed, hopeless, purposeless…but it’s ok, I’ve been here before.
- Changing the past
- Here’s an innovative idea…NOT
- On the road: a photo essay…
- Thinking on the hop
- Jet lag and the Japanese leg
- The road to everywhere
- Person Centred Creativity
- Social Innovation in Australia
- The gift of failure
- Trusting our ability to adapt
- Slowing down to speed up
- 200GR8.com – PHILIP PATSTON’S NEW BLOG
- I like 2008
- Style is a subjective thing…
- The remote control of leadership
- The tyranny of success?
- Positive thinking can have negative consequences
- If you thought wheelchairs were restrictive, you need to watch this!
- What is wisdom?
- Fostering a spirit of teamwork
- Economists in search for keys to happiness index
- Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
- Recommend books for 200gr8
- I am gr8ful to be free from an abusive relationship
- I believe in the healing power of humour and art
- How to change the world
- Plan your year
- What is happiness?
- Remember New Year all year
- Balancing greatness and gratefulness
- What is gratefulness?
- What is greatness?
- Welcome to 200gr8.com
- Functional diversity workshop
- Dream the Dream
- Everything you’ve been afraid to ask disabled drivers because you didn’t want to know
- Philip Patston chosen as “Inspiring Internationalist”
- Random thoughts of drunk rugby players and healthcare
- Getting WISE about the future
- Momentum’09 – writing the rules of a new artistic genre
- A rant about ideology
- Which is better – DIY or coaching someone else?
- Courtesy – over-rated or undervalued?
- Functionally diverse on the wireless – Sunday 15 July 7pm
- Good health to gung-ho guardians of hopelessness
- Introducing Claire Ryan – Diversityworks Group Consultant
- Making sure bus drivers get it right
- Diversityworks Trust announces Momentum’09
- New educational resource for providers of services to disabled people
- Two chances to see Philip Patston LIVE on 26 May!
- Introducing Cameron Calkoen — Motivational speaker, aspiring Paralympian, Ambassador
- Blogging for functional diversity
- Recumbent Tandem Cycle Tour
- Blogging Against Disablism Day, 1 May 2007
- Philip Patston to read at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival
- Creativity, innovation and spirituality
- Thinking beyond
- Are we ethical and moral ludites?
- Philip awarded Social Entrepreneur Fellowship
- Dunedin Youth Forum
- Swan song of sorts
- Gay with the experience of disability: the ideal man!
- When drag and disability collide
- To tell or not to tell
- Words that don’t come easy
- Tamihere (again) and hypocrisy (again)
- John Tamihere’s fascination with gay sex
- 20 years of liberation! But…
- Philip Patston on… Himself
- Yearning for lost potential
- The guy on the OutTakes programme
- Virtually gone
- Media Release: It’s ok to kill disabled people in NZ
- Human rights festival forgets disabled access
- DiversityUpdate Vol 6 No 1
- Is that gay or what?
- Help Philip become mobile…without moving
- Heroic access
- Yuletide hangover
- DiversityUpdate Vol 5 No 7
- Eradication theory
- DiversityUpdate Vol 5 No 6
- Letter to the Editor – NZ Herald
- The funniest thing happened
- Media Release: Comedian tells health workers he chose to be disabled
- Media Release: Gay disabled comedian: Eradicate me!
- Be careful crossing road, Duff told
- DiversityUpdate Vol 5 No 5
- Philip presents in Melbourne at Men’s Health Conference
- The DOUBThouse
- Philip’s voting theory is wrong
- DiversityUpdate Vol 5 No 4
- Leave my sand castle alone
- DiversityUpdate Vol 5 No 3
- The columnist laments
- Great to be back in LA
- Vague, vast and very nice
- When cops cop out, call a cab
- The new straight
- Global Perspectives – “Pragmatic Love”
- The bastard, the bungy and the fat-fingered Prince
- Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
- I hope you had safe text
- Ban it now (before Christmas)
- A politic of usefulness
- A divine dichotomy
- Number two
- Fancy Seeing You Here
- I do, but why?
- Philip in Wellington and Melbourne to inspire and entertain…
- Gay and disabled: hard times or rich rewards?
- Gay hate no joke for straights
- Who’d have expected?
- Gay and disabled: hard times or rich rewards?
- Morphic resonance and the purpose of being marginalised: Part 3
- Morphic resonance and the purpose of being marginalised: Part 2
- Morphic resonance and the purpose of being marginalised: Part I
- Every now and then
- Sorry I didn’t get you anything
- Jesus, it’s Christmas again!
- Straights in the fast lane
- To slut, or not to slut?
- Who are we and what does it mean?
- Reality crap
- Giant leaps to above and beyond
- Dear Aotearoa
- Stick yer serendipity, Shorty!
- Hot butts
- Brief Encounters of the Absurd Kind
- Me, myself and I
- Alphabet Soup
- Sex and the kitty
- Confessions of a columnist
- The Tao of Queerness
- It’s better in the dark
- Dad, Dad and the kids (not)
- What makes us queer?
- Am I not gay enough?
- Such a drag
- Soft spot
- Dire straights
- Navel gay-zing
- Homo Xmas
- Living the life of meaning
- Playing Straight
- Caffeine Lamentations
- Piping hot politics
