Rosamund Zander was not given long enough - seemed like about 12 minutes, and she took a little while to get going because her chair wasn’t available to start with.  Despite these constraints she gave a good talk which was something of a tease.  I would have loved to have heard what else she had to say.  Her theme was ‘human virtuosity’ and she talked about how the safety instructions that we construct when we are children then impact our behaviour as adults.  Her 5 tips for dealing with this:

• Frame upsetting experiences as memories
• Take responsibility for everything that happens to you
• Seek out help in all directions
• Embrace different patterns - be the person you were called to be.
• Abandon the search for approval - you’ve already made it through

Willie Smit’s talk is one I’m looking forward to hearing again.  Although it was ostensibly about reforestation it encompassed a whole range of different disciplines in order to save forest habitats.  Most important seemed to be listening to the local people and designing interventions that really deliver for them - so the model is not ‘one size fits all’ but really needs to be tuned to the requirement of each unique area and peoples.