Our guest today is Pat O’Toole

https://www.patotoole.co.uk/

Pat is a life long learner and admits to being a work in progress. Currently she’s a Trainer, Facilitator and Coach for Business, Education and the Performing Arts. Her work encompasses being an acting tutor in drama school, management and leadership training for organisations, directing, personal development coaching, academic research and workshop facilitation around communication and conflict, well being, and building mental fitness.

Pat has an MSc in Social Sciences, a PGCHE in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, and is a qualified Integrative Counsellor, Coach and Mental Health First aider. She is also a Course Director at Rose Bruford College for Theatre and Performance in the UK and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy working with both performers and technical students as well a being a community activist and organiser.

Our discussion itself was a work in progress not really knowing where we were going and grazing on topics like Being in the Moment, Safety in the acting space, learning to be a human being, integration of self in our careers, dyslexia, our ever expanding perspectives and being a senior and getting a free bus pass -- aptly we started off with the  statement’ it’s about the journey not the destination…