Re-purposed Phone Boxes

Re-purposed Phone Boxes

We already have all the resources we need.....................

 
..............It’s just that sometimes they look like something else.
 
 
I was in Banbury recently for some training with Adoption UK. I had some free time before the course started, so I went to explore Banbury. As I walked down the hill into the beautiful market square, I passed a couple of phone boxes. Something caught my eye, and I looked again and saw that one of them had been repurposed into a library. 
   
Inside the box were lots of shelves all covered in books ready for anyone to borrow and also to add to with any books they no longer needed. Apparently this had been started by a local resident adding a few books into the phone box and as time went on the books available had expanded so some shelves were fitted, and in time the whole phone box became a lending library. 
 
Seeing this resourceful use of a phone box really made my day. There are so many phone boxes throughout the country that are now little used and these wonderful icons often sit unloved and unwanted. It inspired me to look online to see what other uses phone boxes have been put to. 
 
This is an article of the top 10 reuses for phone boxes and includes as Art, as a gallery, as a sofa. 
 
 
Or perhaps for poetry readings: 
 
 
In NLP there is a presupposition that we already have all the resources we need, and thinking about the phone box got me thinking of all the resources that we all have around us and within us and that we may not always recognise the wonderful and creative ways we can use these. 
 
So what talents do you have that you are unaware of? What skills and resources do you already have that you can reuse in another way?
Here are a few lovely questions to get those thoughts going. To discover those hidden talents and bring them to the surface. 
 
  1. What would your friends see as your key strengths? 
  2. What would your family say about you? How would they describe your strengths and talents?   
  3. What do you find easy? 
  4. What was your favourite subject at school? What did you like about it? What did you excel at?
  5. What do you enjoy about your job? What do those tasks consist of? Do they have a series of smaller steps? What do people ask for your advice about? What would colleagues see as your key strengths?
 
As you think about these things and ask others about them look at the detail as well as the bigger picture. Look at what the thing you do is made up of. So for example someone who is good at baking needs to be good at following a recipe, at working through a series of steps in the right order, at calculating volumes and weights, at time management.
 
We can see so many talents and resources in the detail and then it is so much easier to see how we can translate these to other uses.
 
At one level a phone box is just somewhere to make calls. However, when we see it in another way it becomes a public space for the community to use, a thing of beauty, a repository. 
 
So what hidden talents do you have waiting to be remembered and reused? What wonderful gems are ready to be discovered? 
 
Fiona x