Valerie Gillies

And she said, that's the thing that happens in this place.

Anything good comes to an end.

And I thought, uh-oh, that is not how to conclude your workshop.

Yes, dear me.

But I did learn from it.

And I say, you know, there's four weeks left or three weeks left that give people an idea that it's going to have an ending.

Well, I think I nearly lost myself that time because her next action was to run outside.

And we were working in this old building in the middle of the woods.

So she disappeared into the woods.

And I thought, what do I do?

Do I look after the rest of the group, which I was facilitating on my own, or do I go and find her?

And I thought, it's more important to find her.

I think we were on the edge of Haddington, so she could have gone into the town or lost where she was.

So I was brought up as a poacher to hunt things down, and I was able...

to follow the tracks of this lady in the woods and persuade her to come back and join the others and see how important it was that she'd made it clear, you know, this was our book that we were preparing and that she should come and help us with the last stage.

So it's always true, you learn from your mistakes.

Yes, I think so.

I'd never heard of it, really, in 92.

I do feel that I was one of the pioneers in this.

I'm sure Sukemo was also working at this time in a similar area.