Inspiring remarkable change. Dot by dot. Line by line. Story by story.
HELLO!
My name’s
NICKY WHITFIELD
AND I BELIEVE THAT:
With a pencil, persistence, and the power of the ripple effect anyone can change the world.
Hi, I’m Nicky!
I'm a creator and educator, and the founder of Neekonline.
I help:
Kids (…and their grown-ups) learn through play.
Businesses, educators, and entrepreneurs deliver messages that stick.
Creators explore, capture, and create with intention.
For over a decade, I’ve worked with hundreds of children from schools across the North of England, helping them build self-awareness, confidence, and resilience through creativity and play.
I’ve worked in TV production—on well-loved animated series like Postman Pat, Roary the Racing Car, and Fifi and the Flowertots at Cosgrove Hall Films.
My work has been nominated for awards at Animated Encounters and Animated Exeter, and I’ve produced commercials, created idents, and delivered workshops for a wide variety of clients including: local Guides groups, Toyota, Chester Zoo, and the Children’s Media Conference.
What I do
But I don’t just teach…
And I don’t just make…
I tell stories.
I use stories to deliver transformative learning experiences that engage, educate, and empower.
Stories that help creators build good habits, be more creative, be the architect of their environment, and have great adventures (…even on their own doorstep).
Stories that help educators, entrepreneurs, and changemakers clarify their ideas, amplify their message, and tell their story.
What I’m Working On
I truly believe that with a pencil, persistence, and the ripple effect, anyone can change the world.
That’s why I’m on a mission to revolutionise the education, health, and wellbeing space—by delivering playful, holistic, and transformative learning experiences that harness the power of storytelling, creativity, and design to engage, educate, and empower.
By planting the seeds of a global community of future changemakers—creators, educators, and entrepreneurs who bring ideas to life and inspire remarkable change, dot by dot, line by line, story by story—and helping them build unmistakable, unforgettable, and unstoppable brands, together we can leave an indelible mark on the world.
Work With Me
I’m open to collaborations, projects, initiatives, programmes, with purpose-driven individuals, groups, and organisations that value creativity, learning through play, and storytelling.
I’m particularly interested in opportunities related to:
STEAM learning, learning outside the classroom, and alternative education philosophies, e.g. Reggio Emilia, home schooling, unschooling etc.
Family-based learning and gamification;
Health and wellbeing, and social prescribing.
If you’re on a mission to make a difference—and need a storyteller, visual communicator, or creative educator in your corner—I’d love to hear from you.
Email me or drop me a line for inquiries, or even just to say hello at: hello@neekonline.com.
“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
— Paul Klee
Every story begins with a blank page…
Life would be easy
if it went like this…
…Or like this.
…Or even like this!
But most of the time,
it feels more like this.
Just when you think you’re getting somewhere, and things are finally going as planned…
…life starts pulling you in a hundred different directions.
But what’s hiding in all the mess—all the struggle? Once you unravel
Everything you need to solve your current problem is already there in your story.
It’s just hard to see when you’re in the thick of it.
No matter the situation you find yourself, you have a choice do something; or do nothing.
The decisions we make decide where we will be and who
we will be tomorrow.
Our stories aren’t remembered for how many times we fall, but for how many times we rise.
If you don’t know where
you’re going, and you don’t know where you’ve been…
…you end up getting nowhere.
Up, down, left, or right?
Keep moving forward, or turn back?
Life without purpose feels like a never-ending trudge
or an exhausting uphill climb…
…And every day, you wake up wondering if you’ll ever make it to the top.
But rememeber what they say:
there is more than one way
to the top of the mountain.
From a worm’s-eye view, life may look like an endless maze of twists and turns, overs, under,
arounds and throughs…
But from a bird’s-eye view—through a different lens—
all of life’s struggles become just another dot.
And every dot is just a tiny part
of a much bigger picture.
But, if you collect enough dots
and you join them together,
what do you get?
You get a line.
That line is your story.
That line is your path up the mountain.
And it’s what makes you different.
It’s what makes you stand out.
Sometimes, it’s easy to forget that every success, every failure, every barrier, pitfall, mistake, or bump in the road is just that—
one more dot.
It’s just one more plot point in the story.
The day you realise that every single minute of every single day you are writing your story,
is the day you realise that anyone can
leave an indelible mark on the world.
Your story can inspire others.
It’s built from the things that you do, the experiences you share, and the people you meet along the way.
It’s made by the choices you make, the opportunities you miss,
the lessons you learn, and
the chances you take.
Steve Jobs once said:
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward;
you can only connect them looking backwards.”
The beauty of your story lies not so much in the dots you collect, but in how you choose to connect them.
And it’s often the tiniest of moments that lead to the grandest of adventures.
Between where you are now and where you want to be, lies a great story.
The best time to start a new chapter was yesterday.
The next best time is today.
