June 27, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
When no means no Remember when you were a child and your parents or guardian would say no and mean NO? Remember when they would say no and mean maybe? We, as children, from a very early age, might have pushed the NO to check its alignment, but we knew the difference...
June 26, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings
When we humanise others we humanise ourselves. * The moment we connect to a human, heart to heart, give someone a name, a history, a story – no matter from where, or what – the bridge that is created reflects our own humanity. Cruelty more often occurs...
June 25, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Symmathesy Learning together in a healthy team is additive and emergent. The learning builds upon itself like a spiral dance, transcending the individual contributions. Nora Bateson, an award-winning filmmaker, writer, facilitator and educator, coined a new word for...
June 24, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The simple act of good manners. Teaching a child good manners is teaching them that there is a world that does not centre around them filled with other people. To consider the other, to show respect, to be thoughtful..this is the impulse that lives behind good...
June 23, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The beauty of constraints We can be squeezed so tight that we cannot see possibility. The juice sucked out of us like a prune. Desiccated and hopeless. Or, we can find within the constraint the need to become creative. To think of what we have never thought before,...
