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,...
June 22, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Make magic happen. Imagine if we spent a day with one single objective. To make magic happen. To plan how with every interaction, every connection, everything we touched, just for this day, we might imbue it with magic. That extra little something. The unexpected....
June 21, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
“Don’t break your tenderness.” Jack Kerouac Life shapes us as we allow it. Cruelty and misfortune might make us choose bitterness. Arrogance and hubris might have us become cruel. In the dirt of endings, as we contemplate the final threshold of life,...
June 20, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings
Women are taught to be vigilant In early February 2018, I found myself taking the train in Dubai. I entered a carriage, and a few minutes later realised that there where only women in my carriage. It was a woman-only carriage. Something that would not be possible in...
