September 21, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Our words create our world I love words. I especially love words woven into poetry. Words that have our thinking trip over. Or stop. Demanding that we go deeper into contemplation. Or lift our heads and consider – to be with the stars – a path we had not...
September 14, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Toxic gossip It works like this. Something happens. People often fabricate stories about what happened, without speaking to the people involved, asking questions, or verifying the evidence to support their claims. The more drama, the more the gossip. Gossip is...
September 9, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
This is on us “When you say that, darling, that’s fake news. [Crosstalk.] Be quiet. Listen. You don’t listen. You never listen. That’s why you’re second-rate.” Said a man to a woman this week. Patronising to the extreme. Rude. Arrogant. It is a disgusting way to...
September 4, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Speaking to what is true I was in many conversations yesterday, and they all held a similar theme. Our inability to speak to the truth, particularly in the presence of perceived power. First, to find the clarity below the jumble of emotions. We spurt out a chaos of...
August 28, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Syntropic Enterprise
Words we use reinforce and animate the world I have been thinking about the words we use to describe parts of the world. The Global South and the Global North are examples. I live in the Global South literally, yet it is not the Australian people who are referred to...
August 16, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Really important conversations are not safe The Bendigo Writers Festival, to take place this weekend, has faced intense criticism for its late request for a code of conduct, which authors believe would restrict their ability to exercise free speech. 48 Participants...
