March 15, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Activism and citizenship A teenager is bold enough to speak out about her concerns for the future and creates a movement. Some of her elders criticise her for asking her peers to abandon for several hours the industrial bastion of ‘school.’ What is education? Who and...
March 14, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Decolonise When we were little fish we did not know we were fish. We did not know water. In our ‘adulting’ we first learn we are fish, then we are a particular type of fish, and then we might discover that we live in a thing called water. Humanity now is discovering...
March 12, 2019 | Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic World Podcast
If you want real change, restore people’s dignity. James Bartle, Outland Denim. Ending slavery. James Bartle is the founding CEO of Outland Denim, the denim brand making jeans differently and setting a new standard in fashion manufacturing. Driven by the desire...
March 12, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Exquisite Skill of Holding To steward a creation requires holding space. Knowing when to push, and when to pause. Sensing into the field of the creation. To the beauty that is emerging. To invite others that you know in your bones will resonate to the same...
March 11, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Great Work of Our Life May not be what we expect. We may find it early, or very late in life. It may last a moment, or decades. It may come through small acts. Consistent kindness. Care. A smile. We feel its call, like a pull. Refusing to be ignored. The pathway...
March 5, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Ethics requires vigilance Our brilliance is never far from our darkness. It is in the wilful knowing that we are but a heartbeat from being the perpetrator that we hold ourselves to a higher order. It is from this place as well that we find compassion. “I too looked...