How can a jellyfish change the way we look at the world?
How can a jellyfish change the way we look at the world? I like that things are not always what they seem, that people change …
Changemaker
8 Ways to find balance when things are out of whack
8 Ways to find balance when things are out of whack My two favourite subjects in school were physics and art. I loved the rigour …
The art of powerful questions
“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the …
What kind of changemaker are you?
The social entrepreneurship organisation, Ashoka, coined the term changemaker to mean, one who desires change in the world and makes it happen. They can also be described …
10 ways to choose hope and what creativity has to do with it
Over the years of tracking social, environmental and economic change, I have felt like I am on a roller coaster ride of optimism and despair. …
8 ways personal creativity can inspire and activate your work
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” George …
Change is inevitable. Is suffering optional?
In early October I moved from Dursey Island back onto the mainland (‘the Continent’ as its sometimes referred to on the Island). I moved about …
Embrace your dark side….
Some days are just shit. Everything that can go wrong seems to go wrong. It feels like nothing is creative and nothing changes. It appears …
When the creative process is excruciating
For my previous post I experienced a real challenge in writing about Redefining success and it got me thinking about when the creative process is excruciating: how …
How redefining success effects change
How do societal definitions of success underpin collective decisions and our personal definitions of success, and how could the process of consciously redefining success for …