Creativity for change – a year of daily paintings
In March 2020 I was living in a box room with a bed to work on, we were in lockdown, I had lost my job …
Creativity for change
7 things I learned from living in 20 intentional communities
Through years of learning how to build better buildings and learning about system change, I became fascinated by ecovillages as regenerative housing models and a …
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 …
What do the life cycle of a stars have to do with creative thinking?
One of my most precious memories is from 1999 when I was hiking the Illampu circuit in the Bolivian Andes with a group of friends. …
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 …
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 …
What if I do this every day?
At the time I wrote this piece I was living out on Dursey island for a few months. It was around the time of the …