Social Change
Homelessness to Human Connection- Aaron’s Story
On May 29, 2019 by adminI approached the park that I go to every lunch hour to escape from work. I pull up the car to see a man with a trolley full of belongings. At first I can’t tell if the man is homeless. He pulls out a knit throw and sits on the park bench. It is now
Intentional Living . Self Awareness . Social Change
My Notebook – Storytelling Your Way to Change
On March 8, 2018 by adminThere’s a quote that I have always loved, “there isn’t a person you wouldn’t love if you could read their story”…
Health . Mental Wellbeing . Self Awareness . Social Change
Food For Thought: Fuelling the Mind
On November 29, 2017 by adminAs some of you may know I am nearing the end of a fitness challenge (being held accountable just got very real!). When I began I believed that how I felt about my physical appearance would be my focus but the results so far have highlighted a lesson in myself that’s so much more important.
Social Change
THE CONSTRUCTION OF B-E-A-UTIFUL IN SOCIETY
On September 17, 2017 by adminWith the flood of social media the divide between expectation and reality has never been so prevalently reinforced into our everyday lives, consuming us from the minute we wake up and look at our phones. To add to that we live in a world where our level of perceived beauty is directly correlated to our sense of self worth and yet when we define beauty we focus on aesthetic appearances and a significant part of who we are goes unrepresented.
Intentional Living . Social Change
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU ‘GROW UP’?
On August 22, 2017 by adminREMEMBER how excited you’d get as a child when you were asked this? The language we used as if it was undoubtedly going to happen. More often than not we would say multiple things of completely different fields and it didn’t even matter the plausibility of them all actually happening. I don’t know about you but at one stage I was going to become a crime scene investigator, ballerina, and professional singer whilst owning a dog rescue shelter.
The older we got the more our answers would change. Month to month, year to year. And this to us was fine! Because we were so young and we had so much time to figure it out when we reached that place that everyone referred to as ‘older’. We had no shame that it was constantly changing or unknown. Back then when asked the words that resonated with us were ‘want’ and ‘be’. So at what point in our lives does the excitement of not knowing turn to fear and the emphasis changes to the word ‘older’. Why is it that when we’re asked at the mere age of sixteen when doing senior subject selection does our excitement change to angst of not knowing?
Intentional Living . Self Awareness . Social Change
REDEFINING SUCCESS
On August 15, 2017 by adminPEOPLE tend to give us advice based not only from their mistakes and experiences but from their definition of what it means to be successful. Often due to the limited opportunities they had themselves (particularly those from a different generation) they have weighted a secure job with financial gain the sole element in becoming successful.
