Last week I presented to 140 of our young emerging female leaders. The topic of “how to make a positive impact on our world” resonates with the current tools and opportunities available and I relished the chance to discuss a topic I am very passionate about. As I told the audience, I am very excited [...]
Entries Tagged as 'personal development'
How to make a positive impact on our world
June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Environment, Music, Social Innovation, Social Media, Social justice, personal development, sustainability, technology
Tags: Australia·climate change·collaboration·communication·community·connection·contribution·destiny·empowerment·growth·human behaviour·morals·needs
Don’t Think Too Much!
May 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Environment, Social Innovation, personal development, technology
“Don’t think too much” is a theme of Edward deBono, the renowned expert on creative thinking. But how do we do that when our whole lives are about thinking, organising, planning & developing? We’ve been raised, he says, to think in order to “hurry up and find an answer” instead of thinking about being open [...]
Tags: communication·contribution·entrepreneur·growth·human behaviour
Starting a business is like picking fruit…
March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · personal development
Every year, thousands of travellers in Australia on working visas, spend a period of time picking fruit with the intention of obtaining an visa extension. Making the transition from enjoying the party lifestyle by the beach to 3 months of hard labour would not sound like fun to many but, on pondering, it can be [...]
How does one deal with immobility when one is normally so active?
March 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Social Media, personal development
Being human, we all tend to take for granted all that our body allows us to do. What happens when this is partially taken away? How does one cope and what can one learn from this? (apart from avoiding the circumstnaces that led to the injury).
Tags: communication·community·connection·contribution·growth·human behaviour·physical
Are Music Festivals offline versions of online Communities?
January 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Environment, Indigenous Australia, Music, Social Media, Social justice, personal development, sustainability
If Social Media is bringing like minded people together online, music festivals are bringing bodies together offline. Every year around the world, outdoor music festivals, for a variety of tastes & genres, host hundreds of thousands of people. Those attending put up with overcrowding, queues & the extremes of the elements (including mud or extreme [...]
Tags: climate change·collaboration·community·connection·contribution·festival·growth·hope·human behaviour·local·love·Social justice·Social Media
