Building Trust
I was talking with a new client yesterday. Rob Duhig is a dentist who has been serving his patients for 34 years from his Sandgate...
It's in your nature
In 2013, I was working as an artist in residence on Minjerribah, North Stradbroke Island for the Lines in the Sand festival. The brief...
Nature-deficit disorder
Nature-deficit disorder is a term coined by Richard Louv, an American journalist and writer who is an advocate for the benefits of...
Bold Strokes
It’s immediately obvious when talking to Lavinia Codd that she is fiercely intelligent, though how could someone with a PhD, who works at...
Feeling sleepy?
Leonie Kirszenblat initially came to my attention because an elegant image (see left) she had created to illustrate her elegantly titled...
Get amongst it
I've been watching Stacy Bare, the director of Sierra Club Outdoors, talk about a topic close to my heart - HOW GETTING OUTDOORS CAN...
Feeling emotional?
Emotions are confusing, seemingly arbitrary and out of our control. It feels like they just well up inside us, then if we submit, they...
Transition
Transition can induce anxiety - it is the period of change from one state to another. For some children the daily transition from home to...
Neuroeducation
Another week, another neuro-term, I've been reading a report about education by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)...
Reaction Time
Exploring meditation has allowed me to observe the infinitesimal changes it has made. After eight years of practice, sometimes sporadic,...