A Happy Anniversary
In 2017, having just celebrated my fiftieth birthday, I decided to take the risk of turning a concept into a business. After a year of...
CO-DESIGN
One of the best definitions I've found comes from The Power to Persuade website, "Co-design takes a ‘ground-up’ approach to finding...
Rainy Days
It's early morning and I'm listening to the soothing sound of rain thrumming on the tin roof. The birds are chirping happy sounds, I look...
Let your mind settle
Mindsettle is working to calm patients in many clinical settings using a combination of tranquil natural images and curated soothing...
Neurobiophilia
It is in our nature to be linked to nature. This connection is being severed as we lead more urban lives. When I first began studying the...
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...
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...
The Hare and the Turtle
Progress is slow and steady. A prototype called My Happy Place is being trialled in a primary school with students with high anxiety and...
Soothing
It's always wonderful to find more research that validates an idea you have. Judy Robinson, a psychologist friend sent me the link to...
Fully immersed
In a recent conversation with an educator, she told me that anxiety is an invisible illness. You look fine and mostly you are able to...