Live Your Mindmap
Technology: Create a mind map and bring your thoughts to life. When the creative thoughts are flowing and you do not want any to get lost, this is a great tool to help you keep them all together and create a big picture view. Find a Mindmap HERE
Creative Brainstorm
Mobile Apps: This app is for capturing your creative brainstorm ideas. You can capture ideas for consideration in relaxed moments, and then use this facility to brainstorm ideas with a group. Try it out, it is really great. Find this App HERE
Longing for connection is real
In a deeply connected and engaged space you will be able to liberate everyone’s creativity. You know how different and exciting it feels when go with friends to a live concert, as opposed to listening to a recording. It is all about the 'vibe'. So what about being...
Full-Throttle Living
You can stay as you are or shift your life into creative full-throttle thriving. Start your creative spark burning by testing out these suggestions. If you have a bad habit that is causing you problem and you would like to find a creative solution, try these few...
Escape a Heavy Mood?
Spice up your day with random act of kindness and feel the glow as you add joy to the world. You have experienced the delight of been pleasantly surprised; so how about being creative and anonymously surprising others. You will not only delight...
Things Go Wrong – Embarrassing
Please don’t stifle your creativity, it’s your unique expression. The experience of failure is often about not meeting other people’s expectations. But if you always dance to other people’s tunes, you may not find the opportunity to be creative....
Emotions – Own Your Age
Emotions - Own your age, you’ve earned it! Yes, we do age, and the thought of this can be scary; but you do not need to buy into all the gloomy pictures of ageing. If you focus your attention on developing and maintaining a joyful and vital mental and...
Inwardness & Restoration
A winter ritual for inwardness and restoration As the winter season sets in, the cold and shorter days beckons us to cuddle up and close in. Yet this is not a time for doing ‘nothing’ but rather an opportunity for a change of focus from outward...
Emotions – Replacing Prozac
Can Green Gardening Replace Prozac? Gardening, it is said, can replace Prozac’ – yes it can! Extensive research has shown that gardening is the new ‘green’ feel good drug with an abundance of GOOD side effects. It has been found that when we leave behind our...
Emotions Purpose Meaning
Emotions are the drivers of meaning and purpose! We often say about someone who has a defined objective that they want to achieve when they are actively pursuing it: “She’s on a mission!” Sometimes we observe the activity with admiration, normally when...
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HIV/Aids: How we are winning against this disease
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Are you degrading women, without realising it?
Those 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 8 August 1956, protesting against apartheid, knew this to be true. Thanks to them, and countless other voices, we now live in a world where there is more equality and freedom than 50 years ago. Thanks to these women who understood the power of their voice, and the power of their words.
Tips for a kinder festive season
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An attack on the vulnerable is an attack on the social heart of us all
When violence is perpetrated against our mothers, sisters, wives and children, the whole of society suffers.
Act to seek out such suffering – it may be hiding in that very women or child in front of you. Fear and pain are hidden within victims of violence. They often tend to remain silent about their shame, pain and fear.
