The other day I was taking a walk around my neighbourhood listening to a podcast. Then the presenter said something that stopped me in my tracks for a moment.
What he said fundamentally changed the way I think about Story Activism. Here are the 10 practices:
- Practice 1: Be more curious
- Practic...
I've just had a five day journey with a group of 32 strangers. From the very first moment it was deep, tender, playful and very, very personal.
How did I do that?
The Flow Game offers a really playful way to work with serious questions. And who doesn't have a serious question about their life, the...
After nearly a month on the road I finally landed back home last week. I think by this time my body has stopped feeling like it is still in motion, but my inner world has yet to settle.
If you are like me you probably found 2023 quite a year. On one hand there were new adventures and interesting chal...
I've often found that the things truly worth experiencing challenge you to see if you are really committed. That happened to us in my last week in Africa, on the way to Mana Pools -- a UNESCO Heritage site which is a haven to all kinds of wild animals.
Mana Pools is in the north of Zimbabwe on the...
Yesterday was a day full of stories, here at Kufunda Village in Zimbabwe.
We started already the day before, briefing our storytellers and our young hosts about the process of Collective Story Harvest. Both groups were nervous, but excited too.
Then after our music and dance check in with the circle o...
This is my third time in Zimbabwe. The first time was in 2006 and I was supporting a small group who wanted to replicate the customer service training program I had introduced through the Tourism Board in New Zealand.
I stayed in a compound and learned from the people working there how little oppor...
Perhaps it is the storytelling gene inside all of us that wants to proclaim that this moment in history -- our moment -- is totally unique. And yet the dynamics -- one might say the story elements -- are not new.
Generational struggle. Power imbalance. Gender issues. Disparity in access to resour...
In the many conversations I’ve had in my networks over the past weeks, three themes seem to consistently arise:
A overfull life / Intensity / Overwhelm
These people feel like there’s too much going on; the plate is too full or there are too many things to juggle. They are living in a consist
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I've been quiet for some time now, just cooking on my last journey and reflecting on the state of our world. There are two stories that stick with me from my very brief week in Istanbul. They reflect two lenses on what is happening and how we can host it.
The first is a moment in our Art of Hosting...
Have you ever thought much about your senses?
They are the main way we meet the world in this physical body. Sight, sound, smell, taste, touch all help us to interpret the world.
But often we get into a routine with the sensory realm and we respond to the world through habit. Working daily on com...
I've just come back from spending a week in a house surrounded by forest in Connecticut. It had no internet, so I got away from the keyboard and the scrolling and spent time reading, resting and reflecting.
On my way there I stayed two nights with the vibrant and thoughtful Juanita Brown and her pa...