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A gathering to celebrate and promote the power of laughter and its influence on wellbeing. "Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." Lord Byron Join us on the wellness waka! We are celebrating the joyful role of laughter in ‘inspiring communities’ at our...

In 2012, a pale woman with crazy eyebrows and a keytar strapped to her back made a video of herself, wearing a kimono and holding up hand-Sharpied signs on a street in Melbourne. One by one, the signs flipped, explaining that the woman had spent the last 4 years...

I am conducting a workshop on the 23rd of August in response to many requests!  Time and time again people ask me about how to tell a good story, or how to draw the elements of their story together ... especially in their writing and their presenting.    So, while the...

Martin Luther King said " I have a dream"  ...over and over!  And they came to hear the dream.  My invitation to you today is to inspire people by your life.  Live your life now being who you choose to be.  Create your legacy and live into today.  Yes I can hear you...

Yes that's correct! I am not who I used to be ... I have indeed outgrown who I used to be I lived with doubt  The default setting was always on high I succeeded alongside that though 17 certificates... Over 5000 testimonials ... But it was never enough What's showing...

What I am about to propose to you :- is a leading edge approach it's about making your people indispensable it's about them becoming a Linchpin What is that you ask? A linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect,...

"If you are lucky enough to do well, it is your responsibility to send the elevator back down" Kevin Spacey  I am inspired by reading Emily Gowors book “ The Book within you”, as it has reminded me of some insights around the notion of being fully self expressed.  In...

Patch said" Don't come on this tour because of me.  Come because you want to find and spend your clown self.  Come because you truly want to experience the disparity between rich and poor.   Come because you want to make at least one Russian friend"   And so the most...

THE GREATEST STUMBLING BLOCK The following list demonstrates just how hard it is to really attract your potential customer.   You may find thinking about this really useful as you start to put in place a mixed media marketing campaign for your own business. The first...

Forward By Dr Robin Kelly Human beings are meant to be joyful, light-hearted and happy. And yet at the start of the new millennium we, in the so-called sophisticated Western world, are witnessing an overwhelming epidemic of unhappiness like never before. In recent...

Let your creativity guide you .... I found this tonight as I was sorting some old folders. I wrote it to baby Charlottes parents....she lost her limbs to meningococcal disease... the NZ'ers might recall..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Cleverley-Bisman I...

Our habits of thinking have consequences.  We can come from either an optimistic or pessimistic viewpoint and neither is right or wrong, however an optimist will not be fazed by defeat.  In fact optimists believe defeat is not their fault, and when they are confronted...

Love letters to Humanity © My first contract in New Zealand was with a private training company. The attendance rates were 35% and so were outcomes. Not good !! The disciplinary process was to send 3 warning letters and then students were “dismissed” . As the leader I...

Lose your sense of humour and you risk burnout!  A friend in the health sector spoke to me yesterday of the high absenteeism she saw in the health area she worked in. She cited 2 out of every 8 people per shift were either not attending or changing rosters.  She said...