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25.01.2022 A video produced by the very talented Tess Holderness of the 2016 Transition Towns Victorian Convergence that Growing Spaces had the great privilege to facilitate. A great event and really positive view of the future.

25.01.2022 After a year in Cambodia working with the amazing Cambodian Children's Fund I'm excited to say that Growing Spaces will be returning to Australia. This would seem to be a crucial time in history to engage, empower and drive change for a sustainable future. So if you are looking for education, facilitation or design then get in touch and let us help to make your space, group or event amazing.

25.01.2022 So excited to be part of the facilitation team for this event that will involve an amazing collection of passionate people and groups. It's going to be amazing so if you are in Melbourne consider getting a ticket now as sales close soon.

25.01.2022 Could we live a more rewarding and satisfying life with less? That's really the central focus of a podcase that I got to do with a group called Climactic. They are a group of podcasters making a show by and for the climate community. This was an opportunity to talk with Bronwyn Gresham from Climactic about how we develop resilient spaces and community through finding ways to do more with next and connect to liberate the wisdom that surrounds us. I think you’d really like it, ...and we hope it’s a good tool for you to share with friends and family to explain the space. www.climactic.fm/91 It’s audio, 45~ minutes, and you can listen on your computer or phone. It’s better quality audio than the radio Feel free to shoot me a message if you’re not sure how to listen. Thanks!

21.01.2022 I facilitated a meeting this week where one of my participants was visibly upset. They were struggling with the feeling that their community effort was neither valued, acknowledge nor matched by other members of the group. This is quite a common feeling, and whilst sometimes accurate can also undersell our impact. Years ago I used to run workshops with teachers and school leaders around mental wellbeing. In one particular session that was focused on building a sense of belong...ing and connection we asked what, on the face of it should be a fairly straightforward question. "Can you think of a time when you were at primary school when you felt a strong sense that you belonged and everything felt just right?" Now bear in mind that teaching is not a young profession in general so I was asking the participants to recall events that might have happened 30, 40, 50 years ago. What was amazing was the speed at which people would come to an answer. 60 year old teachers and principals would be able to recall that one day when a teacher comforted them in crystal clear detail, or the name and description of the grade 6 student who looked after them in that scary first year of primary school or the feeling of being part of a special team that competed...though many got fuzzy on whether the team won or lost. The situation was always super clear and it was always about a person, their actions and their care. So lesson one was what people do matters and some people and actions can carry on being impactful even after 50 years! The conclusion to this activity was to ask whether that teacher or that student would have been able to pick the importance of that interaction at the end of the day. Pretty much unanimously the answer was no.... that is to say the teacher who's impact was still felt 50 years later probably wouldn't have been able to identify that something special or meaningful had occurred in the day. It would have just been one of the actions or interactions that happened over the course of a normal day. The point of this anecdote is that, like the teacher, you never know who's watching, who's being impacted and who...in 50 years could be retelling the story of your impact on this or any other day. We might feel like no one notices or values what we do but, particularly if we are working with care, compassion and ethics that is less often true than we might think.

08.01.2022 Recently cast my mind back to the garden that we developed on the rooftop of the school I ran in Cambodia. I didn't get to see the finished product so I'm pleased I chased it up