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Entering the Creative Space

If you’re a creative, you already know that where you create — both inside and out — deeply affects what you create. The creative space is hard to describe, but those who live there — artists, writers, musicians, scientists — share one thing: they know how to find their way back to it. You’ve been […]

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Who Am I? Your Self Workshop

Discover Your Story: Are you ready to captain your own ship? In a world changing faster than ever before, your greatest asset isn’t just knowledge – it’s your mind and your ability to navigate a sea of information. “Who Are You? 2025” is your essential guide to becoming the hero you were born to be. […]

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Why to use Stories instead of policy manuals

We’ve never had a policy manual in this company. The way we share our values is to sit around a fire in the Boma* every Thursday evening after work and share stories. It is our way of seeing where we are all at, how the week has gone and what the next week coming up […]

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The nature of story

We can only appreciate story through engaging it wholeheartedly, telling it and then reflecting upon it. Does story describe? Does it possibly create as well? Is story simply the only way we have of organising memory? What is the link between language and time? What is your story? Who are you? To what extent is […]

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How caffeine works and how it can change everything

In almost every corporate environment in which we work, I often see computerised employee card activated coffee percolators and espresso machines on every floor. I’ve often wondered why caffeine is so much part of corporate culture and how people casually adopt the language of café society into everyday conversation. I often hear ‘Let’s meet over […]

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Storytelling and your biology

Stories, whether they emerge from external inputs or are generated internally through thought processes, play a significant role in shaping our experiences and biological responses. This process begins in the nervous system, which is intricately connected to both the endocrine and immune systems. Understanding these connections offers a deeper insight into how our thoughts and […]

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Teaching story – the lipstick on the mirror

According to a news report, a certain private school in Brisbane was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving […]