by Rosie Martin | Aug 25, 2021 | Blog, Events, Social Justice
Grace and I are presenting a cycle of powerful, seasonal, leadership retreats focused on the courage to create change. In late August we focused on spring, using metaphors that explored how that which is nascent within us, can be supported to burst forth. On the 3rd,...
by Rosie Martin | Aug 15, 2021 | Blog
A pottering kind of day My son and I were companionably pottering with a bit of work on our laptops, sitting on couches in the sun in our front room on a Sunday afternoon. My four-year-old grandson was there with his little sister. They were also pottering happily....
by Rosie Martin | Aug 7, 2021 | Blog
When I was a kid growing up in Woomera, my dad filled his weekends building a wooden boat. Ros-Lyn, he named her. Half of my name, half of my sister’s. I watched him on and off, this man in the desert building a boat. I didn’t think too much about what...
by Rosie Martin | Jul 24, 2021 | Blog, Kindness, Publications
The kids are back at school and settling in. I was walking through the grounds of a school on day three of term, on my way to a meeting. I had to wait for a minute while a single file of prep-aged children, following their teacher, crossed my path on their way to a...
by Rosie Martin | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog, Kindness, Publications
Using just a few words, a poet can shift how we sense ourselves, and tune us to something we’ve never heard before. Author and activist Parker J. Palmer refers to good poetry as a ‘third thing’. It brings a presence that has a voice of its own. This voice is not the...
