Events

Events listed here will connect you with people & happenings making contributiion to justice in our world through courage, connection, reflection.

Courage to Create Change – Summer

Courage to Create Change – Summer

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,...

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Past Events

Courage to Create Change – Spring

Courage to Create Change – Spring

We can spend our lives running toward change, running from it, or running around in some mix of the two. It can be tiring. Yet every year, spring flows in and shows us grace in change. She has some lessons for us. After winter darkness, spring brings joyful, vibrant...

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Courage to Create Change: A Reflective Retreat

Courage to Create Change: A Reflective Retreat

Our worlds are busy with opposing agendas, loud voices and rigid stances. They exhaust us, yet we may find ourselves driven to add our own voices, even shout them, into their cacophony. We have a vision, hold a view, see an outcome that the world needs! We think. Or...

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The Courage to Teach: A Taster of the Classic Retreat

The Courage to Teach: A Taster of the Classic Retreat

In August 2019 I had the opportunity with my husband Rich, to lead two Courage to Teach retreats in China, with Chinese teachers. It was incredible. The atmosphere in the room and the reactions of the teachers were just as I have come to expect when leading 'Courage'...

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Courage. Freedom. A retreat at larapuna – Bay of Fires.

Courage. Freedom. A retreat at larapuna – Bay of Fires.

The courageous reflective dialogue of a Circle of Trust® invites and points toward inner freedoms which continue well beyond the salt air and multi-hued skylines.
This is the offering of this ‘Courage. Freedom.’ retreat at Tasmania’s breathtaking Bay of Fires.

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Courage. Freedom. Retreat. With Dumbo Feather.

Courage. Freedom. Retreat. With Dumbo Feather.

This is a wonderful day retreat themed upon the expansive and strengthening concepts of courage and freedom. When: May 10th, 9.00am-7.00pm Where: Mossy Willow Farm, Main Ridge, Vic We are delighted to partner with Dumbo Feather and friends Mossy Willow Farm to provide...

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Young, Gifted & Black

Young, Gifted & Black

Here's a fabulous event to share around...  Citizen Tasmania is proudly partnering with The Pin to launch Growing up African in Australia in Tasmania on the 12th of April 6.30pm Yambu Cafe.  Grab yourself a ticket and join in for a spectacular evening of music and...

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China, Children, Chaos and Kindness (so, what’s new?)

China, Children, Chaos and Kindness (so, what’s new?)

November 13th marks World Kindness Day. When I first realised there was a day set aside to celebrate, contemplate and initiate acts of kindness my immediate reaction was: “Just one day? Is that all?” Of course, I believe in kindness and connection for the other 364...

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Nurturing Literacy with Dumbo Feather

Nurturing Literacy with Dumbo Feather

Dumbo had it in him to fly... so the story goes. But he needed that potential 'drawn out' by a trusted friend. And so it is with reading and writing. The potential is there in every child to fly in the mastery of these skills. As we tread the path toward a society in...

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Forming Connections in an Isolated Community

Forming Connections in an Isolated Community

Connection is central in us human beings becoming healthy and happy. Forming connections in isolated community has benefit for all of community. And thus for each of us individually, and for our children. And grandies. As Martin Luther King Jnr simply and wisely said:...

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Lost Opportunity

Lost Opportunity

Lost Opportunity Opens: February 5th 5.30pm | Closes: February 11th 6:00pm | Mawson's Waterside Pavilion Hobart "Lost Opportunity is a collaborative humanitarian exhibition between Political artist Jill Nolan and the Tassie Nannas. It portrays the story of asylum...

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