Imagine a world where you are free to express your totally unique YOU… 

and everyone else is free to do the same. 

I believe that this is how we create the world that is best for all of us.

And I know you do too.

But currently we’re living in a world that demands that we fit in and edit ourselves; this means that we hold the very best back.

We edit out the gifts we’ve been given and they don’t get to go out into the world where they can have impact.

I know we all have this longing to share our gifts in the world and when I see it stifled it makes me want to cry.

There are certain times in our lives when it becomes too hard to ignore these longings…

When we lose a loved one,

When we lose our way,

When we get a new job,

Or become a Mother.

When we meet Menopause, Illness,

Death

As an anthropologist, I am keenly aware that we do not have the respect for these times that we once did…

What if we honoured them as the portals they are?

What if we saw them not as something wrong to be fixed, but as a fruitful phase full of potential?

Imagine how much more ALIVE we would all be.

Imagine how much more POWERFUL we would all be.

Imagine how much better our world would be.

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And here’s the thing: our whole world IS in transition

Now, more than ever, we need to know how to traverse these transitions

How to lean in to change

How to come alive in the unknown

Instead of shutting down, getting small, safe and scared.

That’s why the Artist is the guide we need.

Because the Artist knows how to paint with pain

How to play with paradox

How to harness what is and turn it to a multi-coloured palette of joy.

That is how we will all thrive in the future we’re creating together.