People say, and it confirms my personal experience, there is a direct link between human connection and vulnerability. It seems that,...

In the last month I have been having a relationship with competition, flaring up in a way that is quite breathtaking when it happens. It...

Some of you may have noticed that towards the end of April my thoughts moved away from criticism and competition towards play!  Phew! In...

Knowledge which is unable to support action is not genuine – and how unsure is activity without understanding? - Rudolf Virchow I found...

Sincere apologies for the late delivery of September’s Newsletter. I am back in Brazil, for a month of teaching and my newsletter this...

One of the things I teach is how connection is the starting point for the creation of a human environment, one to the other, and one to...

My husband Michael recently watched a documentary about a flock of starlings in a disused farm barn whose call sounded identical to the...

It strikes me as interesting how “integrity” is such a loaded word in the English language. I wonder how it is in other mother tongues?...

Like the dragonfly that needs courage to leave the familiar waters to get their wings, we recognise your courage in life. We want to...

Hello dear Brave Hearts, For the first time since I started my newsletters I did not write in January! Did you miss me? Instead I went on...

I am writing from snowy Europe. I am hoping the weather will not delay my flights today and that I can return to warm and sunny Cape...

I’ve been thinking about how when we meet and greet each other, we have no idea of each other’s untold stories. The answer to “how are...

One of the cornerstones of the Buddha’s teaching is that nothing is permanent, everything is subject, moment by moment, to change. This...

I’ve been working with deciding. To “decide” something has such enormous power. It has the same root as other words that denote killing...

I have an early childhood memory that is providing me with insight for this month’s newsletter.  I grew up in the city of Kampala, which,...

In the second half of July I went to England. The ostensible reason for the trip was to reunite with people who I worked with 30 years...

I’ve often said to people with whom I have regular thinking partnerships that it’s important to me they know they can think about the...

Exploring how art can be used to oppose tyranny in Tlibisi, Georgia