Traveler in Your Own Town, What's Gone Well Today

Newcomer to Victoria

April 11, 2014 · Leave a comment

Bold, proactive steps to ‘breaking in’ to Victoria. Joining a community workspace, finding the resources, supporters, sponsors can be keys to taking a next step.

Traveler in Your Own Town

Accepting change

February 23, 2014 · Leave a comment

Elements that contribute to someone taking on a new idea, committing to a new action. Someone coming into ‘the room’, light bulb moments. ‘The future isn’t so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it’s about making change.’ .. Seth Godin

Community School Interviews, Conversations

Confidence to follow your dreams ( Arbutus 2013)

January 26, 2014 · Leave a comment

Fresh thoughts in response to the question, “Where do you get the confidence to follow your dreams?”

Community School Interviews

Sparking a career … ( Arbutus 2013)

January 26, 2014 · Leave a comment

It started from the back of a Shreddies box. To see the whole Community School lnterview

Vancouver Island Music Fest

Fred Penner: paying attention

January 26, 2014 · Leave a comment

What contributes to a spontaneous ‘moment’ that touched so many at the Woodland’s stage at Vancouver Island Music Fest? To view more FestivalMoments.

Community School Interviews

Anne-Marie Daniel at Arbutus Global Middle School (2013)

January 25, 2014 · Leave a comment

Anne-Marie Daniel is a mother, an artisan , a mediator, a facilitator and a researcher. As a mediator she was responsible for the first five human rights cases in Vermont. In 2000 she moved to the Isle of Skye, Scotland

Traveler in Your Own Town

What’s Gone Well Today in an elevator

January 25, 2014 · Leave a comment

An early moment in the Traveler In Your Own Town training…. engaging with a stranger, in this case, in an elevator. Here’s the full story: ‘I looked through the glass doors of a building and saw a man about to

Conversations, Green Drinks Victoria

Slowing down creates business opportunities

January 25, 2014 · Leave a comment

Counterintuitive… business benefits from slowing down, being handpowered

Community School Interviews, Conferences

Ann Baird – building a home for 500 years

January 25, 2014 · Leave a comment

A thought leader in COB construction shares the many benefits of building their home. It’s attracted world-wide attention. For the latest info checkout their blog This was recorded before a Community School Interview in 2009

Stories we tell our children

Creative Retirement

December 17, 2013 · Leave a comment

A former teacher, then activities director for seniors shares factors that lead to creative, and vital retirement years.