‘This Creative Life’ online masterclass series – heartfelt conversations with wise creative women. 

‘FINDING YOUR VOICE’ FEATURING TANIA DE JONG

This expansive conversation features Tania De Jong AM. She is a trail-blazing social entrepreneur, creative innovation catalyst, global speaker, singer, spiritual journey woman and storyteller.

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    We discuss a range of important themes including:

    Not giving up – overcoming the inner critic and self-limiting beliefs

    Work ethic/your purpose –  having founded 6 businesses and 3 charities, we learn about Tania’s secret sauce and what can other people do to find their meaning in life

    Positive human collisions, and creative abrasions – the benefits of pushing outside our comfort zones, to find deeper levels of creativity and innovation.

    Activism – Tania’s measure for success is about not what we get but by what we give.

    Singing – One of Tania’s key missions is to change the world one voice at a time. She shares how she helps people find their voice to unlock their full creative potential.

    Creative wisdom – some key nuggets that you can implement today and a vision you can work towards.

    The power of being different – What can we do to foster this more in ourselves, our kids, workplaces and communities. Love, compassion, kindness, empathy, imagination, intuition

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    ‘HUMOUR & IRREVERENCE’ FEATURING KATE SMITH

    This expansive conversation features Kate Smith, cultural producer, performer, writer and researcher.

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      We discuss a range of interesting themes and perspectives including:

      Irreverence and Improvisation and how we can learn from these deeply human traits, and how/where creativity can fit in to help with deep healing. 

      • What is the benefit of irreverence during times that are both challenging or flourishing.

      Improvisation and being adaptable

      • What can we learn from theatre, performance and the ability to improvise and adapt.

      Creativity and the creative process

      • How can connecting with our creative selves help us heal at a deep level and how can the creative process play an integral role. 

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      ‘VISIBILITY’ FEATURING FAITH AGUGU

      This expansive conversation features creative visionary Faith Agugu, experienced psychotherpaist and founder of The Healing Process and and founder of Silver Sirens, which celebrates the rise and rise of culture’s fascinating 40+ female demographic.

       

      If you want to shift your inner dialogue about ageing, Faith is the woman to have in your corner. She has always had the instinct that she would get better with age, and she is hoping to inspire other women into the same mindset.

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        We discuss a range of important themes including:

        • Black Lives Matter vs All Lives Matter and the role of white colour blindness
        • Dismantling agesim and the power and wisdom of mature women
        • Faith’s background and story into becoming a therapist and founding The Healing Process, as well as understanding global grief and paths to healing
        • How we can heal as a collective human race, what needs to happen…

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        ‘TRANSFORMATION’ FEATURING PATT GREGORY

        Patt Gregory is the founder of Woodwork for Women, and author of ‘Woodwork for Women: Cutting a New Path for Beginners’.
        Through woodwork Patt gives women the confidence and skill to work with wood through affordable, fun and practical short courses. She uses a holistic mind/body approach for teaching tool handling (including power tools) and the fundamentals of furniture making.

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        This expansive conversation features Patt Gregory, author and transformational educator who teaches the art and skills of woodworking to help create positive change in women’s lives.

        We discuss a range of diverse themes including:

        • Masculine and feminine traits
        • Overcoming fear and seeing what women are capable of achieving and feeling
        • Cultivating self-belief and seeing women’s worth
        • Process over product
        • Independence and autonomy

         

        • Owning your feminine power
        • Empowering women
        • Woodworking as a vehicle for transformation and change

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          ‘STORYTELLING’ FEATURING SHELLEY KENIGSBERG

          This expansive conversation features literary creative Shelley Kenigsberg, editor, writing mentor and founder of Editing in Paradise.

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          This expansive conversation features literary creative Shelley Kenigsberg, editor, writing mentor and founder of Editing in Paradise.

          We discuss a range of important themes including:

          • The ‘Oh you can write a book in a week’ crazy courses being offered (particularly on FB) for the Book as Calling Card market. 

          • Demystifying the writing and publishing processes. And talk about writing communities and establishing a writing practice.

          • How prevalent is sexism, and other forms of discrimination within the publishing profession.   

          • Opportunities for female writers.

          • Practical activity for budding writers.

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            ‘THE POWER OF CURIOSITY & COLLABORATION’ FEATURING PEGGY WALLACH

            This expansive conversation features Peggy Wallach, a dynamic multidisciplinary artist, director, performance artist, creative mentor and visionary.

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            This expansive conversation features the legendary Peggy Wallach, a dynamic multidisciplinary artist, director, performance artist, creative mentor and visionary. 

            We discuss a range of important themes including:

            • The concept of being a spiritual tourist and how the philosopical belief in universal energy informs creative choices and subsequent work. 

            • The power of ‘curiosity, collaboration and communication’.

            • The evolution of the multidisciplinary and performance art worlds over the last three decades, and the positive and negative impact this has had on women. 

            • Joining the dots, with poignant anecdotes from childhood to provide a foundation for this creative life. 

            • Working with women in recovery from addictions, through the Detox Theatre, (Belvoir St Theatre) in Sydney and how creative expression inspired female empowerment. 

            • A simple creative activity to bring you (and a stranger) some joy into your everyday. 

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