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Ready to Shift Your Thinking? Jump Into the Innovation Playground!
Innovation is at its best when we’re seriously playful and curious. And it doesn’t always start with big, dramatic moves.
Innovation can emerge from small shifts, creative prompts, and spirited exploration. Maverick Minds’ “Innovation Playground” is a facilitated space that invites people to step back from the usual, see their business through a new lens, and uncover fresh insights through creative methods.
That’s what we experienced when I hosted a creative business session for the Basic Bananas Small Business Marketing Mentoring Community.
The Visual Shift – The hands-on online workshop for coaches, facilitators and leaders
The Visual Shift is a hands-on online workshop for coaches, facilitators and leaders who want to build confidence using visual tools in a purposeful, practical way. Through guided experience, you’ll explore how images can deepen insight, encourage engagement and create meaningful presence in the virtual space.
Recap from “Unwrap: Your Year in Motion”
Last month, we held our mid-year Unwrap: Your Year in Motion, an online session designed to offer something that we often need to create space for – the chance to pause, take a breath, step out of the busyness, and gently consider:
Where am I now, after this year? And what’s shifting in me, or around me?
Artful Leadership: Body Mapping Your Superpowers with Arethusa College
When we invite people to work visually or physically – using methods like mapping, drawing, or selecting images – we open up access to insights that don’t always surface in traditional discussion. This session at Arethusa College reminded me just how powerful it is to make the abstract concrete, and to bring new parts of ourselves into the room.
Why I Work with Images
Sometimes all it takes is one image to start a whole new way of seeing and speaking.
It’s not always easy to explain but this might help you get a sense of it
The Secret Life of Abandoned Ideas
How many ideas have popped in and out of your mind lately?
A book you’ve always wanted to write. A place you dream of visiting. That instrument, that language you want to learn, that persistent problem you’d love to solve.
From Mongolia to Meaningful Moments: A Creative Leadership Journey
In recent weeks, I had the privilege of working with a remarkable group of leaders from Mongolia through the University of Queensland’s International Development Women’s Leadership Program.
Crackin’ Open Your Leadership Powers: A fresh, adaptive and creative framework
Helen Zink and I are teaming up with Crackin’ LnD (Down Under), an energised community for learning and development professionals across Australia, NZ and the Pacific, to share a creative, adaptive approach to leadership, one that helps you tune into yourself, your team, and the moment.
The Visual Shift: A New Way to See and Shape Your Virtual Sessions
Connection over content is something we hear regularly when working with people.
Some of the most meaningful connections and conversations I’ve had in my work haven’t started with words – they’ve started with images.
Think You Don’t Need a Facilitator? Let’s Explore That…
Connection over content is something we hear regularly when working with people.
Some of the most meaningful connections and conversations I’ve had in my work haven’t started with words – they’ve started with images.
🎨 Artful Update: From Local Walls to International Pages
It’s been an artful time with The Gap Creative’s Winter Solstice Exhibition held at the Gap High School Tula Gallery. The Gap Creative is a very active membership-based community for artists located in The Gap of which there are many.
How To Decide If You’re Ready For Facilitation
Embarking on a journey of innovation and change within your organisation is a significant undertaking, requiring careful reflection and preparation.
To help you assess your readiness for a successful facilitation and coaching engagement, I’ve created a guide titled “5 Essential Steps to Catalyse Change,” which is designed to encourage you to thoughtfully consider a few key aspects.
Ready to shift your thinking and make the next move?
Our unique digital facilitation and coaching cards can help with that.