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When Good Intentions Go Too Far – Lessons from the Garden
I almost killed one of my cycads recently, not from neglect, but from too much care.
You could say I overly managed the poor thing.
These ancient palm-like plants have been around since the Jurassic period and were a favourite snack for dinosaurs. We inherited a few when we moved into our home, and mostly they’ve continued to exist quietly, minding their own business.
At various stages, some have been active. Most recently, one began to push out new green shoots. I was delighted and also on alert. From experience, I knew that what often follows is the arrival of the Cycad Moths, who love to devour the soft green leaves.
Before You Act, Ask This
When we’re under pressure to deliver, the urge is often to move quickly and get straight into action. Pausing can feel counterintuitive, almost like standing still when everything around us is demanding momentum. Yet in my experience, the time taken to ask the right questions at the beginning creates far better outcomes than simply reacting in the moment.
It’s a Wrap – Your 2025 Highlight Reel
The close of the year is the perfect moment to pause and take stock.
As the director of your story, which scenes from your year will you keep? Which ones might head to the editing room floor?
The Creativity Key – Spring into Action
If you’ve been with me a while, you know that so much of my work with Maverick Minds has always circled back to creativity. I approach creativity from both the artist’s sense, as well as creativity as a way of thinking, exploring, and making sense of change. I think of it as striving to be artful in how we work and engage with others, regardless of the profession we work in.
Peek inside the Innovation Playground
What happens when you bring the spirit of the playground into a room of business owners? At a recent session with the Basic Bananas small business community, it became a space to climb over challenges, slide into new perspectives, and explore fresh possibilities for work and business.
How My Stuff Up Turned into a Superpower Moment
There I was, waiting at my place for my regular community of practice group to arrive. An always-on-time bunch, this time, no one had arrived by our scheduled start time, and then it dawned on me. We were meeting somewhere else entirely. They were at Stephen’s place, which is where I should have been, too.
Leading with Heart: The Superpowers Behind Student Changemakers
At Payne Road State School’s annual Environment Leaders Day, students from across the district gathered to explore how young people can lead positive change for the planet.
It was a powerful feeling to be in a room full of enthusiastic and energetic young people who care deeply about the world around them.
Maverick Minds was invited back for a second year, contributing a session that helped students uncover and develop their leadership superpowers – the qualities, behaviours, and mindsets that support human-centred leadership in action.
Curious what a day of student leadership and superpowers looks like?
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
Ready to shift your thinking and make the next move?
Our unique digital facilitation and coaching cards can help with that.