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How do you do change?

Not the kind you find at the bottom of your bag or drop into a tip jar or swap for a sausage sizzle at Bunnings on a Saturday morning.

We're talking about the kind of change that stirs something in you, calls you to action and alters your course toward a new horizon.

We've been stirred.

And this newsletter is one of the shifts we’re making at this human. We’re changing how we do things—now, in service of what’s to come.

What does that mean for you?

The newsletter is still fortnightly, but it’s evolving into a round-up of all that’s unfolding across the this human universe.


Here’s what’s coming:

✍️ More articles, published more often—plus audio versions if listening is more your thing. 🎧

🎙️ A brand new podcast, The Smoosh, dropping every two weeks (pic below from our first recording sesh).

📺 Full video episodes on YouTube—see the humans at this human being human.

💚 And more personal reflections here, sharing what’s capturing our endless curiosity.


Latest article

Leading from the Inside Out


Latest Podcast

Coming soon!


What's happening with Melis

Reading:
Tales of the Otori

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

Listening:

The Telepathy Tapes

Doing:
A course in high-fidelity graphite illustrations of flora.

Pondering:

The nature of consciousness.


What's happening with Ben

Reading:
Alchemy: The Suprising Power of Ideas that Don't Make Sense

Listening:

The Telepathy Tapes

Doing:
Research for his Gestalt Therapy literature review

Pondering:

Why people often stand in doorways or at the top of escalators in public spaces. Hmmm...


Most importantly, what's happening with you???

You've got this.

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Enabling senior design professionals to be more influential within their organisations. ✨ Author of this human and design character, published by BIS Publishers.📚

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