morepraxis

Join the FAIRTRADE Chocolate Easter Campaign
The large chocolate companies have “Egg on their face”. Some big chocolate companies acknowledged the problems of people trafficking and forced labour of children but are yet to demonstrate  real commitment to making change.  While companies like Darrel lea lag behind the efforts of others big chocolate producers in removing forced labour [...]

The 40 Developmental Assets over the 40 days of lent.
Search Institute has identified the following 40 Assets as building blocks of healthy development that help young people grow as healthy, caring, principled, and productive people. Over lent we will be posting an asset each day to reflect on over lent. To explore the developmental assets [...]

A global disease needs a global/local response
http://worldaidsday.com.au/
http://www.joinred.com/
http://www.vicaids.asn.au/content/default.asp
vic aids council link list? here
http://www.straightarrows.org.au/
positive living – http://napwa.org.au/pl
People Living with HIV/AIDS Victoria http://www.plwhavictoria.org.au/default.htm
the plwha links page is also full of links for more info here

When I read Mark Vernon i feel an enormous sense of relief – someone else has found the words to say for me. This article especially.
Hope is a central virtue in much self-help. It’s a key strength in the science of happiness too, defined as being optimistic and having a positive attitude towards the future. [...]

i was watching footage of the protests in the UK from the weekend, remembering wistfully the days when i had the energy to get angry about anything… and then i read this article in yesterday’s Age about the possibility that Neighbourhood Justice Centres and Koori Courts may be closed by the new Victorian state government, [...]

I don’t pass videos on much – there are too many brilliant things in the world to forever be sending them on. But this woman is wise and beautiful, and i need a bit more of that in my life today.
It’s a poetry reading and talk by Sarah Key at Ted 2011. i might [...]

yeah, i know, my understanding of physiology sucks. i care little about that.

from dirt to dirt
every part of our body comes from the life around us
grown by food and air and water
that shapes us into being.
even the very things that make our soul
- memories that tangle with experience
and
dreams and fears and
love
- are created and held [...]

I sent out invitations last week to the online learning group. i’ve had a couple of emails from people saying that the posterous invitation never arrived – if you were expecting one and it didn’t come, please let me know…