Just the word “activist” can conjure up all kinds of conflicting images in our minds from violent civil unrest to peaceful, cooperative dialogue. When we consider our need to live more sustainable lives, we are being called to face some very tough challenges, personally, in our local communities, nationally and globally.
How can we follow our [...]

How do you host a productive meeting with a diverse group of people who you might not even have met before? How do you embrace the wide variety of different backgrounds, life experience, strengths, skills and expertise in a democratic and enjoyable way and still achieve useful results?
By: “Awakening and engaging collective intelligence through conversations [...]

A couple of years ago, I coached an editor of one of the leading glamour magazines here in the UK and she subsequently wrote up her experiences of  being coached in an article about Voluntary Simplicity.
One of the challenges she faced in living and working more sustainably was cultivating a change in perspective on the [...]

When I first take on a coaching client, one of the questions I ask them is “What do you want to lose?” This might be material possessions, as in having a major de-cluttering and recycling session. A little less obvious, but often just as important, are the other items that they might have on their [...]

“To live more simply is to live more purposefully and with a minimum of needless distraction.” Duane Elgin

1. Reducing materialism. Voluntary simplicity is not the same as austerity. Rather, it is about living with less so as to free ourselves from the burdens of materialism.( i.e. Everything we own needs some maintenance, time and money [...]