Hi folks and welcome to my Friday Reflection. Over the past few weeks, we have been building on how Story holds Memory, Kinship, and Values. We are now at the peak of that buildup with how Story holds Our Sacred Core. Australia’s Sacred Core: Three Significant Dates Today, I want to weave three dates together […]
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Embracing Our Collective Stories: Reflections on Identity, Belonging, and Shared Memory Hi folks and welcome to my latest reflection for last Friday 3 May, which I shared on my Linkedin page. Last week I had the honour of being a panelist at Welcoming Australia’s 2024 Symposium. The theme was, “What Brings Us Together?” which made
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ANZAC Day, a modern sacred tradition Hi folks and welcome to my Friday Reflection. This week my reflection focuses on Sacred Sites being a Place of Belonging. We have witnessed how ANZAC Day can be treated as a ‘holy day’ for so many people. We have seen how traditions, stories, ceremonies, and sites featured to
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Hi folks, In case you missed it, this is last Friday’s Reflection. I found this reflection hard to write. The theme I had planned for this reflection was Sacred Site as a Place of Pilgrimage and Friday was like a pilgrimage on its own. It was full of frustration, doubt, confidence, hope, tough conversations, and
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Over the past couple of weeks, we have reflected on ideas like ‘sacred grounding’, making ordinary spaces ‘special’ or ‘sacred’, and exploring what might be our ‘sacred core for loyalty stories’. These next weeks, we’ll be drawing on these ideas as we mark two significant Australian moments, that I argue, represent a sacred core for
