A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
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A few weeks ago I told you how excited I was to have spoken at the Seeing Ability Mini-conference. I don’t think I will ever tire of the chance to help people see their talents and abilities in a different way, to help them use their passions as tools to overcome challenges. I finally got …
In June I had the opportunity of co-hosting the Seeing Ability mini-conference with two phenomenal women, fellow speakers Brittany McCormick and Princess Lukhele. We wanted to help people discover abilities and talents they currently overlook, and to give them actionable steps to shift them towards making use of those talents to achieve their goals. While …
The second day of the Capacity Building Conference funded by the EU as part of the Enable Mauritius project was an in-person event held at the University of Mauritius. Somewhat to my surprise, due to one of the speakers having been delayed, my slot was shifted from mid-morning and I again was the first to …
One of the main reasons I was in Mauritius was to speak at the European Union funded capacity building workshop for NGOs in the disability sector, which was part of the Enable Mauritius initiative. The event took place over two days. The first day was online and the second was a physical conference at the …
It feels somewhat strange to say this, but I’m travelling again. The reason it feels a little peculiar is that I’m still processing all that I experienced on my trip to Europe six weeks ago. Not to mention how odd it is for me to travel twice in such a short time after almost …
It was an extraordinary experience for me to be part of an international panel discussing empowering others through sharing your personal story for the Women in Publishing Online Summit taking place from 4 – 8 March. It was both a pleasure and a privilege to share with the other women authors I met on the …
It was with some surprise that I read the mail inviting me to be a speaker at the inaugural accidentalmuslims.com leadership conference – after all, I’m not Muslim, nor do I know much about the Muslim faith, much to my own embarrassment. However, having learned more about the theme and aims of the conference- developing …
As you may recall, the reason I was in Ghana in the first place was to speak at the 5th annual AFRINEAD conference on disability. Sitting in the conference centre at the KWAMA Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, listening to a Star-studded group of dignitaries address the challenges inherent in developing …
It’s finally arrived! By the time you read this I’ll be heading off to Cape Town airport to catch my first flight on my journey to Ghana… Or even sitting in the airport waiting to board the plane. So, as I sit staring pensively into the middle distance in the airport terminal I think it’s …
You know, there’s one activity that mom does on a regular basis that simply doesn’t make sense to me – going to meetings. I mean, we get into a car and go somewhere interesting, meet up with lots of fascinating people whose shoes and clothes often smell of interesting things like other dogs, cats… and …