Country: Australia

Mind, Body and Spirit

Genice has cerebral palsy, a condition that is caused by abnormal development or damage to the parts of the brain that control movement, balance, and posture. She has been confined to her wheelchair for all her life and had no hope for her conditions to ever get better. Until her visit with Steve Richards Dream Time Healing using Holographic Kinetics where, after one session “it was like the light got switched on…” according to her mother. After her visit, one of the practitioners (Kalka) has suggested that she now starts her physical training so that she can continue to heal and might even stand on her own one day!

The War That Came Home

Jesse returned to civilian life, with nothing. Struggling to transfer his skills that he learned in the army into meaningful work, he was rejected because of his PTSD, alcohol dependence, anxiety and depression. On June 27th, 2017, feeling left behind by a failing system Jesse’s life took a tragic turn.

Army of Love

After experiencing an intense moment in the army at the age of 20, Niv felt that there must be a better way… This led him on a magical journey where he has met incredible, powerful humans, that showed him a different perspective for life.

Dream to Reality

At 11 Curtis made his first short film, went on learning about performing arts and soon became his school’s go-to videographer. After some contemplation and research, he has decided to incorporate his first business and provide video services to other schools too.

Teach Or Not To Teach

This story of peer to peer learning offers a rare glimpse into Chris’ truly unique classroom. You might think you’ve wandered into a classroom of a Montessori school, however this wonderful land of learning-by-doing exist as an island-of-refuge within the well conformed, regulated and some might say corrupted sea of public school classrooms.

Songs Of A Refugee

Jasna’s refugee journey is full of challenges and struggles but she always strives to succeed and lead by example. She believes in gratitude and good in people. She tries to surround herself with arts and creates something new every day.

The Snow Sailor

In 2016, Charles travelled to Antarctica to realise a dream – taking with him 8 years of hard work to be the first person to snow sail across on the continent.

Adversity to Adventure

Starting life an unwanted child, an early pregnancy and tragic death of her fiancée was the catalyst for realizing who she was. Now, embracing the essence of the adversity, Trina is passionate about sharing the message of the freedom available to us all when life is lived as your authentic self.

A Stroke of Poetry

Six years post stroke, Shelagh is now a published author of her stroke poems; ‘A Stroke of Poetry’; a motivational speaker and volunteer Stroke Safe Ambassador with the Stroke Foundation. She now shares stroke awareness with corporate, health and community organisations, stressing the impact the emotional side of stroke can have upon your life but also the importance of living a healthy life, full of positivity and hope.

Reasons To Live

As a child growing up in a home with family violence, Brisbane author Jas Rawlinson often felt alone, fearful, and uncertain. After struggling through her teens, losing her dad to suicide, and then experiencing sexual assault at age 20, she fell deeper and deeper into depression. Often, suicide felt like the only way out. But in the back of her mind, there was a small flicker of hope; a desire to one day help others so that they didn’t have to suffer the same traumas alone. Slowly, Jas began to regain control of her life, and explore her passions, eventually becoming a freelance journalist, the founder of Brisbane’s first domestic violence memorial, and the author of the suicide prevention book ‘Reasons to Live One More Day, Every Day.’

Life of Kylie

Kylie had a rough childhood, followed by an extremely traumatic domestic violence relationship. Many times she suffered from suicidal thoughts, and was constantly on the run or seeking refuge in women’s shelters. Tragically, Kylie lost both her father and brother to suicide, but has risen from the ashes and turned her life around; creating an incredible and purposeful life that now inspires many others. This is her story…

A Systemiser’s Journey to a Post-Primitive Future. starring Paul Ross

As a child, I was lonely.
At 17, I decided to embark on what I termed a life-apprenticeship and, in addition, believing I was bored, which, I much later realised, was driven by a deep loneliness, this search for fulfilment manifested in two ways:
1. Hedonism; and,
2. Significantly helping others especially through systems.
My life-apprenticeship and ‘boredom’ drew me to warzones – as a humanitarian aid worker, I went to Iraq and Liberia.
However, Liberia deeply traumatized me. In retrospect, it scratched at other unresolved/unbeknown issues in my childhood.
Eventually, I wrote.