Talking Life

We have had a fifteen year discussion (read debate!) about the meaning of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE and whether we believe in UNCONDITIONAL LOVE towards others but most importantly, towards ourselves.​With a healthy dose of shock, surprise, awe, bewilderment, uncertainty and trepidation we invite you to contemplate, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

HEART AND MIND is a discussion about where we place our drivers seat. Some people place it fully in the HEART, others fully in the MIND, and then there are those who place their drivers seat something in the middle. Have you ever considered where yours is and what effect that has on the way you drive yourself? There are no manuals. There are guides, only for the seekers. So what happens to the rest of us? How do we choose between the HEART AND MIND?

TransformationIs TRANSFORMATION possible?Can we TRANSFORM? Or are we just on a journey to be the best (hopefully not the worst!) version of ourselves? Does our journeying and questioning and searching merely result in a variation of our true nature within the narrow bandwidth of our own possibilities?And does the journey and the potential for TRANSFORMATION always entail a degree of disorder and chaos? Or can we be TRANSFORMED through joy and love and peacefulness?Is this the illusion of our existence? The possibility of TRANSFORMATION.

Is death THE END? Is this the one and only life we live? What is the soul and what is it’s journey?Some people view death with fear, anxiety, finality and foreboding – THE END. Others view death with a sense of inevitability, peace and as part of a beautiful eternal continuum.Is there value in life, without death?And does death have a colour?

Throughout our lives, advertising follows us around promising eternal youth and anti ageing as if ageing was some sort of terminal disease. Radiant beauty, dewy skin and a perky disposition are promised as the ultimate states of being. How have we become such slaves to “youth” and why don’t we promote the glory, humour and joy that comes with age? We appreciate a wine for its vintage, realising that rest, time and maturation encourage a complexity that give it ‘legs’ and make it truly valuable and unique.Aren’t wrinkles on our faces the same as the legs of a fabulous wine?How do you view your vision board of ageing? What is your relationship to the signs of ageing in your physical and aesthetic self and to the getting of wisdom?

We have had a fifteen year discussion (read debate!) about the meaning of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE and whether we believe in UNCONDITIONAL LOVE towards others but most importantly, towards ourselves.​With a healthy dose of shock, surprise, awe, bewilderment, uncertainty and trepidation we invite you to contemplate, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

HEART AND MIND is a discussion about where we place our drivers seat. Some people place it fully in the HEART, others fully in the MIND, and then there are those who place their drivers seat something in the middle. Have you ever considered where yours is and what effect that has on the way you drive yourself? There are no manuals. There are guides, only for the seekers. So what happens to the rest of us? How do we choose between the HEART AND MIND?

TransformationIs TRANSFORMATION possible?Can we TRANSFORM? Or are we just on a journey to be the best (hopefully not the worst!) version of ourselves? Does our journeying and questioning and searching merely result in a variation of our true nature within the narrow bandwidth of our own possibilities?And does the journey and the potential for TRANSFORMATION always entail a degree of disorder and chaos? Or can we be TRANSFORMED through joy and love and peacefulness?Is this the illusion of our existence? The possibility of TRANSFORMATION.

Is death THE END? Is this the one and only life we live? What is the soul and what is it’s journey?Some people view death with fear, anxiety, finality and foreboding – THE END. Others view death with a sense of inevitability, peace and as part of a beautiful eternal continuum.Is there value in life, without death?And does death have a colour?

Throughout our lives, advertising follows us around promising eternal youth and anti ageing as if ageing was some sort of terminal disease. Radiant beauty, dewy skin and a perky disposition are promised as the ultimate states of being. How have we become such slaves to “youth” and why don’t we promote the glory, humour and joy that comes with age? We appreciate a wine for its vintage, realising that rest, time and maturation encourage a complexity that give it ‘legs’ and make it truly valuable and unique.Aren’t wrinkles on our faces the same as the legs of a fabulous wine?How do you view your vision board of ageing? What is your relationship to the signs of ageing in your physical and aesthetic self and to the getting of wisdom?

INTUITION It is often said that INTUITION is our inner teacher, the voice that has ‘our back’. And yet all too often we ignore it… shun it… stuff it in the cupboard where no utterance can be heard? Why? What are we afraid of hearing? How do we learn to nurture our INTUITION? And to help our selves and our children to hold onto this essential GPS for the soul.

INTUITION It is often said that INTUITION is our inner teacher, the voice that has ‘our back’. And yet all too often we ignore it… shun it… stuff it in the cupboard where no utterance can be heard? Why? What are we afraid of hearing? How do we learn to nurture our INTUITION? And to help our selves and our children to hold onto this essential GPS for the soul.

​In this era of social media; of “public” and “private” personae, of virtual and real selves and of the possibility of being all of these different selves and personae at the same time, what does it mean to be AUTHENTIC?Who or what is our AUTHENTIC self? And how do we recognise it in ourselves and in others? Do we seek out AUTHENTICITY in our relationships and interactions with others? And when does its expression in others become our concern? Can we have it and then lose it? We say yes!

Is ORDER all good and CHAOS all bad?On the whole, we thrive in and strive for ORDER because it makes us feel safe, and gives us an overwhelming confidence that we are in control of our lives. But ORDER can also have a dark side. So we ask the question, why in a world where mutability and change are the only constants in our lives, do we fear the idea of CHOAS? Is CHAOS, in fact, positive?Can the two in fact be sides of the same coin?

​In this era of social media; of “public” and “private” personae, of virtual and real selves and of the possibility of being all of these different selves and personae at the same time, what does it mean to be AUTHENTIC?Who or what is our AUTHENTIC self? And how do we recognise it in ourselves and in others? Do we seek out AUTHENTICITY in our relationships and interactions with others? And when does its expression in others become our concern? Can we have it and then lose it? We say yes!

Is FOOD just FOOD? Or is it something much more complex? We explore how FOOD is a tool, a weapon, a symbol and even an expression of self. We unpack how we use FOOD in our daily lives and especially in our relationships with others. We divulge our journey with food as nourishment and also as poison. And we discover that food is very rarely, just FOOD.

Is ORDER all good and CHAOS all bad?On the whole, we thrive in and strive for ORDER because it makes us feel safe, and gives us an overwhelming confidence that we are in control of our lives. But ORDER can also have a dark side. So we ask the question, why in a world where mutability and change are the only constants in our lives, do we fear the idea of CHOAS? Is CHAOS, in fact, positive?Can the two in fact be sides of the same coin?

Is FOOD just FOOD? Or is it something much more complex? We explore how FOOD is a tool, a weapon, a symbol and even an expression of self. We unpack how we use FOOD in our daily lives and especially in our relationships with others. We divulge our journey with food as nourishment and also as poison. And we discover that food is very rarely, just FOOD.

KIDS OR NO KIDS Wow, isn’t this a doozy of a question for some people!? No one really gets away without confronting this question at some point in their lives and very few people have no opinion (either for themselves or in judgement of others). So we dive in and discuss KIDS OR NO KIDS having both traveled​ down completely different paths.

KIDS OR NO KIDS Wow, isn’t this a doozy of a question for some people!? No one really gets away without confronting this question at some point in their lives and very few people have no opinion (either for themselves or in judgement of others). So we dive in and discuss KIDS OR NO KIDS having both traveled​ down completely different paths.