tribes

I am very very happy at the moment.  Its beautiful.  I am happy in my relationships, in my work and in my life.  I am still ringing with the energy I gathered from hanging out with my likeminded or perhaps I should say likehearted souls at the Call of the Wild Soul art retreat.  3 days with nothing to do but be freely creative is just my favourite ever thing to do.  And it was lovely to sink into the spirit of it all, to be intuitive, feel and do and get into flow, be absorbed in doing, creating, making art.  Definately my very very happy place. 

And then to come back and leap straight into the Meaning Conference. Which showed me that it is not just creative women who think and believe and want to act the way I do.  This was a conference organised by one of Brighton's leading social media companies, Nixon McInnes.  I had met Will McInnes at one of People Who Do's inventing days back in the spring.  And he had enthused about the importance of 'breaking bread together' and it had made a big impact on me then.  It was a joy to see this scaled up to a confernce of nearly 200 people, where lunch was provided at refectory style tables and we sat and chatted to whomsoever was near us.  I met two really fab ladies from a London Law company, who had persuaded their bosses that they needed to come to hear about what was current in workplace practices.

But it was the underlying intent of the conference that really inspired me. It was a dream made manifest.  It was totally and utterly congruent with the ethos behind the Business Soul Sessions  run by Kelly Rae Roberts and Beth Nichols earlier this year. 

It was about saving the planet.  It was about saving ourselves.  It was about making our lives happier, by connecting more, by having a bigger purpose, a more meaningful story.  We had speakers who urged us to 'do something different' to grow vegetables in our window boxes and the verges of the town.  To take action.  To make the differene.  To connect and work together to create our own better future.

I left feeling excited and enthused.  And proud.  PROUD to be from Brighton.  Proud to be 'a Person who DOES'  (that is what it says on my business card) who works for People Who Do.  Making a difference in people's lives.  Making a difference in mine. And doing what I can, with what I have, where I am.