by John Beckett | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Design and Innovation, Redemptive Design
Recently I had a participant in one of our training courses in tears as she went through an imagination process. The tears came because of a realisation that she had lost the capacity to imagine. I spend a lot of time thinking about the future, so I’m always surprised...
by John Beckett | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Design and Innovation, Redemptive Design
Innovation is not a word that we readily associate with the Christian church or the faith-based sector. We’re seen as traditionalists, outdated, resisters of change. That perception is only partly true. Our Christian story requires both a firm ‘yes’ and a firm ‘no’ to...
by Kara Martin | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Entrepreneur
For several years Dana Gruben and Ben Boland worked among those with dementia, conscious that there was a lack of biblical and spiritual resources to use as a component of their caring. At the beginning of 2017, Dana enrolled in the Hub program run by Seed for...
by Kara Martin | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Entrepreneur
The seven women are gathered in the boardroom looking at me with expectation. Each of them have been working mostly alone on projects that have absorbed their thoughts, actions, lives for up to 12 years. We are going to work together over the next ten months to...
by Kara Martin | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Design and Innovation
23 years ago I bought a goat for my Dad for Christmas. It was the first year that TEAR released their Really Useful Gift Guide in an attempt to rebut the commercialisation of Christmas. My Dad was not impressed with simply getting a card, but the rest of the family...
