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Tony Corrales has spent the last 10 years working between online and offline marketing for not for profit organisations, along with consulting work in digital strategy and operations.

We spend our lives making decisions, solving problems and aspiring for outcomes. But what is the underlying motivation that drives you?

Whether you know it or not, it’s your ethos that guides you forward, painting each stroke on the canvas of your life.

But how many of us really reflect internally to identify what our ethos is? How does it differ from ethics? And how can identifying your ethos break down the barriers that have been holding you back?

Award-winning artist Dr. Sarah Jane Pell is an experienced Occupational Diver, aquatic performer and versatile art and science collaborator [#bendinghorizons].   

She is leading first-generation artist-astronaut crews of the commercial spaceflight era [#artistastronaut]. Her practice aptly begins underwater by connecting with deep ecologies to embody, and critique, the culture of exploration. Artefacts include sculptural, technical, poetic events and immersive media connecting bodies of water to bodies of knowledge and movement.

In the Studio and Lab, as in the ocean and space beyond, DEPTH matters. Pell's talk will use the arc of a dive to describe strategies for working at depth, lessons learned for performing with positive pressure, exploring limits, rapture, calculating bottom times, safety stops and ascent lines, surfacing and sharing in the responsibilities of the blue economy and deep ecology that nourishes us. 

Poets are known to be delicate flowers, ill-equipped to handle the harsh realities other creative types take in their stride (deadlines, having a job, “constructive” feedback etc.). In this talk, one such delicate flower, aka Alice Allan, will heal your relationship to criticism through the power of her words, just like Mary Oliver does in that one poem about geese.

Beyond surface-level confidence, spiritual confidence liberates you with the quiet belief and relentless drive to conquer challenges regardless of internal or external factors. 

Committing to your self-growth allows you to step into your higher self so you can achieve the seemingly impossible while better serving those around you. True confidence revolves around accepting and trusting yourself and feeling comfortable showing up as your true self, which then influences others to have confidence in you. 

Whether it’s in business or your personal life, it's about nurturing your mindset and being kind to yourself while you run your own race, rather than getting caught up in the comparison game.

Dana’s theme is WILDERNESS. She will be exploring themes of slow fashion, creative inspiration and survival in the jungle of small business.

Based on this month’s topic of “Now”, Andy Balloch will be discussing how others can benefit from examining the fundamental principles of improvisation, and apply those principles to their lives & work.

When shit hits the fan – like, REALLY hits the fan – what do you do? Are you prone to crumbling or dipping into ‘victim mode’? Or can you find the silver lining, bypassing self-destruction and putting yourself on track to not just survive, but THRIVE?

It’s this space, this scenario, that has always captivated Marion – both in her creative practice and in her life more broadly. How we cope with trauma – both daily disruptions and life altering events – is an essential skill we must learn, but it’s often one that’s burnt into us when we’re dragged through the fire.

Are we destined to repeat the patterns of our family or can we break the cycle and choose a different path? Marion believes the latter and has spent her whole life excavating this question through the lens of creativity. She champions the idea that there’s always another way – but we must make it for ourselves.

In this Creative Mornings talk, Marion will introduce you to the concept of posttraumatic growth (PTG) and how to ‘spiral up’ using creativity. Kismet might feel unavoidable but it's the creative mind that can take anything and turn it into gold. 

Thank you Tania de Jong AM, co-founder of Mind Medicine Australia to speak on our CreativeMornings’ globe January theme Roots.