L E T T E R from Jac – Expanding Creativity
What blocks are in the way of your creativity right now? What is stopping you from expressing yourself creatively on a […]
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L E T T E R from Jac – The Complexity of Being Human
Being a human is a very complex thing. We are either moving from our heart, acknowledging our privilege, sharing our […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Dusting Ourselves Right Off
Anais Nin says, “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Ego
From the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali‘Drg darshana shaktyor ekatma tevasmita’ The ego believes we are our thoughts and compels one to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Not Running From Pain
Tonglen is a Buddhist practice of working with suffering – ours, and everyone else’s at every opportunity. It is a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What We Think
You know the saying, ‘you are what you eat’, well we are also ‘we are what we think’. So today, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Daily Commitments
We can all talk a LOT about what we want to be doing, big plans, little follow through. Paring it […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Same, Same But Different
I love the fact that I change. Some days may be more obvious than others and some days may seem […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Working with Uncertainty
Sticking with yesterday’s theme, I wanted to touch more on panic. I tend to panic as my standard go to. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Need To Know
Our need to know all the time comes from our thinking mind, and robs us of the present moment. It’s not […]
L E T T E R from Jac – On Resistance and Flow – Part 2
So back to this idea of the Reward System. (you can read the previous Letter on Resistance and Flow in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – July Byron Bay Retreat Announcement!!
I am honestly so in awe of how the universe works. Two months back we were to be in Australia […]
L E T T E R from Jac – On Resistance and Flow – Part 1
What I have learnt about myself is that I sort of held on to some old Catholic beliefs that it […]
L E T T E R from Jo – From The Heart
Whenever I experience a moment that connects me to my heart, I want to press pause and bathe in all […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Follow Truth
It’s so tempting to want to look to others to figure out what to do. I have always admired Krishnamurti’s teachings, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Micro Sabbatical
When I was in government quarantine, Instagram was a life line for me, to my friends, students and the outer […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Note To Self
I know that change is happening always, it’s the only constant. I believe this, I feel it to be true […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Love Everything
One of my favourite teachers Ram Dass, was taught by his guru above all other teachings to ‘love everything’. It […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Eliminating the non-essential
‘Misogi’ is a Japanese term meaning ‘eliminating the non essential’. Editing out what’s not important or relevant anymore. In the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Resistance
On Friday I hosted our live online The DOJO, 90 minute session on Resistance and Surrender, and we explored many verses of the Tao […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Letting Creativity Flow To You
Life is a combination of making it happen (ends up being a small percentage) and things outside of our control […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Planet Sabbatical
Yesterday Arran and I bumped into a friend Dan, who owns a cafe here in Byron with his wife, and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What’s None Of My Business
In truth, this has been a really vulnerable time for me, I’ve shared more than before, heart of my sleeve, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Sweet Joys
The feeling of getting out of government quarantine was truly something else. I have truly realised how relative time is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Learning’s From A Pandemic Part 4
Hands up who wants resilience? Hands up who also would prefer to not do the dirty work to get it? Resilience […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Learning’s From A Pandemic Part 3
I have found that trusting the universe is an easier task when things are ‘going my way’. I delight in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Learning’s From A Pandemic Part 2
We have been through some stuff in our lives, Arran and I. For some it would mount up a life […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Learning’s From A Pandemic Part 1
I thought I would share some of the beauty in what I am learning personally, and what I am learning […]
L E T T E R from Jac – To Live A Simple Life
Over 4 years ago, Arran and I gave away and sold almost all we owned, including all our furniture, and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Spiritual Hurricane Lamp
Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes in her beautiful book Gift From the Sea, “I want in fact – to borrow from […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Alright, Let’s Get Curious
It’s interesting, I love to learn. I love the possibilities, the fresh thinking that stretch the boundaries of my mind […]
L E T T E R from Jac – To Despair Or Not Despair
The Mother, Aurobindo’s teaching partner teaches beautifully on despair and it has been something I have really learnt into. Her […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Back to Love
When I am feeling any of those uncomfortable emotions – anger, frustration, sadness I can be spiky, hard, tight, stuck […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Instructions for Living a Life
I’ve found myself pouring out a lot of words at the moment, raw, un-hemmed words, loose threads. I know they […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Redefining Luxury
One of our students forwarded this Letter that I wrote back in December of last year and I thought that […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The True Teachers
We all have teachers in our lives, that have helped us, taught us. It’s what I do for my living, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Can You See The Moon?
Trauma is such an interesting experience, the brain seeming to be sliced into multiple parts. You can go through the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Easter Bunny
I completely forgot about Easter, until my daughter asked me a week ago would it be cancelled. How utterly sad, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Getting On With It
I work one on one with a lot of people around the world, usually immensely successful people locked into a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Surrender
I’ve told this story many times, and want to share it again now, as I feel it’s so relevant. There […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Advantage in the Reality of What Is
I was in a situation recently where someone didn’t like what was being shared and even though there was compelling […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Inspiration for Success
Isn’t it an amazing time? In the thick of all the awfulness – all the paradigms and societal beliefs we […]
L E T T E R from Jac- Exploring What’s Next
Have you noticed a truly sharp difference in how you consume and what you consume once in quarantine? Is it […]
L E T T E R from Jac – All The Dreams
There is a Jewish story, that is also told in many traditions with varying tones. The essence of it is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Truth of Resilience and Innovation
This situation at the moment is really dismantling a lot isn’t it. Us as people, our friends, our family, our […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Priorities Are A Deal Breaker
It’s interesting that until I get really bloody clear about what is important to me (and this is usually via […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What Happens Today Is A Choice
At the moment I can feel myself firming up, more grounded every day. Becoming stronger, more resilient, and I can […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Embracing The Gaps
I woke up yesterday, and for a brief moment, forgot all that had been happening. I stretched, I listened to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Choice We Get To Make
We can truly lean into the current situation of the pandemic as a way to discover the truth of ourselves. We might […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Some Sweetness For You
I keep saying WOW out loud in a voice that resembles Owen Wilson, because seriously it’s a truly insane time to […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Use Fear to Fuel Our Growth
Outside of comfort is where we grow. This means being uncomfortable is essential for our own evolution. Part of us […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Suffering Is Optional
I do love this quote by Murakami. A man who also wakes at 4.30am every day and writes furiously until […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Opportunity Cost of Being Scared
As a creative in my early twenties, rejection was just part of the game. Trained as an Interior Architect, and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Evolution Of The Broad Place
I am deep in work on refining how we offer The Broad Place to the world!! Our commitment is to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Are you Ready to Shift your Energy Throughout January?
In 10 days time with hundreds of people from all over the world, we launch into the January 2020 High […]
L E T T E R from Jac – BOOM and it’s 2020!!!
Welcome to 2020, what a freaking amazing day it is! Whatever happened until the very moment you read this, is […]
L E T T E R from Jo – We’re All On A Treasure Hunt
Do you remember the last time you went searching for something that was hidden, on purpose, designed for you to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Big Secret to Creativity
Creativity, and any expression of it, involves a deep relationship with fear. Creativity is not just being an artist. It’s […]
L E T T E R from Jac – All Hail The Fail
I’m not quite sure what happens in life that mistakes become a bad thing. When we are little, mistakes are […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Doing Is The Way
I love learning new things, new facts, new ideas, new concepts – anything new! I like to be introduced to […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Only You
“Nothing is original.” This statement always triggers me to try and think up something that is truly original and believe […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Leave Some Room
As an ex-Right Fighter, I know a thing or two about taking a position and holding on tight. Leaving no […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Embrace Your Creativity
I was listening to a podcast on my way to work the other day and it referenced that based on […]
L E T T E R – CREATIVITY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This is a little something new I wanted to try with you, where we collectively set an intention and discovered […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Daily Grinding or Daily Grounding
I personally dislike the constant messaging in the self-development and entrepreneurial spaces of rise and grind. Of own the day. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Support and Synchronicity
In life, there is sometimes universal support, and sometimes too many roadblocks. Discerning which is which simply takes years of […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Not Of This Earth
There are over 100 billion stars and there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Giant Update
Morning everyone! As a new chapter opens for The Broad Place I wanted to take the time to put the […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Evolution and Change
After yesterday’s ginormous Letter, we also have something to share with you! The Broad Place has been one huge adventure […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Redefining Success
I would like to spend some time this week (within the gift to me, that is these Letters, as I […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Truly Transform 2019
Life is this strange sequencing of events, isn’t it? And when we look at a year, it is like 12 […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Everything Is The Path
Even the crap bits, shit bits all the bits in between. It’s funny how in hindsight we understand that everything […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Deep Gratitude
Today is Letter 300. There are so many Letters behind these when I wasn’t tallying them up. But 300 feels […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Heavy and Light
This reminds me of something my friend Sam from Cloud Hidden Tea told me about tea ceremonies; work with the […]
L E T T E R – Navigating Our Own Path
Okay ‘huge news’, we have moved our quotes to a neutral colour palette. I share this not because it’s going […]
L E T T E R – Creativity Is The Only Thing That Matters
What if instead of considering creativity just as artistic ways of going about things, we widened the scope to include: […]
L E T T E R – A Series Of Little Choices
Brene always delivers the pithy statements, doesn’t she? I love thinking about authenticity this way, a series of tiny commitments. […]
L E T T E R – Being A Creativity Conduit
I like to think of our bodies as little tuning forks for the universe’s energy. The system through which creativity […]
L E T T E R – Humility and Service
I spent most of Friday emailing back students who had applied for the scholarship of Be Your Best Self. We […]
L E T T E R – Pioneering Your Future
I absolutely adore this quote and have had it pinned above my desk for years. When I am stuck, feeling […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N – With Kate Pascoe Squires
This Weekend Edition we are proudly introducing you to Kate Pascoe Squires, who has been making some significant and inspiring […]
L E T T E R – Planning Means Presence
This is the time of year we all sit back and start to either feel incredible gratitude for the year […]
L E T T E R – The Unending Creative Process
Last weekend, I hosted with my insanely talented friend Kim Amos a Creativity and Consciousness Workshop at her property, River […]
L E T T E R – The Two Wings
As an enthusiast (someone with obsessive tendencies coupled with deep excitement), Arran is always nervous when I start getting into […]
L E T T E R – Constant Failure
I looked after our friends’ little boy called Sonny the other night, the whole night and morning while they went […]
L E T T E R – Constant Clinging
I am up in glorious Byron Bay on the east coast of Australia preparing for our Retreat, studying tea, spending […]
WEEKEND EDITION with Emily L’ami – Bodha Modern Wellness
Bodha was created by one of our very loved friends Emily, and her partner in everything Fred. It’s the true […]
L E T T E R – The Creative Path
Charles and Ray Eames have been an endless inspiration to me. When I was 19 and studying interior architecture, one […]
L E T T E R – No Really, Who
I still remember reading The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand’s pivotal book. I was maybe 21 at the time and it fried […]
L E T T E R – A Gift For You Of Our Key Clarity Tool
Today we are going to gift you something special, because trust me, you need it. Everyone, especially at this time of the […]
WEEKEND EDITION with Amanda Talbot
Amanda is a dear friend of ours, and we have not only worked together, (you might remember Hiro her little […]
L E T T E R – Our Creative Capacity
Frequently people think ‘creativity = art’ and it’s time for us to broaden our horizons around this. Creativity is at […]
L E T T E R – Clean, Simple, Distilled Thinking
I used to have a terrible aversion to saying no to people. I had, (and still do) a big fear […]