The Passionate Women Radio Show was broadcast by Fresh FM across the top of the South Island of New Zealand from March to December, 2011. www.freshfm.net
The series was initiated by me, Rose Diamond and follows the practice I started in my book, Living your Passion: How Love-in-action is seeding a Whole New World, interviewing “ordinary extraordinary people” who are making a difference in their communities by living their passion. Documenting these grassroots leaders and innovators has become a prime focus of A Whole New World. You will enjoy these interviews if you are looking for inspiration and encouragement to develop your own unique gifts and calling. Or, if you are already doing so, to read about others who are on a similar journey.
Host/interviewer: Rose Diamond
Rose Diamond is a lifelong whole person educator, author and global citizen who has helped thousands of people, including many community and organizational leaders, in diverse contexts and several countries, to become creatively empowered. More here..
Rose was interviewed by friend, Siena Ammon, about the vision behind her local/global project, A Whole New World, and how living her passion has given her life meaning, purpose, adventure and continual growthful challenge.
"The question behind A Whole New World is: What are the skills we need to move from where we are now, with the world disintegrating around us, to a new place, where we can become creatively empowered, see what we can do, and create something better."
Barbara Ann Grant is a teacher of singing and a sound therapist. A mezzo soprano, she sang in her first public performance at 6, began formal lessons at 13 and went on to study performance voice at the Wellington Conservatory of Music, Victoria University and Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio, USA, where she received a full tuition scholarship. Barbara returned from the UK in 2009 and settled in Nelson. She teachers voice privately and at the Nelson School of Music, works as an itinerant voice tutor at Waimea College, runs, 'Sing with Freedom' courses via the Nayland Continuing Education Programme and is the voice tutor on the NMIT contemporary music programme. As the Director of Soundworkz, Barbara runs workshops in the corporate and community group sectors using singing as a team building tool and uses voice in her sound therapy practice with private sound healing clients. www.soundworkz.co.nz
"The singing is the journey and the life journey is the singing. I have to do it. There was a turning point where I asked: what does my voice want to give to the world? Maybe it wasnt' to step into the confines of being an operatic singer. And a huge exploration began into what my voice wanted to show me rather than trying to force my voice into a construct. I don't teach the voice the voice teaches me."
Charlotte Squire lives in a small, actively green community called Golden Bay, in New Zealand. From this secure, pristine base, she reaches out to the world with her messages of ‘dream big and dream green’. She has a B.A. with a double major in Politics and Social Policy and is mid-way through an M.A in Social Policy focusing upon positive green change. Charlotte has worked within the environmental arena for the past ten years – including the New Zealand Green Party, BIO-GRO NZ (organic certification agency), and Greenpeace NZ. She has also been a freelance writer, exploring positive environmental change.Over the past three years Charlotte has written for her own good news website www.happyzine.co.nz. Charlotte is currently very focused upon work with inspiring Green Dreamers world-wide to kick-start and support their businesses and projects. She is a published creative writer and singer/song writer, her debut album Turangawaewae - Place to Stand being played nationwide. She is fortunate to be the mother of three year old Kahu.
"I have an optimstic personality and find it really exciting to look for positive, creative solutions, particularly to our environmental challenges. Here in Golden Bay there are so many inspiring people who are already living these solutions that we don't see so much in the mainstream; and that's the kind of news I love to put in Happyzine."
Jane Catherine Severnis a Christchurch Psychotherapist offering women a whole new way of understanding their Menstrual Cycles, Menopause and Mature Life from a Spiritual/Developmental perspective. She has created Luna House, an educational and therapeutic service in Christchurch, and runs courses, workshops and seminars to bring this life-changing knowledge to women everywhere in New Zealand. http://www.lunahouse.co.nz
"Although every single woman in the world goes through a special and intricately designed sequence from her first period, right through her menstrual cycle years and then into menopause and mature life, this sequence has no name. I think that bears witness to how invisible this fundamental nature of women's lives has become. I think it deserves a name so i call it menstruality and I teach conscious menstruality: understanding what is trying to happen at each point in the sequence."
Dawn Grace Kelly has been in private practice conducting spiritual healing sessions for the past 19 years. Her work includes Spiritual Guidance, Intuitive Energy Readings, Past life Regression, Psychic Communication, Spirit Releasement, Tarot Therapy, Inner Child Healing, Forgiveness Process Work and Reiki.Dawn began her healing work professionally in 1992 whilst working as a flight attendant. In 1999 Dawn left her travelling career to work full time as a healer and trainer. In 2001 Dawn arrived in Nelson from Australia. In Perth she was the owner and trainer of The Meditation Shed, a centre for studying Spiritual Healing, Colour and Crystal Therapy and Meditation. She also had a private practice working with children, animals and adults. For the past 14 years Dawn has been training students in energy healing, tarot and past life regression from the basics to practitioner level. She also facilitates courses and groups on The Shadow Self, Channeling, The Psychology of the Chakras and advanced tarot practise. She has lectured on metaphysical and self awareness topics for High Schools, Community groups, Festivals and Tertiary Adult Further Education. http://www.facebook.com/Awakeningwithgrace
"Technically, spiritual healing is the channeling of Divine Light force, God force energy, universal consciousness, Grace, into the energy field to bring about reparative work in the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels of our Being. Now I see it as a much bigger process for our consciousness, for the healing of the heart, or clearing out fearful thought patterns."
Redwood Reider, performance poet and author of “Dreaming the Biosphere”,grew up in California, studied in USA top universities, and got her real education wandering and travel writing in India, practicing permaculture with indigenous people in Guatemala and doing research amongst indigenous people on the Amazon frontier in Ecuador. Redwood worked at various places teaching young people in the outdoors/experiential education, came to NZ "for a year" to do research on organic farming and has been here for 5 years, making and performing poetry, working as facilitator/administrator of organic grower learning projects, and being in Golden Bay for last 3 years, the longest she’s been anywhere in a while, working thru massive health challenge...... haha - in a nutshell! The common threads through it all are a commitment to being a channel for health of self, community, and planet... and beyond?
" A key part of the success of the people in the project I wrote about in my book, Dreaming the Biosphere, was the commitment to a balanced lifestyle. At the same time as they were doing the scientific work of building an articicial rainforest, an ocean and an orgnaic farm, they were also doing theatre practice, working on themselves, doing intense group dynamics; they believed they needed to become full people: artists, scientists and adventurers."
Heather Sylvawood is director of ebrainz, has an intense interest in new technologies and is now studying internet marketing. Heather is currently working with a group of first time course creators to create online courses for life-skills and recreation. This project came about from a concern about the loss of government funding for community classes, and requires both guidance in good learning structural design and techniques to use to create captivating resources. www.ebrainz.net.nz
"Community classes are the life blood of a small community and when the government cut the budget for this type of learning I had the inspiration to marry the new technologies with the passions of local people to create learning opportunities that can be accessed anywhere in New Zealand or in the world. Takaka is a wonderful melting pot of skilled people who think outside the square and before long we had our first courses up and ready for participants."
Fionna Heiton founded First Steps Himalaya with her husband Durga Aran to give children in the Himalaya their rights to a childhood. They work with disadvantaged communities in the rural Himalaya to promote early childhood development, community health and awareness. They aim to build ten purpose built early childhood centres and 80 community or school based centres in one district by 2015 to create a new generation of well educated youth who have the strength to take their place on the world stage. http://www.firststepshimalaya.org
Jacqui Marshall's journey began as an exploration to discover how to restore her own health which was in a mess, Jacqui had been medically diagnosed as having Chronic fatigue, Fibromyalgia, B12 & iron deficient, chemical toxicity, and also irritable bowel. Life was very limited and she suffered severe exhaustion and pain and was much of the time housebound - on this journey of discovery Jacqui came accross information that changed her life - today she is vibrantly healthy, travels overseas several times a year & inspires others on how life can be very different from their current reality.
Catherine Callaghan is a dancer and teacher, formerly of Golden Bay, who is passionate about the value of dance in her life and the strong desire she has to help and encourage people of all ages to release their inner dancer and enjoy the many social, physical, mental and spiritual benefits.She brings more than 20 years of dance teaching experience in many different forms of dance to her Nelson based dance school, Dance Moves, and is currently engaged in bringing women together for the Tara Dance, a sacred dance that embodies the Divine Feminine. http://www.dancemoves.co.nz
Kindra Douglashas been the manager at Victory Community Health Centre since suporting its establishment on the Victory Primary School campus in 2007. Prior to this she was project leader on the community development project to explore what this community wanted an aspired to which mights upport improved health and ellbeing outcomes. Kindra has a broad background which includes education, publishing, business, environmental and social justice and activism. She was awarded Nelsonian of the Year 2007 and a QSM for services to the community in 2009 in recognition of her work in Victory.
Martine Bouillir is an Australian originally. Her rich and diverse life experiences include a jazz pianist mother and a step father who inroduced her to psychic phenonenom, leading edge therapies and mystery schools; two years at sea fishing, working for Broadsheet femisnist magazine in Auckland, a diploma in Naturaopathy followed by a practice wrking with AIDS patients . Since moving to Golden Bay twenty years ago she has done everything from working for local papaers, selling real estate, tutoring youth and working with families for the G.B. community workers. She hs been a familiar face in thetarical and musical productions and an occasional voice on Fresh FM. martine is also a facilitator for Non Violent Communication. She now fins herslef in the wold of local body politics and is one year through her first term as Golden bay's highest polling candidate and Tasman District Councillor.
Victoria Davis is originaly from the USA learned to love the land by working in Yosemite National Park and on her brother's grape and almond farm. She moved to Maui in Hawaii where she did underwater photography, and then on to New Zealand for the clean green life. Seeing what NZ has at risk by following the ways of the West, trashing the environment and warmongering, inspired her to become a human rights and environmental activist. She's known by many as the World Naked Bike Ride leader but a deeper, more passionate activist is the case.
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