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This New Year we’ve been reflecting on the journey of The Dragonfly Collective and why we set it up. It was back in 2011 that we first sat in a café and came up with the idea. We were working in a large NGO in Australia, and we were frustrated and restless. We were passionate about creating a world where everyone had the same freedoms and opportunities as everyone else. We had an unquenched thirst for making a real impact. Read more
As 2013 draws to a close we have been thinking about measuring the achievements of the past year, inspired by the module on ‘measurement’ in the Masters in Social Innovation we’re working on in Austria. Read more
I can remember where I was on 22 November 1963. I remember my parent’s exclamation and animated conversation when they saw the headline on a newspaper stand saying that the US president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, had been assassinated. Read more
I was happy to read that the UN World Happiness Report has been released. I was not so happy to see that Australia was ranked 10th! I was not happy that Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and Canada were happier than Australia, but a I was a little more happy to know Australia is well ahead of the USA (17th) and the UK (22nd). Read more
People are full of fear. Everywhere a sense of fear sleeps under the hubris of western affluence, religious fundamentalism, and grinding poverty. This fear is not merely individual (like a fear of snakes) it is psycho-social, institutionalised into the very fabric of society. It is a national and international psychosis in the western world. Read more