Exhibit Change

Don't assume you know what's happening, but also don't do nothing. A great video of how we can do a little more.

So I promised I would do more regular updates of my work and I am feeling like now is a good time to actualize that commitment.

Especially this week when I am bouncing around between a few of the projects that I am lucky enough to work on and I am so grateful for the super knowledge network that I have and continue to pull on.

For today, I will just share about my Design Strategy Lead role at Green Change.

1. Social Supermarket - figuring out the spectrum of food security programs, services and partners working together to address access to healthy food - kicked off this project with a few great meetings including the City of Toronto, Food Strategy, Toronto Enterprise Fund and have more lined up with North York Food Harvest and FoodShare and Nourish in the coming week.

2. A Way Home Toronto - continuing to support the work of a youth homeless coalition - while this project has found a unique way to ground their work in the voices and priorities of experts (young people with lived experiences), they are honestly struggling to nail down strategies and next steps which seems to be natural downfall of a coalition

3. Local Economies - still chipping away at developing a diversity workplace strategy to bring more JF residents to York University.

Please let me know if you have contacts in food security, workforce development and facilitating systems change.

As Mandy Wintink and I embark on a pilot in Parent Coaching and looking at types of genius, multiple intelligences and strengthening our kids innate qualities and skills.

This study by Nasa is really interesting.

If you have time watch the TED talk.

If we want to have creative, innovative, imaginative children, we have to work on help our kids keep their natural instincts to be divergent and look for alternative solutions.

We are born creative geniuses and the education system dumbs us down, according to NASA scientists The scientists gave the test to 1,600 children between the ages of 4 and 5. What they found shocked them.

Today I facilitated a workshop on the Future of Climate Change and Accessibility. It feels good to be getting the game out in front of people, seeing reactions, fueling new thinking and conversations.