The Brave Discussion

What stirs you passion? Environmental Concerns, Poverty, Political Injustice, Homelessness, World Hunger, Family Values, Work Inequalities? Health Activism? Educating Girls? Storytelling is a powerful tool for social, political and personal activism. Experiment with storytelling to activate and pursue your passion. Help a group a group to discuss their community stories and they in turn will discover the [...]

Gretchen Steidle Wallace says her life is inseparable from  her work.  “Global Grassroots is my  creation and my calling,” Wallace says of the nonprofit organization of which  she is the founder and president.   Whether making phone calls to Rwanda or spending time on site  halfway across the world, Wallace is always focused on implementing what [...]

We have written about it before on The Brave Discussion – the impact of the mineral Cobalt Mining on civil unrest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo but the message doesn’t seem to sink in. We need to change our own behaviours and demand the smartphone companies use conflict free mineral products. One internationally [...]

Today’s post by guest blogger Judy Molland reminds us that stretching ourselves with the goal of givng to others is a life changing moment… Georgina Miranda, from San Francisco, California, is a businesswoman by day and an adventurer by night. After reading an article in Glamour in 2007 about the violence against women in the war-torn [...]

When you think of beautiful shoes, girls will always say Jimmy Choo. It’s a luxury lifestyle brand with klout! In recent years the company has moved to firm up it’s social responsibility committments with significant results, founding, the Jimmy Choo Foundation as a non-profit charitable trust that empowers women by helping them to lead healthier and [...]

I first came across Cate  Bolt watching her wonderful twitter voice. She connected with her audience in such an authentic manner and I wondered who was this woman behind the ‘twitterverse’ voice.  She seemed to have so many varied interests and in a wide variety of causes. Cate calls herself an ordinary mum, living through all the [...]

Today’s guest blogger Renee Mayne shares how she healed her life and stopped a cycle of domestic violence and abuse. Renee Mayne is  widely known for transforming lives including her own. She went from being beaten within an inch of her life week in and week out, working three jobs and trying to escape her life….and she did. She shares how the [...]

I am working on a wonderful project at the moment to bring horticultural therapy to the homeless. All the elements seem to be falling into place quickly, a sure sign for me at least that this is meant to happen. What was interesting during our organisational discussions with the team is how beneficial this type of therapy [...]

The Brave Discussion’s multi-media, interactive curriculum combines storytelling, critical media analysis, media skills and narrative strategy with organising and movement building. Read more about our methodology here (PDF FILE) The common thread is that grassroots projects with local ownership, often propelled by exceptionally bright and driven social entrepreneurs who had encountered the ‘treetops’ efforts and [...]

We found this story on the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute website. Be warned – it’s very graphic. And very heartbreaking. It’s a story that needs to change. According to a recent report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) up to 50 million girls and women are missing in India’s population as a result of [...]