Coromandel’s Collaborative Magazine

Category: Lifestyle

Do & Be Your Best – Staying Present

How much of your thinking is about the past? Where you were, how good things were, or how bad they were … Most of us do this at some time or other. We remember. And rightly so. Our sense of self is partly defined by what we’ve experienced and how we felt about it. The challenge comes when we get locked into those thoughts and feelings; we don’t just remember what happened, we relive it! We feel those same feelings we felt one, five or 50 years ago. And that takes energy. It also distracts us from what’s happening ‘Right Now’. We act as if what did happen is still happening.

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Dancing in the Bay: Rock ‘n Roll

‘Wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom’

Dancing is a joy that lifts the spirit and there’s plenty of opportunities around the Coromandel Peninsula to learn a dance, meet people and have fun. Pamela Ferla starts this dance series with Rock ‘n Roll.

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Fast Track Wrong Track

Environmental Threats and Community Resistance

What should we do when the world is spinning too fast? Should we make more motorways to cut three seconds off a trip from wherever to wherever? Should we limit and undermine the Te Tiriti rights of tangata whenua? Should we shut people out of local decision-making? Should we remove protection from freshwater and mine the hell out of the Peninsula?

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Do & Be Your Best – Staying Present

How much of your thinking is about the past? Where you were, how good things were, or how bad they were … Most of us do this at some time or other. We remember. And rightly so. Our sense of self is partly defined by what we’ve experienced and how we felt about it. The challenge comes when we get locked into those thoughts and feelings; we don’t just remember what happened, we relive it! We feel those same feelings we felt one, five or 50 years ago. And that takes energy. It also distracts us from what’s happening ‘Right Now’. We act as if what did happen is still happening.

Read More »

Dancing in the Bay: Rock ‘n Roll

‘Wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a-lop-bam-boom’

Dancing is a joy that lifts the spirit and there’s plenty of opportunities around the Coromandel Peninsula to learn a dance, meet people and have fun. Pamela Ferla starts this dance series with Rock ‘n Roll.

Read More »

Fast Track Wrong Track

Environmental Threats and Community Resistance

What should we do when the world is spinning too fast? Should we make more motorways to cut three seconds off a trip from wherever to wherever? Should we limit and undermine the Te Tiriti rights of tangata whenua? Should we shut people out of local decision-making? Should we remove protection from freshwater and mine the hell out of the Peninsula?

Read More »

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