Though the lens of a system she knows very well, Health Care, Mary is teaching people about compassion. How to offer compassion to the people around you, the people you seek to serve and to yourself. 

She was the engine behind the social movement Change Day Australia which reached 146 000 people who all pledged to do one thing that could make a difference for the people they worked with. Whilst Mary works with more health care professionals than artists, she can teach us how making intentional small changes in how we approach our work can produce really big results.

Notes and links from this conversation:

I’ve got this idea that at any point of time, the world actually requires something of us. If we can work out what it is that the world requires and what we’re willing to give to the world and if there’s some beautiful little crossover there, then I think we’re in a wonderful kind of genius zone. - Mary Freer

Being connected and knowing that we are part of something bigger and more wonderful than we could possibly imagine all by ourselves is really important. - Mary Freer

• TedX Talk: Three Elements for the Alchemy of Change
• Amanda Palmer: The Art of Asking - book and TED talk
• Compassion Revolution Conference and Reel Feels Film Festival
• America - the story of a 93yo Mexican woman and her grandsons: trailer and  review 
• Morning Pages is a practise introduced by Julia Cameron in her book The Artist’s Way

Follow:

Freer Thinking website | Join the Revolution at Compassion Revolution | Mary’s TedX Talk