The Gentle Project - All About Kindness

We dive into the process of unlearning with Zanele Njapa, The Unlearning lady.  A global speaker and expert, Zanele helps organisations around the world in navigating disruptive change through the art of unlearning. She helps decipher the unlearning and become future ready. Zanele is a gifted storyteller and speaker. She featured in the 2019 100 Most Influential Young South Africans list.  She is also the author of a fiction book, An Eye for Love.  

In this episode, she shares with us stories and her perspectives around unlearning. 

The episode covers :

- Her personal journey to success

- Looking at Unlearning with a fresh lens 

- Challenges and Biases that individuals and organisations face

- Covid and Unlearning 

- Zanele's LEAP Framework

- Does Compassion has a place in change?

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Excited to share the 10th episode, the finale of Season 1. There are no fireworks nor no special guest for this episode except for the fact that my heart is filled with gratitude and determination about a better tomorrow. This episode is an open, honest and vulnerable monologue where I share some personal stories of kindness, my "why" behind this project. 

In this episode, I talk about : 

1. Raison d'être of The Gentle Project

2. How a great workplace and team impacted my life positively as I went through a personal crisis 

3. The Kindness of a Stranger in the little town of Vijayawada, India 

4. My Goal for this movement

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From having it all to embarking on a radical mission of self discovery, research towards living a  happy and holistic life, TEDx Speaker, #1 Bestselling author of The Six Habits and Life Mastery Coach, Laura DiBeneditto shares her journey and wisdom on to live a wholesome successful life of dreams. Laura is the founder and CEO of the award-winning marketing company, Vision Advertising, located in the greater Boston area. Laura created, built and ran the growth-oriented enterprise for 19 years with tremendous success, before retiring from active involvement in 2018 at age 37.

  In this episode, we talk about her personal voyage and experiences in life as an entrepreneur and a woman leader. How easy was it to start back then and what were the barriers to success? What was her inspiration to author a book ? Some handy tips for living the life of your choice and why kindness towards self can help transform life.  

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James Roberts is a well-known sportsperson who went on to compete two times for Great Britain at the 2008 and 2012 paralympics. He started his sporting career with swimming and went on to play in other categories like rowing and sitting basketball. From active playing to coaching today, he bares it all in a frank conversation about his journey, his life and challenges. James also is the host of a great podcast called The Mindset Athlete . He helps people transform their bodies and mindsets through his coaching program.  

Today's conversation unveils the story behind his indomitable spirit. Is it as easy as it seems ? Were there any challenges at all? What is the mantra behind his resilience ? Tune in and listen on to this unfiltered conversation. 

Connect with James on twitter , facebook and instagram 

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Does creativity belong to an exclusive few ? Is there a link between out-of-box thinking and innovation? What is the kindness contagion ? 

These are few of the discussion points that I explore with our speaker today.

 Michael Lee is the founder of Innotivity Institute. An internationally accredited Creativity Coach, Life Coach, Executive Coach, NLP Practitioner, and a long-time educator, Michael has years of experience in the TV and film industry in many roles: Screenwriter, Director, Producer, Story Consultant, and Script Editor He has worked extensively in Europe, the USA, and Africa.

He is the creator and lead trainer of The Innovation Explosion, a step-by-step creativity training that has doubled participants’ creativity levels and led to their rapid fulfillment of previously-stuck projects.

 Michael began his career as a script analyst for Castle Rock Pictures in Hollywood before moving to Prague, where he co-founded the international literary magazine TRAFIKA. He is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship and an Individual Artist Grant from the NY State Council on the Arts.He has taught at AFDA, WITS, and NEMISA, and created the program of the Academy of TV in Johannesburg, where he served as Head of School and Head of Development at various junctures. He has directed numerous reality shows and documentaries in Africa, including as co-creator of the 4x SAFTA-winning Jam Sandwich.

 He founded the Innotivity Institute that helps individuals and organisations "create their creativity".

 You can find more details on Innotivity institute in the below links:

Innotivity Institute

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The dialogue around employee wellbeing continues with Lee Chambers from Essentialise UK. Lee is an environmental psychologist and well-being consultant, he combines multiple disciplines to help organisations and individuals to achieve their well-being goals. We talk about the role of kindness and compassion in the workplaces, the role of environment and the larger conversation around well-being. 

With the pandemic, most of us have been working from home and there has been a lot of discussion on remote working. Are our spaces designed for home working? Is the world ready for the shift to remote working and more importantly, are our homes ready for this shift ? Lee throws light on some of the issues that we face and his views on the sustainability around remote work. 

Tune in and listen in to this interesting conversation. Please do share and subscribe to our podcast. You can also visit our website for more information on our initiative. If you have any suggestions or questions for us, do write in to us at [email protected]. If you have an interesting story to share on kindness and want to be on our show, do drop us a note :).

There is something special about the people who overcome challenges in life with monk like attitude, there is wisdom and kindness reverberating when you speak to them. Lee Chambers is the founder of Essentialise UK, an environmental psychologist and a well-being consultant. Lee's journey is full of inspiration, from learning to walk alongside his infant to helping people and organisations meet their well being goals. This is the part 1 of our conversation where we talk about his personal journey.

In the Part 2 of our conversation that will be released next week, Lee shares how he partners with organisations to improve workplace well-being, kindness at workplaces and how the workplaces of the future. Do watch out this space next week. 

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At 22, Brenden launched MasterTalk Channel on Youtube with a singular aim to help people improve and master communication/public speaking skills. Brenden is a positive young changemaker who is on a chart to impact lives through the power of communication. Communication is an area often taken for granted as it is a skill that is put to use in each and every sphere of our lives but still can do a lot of good for the world if the voice of kindness is encouraged to spread more goodness in the world.

A young changemaker and student Nina Andersen, the founder of the Community Senior Letters Project from London talks to us about how she is doing her bit to help the elderly in the care homes during this pandemic. A movement that is touching many lives. Tune into the episode to know more about it. If you would like to share your stories and feature on our show as a guest, do write to us at [email protected] or [email protected]. We will get in touch with you. Stay Safe, Stay Kind.

I thought it would be apt to start this series featuring the generation of tomorrow. Today's guest is a young middle schooler who won the Kindness Leader Award at her school. She talks about her experiences with kindness and how she chose to rise above the challenges that many schools face in these times.