by Elise Maynard | Dec 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
For the last 10 years of my life, I have had the pleasure of attending and running hundreds of self-help and self-growth courses from Taoist Tantra to Salsa Dance, from Bondage and Kink to Basket Weaving and Poetry. I even had the pleasure of co-managing a workshop...
by Elise Maynard | Nov 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
We all know one… some of us date them, some of us keep them as friends… some of us watch them from across the room wondering what exactly they keep in that small leather bound journal on their lap… hell some of us even BREED them! Poets. They are...
by Elise Maynard | Nov 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
There is nothing quite like that feeling you get when you say goodbye whole room of people who have just spent 3 hours a week for two months with you transforming, transitioning and learning new skills. I was 19 when I facilitated my first workshop. It was a...
by Elise Maynard | Sep 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
So you have stage fright? Or more specifically you feel like you have nothing worthy of saying, that no one wants to listen to you. That by standing in front of others and telling your story you are “taking up space”, important space that someone...
by Elise Maynard | Sep 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
Four and a half years ago I arrived on a small Island in South East Asia, with no money, one pair of trousers, one top, a guitar and a book full of poetry. I had just travelled alone overland and sea from the UK and was yes brave in my travels but also very much not...
by Elise Maynard | Feb 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
“What do you do?” The question that makes every freedom loving, gypsy spirited soul cringe in pain. “What do you do?” … by the age of 21 my answer to this rather simple question had become something like this: “Well I travel around a lot and I crochet hats and...
