Duncan’s Blog
A collection of human transformation practices, lenses, and perspectives including: tools for re-authoring our relationships to nature and each other, tools for facilitating better conversations, behaviour change concepts, experiential tourism and community development, community based marketing resources, and more.
New Direction for My Work, Insights from the Past Year, and Exciting Events Coming Up!
Hi folks, I’m prototyping projects that create more regular experiential learning opportunities, push the bar for regenerative slow tourism and entrepreneurship, working on community narratives, and foster deeper connection between humans and the earth. I’ve...
Hope in the Dark – My Family’s Story and Questions for the Future
Dear community, I invite you to watch this documentary. I think we can learn a ton from it and for this history not to repeat itself. I appreciate it's approach to shows the "light in the darkness" within this dark time of war. I feel we are "at war" today, a war of...
Why Sharing Moments I Want More of Changed My Life and Continues to Shape It
I used to not be courageous enough to share moments and stories in my life that moved me in a professional context. I thought it wasn’t professional or appropriate, that no-one cared and it wasn’t useful, but boy was I wrong. When I look back at the last 10...
The Secret to Having a Conversation About Climate Change…or politics, religion or any topic we’re not supposed to talk about
Recently, through learning about Re-authoring work with Dr Chene Swart, I've taken a deep dive into learning about how I can play a more significant role in helping people have dignified conversations (individually, in organizational work and in communities) and...
How to Do Text to Speech for Mac
How to get your mac to read text to you Hi folks, I made a quick video on how to get your mac to read an article or any text on your computer to you so. I did this today because I had limited time and I wanted to listen to...
Announcing Shift! Food
Hello friends, I have big news, I'm testing out doing more food work and less marketing work. Makes sense right? As you may know, over the past 3 years I've needed to cut gluten, dairy, and refined sugar completely out of my diet. When I first needed to shift my food...
How to Make Dairy-Free Coconut Yogurt
I don't buy coconut yogurt, because I haven't found one yet in Nova Scotia that isn't full of thickeners or other ingredients that I don't want to eat. I've made this 100% coconut yogurt recipe twice now and it's worked quite well. It's by far the easiest "how to make...
Content Marketing Template – from Google Sheets to Airtable
Here's why I switched from Google Sheets to Airtable for organizing marketing content. What do you think? Are you going to give Airtable [Affiliate] a try or are you already using it? What do you use it for? Our content...
3 Time Saving Tips Instagram
These are three things that are working for me to grow my Instagram @debata account and save time. I've gained 50 new followers in January when I was actively doing the things mentioned below. Recently I've slowed down on Instagram because I'm working on keeping up...
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