On healing in the darkness
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Our once-in-a-lifetime experience of a total solar eclipse
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The End waits patiently, just behind a thin veil…
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A visual story
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For my first post this year, I’d like to begin with gratitude and a look back on my biggest creative project of 2022/2023. I’ve shared bits and pieces of this through personal emails and social media, but I’d like to give space for deeper reflection here…
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When the cost of diversity is not visible, who bears it? A visual story on integration of differences within systems.
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[中文版] Guest blog post by my dad Simon Fan on how my parents gave me strong foundations for a happy life.
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A story of finding beauty and acceptance through life’s pain and transitions. Collaboration with Liza Futerman.
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Guest blog post by my dad Simon Fan on how my parents gave me strong foundations for a happy life.
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Musings about success factors for resilient systems and things I am currently exploring.
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How to climb out of the pits of suffering and cultivate a healthy state of mind.
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On finding self-belonging and rewriting the story of singledom
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Reflections on depression, suicide, and finding peace through compassion.
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Flowers, trees, pricklies, parasites - who’s growing in your garden?
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We are all born into this world unique, beautiful, and whole. As we grow and are exposed to the pre-existing rules of society, we learn that there are “right” and “wrong” ways of being. Some of us learn that it is not always safe or acceptable to express our authentic self. We may even start believing that it has no worth…
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Loss, love, and family
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Personal best practices that have helped me on my path to my authentic self - embracing my unique way of being, living unapologetically by my values, and prioritizing my own wellbeing.
This is a talk I did at BLND 2017 - a Design and Business conference hosted by the University of Waterloo.
The actual title is "Musings of a Hungry Creative". It's about the rarely shared struggles of being a creative entrepreneur, and what I learned while trying to navigate them. This is the most honest talk I've given and it was emotionally exhausting preparing it, but I'm happy that it resonated with so many people.
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In early June, a group of creatives and changemakers answered a vague invitation to gather in a Minnesota forest. The next few days were full of thought-provoking conversations, honest personal stories, and deep self-reflection. There was laughter, some tears, but most of all a sense of joyful camaraderie amongst kindred spirits. Together, we explored what it means to be "in service", and committed to helping each other find our way (or as Dila proposed, perhaps "there is no way").
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