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I am an Imagineer. I bring Ideas and Imagination to life. Through many different mediums, I allow the extra-ordinary to become a reality. That is what I do. Because that is who I am.

This takes on many shapes.

I am a Social Entrepreneur:

I co-founded an international movement called the World Spirit Youth Council. The World Spirit Youth Council fosters, inspires and activates spirituality, in all its forms, faiths and ways - within youth. I believe that spirituality is something that connects us to everything else, and of course, to ourselves. Beyond dogma, rules or creeds.

We initiate international gatherings, training spaces and projects for youth. Up to now we have been creating international events. Some youth have become inspired to create local and regional hubs and gatherings. We are in the process of putting systems in place to assist this next stage and I am set to take the role of coordinating these hubs.

We have(or are in the process of) creating Hubs in Nepal, Thailand, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Australia and South Africa with plans for many more.

Within a crisis-driven world, the ethics of today's leaders are challenged consistently by outside influences. I believe that leaders who adopt and employ spiritual ethics are compelled to understand rather than judge, build unity rather than separation and have the potential to create long-term meaningful peace.

I feel that in order to create an optimal future for the world, the perception and application of leadership requires an evolutionary shift in paradigms. A leadership based in a much deeper, individual and courageous way of being.

I am a Facilitator and Trainer

I run workshops and trainings in leadership, assertiveness skills, presentation skills and self-mastery. What really excites me is the Imagineering Methodology I am developing under my own company called The "Imagineering Academy".

The focus is on utilizing the imagination and our intuitions as a resource. Under this name I run workshops and courses called "Somersaults of Thought", "Imagineering The Future Now" and "Entrepreneurial Mindshift". I am in the process of developing a curiculum - for both the corporate and private space - for accessing innervation. It's called "Imagineering 101".

I am also the resident Imagineer at the Genius Lab. They're Geniuses...

I am a Writer

The Imaginictionary - A dictionary of the future now

Words are powerful things. They exist as doorways to concepts, to ideas and to new worlds. Most of today's words seem to be limping along, drenched in assumption, filled with connotation and imbued with preconceived ideas. They lead us to a map of the past and beg us to repeat it. Enter "Imaginictionary: A dictionary of the Future Now".

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it"
Alan Kay

If we are to change our futures, we need to change our modes of re-cognition. To create a future of Free thinking, excellence, possibility, imagination, newness, unity and, of course, innovation, we need to imbue our words with the very thing we desire.

This is why I started writing the Imaginictionary. I am in the "Research and Create" stage of this book, diving deeper into the etymological meaning of words, uncovering their treasures as well as molding new words/worlds into being.

A word or two from the Imaginictionary:

To-get-there (Together) - When we are totally focused on a task to-get-there in a team, we lose the need to be right, to validate our opinions and we surrender to a vision that is much bigger than us - To-get-there.

Be You T Filled (Beautiful) - When you dare to be yourself. When you dare to be wrong in the pursuit of what is Good, Beautiful and True, you are accessing Be You T. You are accessing the beauteous individual that you are.

Imagination Station

For a year and a half I have been working on writing a full feature animation film. It is a cross between The Matrix and Harry Potter. It started when a recording studio approached me with the idea of writing a children's album. The album turned into a DVD, the DVD turned into an idea for a TV series and as it progressed and evolved, it asked to be a movie.

The intent remained intact; to remind kids (and adults) how important their ability to imagine and believe in the extraordinary.

A lot of time was spent uncovering the story and I am now in the process of turning it into a script.

It goes something like this...

"Once upon a time, on the other side of this very moment, on a mountain floating in the middle of the universe lived the StoryWeavers. They would calmly sit and they'd knit. They would tell stories that have never been and never seen. And as they wove a tale or two, they wove the fabric of time and space that drooped and looped around their land. Everyday they would weave the fabric of the imagination. Many creatures lived on the fabric of the imagination. And, like all things do, there were rules to the land. In fact, one rule that was split into two. The law was this. There is always More - More of more or more of the same... "

I am a Singer and Songwriter

I have just been offered a publishing deal (Different to a recording deal) by Sony BMG South Africa. My intention is to create an online campaign for my music. I have written over 60 songs.

3 years ago, I wrote a duet in Zulu and English called "Sibambene - Together we Stand". It won the 2006 World Song Contest. My songs are about the truth that lies behind things. The beauty, the pain, and the wonder of life. I write my songs in order to share them and hopefully empower others through the sharing.

You can hear my music at my brand new Facebook group at this link and listen to the song that clinched the deal with Sony BMG. It's called "Beautiful Unknown".

A snippet from the lyrics of "Beautiful Unknown":

"I look at you, I look at us
We've been through this kinda stuff
We have the Scars of Giants

Though it thickened our skin
Not weakened Hearts, nor weakened wills,
We've learned to be defiant

So we keep on treading
into the beautiful unknown
I know it's kinda frightening
but my, how we have grown
standing on the edge
of unimagined thrones
I know it's good to be here
To be with you alone
In the beautiful Unknown..."

I have always found myself looking at things differently. Looking into people rather than at them. Looking through the world and, instead of accepting what is, creating what is not!

One of my favorite conversations is one from a movie called The Edge with Anthony Hopkins - An amazing movie that is a metaphor to the human struggle.

Goes something like this:

Charles Morse: You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame.
Stephen: What?
Charles Morse: Yeah, see, they die of shame. "What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?" And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives.
Robert Green: And what is that, Charles?
Charles Morse: Thinking.

Thinking, envisioning, looking forward, it has many names. I call it Imagineering.

I have had many experiences in life that have shown me how crazy and wonder-filled this world is but I have never allowed anyone to rob me of my desire for goodness and innocence (Inner Sense).

My mission in life is to Dare to Sing the Song of My Heart as Loud and as Proud as I Possibly Can and to Assist Others in doing Exactly the Same.

To impact, to touch hearts, to awaken people to their own wisdom. I feel it is important to dare to shine and, through doing, allow others to shine too. These things bring me joy.

All of this gives me a reason to wake up in the morning and all that I do gives me a space to express who I am.

I LOVE building and creating things, coming up with new models of thought and new strategies to implement new visions. I like standing at the edge where most people stop dreaming!

I want to see how you have tipped ideas into markets. I want to truly understand what it means to take a product from conception to implementation. I want to understand and learn from your approach to yourself, to your work, to your success and your team.

I am very intrigued about the fact that you make time to make your own lunch and how you manage to wrap that into your day!

I want to brainstorm ideas with you and your team about my projects and initiatives - or your projects and initiatives and understand your workflow.

I want to throw ideas around on implementing an international structure for a movement such as the World Spirit Youth Council.

I want to observe how a .com is assembled systematically. I want to understand how you build brands, market your blogs, summon communities and publish your books.

Hey, if I leave after 6 months knowing some of how to implement the above into projects and initiatives, I walk away a happy man.

I believe the future belongs to leaderless organizations where the DNA, values, spirit and models exist within every cell of the organism.

I am very keen to learn how to create the international systems by which the WSYC can grow to be such an entity. Spirituality is as unique as every person on earth and we want to take the challenge of creating a system that perpetuates itself in ways that we cannot begin to imagine. We want to create a self-aware organism made up of youth that follow their hearts! That is the power of a movement vs an organization.

One of the most exciting concepts of WSYC is the "Wisdom Well". The idea is to create both online and offline platforms where youth innovation is synthesized with Ancient Wisdom.

World Spirit Youth Council was formed through Children Of The Earth, a United Nations NGO and once our strategy is clear and we launch the initiative, we could leverage our international contacts into other NGO's and have global reach.

Besides that? I would like to develop my methodologies, ideas, books and other product offerings to empower people into their uniqueness.

And I wouldn't mind creating some products that generate either a passive or annuity income so I can confidently continue doing what I love.

Basically, the sky is the limit.

Earlier on in my life, I was the opposite of what I am today. Closed, introverted, depressed afraid to speak. I was frustrated and maybe even angry at myself as I knew how much I had to give! I often doubted whether I will ever be able to get past the feelings of futility and frustration I had about my "predicament".

At some point I had a realization.

If I did not give up on becoming the person I desire to be, I will - inevitably - win! It was a strange concept but it moved something within me that triggered change. Struggle was there but I knew it will sooner or later crumble.

And it worked like a charm.

Everyday I would dream of my future self and who I was becoming, I would feel his self-esteem, his dignity and his easiness of being in his own skin.

I focused on that for so long that it became second nature to feel this part of me.

One day I turned back and I realized that I did not recognize who I had become. The future image of me became so big that the past became dimmer and dimmer until it was just a memory of who I was.

When people ask me if I have always been this self-assured and happy and inquire if I am this "sure" of myself ALL the time, I laugh and tell them - Not in the least! But we are not defined by who we were, we are who we decide we are becoming!

I am the youngest board member on the United Nations Children of The Earth NGO. Other members include the Senator of Vermont, Hinda Miller, Clarence Jones - the speechwriter of Martin Luther King and Nina Meyerhof who I work closely with and is a beloved mentor and friend.

I have traveled to over 20 countries either training, coordinating or facilitating work that is connected with leadership, youth, spirituality and peace education.

I have had the pleasure to meet and learn from people such as Uri Geller, Jane Goodall, Elie Wiezel, Ben Zander, JJ and Desiree Hurtak, Ervin Laszlo, Duane Elgin, Masami Saionji and so many other people who dare to be great.

I worked with Palestinian and Israeli youth with the Interfaith Encounter Association in a time when the situation between the two countries was on the wrong side of dire.

When I was 15, I created a snail-mail customizable monthly magazine for kids.

I have worked with HIV kids from Child-headed households, facilitating a program called "The Courage to Become Me" in 5 different rural locations across South Africa.

I have had the pleasure of speaking at the UN on youth and spirituality.

Imagine that kids learn at school to embrace their uncommon sense, to work consciously with intent, will, purpose and focus. Imagine if there was a class that taught children how to operate from their internal compass rather than be swayed by the opinion and judgments of another. A curriculum that also gives importance to subjects like dignity, forgiveness and self-worth.

I can imagine this. It could happen if the youth of today are taught differently and, when they grow up, they then teach this to the next generation!

My wish is to do my bit in making this a reality.

You should know that I do really want this internship. I am willing to do what it takes to be one of the interns of your program. I am in a phase where I'm ready to take my life to the next level.

I am not looking for a get-skills-quick-scheme or anyone to worship on a pedestal but an environment of intense learning where I can become more and stretch myself and my abilities. I am not afraid of grunt work and I welcome teamwork. I am here and I am ready to take on the challenge.

PS. I have my visa in hand!