Inspiration

Inspiration

We’ve put together some resources to help you think outside the box. They will plant the seeds of change and show you that a different kind of world is both necessary and possible. We just need to imagine it together.

Imagine if…

Everything we ever achieved, started with someone imagining it first

The Pandemic is a Portal, by Arundhati Roy

What happened when we all stopped

Project Utopia

Earthrise, by Amanda Gorman

Videos

Other Resources

  • Books

    • Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature, by Dara McAnulty

    • A is for Activist, by Innosanto Nagara

    • All the ways to be smart, by Davina Bell

    • It's OK to Be Different, by Todd Parr

    • Just Ask: Be Brave Be Different Be You, by Sonia Sotomayor and Rafael Lopez

    • Welcome to Country, by Aunty Joy Murphy and Lisa Kennedy

    • The Book of Mistakes, by Corinna Luyken

    • We Are All Born Free, by Amnesty International

    • Love Makes a Family, by Sophie Beer

    • Respect, by Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson

    • I Choose to Speak Up, by Elizabeth Estrada

    • You Matter, by Christian Robinson

    • Change Starts With Us, by Sophie Beer

    • ABC Mindful Me, by Christiane Engel

    • The Squirrels Who Squabbled, by Rachel Bright and Jim Field

    • The Smeds and the Smoos, by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

    • I Like Myself, by Karen Beaumont

    • Fire Wombat, by Jackie French & Danny Snell

    • Sulwe, by Lupita Nyong'o & Vashti Harrison

    • Just Ask: Be Brave Be Different Be You, by Sonia Sotomayor and Rafael Lopez

    • It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity, by Theresa Thorn and Noah Grigni

    • Somebody's Land, by Adam Goodes, Ellie Laing and David Hardy

    • Your Name is a Song, Jamilah Thompkins Bigelow and Luisa Uribe

    • Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept, by Jayneen Sanders and Craig Smith

    • Don't Hug Doug (He Doesn't Like It), Carrie Finison and Daniel Wiseman

    • The Family Book, by Todd Parr

    • All Kinds of Beliefs, by Anita Ganeri

    Movies & Documentaries

  • Books

    • Beyond the Gender Binary, by Alok Vaid-Menon

    • Diary of a Young Naturalist, by Dara McAnulty

    • Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, edited by Anita Heiss

    • Growing Up African in Australia, edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke

    Videos, Movies & Documentaries

  • Books

    • From What Is to What If, by Rob Hopkins

    • Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    • Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown

    • Sand Talk, by Tyson Yunkaporta

    • Another Day in the Colony, by Chelsea Watego

    • See No Stranger, by Valarie Kaur

    • How to Be an Anti-racist, by Ibram X. Kendi

    • This One Wild & Precious Life, by Sarah Wilson

    • Climate: A New Story, by Charles Eisenstein

    • Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, edited by Anita Heiss

    • Growing Up African in Australia, edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke

    • Utopia for Realists, by Rutger Bregman

    • Local is Our Future, by Helena Norberg-Hodge

    • Doughnut Economics, by Kate Raworth

    • Hope in the Dark, by Rebecca Solnit

    • Different, Not Less, by Chloe Hayden

    • Rest is Resistance, by Tricia Hersey

    • Stolen Focus, by Johann Hari

    • The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life, by Paul Callaghan

    • Freedom From the Known, by Jiddu Krishnamurti

    Podcasts

    Videos, Movies & Documentaries

    Art

  • Books

    • Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy, by Gholdy Muhammad

    • Changing Australian Education, by Alan Reid

    • Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share in Education: The Children in Permaculture Manual, by Lusi Alderslowe, Gaye Amus and Didi A. Devapriya

    • Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education, by David Sobel

    • Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    • Sand Talk, by Tyson Yunkaporta

    • Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom, by Ariel Burger

    Podcasts

    Magazines

    Organisations

    Courses