….. a night of inspiration!

Hello, this is my very first blog entry and it is long overdue.

My name is Matthew Brine and I am a Director of Inspired Minds. The purpose of this blog is to give you the opportunity to share with the Inspired Minds Community what is happening in your life. The good stuff and the “not so” good stuff. The intention of Inspired Minds is to empower people in their lives through:

1. The material we provide and
2. The events we run
   

We want to hear whether we are fulfilling this intention. I think it is essential that we are able to express ourselves as we go through our individual journey’s and it is through our interaction with others that we get clear on what it is we want and what we are achieving. So on that note I would like to tell you all about our first Inspired Event.

On May 14^th we officially launched our first Inspired Event at the Dendy Opera Quays. Over 100 people came to see the spine tingling academy award nominated movie “As is it is in heaven”. We selected this movie as our main feature for the April Community pack as it is so dear to our hearts.

I was left emotionally exhausted but filled with Inspiration and delight, for the 2^nd time! For me the movie captures life so perfectly, the pain, the beauty, the anger, the love and so much more. And the amazingly talented Marissa Dikkenberg’s moving rendition of “Gabriella’s song” just capped off a fabulous evening. I am sure there were very few dry eyes left in the theatre!

Our pledge is to support a community organisation at every Inspired Minds event. The community partner we supported at the event was “Gamarada” an organisation healing men through spiritual programs in Redfern and Glebe. As a result of the evening we were able to make a donation in the form of book vouchers to the value of $230. The men participating in their programs are men with troubled pasts and lives full of remorse and regret. What struck me during the movie was how easy it is to blame the men in domestic violence situations; it is natural to attack the perpetrator of the crime. During the movie I became aware of the pain that Gabriella’s husband was going through…. How difficult it was for him, how trapped he was, without support, without compassion in a community where people were afraid of him. Yes he had created the situation he found himself in but he was stuck in a situation he had very little chance of breaking free from!

This made me feel even more Inspired and grateful to “Gamarada” and other similar organisations out there providing this crucial support, giving these “forgotten men” a chance to triumph over their past!

So thank you to all those people involved in the event who supported us and if you would to read more about the event and view pictures from the event please click here.

Be Inspired!

Matt Brine