Ep 87 : The Top Five Tips For Cultivating Joy In Your Life And Harnessing The Power It Brings
With Christine Denny
“I think we live in a world people are too, quick to throw stones throw sticks and point fingers. None of us are perfect. I certainly am not. I'm a very temperamental reactive sort of person. So, I have perfected the art of saying I'm sorry. So, I think it's really important that if you're doing something in the world, and you think, Oh, that wasn't very kind, or I could have spoken to that person in a better way, don't be afraid to go out and just say, Look, I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to speak to you like that. Also forgive the people around you, they might have been under pressure they might have you don't know what's going on for other people.”
Christine Denny Top Five Tips For Cultivating Joy In Your Life and Harnessing The Power It Brings
1. Knowing your narratives
2. Aligning with your values
3. Investing in self-care
4. Surrounding yourself with supportive people
5. Investing in forgiveness
TIME STAMP SUMMARY
01:59 Discovering your own narrative.
07:28 What are your values
12:32 The importance of self-care
20:40 Forgive others and yourself
Where to find Christine
Website www.christinedenny.com
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-denny-4a26232b3?
Christine Denny Bio
Christine Denny is the creator, CEO, and director of TAPATAK OZ – the elite tap dance syllabus and mentorship programme for teachers and students, that launched in Australia in 2008. Since then, the syllabus has gained a reputation as being modern, technically challenging, and most importantly, relevant to today’s tap scene and as such it is now in use all over Australia, as well as in the UK, USA, Canada, France, Italy, Finland, New Zealand, Singapore, Brazil, South Africa, Dubai and more.
For the past 30 years Christine has been a well-known and respected figure in Australia’s tap scene, being invited to teach at many leading dance schools and Tertiary Dance Institutions, as well as providing master classes and setting choreography all over Australia.
For many years Christine was on staff at Brent St, ED5 International and NIDA to name a few. She has also been a regular guest tap tutor for many of Australia’s major dance events including The Australian Dance Festival, The Australian Tap Dance Festival and The Sydney Tap Festival.
As an adjudicator she has worked extensively all over the nation including the prestigious McDonalds City of Sydney Performing Arts Challenge and BPAC, as well as in eisteddfods all over Australia including Bundaberg, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Perth, Launceston, Grafton, Melbourne, Adelaide, Cairns, Leeton, Nowra, Bunbury, Redcliffe, Wyong and Devonport!
As a columnist Christine has written featured columns for popular print magazine Dance Train { Let’s Talk Tap 2008 – 2012 } as well as being a regular contributor to online dance networking site DanceLife with her interview series On The Couch with Christine.
In 2022, Christine wrote her first children’s book Great Job Nature with the intention of bringing children back to a connection with nature and encouraging them to see, hear, love acknowledge and feel gratitude for the world around them. Currently Christine is also writing a regular column titled The Joy Maker for Australia’s premier on-line dance magazine Dance Life.
Over the past 10 years, Christine’s current passion project, The Joy Maker has been developed and finetuned to its current form, which can be experienced as an Ice Breaker, a Keynote, a Half Day Workshop, or a Full Day Immersion. She works with dance schools, high schools, community groups, corporates, and events to provide an experience that leads in some way or other, to an enhanced sense of JOY for the participants. Experiential and interactive in nature, the Joy Maker is a wonderfully fun and unique event that capitalizes on Christine’s extensive experience as a mentor, writer, communicator, rhythm maker and teacher.
In 2023 Christine was invited to bring The Joy Maker to Teacher’s Vitality Day, as part of The Victorian Dance Festival [ VDF ]. And later this year she shall be bringing the immersive half day workshop to students through a partnership with The Brisbane Performing Arts Challenge [BPAC].
