‘Being a student of life is a wonderful mindset,’ writes our wise agony aunt, Mary Fenwick, on page 54. This whole issue feels like a dedication to that sentence. In our 18-page Dossier about embarking on a four-week adventure into your creativity – in which we will be escaping, noticing, savouring and creating – you are invited by our associate editor, Anita Chaudhuri, to be open and curious, and to learn new things about yourself and the world.
I learned a lot from Beau Morton-Turner, age 12, one of our inspirational case studies on page 68: ‘Making things makes me happy… I like to lose myself in a project. It’s like a reward; a way to have fun and relax,’ she says. On page 50, Gabrielle Lane presses pause to take a three-month sabbatical from work. What she discovers is a life lesson for us all.
In our #360me plan for summer wellness, from page 80, there are 21 ways to boost your mood and wellbeing – from making a vision board and a positive playlist to apologising well. Learning how to practise ‘heartfulness’ with Catherine Turner, on page 88, will help you problem-solve by reconnecting with your intuition and asking, ‘What do I need to know and do to create solutions to the issue I’m experiencing?’