Welcome to the world of Enspiral. We are an international collective of people pooling resources and ideas together to help build a better world. A social innovations incubator and resource for changemakers.

Double Lives of Enspiralites

leading a double life

Some of us here at Enspiral have double lives.  Some people are working on startups, some people spend time volunteering, some just love to surf. Me? Well I also work with a national organisation which focuses on connecting people to their environment - mainly through volunteering. I love this other job, and it really complements my work on Bucky Box (helping to build tools for a better food system). At the end of last week, I found myself suddenly called on, in this other capacity, in much more urgency than normal. For those of you in New Zealand, you will undoubtedly be familiar … [Read more...]

Future Working

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Our very own Sam Rye was featured in Unlimited Magazine's latest edition with a story about Future Working. Worth a read! Check out Unlimited Magazine online, or at their Facebook page. … [Read more...]

In the pursuit of purpose

Sam working as a conservation team leader in NZ

A few weeks back I wrote a blog which was picked up by Nature Coast, about lifestyle working and it’s possibilities for something greater.  It posed the quandry “if we’ve got more flexibility & choice over our working lives, what’s our new found motivation directed toward?”. I have been exploring this with my own life for the last 4 years.  I sometimes call myself a ‘corporate refugee’, but really my time was only slight compared to many who’ve escaped the realm later in life. I left the UK with the assertion that I was ‘off to work on something which I … [Read more...]

New working paradigm = new possibilities

Paekakariki Beach

This is the extended post of a my guest article published in Nature Coast's newsletter in April. The term 'lifestyle working' has been bandied around a fair bit over the last few years, but has made fairly minimal impacts on the day-to-day environment in which we work, in general.  Sure, perhaps we're able to leave the office with an iPhone and connect with calls and emails on the move, allowing greater freedom, but generally we still go about business in a similar way. Having done a fair bit of personal research in this area, I'm now finding a radical shift in this model is … [Read more...]

Balancing Life & Family – the results

In our original blog Balancing Life & Family, we spoke about how work-life balance may be maintained, or even shaped to your particular circumstances. We got some great feedback from our survey, and this is our chance to share it with you. Most of our respondents had young children, and felt their current employers had a fair bit of room for improvement, several had even gone freelance in response to business’ unreasonable demands on their lives. If they hadn’t already, most people said that they would like to work part-time with flexible hours (dependent on family … [Read more...]