21 April. World Creativity and Innovation Day. Creativity is not a luxury sector or a soft skill. It is how we imagine our way forward — across art, design, fashion, business, and every table where the future is being decided. Make something today. #WCID

The obstacle to creative life is almost never a lack of talent. It is a lack of authorisation. And the authorisation we are waiting for almost never comes from outside. My latest Substack essay on what it costs to claim permission. youtu.be/EpmeylRPAJc?... #PermissionIsTriumph

ONE QUESTION. Are we educating imagination out of existence? My #TEDxBurleighHeadsED talk is now live. If it resonates, share it with a teacher, a parent, or a young person who’s been told to stay inside the box: youtu.be/EpmeylRPAJc?...

THE BOX WAS NEVER THE DESTINATION. My TEDx talk is now live. Twelve minutes on why creativity must be treated with the same primacy as literacy and numeracy. The future will not arrive fully formed. It will be authored. By the audacity of human imagination: youtu.be/EpmeylRPAJc?...

POSSIBILITY HAS NO CEILING. Imagination is not a talent. It is an act of refusal. I carried that for years. It took a stage in Burleigh Heads to say it out loud. New Substack on what we lose when we educate imagination out of existence: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #PermissionIsTriumph

THE AUDACITY TO ACTUALLY DO IT First TEDx stage. Sold-out room. Gold Coast. Something happens when the words you’ve carried for months finally have to leave you. You stop performing. You just speak. I left quietly changed. #TEDxBurleighHeadsED

THE CONVERSATION NEVER ENDED Former Game Changers podcast guests — on stage and in the audience at #TEDxBurleighHeadsED. The most powerful thing a conversation can do is outlive the room it started in. #GameChangers

I DIDN'T EXPECT TO GET EMOTIONAL. A photo of me as a child hit the screen. I broke. But a sold-out room at #TEDxBurleighHeadsED held the silence for me. The talk was called The Audacity of Human Imagination. But the audacity, in that moment, was theirs. That is connection.

THE STAGE IS SET. Thursday. Gold Coast. A sold-out room full of people who believe education should build imaginers — not instruction-followers. That's the audacity I'm bringing to #TEDxBurleighHeadsED.

This #Easter, stop performing the faith and start inhabiting it. Let the streets be what they are — loud, fractured, sacred, impossible — and find, somewhere inside that honest confrontation, the face you have been afraid to meet. New: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #permissionistriumph

ONE WEEK. Seven days until I walk onto the TEDx stage. Seven days until an idea that’s been building for years meets a room full of people ready to hear it. Gold Coast. April 9. Sold out.

Grace is the countermovement to everything that would have us harden. The Discipline of Grace — my latest Permission Is Triumph essay — is live on Substack. On restraint, generosity, and the moral courage of remaining human under pressure: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod...

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that does not come from overwork. It comes from remaining open. The Cost of Encounter — my latest Permission Is Triumph essay — is live on Substack. Link in bio open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #PermissionIsTriumph

Education built corridors. One door in. One door out. The maze says something different. No single starting line. No one correct path. Some journeys loop back. That is not failure. TEDxBurleighHeads ED asked the harder question. On 9 April, we step in.

Encounter doesn't fail because it is weak. It fails when we stop designing for it. When Encounter Fails — is live. On the distance between what institutions profess and what they actually reward. Now on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #PermissionIsTriumph

Your creative career starts here — online, on your terms. LCI Melbourne's new Diplomas in Fashion Design, Graphic Design & Interior Design launch June 2026. TEQSA-accredited. Study anywhere, anytime. FEE-HELP available. Details: melbourne.lcieducation.com/en/courses-a... #DifferentByDesign

What holds the educator when the systems fail? What holds the learner when the scale of injustice dwarfs individual agency? I'm calling it existential safety. And it changes how we think about belonging. New Substack live: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #permissionistriumph

She is 92. Born in Vienna. Survived a war. Crossed an ocean. Built businesses from nothing. She never called it courage. She called it getting on with it. Today I write for her — and every woman the world forgot to count: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #BalanceTheScales #IWD2026

We won't data our way to a better society. We'll character our way there. Phil Cummins' On Character is the book education needs right now. Rigorous, practical, & unapologetically purposeful. If you lead a school, teach in one, or send your kids to one — read it: ambapress.com.au/products/on-...

Five LCI Melbourne Fashion & Costume Design graduates stepped onto the national stage at the National Graduate Showcase, part of PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival. Not about boasting. About courage. Craft. Voice. #DifferentByDesign is a commitment — to learn, create & influence.

LCI Melbourne’s 2026 Graduate Runway lit up PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival’s Independent Programme. 11 capstone collections.
150 secondary students at our matinee.
200+ industry & community guests in the evening. Graduates sharing the future of fashion. #DifferentbyDesign.

Belonging doesn’t end with acceptance — it deepens through action. In Seeing Belonging, I explore creativity as agency: the disciplined human capacity to test what is possible through mastery, exchange, and purpose. Voice becomes contribution. Substack live now: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod...

Creativity is not performance.
It is the formation of voice. In Feeling Belonging, I explore creativity as Learning to Be — where psychological safety enables learners to author their own becoming. Now live on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #permissionistriumph

Education worth having isn’t about more information. 
It’s about encounter. The kind that stretches certainty, deepens imagination & enlarges our humanity — especially in an age of accelerating machines. Honoured to explore this at #TEDxBurleighHeadsED: www.tedxburleighheadsed.com

Leadership isn’t neutral. It shapes the systems people live within. In Encounter as Leadership Practice, I explore flourishing as something we participate in — through encounter with self, place, and the other. Now live on @Substack open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #permissionistriumph

I shared a Future Ready keynote today — not as a forecast, but a provocation. Future readiness isn’t about keeping up with tools or trends, but re-centring creativity, agency, and belonging as the core work of education in an uncertain world. #DifferentByDesign

In The Inner Work of Encounter, I explore how self-leadership shapes our ability to meet conflict with curiosity rather than blame — and why this inner work is foundational to learning, leadership, and human flourishing. 🔗 via Substack open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #permissionistriumph

My latest essay explores encounter through listening — not as agreement or performance, but as formation. Creativity flourishes when we allow ourselves to be shaped by others, by place, by difference. Encounter Through Listening is now live 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #permissionistriumph

+ 🕊️ Valentino Garavani, The Last Emperor, has passed at 93. The man who gave the world Valentino Rosso, who stitched glamour into every silhouette, leaves behind a legacy of timeless elegance. Riposa in pace. The world was your runway.
#Valentino

Encounter is not accidental. It must be designed.
In an age of acceleration, learning that ignores encounter—with self, place, and the other—becomes transactional rather than formative.
 New Substack 👉 open.substack.com/pub/adrianod... #permissionistriumph

LCI Melbourne’s Graduate Runway returns 21 Feb as part of the PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival Independent Programme. 🕧 12:30pm High School Review 🕕 6pm VIP Showcase The Class of 2025. Bold ideas. 🎟️ melbournefashionfestival.com.au/2026-program... 📸 Jordan Drysdale #DifferentByDesign

Creativity is not an optional extra. In an age of accelerating machines, it remains profoundly human. My latest essay explores why creativity matters now — live now on Substack: substack.com/@adrianodipr... #permissionistriumph

Five LCI Melbourne graduates have been selected for the National Graduate Showcase at PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival. A powerful recognition of creative courage, discipline, and voice — shaped through mentorship and belief in what’s possible. Proud moment. #DifferentByDesign

2026 begins quietly. Not with resolutions — but with encounter. My first blog of the year reflects on a simple conversation over dinner, and what it revealed about belonging, courage, and authoring our own value. Open to what’s possible: www.tumblr.com/adrianodipra... #permissionistriumph

The horizon is calling. Dare greatly enough to leave the shore—and become the light that rises with the sun. A different year. A different voice. A different sun is rising. Happy New Year: www.tumblr.com/adrianodipra... #permissionistriumph

Growing older isn’t about fading from view — it’s about coming into focus.
 No resolutions. No performance. Just clarity, confidence, and the quiet freedom of living without consensus. My latest blog: Without Resolutions www.tumblr.com/adrianodipra... #permissionistriumph

+ Go Baggers!!

A season of light. A season of renewal. A season of possibility. May this time of year remind us what truly matters — connection, kindness, and the courage to begin again. Blessings to all. 👉 www.tumblr.com/adrianodipra... #MerryChristmas

Thirteen years ago, Permission Is Triumph began as a quiet act of courage. 
Not certainty. Not permission from the world. 
Just the choice to live awake. Today it turns 13: www.tumblr.com/adrianodipra... #permissionistriumph

#Advent Week 4: The candle of love is lit. In a world fractured by fear, love arrives—bold, embodied, unshaken. Like Mary, may we say yes to hope, yes to courage, yes to love made flesh. Let love rise in us—and shine where darkness lingers.

In a week of heartbreak, our staff gathered—quietly, gently. I was reminded: leadership is not about holding answers, but holding space. At LCIM, I work with humans who build belonging, even in the dark. This is what makes it all worth it. #DifferentByDesign

LCI Melbourne Fashion & Costume Design student Ivan Sergio Ordax is featured in Grazia Malaysia (Dec 2025 / Jan 2026), with his design appearing in This Is The Way My Life Unfolds. Real industry pathways. Global reach. #DifferentByDesign

A nation in mourning. Sixteen innocent lives. One sacred night. This was not just an attack on a people. It was an attack on all of us: www.tumblr.com/adrianodipra... Never again is now.

Wishing all who celebrate a joyful and light-filled Hanukkah! May each candle kindle peace, hope, and enduring courage in your hearts and homes. Chag Sameach!

In January I’ll be in Jakarta connecting with schools, agents & future creatives — and delivering my keynote on designing your future in a changing world. Creativity isn’t optional; it’s our advantage. #DifferenyByDesign

Italy’s entire cuisine is now UNESCO heritage — not just food, but memory, ritual, family, love. Pasta as poetry. Espresso as prayer. Long lunches as theology. Culture you can taste. Grazie, Italia, for teaching the world how to live. #LivingHeritage

A Year in Review In the quiet between years, we are invited to reckon—what we carried, what we built, what we release. 2025 asked much of us. It also gave much back. This is my pause. My remembering. My returning. Full blog: www.tumblr.com/adrianodipra... #permissionistriumph

#Advent Week 2: In the deserts of our hearts, we hear the call—prepare the way. John the Baptist reminds us to straighten the path, renew our faith, and ready our lives for Christ’s coming. Let peace begin in us, and shine through us.

My 2025 Christmas message: Restore A Christmas message for the soul. A call to stillness. A whisper of wonder. Where the sacred meets the now. Featuring wisdom from Pope Leo XIV and scripture. Read it, feel it, share it: www.tumblr.com/adrianodipra... #permissionistriumph

Pantone’s 2026 Colour of the Year is here: Cloud Dancer ☁️ A soft white that’s calming some, and confusing others. Is it peace in pigment form? Or just more noise in the name of neutrality? Either way, designers are watching the skies.