Maggie Hamilton

Personal Development, Education Consultant, Social Commentator, Author

Maggie will be presenting at events in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in 2012.

Writer, publisher and social researcher Maggie Hamilton gives talks and lectures, is a regular media commentator and a keen observer of social trends. Her many books have been published in Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Italy, the Arab States, Lithuania and Brazil, and include What Men Don’t Talk About, What’s Happening to Our Girls?, and now What Happening to Our Boys? which looks at the 21st century challenges of our boys.

Where were you born?

I was born in the North of England, and sent my early years in the country living an idyllic life in nature. My family, including the family dog, moved to New Zealand when I was ten, where I lived by the area in a close-knit community, which included a healthy sprinkling of artists, writers and eccentrics. After uni I went off to London, then came to live in Sydney in the early eighties, working in publishing and writing.

What themes are recurring in your work?

I’m fascinated by people’s lives and big issues – what makes us tick, what are the big questions and where are the solutions? How do we create a better future? And what can bring us unstuck?

What are you passionate about?

Life, new ideas, creativity, people, nature, beauty, film, dance, books and travel.

Anything else you’d like to share with us?

When I get the chance I love to get out in the desert – one of my favorite locations on earth – here in Australia, in America and in the United Arab Emirates. There’s no room for in-authenticity in these great spaces. What’s unimportant soon slips away, leaving you wiser, clearer, more at peace.