Where head, heart and humanity converge.

How PositiveMinds began

PositiveMinds did not begin as a website, a project or a plan. It began in March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a colleague who came into my office and said she was fine, while everything about her suggested otherwise.

That morning stayed with me.

COVID had brought fear, isolation and loss into many lives. It had also brought a quieter heaviness into everyday conversations. I could not remove that weight, but I wondered whether a small story could help us notice something else beside it.

So I began sharing one positive story each morning with my colleagues. Soon, they began sharing their own. The situation had not changed, but the room felt different. A little more light had entered the conversation.

That is where PositiveMinds began. Read the full story.

Meet Tilé

At first, PositiveMinds lived mostly through words. Then some reflections began to ask for images instead. A person carrying too much. A door closing. A hand trying to fill two glasses at once. A plant given responsibility without water. From those images, Tilé emerged.

Tilé means sun in Bambara. In the visual world of PositiveMinds, Tilé is the quiet human presence inside the scene. Sometimes Tilé appears as a simple, faceless figure. Sometimes only a hand, a burden, an empty space or the consequence of a choice remains.

Tilé is not one character with one story. It is the place in the image where we may recognise something of ourselves: the part that waits, carries, gives, hesitates, lets go or begins again.

The sun does not tell the field what to grow. It only makes the growing possible.