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Poems for Tough Times

03 Feb 2024, Posted by Helena Clayton in Uncategorized

So on Monday 29 January, Tom Hirons and I ran a poetry workshop, reading and discussing 6 poems that we felt said something important and relevant for these tricky times we’re living through. We started with two poems that said something about the importance of…

Acts of Love for Tough Times

04 Nov 2023, Posted by Helena Clayton in Uncategorized

When the world is on fire, how might we gather together to talk about how we feel and explore the ways that different forms of love – whether joy, anger and activism, grief or compassion – might support us. New workshop dates below… No need for…

New ways of working with complex change

10 Sep 2022, Posted by Helena Clayton in Monthly Blog

In organisations today we spend a lot of time dealing with complex problems,  trying to solve complex problems. Many of us are trying to change something and find ourselves stuck at some point and don’t know what to do next. Things feel blocked or difficult….

Are you sitting comfortably?

01 Aug 2022, Posted by Helena Clayton in Monthly Blog

What could you do now that would make you even 2% more comfortable? I often ask this at the start of an online workshop, or a coaching session. My husband, Dom, is an ex Royal Marine (although ‘no such things as an ex-Marine, he laughs). …

OD as a healing profession

23 Apr 2022, Posted by Helena Clayton in Monthly Blog

In this blog, I wonder out loud about considering OD as a ‘healing’ role.  It’s often considered as part of the helping professions.  Does that include a role in healing? The definition of healing: ‘to make whole again’ and often includes a therapeutic component as…

Tight and loose

16 Mar 2022, Posted by Helena Clayton in Uncategorized

Years ago, as part of a mindfulness training, the wonderful meditation teacher Ed Halliwell, drew a line on a page. TIGHT and one end. LOOSE at the other. How do you live your life? he asked. But he had barely started writing when I was…

This organisation is just like me

16 Mar 2022, Posted by Helena Clayton in Monthly Blog

As a consultant, brought in to help change an organisational system in some way, I can often get frustrated with that system. There’s one thing I increasingly do that helps me that. And that’s apply some of the things I do when I’m irritated or…

Getting into the balcony

16 Mar 2022, Posted by Helena Clayton in Monthly Blog, Uncategorized

Some recent posts have been on the theme of detachment, and this continues that theme. I’m reminding myself here of the practices I use that help me keep a bigger perspective. Heifetz talked about the importance of leaving the dance floor and heading up to…

What Matters Most

07 Feb 2022, Posted by Helena Clayton in Uncategorized

What Matters Most: a new coaching programme Are you in touch with what matters most to you? Currently, I’m hearing from many people who feel they’re: • living their lives according to other people’s ‘shoulds’ • putting aside what matters to them in order to…

Leading from Love

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