I started exploring elderhood a few years back (two pieces of writing on elderhood from 2022 are here and here) and then stopped, for some reason. It’s back on my radar again. Maybe because I turned 60 in the summer. Maybe because I spent the…
I’ve been exploring hope with groups of people at my regular Acts of Love for Tough Times, talking about hope as a form of love that’s necessary for these tough-and-getting-tougher times we’re in. Things like: • Is there a difference between hope and optimism? •…
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…
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…
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….
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). …
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…
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…
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…
