Do you know the poem Self Portrait by David Whyte? It doesn’t matter what the world thinks is right or wrong, he says, because I want to know about you, what really matters in you and for you. For example: I want to know if…
Exploring love and sacrifice … If asked, I imagine that you might define or describe love as being about others – meeting the needs of others, putting others first. I’ve written before about love being a form of expansion, a reaching out to and for…
I don’t know about you, but these last 10 months have felt more like more hard work than delight. More tight than loose. More pressure than relaxation. More laundry than ecstasy. When I talk with people in organisations the theme I get is about surviving-not-thriving…
Care. What does that bring up for you? Women’s work, maybe? Not really part of the role of leadership? In my 2018 research, when I asked people what love meant to them, the most-used word was care. You know that I’m not a fan, right,…
Some years ago, I was working with a coaching/OD practice supervisor. She was over 70, and had a fabulously eclectic life and career that included being a mother, a nun and an academic. She taught me a lot. But one thing in particular sticks. ‘Never…
What creates loving cultures in our organisations? What enables the conditions for love to thrive? In my world of leadership development – and looking to develop our capacity to love – this post explores what the idea of eldership might offer us. Whether we leaders…
Leading from Love: putting love at the heart of your leadership A bold and imaginative programme exploring love in the context of your leadership As we go about the business of creating and encouraging change, what might happen if we put love at the heart…
I’ve been doing a fair bit of coaching with people on their ‘inner critic’ recently. That work has prompted me to write this post and talk about self love. An interesting term to explore because when I began writing about love in organisations most people…
In my sessions with groups exploring love and leadership, I often bring us away from discussions about care and empathy and compassion to a different area all together. I bring us to a conversation about anger and its relationship with love, and with leadership. Largely,…
