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Beginning Well

01 Jun 2025, Posted by Helena Clayton in Monthly Blog

When starting a session online with groups, these days I tend to ask them to do four things – all to do with reducing distractions. It goes something like this: Can you make yourself a little more comfortable? ‘Please do whatever you need to do…

Thoughts on rest

05 May 2025, Posted by Helena Clayton in Monthly Blog

‘Rest is the conversation between what we love to do and how we love to be.‘ David Whyte I’ve been reading about rest, from a few angles.  Partly because I think our relationship to rest is getting a bit wonky and partly to help me…

Elderhood, and clearing space

03 Nov 2024, Posted by Helena Clayton in Monthly Blog

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…

Questions about hope

06 May 2024, Posted by Helena Clayton in Monthly Blog, Uncategorized

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? •…

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…

Leading from Love

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