An emerging thread of my research with leaders about love and the role it could and should play in our organisations is what our own intimate connection is with love. Our own personal social history of love. Where did we learn about love? What have…
What if we designed for love? A word I’ve been using to describe how I’m feeling these days is suspension. I’m in a holding pattern. And I am mostly dealing with the day to day to day building blocks of exercising, making soup, working and…
On Friday 24 April, I ran a session at the ODN Europe mini conference (it was cracking day…) about love and the role it could and should play in Organisation Development. The theme of the conference was ‘disruption’ and I wanted to say something about…
To ‘hold space’. It’s a phrase that comes from the therapeutic world and it’s never felt more important than now. It tends to mean: • Protecting a chunk of time to pay someone full attention • The ability to listen without judgement • Allowing people…
I’ve just started a series of interviews with senior leaders exploring love in their leadership. One of the questions I ask is a version of ‘what has shaped you to enable you to talk about love in relation to your leadership’. Or sometimes ‘how did…
We’re invited to make many choices right now. We’re faced every day, in every moment, with what the poet David Whyte describes as ‘terrifying moments’ when we can choose to be one thing or choose to be another. For me right now, as you might…
My research and writing on love mostly relates to organisations and leadership. But when I was invited to speak at #OneGreenGov on love and the role it plays at a time of climate crisis, I couldn’t pass it up. So what’s the link between love…
‘You can’t be a hurried person and be a loving person’. Perhaps you might find that a bit too definite for your liking. Rather too black and white. But when I first heard someone say it, a large part of me stood to attention because…
A week or so ago, I met with 30 OD practitioners from the private and public sectors for a workshop to explore the links between OD and Love. It was a rich day of exploration and this (rather long) post shares some of what we…
