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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? •…

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…

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…

Leading from Love

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