I hear this from a lot people: If I can only work out how to get on top of things and manage my time better, everything will be ok I can do some CBT for my anxiety and that will help me cope I don’t…
In the face of exhaustion, despair, pessimism and apathy, what role does hope play? How can we connect ourselves and others to the felt sense and a belief that tomorrow could be better than today? How is cultivating a sense of hope a responsibility of…
I wrote this post for International Women’s Day 2021, for Deeper Leaders, a group of colleagues advocating for a kinder, fairer and more sustainable world. Not fee-earning, we simply look for ways where we can promote these values in ways that are practical and useful…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
