29 September 2022 Initially written during a webinar on Creative Blogging on 25 Oct 2021, led by Sam Allen I find inspiration for living, for life, every time I head up into the Jura hills behind my house. I take my dog, breathe in the freshness of the clean and pure air (yes – along […]
Main image found on Medium, 19 December 2016 Written on 19 February 2021, Posted on 8 March 2021 What’s going on? Last week Dr Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge invited a group of NTL OD Practitioners to reflect on how we can best support organisations after this dramatic year of COVID pandemic, and ongoing social & racial justice, […]
1st January 2018 – aka The first day of a new year in my lifetime with Mike not in it I have been training people not to express frivolous platitudes such as, “2018 will be better than 2017”. I hate receiving memes and feel-good quotes and pictures of clocks wiping out 2017 with its “difficult” […]
16th September 2017 When I was a young child, I spent three years living in Swansea in South Wales. My mum, who had five kids all in single digits at the time, and whose energy was probably solely focused on our collective sanity, took us to a beach every single day – come rain or […]
14th May 2017 I have been noticing “Firsts”. First times I do something since Mike died, or even since Mike was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer – still only a little over 6 months ago. Things that were routine, weekly, sometimes even daily. I feel like I have noticed them all. Some feel massively important and […]
6th May 2017 For the past three days I have been in Belgirate on Lago Maggiore doing Part One of the Advanced Programme of Systemic Constellations with Francesco Pimpinelli. The training has been about ways of working systemically with aspects of ourselves – patterns of behaviour, inner conflicts, shameful attributes, unacknowledged powers, character traits, inner […]
24th April 2017 One of my nieces uses the term “Adulting” on her Facebook posts. I like the term. Even at my grand old age of 50 I comment on how grown up some of my friends have become – e.g., “your home is so grown up” (i.e., clean, dangerously light-coloured furniture, belongings that look […]
20th April 2017 “Adminalation” – that’s a cross between Admin and Annihilation. Megan went back to the UK last night. Julia’s been gone on an exotic holiday for a few days. So it’s just Ben and me now for a bit. Having had some pretty unstructured days recently, I thought I’d put a bit of […]
17th April 2017 My first post in over 18 months, following the deaths of my sweet friend Don on 11th September 2015, my youngest brother Edward, on 10th January 2016, and my husband Mike, on 8th April 2017. This is going to be raw. It’s purely personal, not much to do with my core work, except that […]
6th October 2015 Long before Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook made popular the term with the title of her excellent book, “Lean In”, I had a different experience of the phrase. My encounters with the term stem from the Therapeutic/Coaching/Counselling world where “Lean into the discomfort” sets the challenge to those in my field to remain […]
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