As we travel through a global pandemic, and the impact of what that means to us as individuals and communities, we’re being asked to be resilient. But what is resilience, and what will/does it do for us… It isn’t about: Resilience isn’t about never being stressed or encountering challenges, quite [...]
I was invisible for a few weeks moving to a new city, you can read about some of my learnings here. I'd stayed off social media, and found myself totally focused on the job at hand. I lost the habit on checking in on various social sites, and felt the [...]
I’m a coach and consultant who works with individual and organizational change. This last two months I have experienced major changes in my life. And I discovered that I needed to take the advice I have given to others: even when changes are the result of our decisions, when we [...]
As someone who prides herself on being able to manage change, being an optimist, the last few months have challenged me to remain true to my mantra that change happens. We can always learn, change can be fun and exciting. Toward the end of last year, I decided it was [...]
Once would expect at a certain time of life that challenges with difficult people would either no longer bother us, or we’d be well versed in dealing/working with them. However, I’m finding even today, where I can pick and chose clients, friends and colleagues that that is not always so! [...]
Anxiety As we go back to work, we will all experience some emotion around the changes in our workplace. And, although we know that changes in how we interact with others must happen, it still affects us. We have gone through an experience that has never happened in our lifetime, [...]
In a group conversation this week, we used a lot of metaphors to describe where we felt we stood at present. I used a phrase from Leonard Cohen’s poem/song Atheum ‘There’s a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. I feel, I’m beginning to see the [...]
The title of this piece is a paraphrase of what Rick Steiner, PhD says, which is ‘Plans are ‘hopes’ waiting to happen’. Right now, your dreams may be small and generous, such as hoping /praying that the predictions for deaths in this pandemic are wrong, that there will be a [...]
Changes are happening day by day in these challenging times. How are you doing? Me, I have had a couple of days where I had slight meltdowns, panic as clients pull out of contracts, worried about their financial health, or feeling that they just aren’t able to focus on issues [...]
I was travelling last week, and at the airport met a number of people I hadn’t seen for ages. Which tells me I need to go to the airport more! At the first airport, one of the friends I met, talked of a friend of his who had ‘been retired’. [...]
