Contemplations...

Confidence and doubt
A fellow coach, Eileen Moir, recently offered me the privilege of reading a piece of reflective writing about her journey with a life-long challenge. Although the piece focused on something specific to her, she touched on universal themes such as the...
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Practising before ...
Whilst I’m no longer doing regular client work, I continue to support a group of Leadership Embodiment (LE) practitioners to maintain their practice. In the most recent day we spent together, a perennial question arose: how do we make good on our intention...
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Dismantling
In a period of transition towards a less workful life, I’ve been reflecting on a post I wrote nine years ago. It described the careful dismantling of a factory opposite my previous home*. In it, I wondered how we might pay more attention to the way we...
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Body memory
Recently, I ventured back to Five Winds School of T’ai Chi Chuan. I was last there in February 2020 – and we all know what happened next. With physical contact off-limits, I kept up my T’ai Chi Chuan practice by doing the beautiful solo forms of this...
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Non-attachment
I’m writing as I prepare to transition from time ‘out’ of the everyday world to being back ‘in’. Having published Approaching Difference Differently, it was important to regroup, recover and replenish, and I’d planned to spend some weeks on retreat on...
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Ending with ...
When writing the final chapters of Approaching Difference Differently, I coined the phrase ‘ending with the beginning in mind’. This reflects a premise that, for conversations that take place over a series of gatherings, it’s helpful to be aware of the...
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