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 to centre in challenging moments? I responded with something that seemed obvious […]
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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 take apart an infrastructure that’s no longer required
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 Holy Isle. The futility of plans – something I keep having to relearn! Getting
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 way each encounter starts and finishes. The opening and closing moments of a conversation