For reasons I don’t understand, the printed version of my book Pause for Breath became unavailable on Amazon at some point during 2022. I asked my main contacts at my publisher to put this right. Their answer? There’s nothing we can do, it’s all down to Amazon. I went round this loop a couple of […]
In November, I returned to Samye Ling to host an introductory Leadership Embodiment (LE) workshop. It’s wonderful to re-engage with this work and to share these practices with others. Over the weekend we explored our reactive tendencies in contexts such as how we speak and listen; how we relate to adversity and unpalatable news; how
Prompted by a conversation with Wendy Palmer a few years ago, I’ve been clarifying my understanding of the terms ‘somatic’ and ‘embodied’ and exploring the relationship between them. The words are sometimes used interchangeably – and I’ve blurred the distinctions myself. I’m a Leadership Embodiment (LE) teacher and use LE practices in all my work,
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When describing resilience, I often draw on the example of trees. This is because my sense of this inner quality is an embodied one – in terms of both what it means and how it might be fostered. When an object (or human being) is bent out of shape by adverse events, resilience is the