How do you keep a good thing going? Fundamental to sustaining any culture change is leadership commitment. People look to and follow their leaders. If leaders are engaged, enthused and appreciative, their people will follow suit. Culture change happens thanks to esteemed role models. The manner, style and process in which improvement gains … [Read more...]
Deep Healing is just that – Deep!
Deep healing is akin to deep listening. To get to the level of healing that’s required to heal trauma in yourself you have to first open to yourself and listen deeply, patiently with compassion and forgiveness. This, deep and active listening, in itself, is a challenge and a particularly trying one for someone who is suffering with post traumatic … [Read more...]
The Power of the Circle
Today I want to write about the circle and what it evokes in me. The circle, as symbol, metaphor and as a living and dynamic form is “alive”. A circle has no beginning and no end. It is an open system; a symbol of wholeness, integration, oneness, eternal, presence and continuous self-renewal and as Rumi so beautifully expressed, the circle is … [Read more...]
The Healing Space and How to Create It
To create a healing space is to create the conditions for the possibility of healing to occur. In other words, healing is a state of being, of consciousness, that enables the client to access and engage their own “inner healer” and move towards wholeness, a dynamic state of balance, equanimity and poise. To create this kind of healing space is … [Read more...]
Overcoming Hurdles Success Training
It’s the obstacles or challenges that come between you and your goal that gets your creative juices flowing and powers your determination and your hones will to overcome, and more often than not, you will! When I was in high school, I used to run hurdles. Hurdles are obstacles in a 100 meter course set at a certain height and particular distance … [Read more...]
Self Care – Enlightened Self-Interest
Self care, as a personal commitment and practice, is an expression of respecting and honoring the Self. Cats have a lot to teach us in this domain! Our attitude and outlook towards life, the quality of our energy, vitality and general condition will let us know, if we’re attentive, what we need to move towards balance in every moment. The … [Read more...]
Vitality is Life: Some Conditions Apply!
There’s no season that teaches us more about vitality than Spring when nature’s primal life-giving force is irrepressible and the growing conditions are just right to activate earth’s inherent fecundity in an explosion of colour, scent and growth everywhere around us. Nature’s abundant generosity stirs us awake at our very core, and inspired by … [Read more...]
Accept and Then Embrace Your Life. There’s Power There!
Change is all there is….you are continually changing and the context of your life – your family, workplace, home life, community, environment and the world is continually changing. Technological developments have always driven change from the industrial revolution to the great cultural, social and economic change catalyzed by the digital era we are … [Read more...]
The Best Medicine: Relax and Focus on What Excites You!
Taming the ‘monkey mind”, entering the stillness, quieting the mind, finding inner peace may all be ways of saying the same thing….the experience of Mindfulness, defined in 2003 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, who popularized it in North America as, “Paying attention in a particular way on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment.” So … [Read more...]