April 10, 2021

Expanding Beyond Head-Centred Leadership

How many of you reading this have ever felt intimidated by a supervisor or boss? How many of you have ever been the boss who felt they had to intimidate others because they felt pressured to deliver results? How many of you have ever felt silenced or disempowered in your work environment? Maybe you learned that not speaking up and getting on with things was valued over communicating about a particular problem? Maybe you know the feeling of being in a work environment that was so toxic that you didn’t feel safe to share what you were feeling or thinking? What about sacrificing creativity for the bottom-line? Or learning to tread a line between being true to your integrity and being loyal to the company?

January 19, 2021

When we are not in our safe place, a safe environment, then mistrust comes along with questions such as:

Who am I interacting with? Who can I really trust?

Where am I? Can I trust this environment?

The mind is very clever. It wants to build evidence based on how someone's behaving, and the words and tone that they're using. It's all registering in that limbic brain – Is it safe to be here or do I have to fly or fight?

October 22, 2020

How do we sustain and keep our self-worth?

This is a good question, because when we go out into the world, in many different places where we meet many different people, we get confronted with situations that can bring up a lot of things on our self-value. When we’re home alone, we can sustain this feeling of nice warmth and comfort – being in our comfort zone – and when we get out into the world, sometimes we feel that we lose it.