What is the real healer – time or action?

What is the real healer – time or action?

Happy New Year!  No matter how different your last 365 days were to mine, we share the same reality regarding time: time is passing, and it slows down for no-one.  My last two years have been turbulent and at times I have been up against the wall. Two years ago I...
4 Reasons Why Meetings Work

4 Reasons Why Meetings Work

Meetings can be time-wasting and frustrating. Especially when the same problems re-surface, the usual characters dominate, and actions are rarely taken. In my experience 70% of the meetings that take place in the public sector are probably ineffective. So why do...
The Exhaustion Epidemic

The Exhaustion Epidemic

Dr Nick Read, author of Sick and Tired, and a consultant physician and psychotherapist helps people cope with exhaustion. He states: ‘People feel they are failing and they fear that others might see that they might be failing. We are terrified that if we...
Mindfulness for Organisations

Mindfulness for Organisations

Mindful Leaders create stronger organisations The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) includes Mindful Leadership in their definition of “High Reliability Organisations’. These organisations adhere to the following practices: Bottom-up communication of bad news...
Eight ways to build your resilience

Eight ways to build your resilience

Every day I hear about suffering. It’s in the news and on the lips of my clients. I often wonder how DO people carry on? And yet they do – and some of them come back stronger than ever. They do so because they are resilient. Resilience is that ability to...