This week we have a piece from one of our fantastic facilitators Gemma Houldey. Gemma has written a book about how to remain well and resilient within the humanitarian/charity sector. If you’re wanting to learn more about making your organisation and the sector more resilient and well, I’d highly recommend getting a …
I like to think about tending to our wellness as thinking about both roots and leaves. As most of us do when we are younger and learning about the world I used to focus more on my leaves. I used to think about growth and learning and trying new things. And then …
Like many people I piled on the pounds during lockdown. Recently I’ve taken more decisive action to turn things around and get back to a weight that feels healthy and so I started to change my eating patterns in the hope that the scales would be more favourable. I’ve been working on …
We’ve been revisiting boundaries lots here at Bird HQ recently. This week we redesigned our boundaries webinar and rolled it out with two organisations to great success. And we’ve been reflecting on our own boundaries and where we might like to implement more in order to maintain integrity and alignment to our …
I’ve got a new fancy running watch and it means I can track my running now without having to take my phone with me. I was walking home the other day from a run around the park and thinking how lovely and freeing it was not to have a phone, and not …
I’ve been intermittently curious over the years in the idea of Blue Zones. They are the places in the world where people tend to live longer, healthier lives. There is a wealth of information exploring the reasons why the people in those regions are ‘humaning’ so successfully, and the findings tend to focus …
Through the pandemic, and particularly more recently, I have experienced a variety of emotions. I have felt lost, lethargic, uninspired at times, but also connection, love, calm, but then also anxiety, and frustration. Effectively, I’ve felt very all over the place emotionally, and I have struggled to regulate or self-soothe. I wondered …
Well it’s September, how did that happen? I know it’s clichéd, but I am honestly not convinced it should be September, I think someone got it wrong somewhere, a part of me is still in the mood for care free summer times. However, as I pulled an autumnal jumper out of my …
As we emerge from a locked down life here in the UK, our day to day is returning to more of an action-oriented place. I’ve noticed though, that I’m struggling to keep up, or even, perhaps that I’ve forgotten how to do things. Last weekend I didn’t have a great deal going …
I know many people at the moment are feeling a little unsure of the future, a little unsteady on their feet. There’s burn out, questioning around career and life choices, fear around this world we inhabit. It can feel hard, and sometimes quite paralysing in terms of knowing what to do next. …
