World Mental Health Day 2022 is on 10th October. We are often asked to work with teams on this day and/ the days and weeks surrounding it. We are delighted to do so, and although we think every day should be Mental Health Day it’s great to have a moment in which we …
I came across this quote recently: ‘I had a therapist who once told me “If you don’t schedule a break, your body will take one for you. And it probably won’t be a convenient time.”’ Sara Shonfeld It resonated, and reminded me of Dr Brené Brown’s concept of ‘stockpiling’ and Gabor Maté’s book ‘When the …
I went to a lovely Yin Yang yoga class the other day. At the start the teacher reflected on how the class was a metaphor for life. We were about to spend some time attending to the Yang – the dynamic, the movement, the energy, and then we’d head into Yin – …
As Bird is growing, we are navigating more interactions, making more decisions and taking more (calculated) risks. There have been some moments lately where I’ve felt hesitant to act, feeling a bit like I’m unclear what the next right step is. My response to certain things has been to freeze, to park …
At Bird, we regularly use the tree as an analogy for resilience. It adapts and responds to the changes in the weather around it, it has deep roots to suck up nutrients so it’s healthy and strong (ie it self-cares), it rests and sleeps in winter, it communicates with other trees to …
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’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 …
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. …
We are encouraged to live our lives in doing and thinking mode. I know I’ve spent so much of my life being lost in thought; analysing, predicting, telling myself stories about what’s important. At school we’re told to be good at critical thinking, in most work roles we hold data and to-do …
