One of my self-care practices is meditation. I try to meditate daily, many times and for many reasons I miss, but the intention is there. I use an app called Insight Timer and listen to a teacher called Sarah Blondin. ‘Be, receive, give thanks’ is Sarah Blondin’s phrase. She shares it in …
At a recent Bird resilience workshop, after we’d encouraged attendees to practice being emotionally aware, an individual approached me for a chat. Frustrated, she shared that her particular organisation doesn’t allow for emotional awareness. In her organisation there wasn’t space for staff to process the intense project they had just worked on, …
I bought a box of resilience cards from The School of Life recently. The cards share prompts and thoughts that help us think differently about resilience. They offer new perspectives on things that might be worrying us and making us feel less than hopeful about the future. One in particular stood out: …
It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.’ Charles Darwin Change is inevitable, particularly for people who are trying new things or leading a project, team or organisation. Nature shows us this, with its cycles and death and new beginnings. Change, …
I sometimes reflect on where it all began for me in terms of thinking about wellbeing and self-reflection and self-care. I remember about ten years ago being given a book, called Feel the fear and do it anyway, and devouring it on the bus to work. It felt liberating seeing words that …
On our way to delivering some resilience workshops yesterday, Bird associate Elloa and I reflected on the extent of self-supporting resilience building strategies we actually have access to. Many of which are free and available to us at any moment. Our discussion reminded me of Brené Brown’s perspective, from her insightful book …
Resilience is a concept more of us are becoming familiar with. Resilience is no longer about ‘bouncing back’ it’s about being a tree… The tree gets bashed around by the wind, weathers storms, and grows and changes through different seasons. The tree doesn’t bounce back, rather the tree stays rooted throughout. The …
On the blog, in our workshops and in 1:1 coaching sessions in the not-for-profit sector, we regularly discuss how the mind and body are connected. How if we feed our body well it will make our mind feel more alive and switched on, and likewise, when we feed our mind with nourishing …
Yesterday I delivered a workshop on Wellbeing and Technology at the Civil Society Media Charity Technology Conference. We had about thirty people in the room exploring the costs of technology, whether we are addicted to our technology, what we want our relationship with technology to be like, and five strategies on how to achieve a …
Nonsense is everywhere. My definition of nonsense is ‘actions and words that make situations more complicated, noisier, and are not at all aligned with personal or organisational values, vision or purpose.’ Nonsense can be found in organisations, in relationships and sometimes in our own brains. Nonsense is stuff like ‘this person said …
