Conflict is inherent in your everyday experience. You meet conflict at the school gate, in traffic, at work, in your home, with friends, family and strangers.
All situations of conflict, be they external or internal, affect the body. For most, conflict is threatening. And that threat activates an ancient response within known as The Stress Response or more colloquially fight, flight.
Where is your attention right now? Perhaps you’re reading this on your mobile or tablet and app notifications are pinging and appearing on your screen? Maybe you’re on your laptop or desktop and e-mails are arriving in your in box? Are the kids calling for your attention or distracting you? Does the phone pull at your attention as you read? Do the voices of colleagues get your attention or are you distracted when they knock on your office door? We live in a busy world…………………………..
How is morale at work right now? How connected do people feel with each other, their teams, the organisation? What challenges are they facing within work and beyond? Are those challenges getting addressed? Are people talking to each other in a meaningful and supportive way about these challenges? And is there anyone listening? Just talking about the challenges you’re facing isn’t enough. You need someone to listen. Both are important.
During these long months of working from home, spending so much time online, blending work life with home life and home schooling, the need for boundaries is more important than ever. Not just creating and maintaining boundaries with other people. But also, and perhaps more importantly, honouring the boundaries with yourself that are for your well-being, resilience and resourcefulness.
People are finding these boundaries increasingly challenging. Perhaps you are an HR manager or team leader who is noticing your colleagues working longer hours, feeling more fatigued and showing signs of diminished resilience. Or maybe you are recognising these signs within yourself? The question is, “What can you do about it?”
What gifts can you offer the world and how will you share those gifts? How would you like to share your contribution? What legacy would you love to leave to subsequent generations?
The Hero’s Journey is a quest born from endless questioning “There must be more to life than this?” By stepping out of your comfort zone and embracing your dragons, you discover the gifts of your greatness and wholeness. Once more connected to this inner source, you step into your power and authority, empowering you to give your gifts fully and leave a meaningful legacy and contribution to the world.
How do you build and cultivate your relationships? What do you do to create trust? When building relationships with clients, it is essential to build rapport with them as soon as possible. And deepen that rapport through empathy and trust. The same applies with work colleagues.
So, how do you create that initial sense of trust, reliability, authenticity and credibility with clients and colleagues?
How good a boss are you to yourself? As a self-employed solopreneur, how well are you taking care of your well-being? And as an employee, is your well-being at the forefront of your mind as you work? How well do you look after yourself? Does self-care feature high on your priority list?
Have you ever wondered what life coaching is? Or perhaps what it isn’t? The word “coaching” is used so broadly it can be a little confusing what people mean when they say “I am a coach” or “I offer coaching”. One of the first questions prospective clients ask me is “What is coaching and what can it do for me?”
I was recently asked to run a workshop for The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) on resilience. A dictionary definition of resilience is “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change”. The concern was that employees have tools and resources that can make them more resilient.
I was approached by The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health to do a workshop at their London offices. The workshop was designed after detailed discussion with the Head of HR & Organisational Development, Louise Frayne, who was looking for content relating to stress- management, well- being and confidence.
At The Embodiment Conference, listen to David talk about archetypes and an embodied system for inner leadership and self-empowerment.