This is a guest post from Taravandana. It fits in really well with the series I have been writing about values. Thanks to Tarvandana for sharing this article: Last October I was fortunate enough to spend 10 days in Bhutan the small democratic kingdom found in the Himalayas nestling between North West India, China and … Read more
Time for another guest post from June Angela. Yes, it’s the Tyke in Exile again. Hope you enjoy this post. More on the core values in work in the next post, later in the week: This week I had developed the urge to dig out old silver jewellery that had taken a back seat since … Read more
Time for another Guest post. This time a new Guest Collaboration, a collaboration between two colleagues who have experience of working in the public sector. The collaboration arose from workshops with a Writer in Residence with whom they worked last year. The writers appear as The Renegade Poets – feedback welcome: The Minister for Re-invention stepped … Read more
A guest post from June Angela, a Tyke in Exile: One glorious day I was walking along a main street of Liverpool, meandering my way to my place of study and one that would bring me much closer to my life’s work. Walking down the road I was totally distracted by an incredible view of … Read more
Another guest post from Su Fowler-Johnson (find out more about Su here): Since July I have been embarking on the journey of becoming a supervisor for coaches. You may ask yourselves do coaches need supervision? I think the resounding position is YES. For 3 reasons: Coaches need to review what they do, what they do well, … Read more
A guest post from June Angela, a Tyke in Exile: The betrayal of a friend is always very hard to swallow but when it is a spiritual friend who we have trusted and invested in for many years it seems to cut right to the foundation and core of our being. We try and analyse, … Read more
This is a guest post by Ian Pettigrew. Ian runs Kingfisher Coaching and blogs at his own website where you can find out more information about the services he offers: Whenever I work with the NHS, I encounter people who care deeply about what they do, are passionate about the NHS, and are fully … Read more
Facilitation as an Extreme Sport – Open Space Technology (OST) This is another guest post by Su Fowler-Johnson. A couple of weeks ago Su was the Facilitator for a one day event which my team ran in the North West of England. It was an amazing event – Su talks about the way it was … Read more
This is a guest post by Su Fowler-Johnson. You can find out more about Su here: Gravitas… How do you know if you’ve got it? Answers on a post card please. I’ve been through a really interesting process recently. When I say interesting of course what I really mean is… the kind of process or experience … Read more
This is the second in a series of posts on Mindfulness written by Taravandana (you can read the first one here). For more information about Tarvandana please follow this link: There’s a lot of talk about Mindfulness at the moment, as the answer to stress, leadership capability, maximising engagement and improving performance. But what does … Read more