Stepping out of the daily demands of leadership does more than create physical rest it creates cognitive space. When leaders, execs and entrepreneurs are away from constant meetings, decision pressure, and competing priorities, their thinking naturally reorganises. Ideas that were sitting in the background surface with clarity. It’s often during holidays that leaders notice: Clearer…
A Mastery of Doing Guide to a More Easeful Festive Season The festive season is meant to feel joyful, connective and restorative… but for many of us, the weeks before Christmas can feel more like a marathon of expectations, obligations and frantic to-do lists. I often support people who feel stretched thin at this time…
Hi Everyone, All the short videos related to making changes are consolidated together in this post. Each session runs through different topics and areas that require an examination to make changes in your life and now it will be easier to flick through each recording. Alternatively, each recording is also on the Mastery Of Doing…
As a health professional I see a lot of people, groups, companies who have fallen/assumed/been taught a helpless and hopeless set of thoughts and consequent actions/behaviours. Regardless of the area I see them, homes, health settings, workplaces, educational settings, social situations. It often makes me wonder how they got there. My logical mind and training…
I had a fabulous time presenting at the OT Conference on Saturday #NTQLD2018. I spoke about OTs using Coaching as an approach in their practice. For anyone in Australia interested in the book for OTs using coaching in their practice, Enabling Positive Change: Coaching Conversations in Occupational Therapy, it can be purchased in 2 ways.…
We have all heard it, change, something needs to change, someone needs to change, and there is so much change. Change, change, change, change, change. Yes, there is but for many of us our lives very much stay the same, we see the same people, we participate in the same routines, we have the…
What does this mean for our children and for future generations? While playing a game of handball with a 9 year I was struck by how many rules there are in a game of handball. Honestly…. Dubs, ever-ready, linesies, underlegs, there were about 20 more terms that I did not know, nor did I…
This post is to help you understand why an OT is offering coaching and what OT coaching is: Most OTs use a coaching approach as part of their therapeutic interventions to increase occupational performance without even realising it, whether they are working with individuals, groups, organisations, and communities. There aren’t that many OTs using an…
We all have dreams, it doesn’t matter whether they are at night when we sleep or something that we are aiming for, a surreal moment in our day or life. Have you ever had one of those dreams that was so surreal that it could have been when you were asleep or awake but it…
Lisa Wilkinson!!! What a woman… All the speculation around Lisa Wilkinson leaving channel 9’s today show is amazing, but at the crux of the speculation is equality… Where would we be without equality? In discord. And Wow! Let’s have a look at that…. Channel 9 is in discord, the middle east is in discord, American…