The Moment Right Before You Say Of Do The Thing You Can’t Take Back You’re standing at the edge of something. Not metaphorically. Actually. There’s a conversation you’re about to have. A decision you’re about to make. A truth you’re about to speak. A threshold you’re about to cross. And you can feel it. The…
What is trying to emerge that you keep pushing back down? There’s something trying to surface in you right now. Not a fully formed idea. Not a clear plan. Something more tentative than that. A pull toward something different. A quiet dissatisfaction with what used to work. A sense that the version of yourself you’ve…
As health professionals, we are expertly trained to treat, rehabilitate, and manage. We provide the roadmaps for recovery and the clinical interventions necessary for physical and mental well-being. But have you ever felt that despite your best clinical plans, your clients struggle to find the motivation to follow through once they leave your office? The…
If you are ready to add coaching to your toolkit as a health professional, this workshop will be sure to assist you with that. As you are well aware, many professionals and industries are using coaching to assist clients, customers, colleagues and many others to improve performance, motivation and independence, to take more initiative, think…
The Skill Your OT Training Never Taught You (But Your Clients/Colleagues/Peers/Staff Are Desperately Needing) There’s a gap in occupational therapy training. Not in anatomy. Not in assessment protocols. Not in evidence-based interventions. The gap is in what happens after the assessment. After the treatment plan. After you’ve identified exactly what needs to change. How do…
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…
Where has the time gone? It has been awhile since I have been writing and I have missed it. It’s funny how time gets away from you when there are so many things going on. Life can happen that way. In a nutshell, I have finished some fabulous big contracts, had knee surgery, dealing with…
Have you noticed? So many people are offering ‘coaching’ as a service or as part of a gamut of other skills. How they define coaching is up to them individually or as an organisation but what I think is important to understand here are a few things: The concept of coaching is working, we live…
There has been quite the cold snap on the East Coast of Australia for those not aware, we are rugged up and ready for winter that is for sure. In the meantime a colleague of mine has been working on a podcast series within her company called The OT Lifestyle Movement. Rhiannon came to my attention when…
Welcome to 2021. I have not written a post for a considerable amount of time. 2020 – ‘The Year That Was’ threw so many things up in the air for everyone, me included and I was required to make hard decisions and priorities. One priority was to drop the post writing even though I…