Two of the articles the latest issue of our Global Connections newsletter have inspired me to write a brief note to remind us all of the importance of being willing. How willing are we? How many of us do, give, accept or undertake something voluntarily or ungrudgingly? Who of us: - picks up a piece [...]
Are you busy? Those of you old enough to remember working life before computers might also remember the promises that technology offered when it arrived on the scene. In the late 1980s, some social researchers were genuinely concerned about the risks of people having insufficient purpose if they had too much spare time on their [...]
During NAIDOC Week 2021, we thought this would be a good time to share the story of the cover of our most recent book, Working with Emotional Health and the Enneagram. The cover features a beautiful piece of art entitled 'You Are' by Indigenous artist Patrice Muthaymiles Mahoney. Patrice is a dear friend and colleague and an alumnus of [...]
One of the powerful aspects of emotional health is that is supported by a number of principles, each of which can be very valuable even on its own. We’ve discussed many of these in our blog over time, including the line of choice, the inner observer and the centres of intelligence. This time I want [...]
A long-time colleague of ours, Sarina Sorrenti, spent last year's lockdown productively creating myhaventime, a mindful multimedia platform to capture your creativity and help you focus, learn and perform. Sarina's idea was to create 'a calm space away from the white noise of our busy lives where ideas, knowledge and insights can be securely captured, built upon [...]
Over the last month we’ve had the good fortune of being in some of the most breathtaking and remote locations in South Australia’s Ikara-Flinders Ranges with two groups of leaders on our Ikara-Ediacara: Past, Present and Future Leadership Experience. Our journey was one of reconnecting with the past: 30,000-year-old petroglyphs created by First Nations peoples [...]
Anyone who has done any work with us around emotional health will likely be familiar with a number of key concepts we often return to – such as ‘above and below the line’, the ‘inner observer’ and ‘behavioural freedom’. While all of these are foundational to emotional health, each is powerful in its own right. [...]
I recently came across a presentation I delivered to the Student Conference of AHRI (the Australian Human Resources Institute) in 1998. The topic was ‘Building a sustainable career’, with a particular focus for those who were at the beginning of their professions and not in formal leadership roles. Looking back at it now, I can’t [...]
One of the conversations that is occurring more frequently for us at the moment revolves around people returning to the workplace as we transition towards a ‘post-pandemic’ world. In most states of Australia, various workplaces are now permitted to have 50 to 75 per cent of their workforce back on site, provided certain Covid-safe practices [...]
As 2020 came to a close, I had a very special call with some alumni of the Opening Doors Social Inclusion Leadership Program here in Melbourne. Part of our reflection centred around what had changed in our world as leaders since Covid-19 arrived. As we concluded the session, one of the group asked, ‘As we [...]
