This month we welcome a guest contributor to our blog. Mai Avery has over a decade’s experience in ecommerce. She is a member of the inaugural 2021 cohort for the Small Giant’s Mastery of Business & Empathy program on which Gayle has been a member of the faculty and during which Mai received coaching from [...]
We were very pleased to hear the news this month that Tania Verbeeck, filmmaker and cousin of Global Leadership Fellow Joy Gillies, was awarded winner of the best documentary at the inaugural Sony Film Festival. Tania's film, Women Take on Nepal, is an inspirational (and incredibly scenic) story about two brave and resilient young women from [...]
Have you ever been at a meeting in which someone is going through the motions but is not truly present? Or a meeting in which someone is clearly troubled by something when they arrive yet they don’t say anything about it? Have you left a meeting and only in hindsight realised that one or more [...]
Imagine a room with glass walls, and that you are standing on the outside looking in. What do you see? You see the room and its contents from your current perspective, of course. Yet this is clearly not the only perspective. Simply walking around the outside of the room will change your view so, for [...]
In the past month, I have met with one of our colleagues from Hong Kong, Amy Yeung, who is creating an ebook titled Career Planning in Times of Uncertainty. As part of this development, she is partnering with the University of Hong Kong to develop a supporting workshop and was interested in exploring some practical [...]
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 [...]
