#MonthNotes — Hi, welcome to my MonthNotes — reflective notes looking back over the past month, loosely based on a set of questions which help me reflect. 1. What went well? My mum’s funeral “Every day is a good day.” Unmon 2. What else went well? The kick off meeting for a new community for people with some responsibility or interest…

#MonthNotes — Hi, welcome to my MonthNotes — reflective notes looking back over the past month, loosely based on a set of questions which help me reflect. 1. What was hard? My mum died: “The Queen said ‘Grief is the price we pay for love.’ Well, it’s a price I’m happy to pay.”

#MonthNotes — Hi, welcome to my MonthNotes — reflective notes looking back over the past month, loosely based on a set of questions which help me reflect. 1. What went well? The kick-off meeting for a new senior leadership group I’ve set up — great engagement, enthusiasm and ideas An ice-breaker I ran where people shared…

#MonthNotes — Hi, welcome to my MonthNotes — reflective notes looking back over the past month, loosely based on a set of questions which help me reflect. 1. What went well? Exploring some simple, calming somatic experiencing exercises, which I later discovered I had published by pure coincidence on ‘Mental Health Action Day’ #serendipity Earlier this…

My starter toolkit for settling your nervous system — I’m doing the Somatic Experiencing (SE) professional training — an intensive part-time training over three years. What is SE? SE is a body-based approach to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma. One of the things I appreciate about SE practice is its simplicity. Small things can have a big impact. When we’re…

#MonthNotes — Hi, welcome to my MonthNotes — reflective notes looking back over the past month, loosely based on a set of questions which help me reflect. 1. What went well? A talk I gave on product innovation for a new group of people working on innovation Talking about engagement with a group of people who…

#MonthNotes — Hi, welcome to my MonthNotes — reflective notes looking back over the past month, loosely based on a set of questions which help me reflect. 1. What went well? The start of my 3-year Somatic Experiencing (SE) training Two in-person team meetings: For the first, we set a tone of openness, and vulnerability at…

#MonthNotes — Hi, these are my MonthNotes — reflective notes looking back over the past month, loosely based on a set of questions which help me reflect. 1. What went well? Feedback on a product development training workshop which I’d organised was super positive. A team exercise I ran to help onboard a new team member. …

Why I put things off — There are a couple of things I’ve been putting off for a while. And whilst I’d been curious and unsure why, I’d never really stopped and asked myself why it was that I was putting them off. Instead, I’d fobbed myself off and deceived myself with the answer that I…