"And just like that, she had returned home to herself." It's such the paradox that we can feel so lost when we are so close to ourselves. We're always just around the corner of who we are, and yet our view can still feel completely obscured, until it's not again. When opposites come in poetic form like this they never feel in opposition to one another, just partners in the whole. So good to see/hear you writing again.
A lovely post that has just brought to mind the ebb and flow of my own journey to find myself in the professional world in UK education, leadership and coaching. It's not that I wasn't working and adding value, it's just that I now realise I wasn't connecting as authentically as I could to the work to position it to education leaders. Then during a morning run in May, in flow, the thoughts came of how to share all the knowledge, experience, reading and working with leaders on school improvement and coaching came together in what I know call the VOICE approach. Everything just seems to click better. So, you're right. I had been feeling a little lost, and you have been a force for good in our little international group for helping me find myself and my voice.
I love that your framework came to you while on the move Alison! Truly, movement = momentum. And the diversity of thinking in our little group makes each Monday such a precious time of discovery.
In my opinion, the single biggest foundational cause of workplace stress & burnout is the denial of our humanness.
When we can accept our humanity in its full riot of colours - that we are non-linear, emotional, relational, story-oriented beings with fluctuating capacities, energies & attention looking for connection & meaning and capable of emergent, transformative leaps of insight & innovation - we open up possibilities far beyond what we can see.
"And just like that, she had returned home to herself." It's such the paradox that we can feel so lost when we are so close to ourselves. We're always just around the corner of who we are, and yet our view can still feel completely obscured, until it's not again. When opposites come in poetic form like this they never feel in opposition to one another, just partners in the whole. So good to see/hear you writing again.
‘We’re always just around the corner of who we are’ - so true, and so easily we forget.
It feels GREAT to be writing loosely and lucidly again!
nice combo. loosidly
I wonder how much of ourselves we have to silence (if anything at all) if once awake, we choose to “go back to work.”
She was loaned into that world for decades - feel you so deeply over here! Glad you’re back to writing and sculpting your own path. ✨
A lovely post that has just brought to mind the ebb and flow of my own journey to find myself in the professional world in UK education, leadership and coaching. It's not that I wasn't working and adding value, it's just that I now realise I wasn't connecting as authentically as I could to the work to position it to education leaders. Then during a morning run in May, in flow, the thoughts came of how to share all the knowledge, experience, reading and working with leaders on school improvement and coaching came together in what I know call the VOICE approach. Everything just seems to click better. So, you're right. I had been feeling a little lost, and you have been a force for good in our little international group for helping me find myself and my voice.
I love that your framework came to you while on the move Alison! Truly, movement = momentum. And the diversity of thinking in our little group makes each Monday such a precious time of discovery.
In my opinion, the single biggest foundational cause of workplace stress & burnout is the denial of our humanness.
When we can accept our humanity in its full riot of colours - that we are non-linear, emotional, relational, story-oriented beings with fluctuating capacities, energies & attention looking for connection & meaning and capable of emergent, transformative leaps of insight & innovation - we open up possibilities far beyond what we can see.